Building and selling skills
9 May 2008
For his considerable assortment of talents, he is sometimes known as the “Swiss knife.”
Today, Singhey Gyamtsho, 32, is the director of Bhutan Centre of Excellence (BCE), a company that specializes in providing diverse trainings, along with its partner, BK ONE (a corporate training company based in Delhi). The company provides an alternate route for those lacking in skills, hunting for jobs and seeking, in the director’s words, “rewarding occupation.”
The year-old company is not only providing opportunities, but outsourcing trained Bhutanese in various sectors in India. The call centres have absorbed most of the Bhutanese.
Singhey said, “In our own way, we are bridging the gap between what education institutes provide and requirements of the job market.”
The company, the first of its kind in the country, has trained 87 youth since its establishment in April, 2007. Among its trainees, 50 percent are employed, while the rest will be employed in a week’s time. Of the 87 candidates,
13 are already employed by WIPRO (the world’s largest R&D Company) in Mumbai, India. Another 29 were placed in Delhi this week, and another 10 will go to the Indian capital this month. The remaining 15 will join various Bhutanese sectors.
The centre has two trainers. They train the candidates for six months, on a daily four hour schedule – theoretical and practical – for five days a week. Youth with class XII qualification, without skills or experience,
can enrol and get trained, for a fee.
Singhey said the centre attempts to create new gainful employment opportunities for the youth. The centre enables youths to see and grab opportunities, and empowers them with communication and soft skills so that they are groomed in such a way that society benefits and is enriched. Soft skills, he said, include customer relations, personality development, confidence building and presentation, cross cultural dynamics, business etiquette and grooming, to name a few. Such skills allow trainees to meet international standards once they venture out in the capital markets.
The best thing about this centre is not just the training but also the responsibility they take in trainees’ employment.
He said, “We help the youth realise their talents, build self confidence and find a job suited to their qualification. In a way, we are also contributing towards private sector development.”
He said the Ministry of Human Resources paid the tuition fees and stipend for their 75 candidates. When looking for employment openings for its trainees, the centre aims for “one-tier companies” and organisations with goodwill in the market, like Navigant Technologies, American Express, I-energiser, WIPRO Delhi and Excel Sior, so that the youth can have better opportunities to compete at the international level.
Despite efforts taken by the centre, it’s still struggling. It appears that people still do not realise that it is a conduit to handsome salaries along with all the other incentives and fringe benefits. The benefits include life insurance, accidental coverage, medical coverage, and meals at subsidised rates, once employed.
Although the fee for six months is Nu 18,000, it is recovered in no time, Singhey said.
“In this field you are rewarded according to the amount of effort you put in, the result is immediate and the basic salary of Nu 7,500 minimum can go up according to your performance.”
Sherub Zangmo, a former call-centre employee, said one reason that the youth do not get attracted to institutes like the BK ONE is because of negative developments taking place in call centres.
A BCE client is pursuing further studies and on a vanishing note, some 10 trainees have not kept in touch with the company.
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Are the overseas jobs really tackling the unemployment situation in the country? To me, it is a sort of quick fix solution because it can generate quick and substantial returns without having to investment so much. I am against such move of the government because the cumulative effect will be so much for the country to handle at a latter stage.
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I am a Soft Skills Trainer working for a Bangalore-based company. I have trained in Communicative English and various aspects of Soft Skills for more than 12 years. I have conducted Pre-Placement Training in several leading engineering colleges, management institutes across India. My current place of posting is Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. I am interested to take up training assignments in Bhutan.
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