Archive for the 'Livelihoods' Category
SourceForChange.in gets a makeover!
SourceForChange, the rural BPO that was incubated right here at GDL, has a website which recently got a makeover. Check out all the progress, recommend it to potential clients and be inspired by the stories of the all-women staff.
The website: www.sourceforchange.in
Read More..>>Spoken English class students interview in Jaipur
To kick off the week, four students of the Bagar Employment Institute’s Spoken English class, interviewed at the Jaipur branch of one of India’s top retail stores. They hope to get jobs to earn, continue to build their English skills and to get experience before they pursue their MA or MBA.
As India’s middle class has [...]
Interns are tackling Personality Development
This past week two interns, Stephanie and Akshay (hailing from the U.S. and BITS Pilani!) took on the first of multiple Personality Development modules for BEI’s (Bagar Employment Institute’s) Spoken English Course. They are both working on a website for Bagar and a career handbook for secondary school students respectively, and the personality development modules [...]
Read More..>>Flying High
Since the arrival of our new English trainer, Arbind Singh, the Spoken English classes that we’re offering on behalf of Bagar Employment Institute (BEI) have taken new form. As someone who works to facilitate and support the Spoken English course and the trainer in various capacities, I have seen the new Spoken English batches since [...]
Read More..>>Shortage of Laborers Plagues India
Yet another article that highlights the national relevance of our Bagar Employment Institute initiative (vocational training with career grooming and placement services)
Shortage of Laborers Plagues India
Skills Gap Drags Down Economy;
Mr. Sheetal’s Tent By *ERIC BELLMAN* and *JACKIE RANGE*
WSJ.com
May 1, 2008; Page A1
India, a nation of 1.1 billion, has a chronic labor shortage, in the [...]
Business Development as a Means of Empowerment
This week, I sought to do business development for Source for Change, our women-run, rural BPO. With managerial and administrative duties taking up a lot of my time, I have not been able to dedicate time to the BPO. Our Business Process Associates (BPAs) have, therefore, started to take on responsibility for business development.
On Friday, [...]
Post-Career Day
Last Sunday was Career Day. The number of people who showed up was around 400. Better than last time, which is great considering it is exam time. But it was not the 1000 we were targeting.
The highlights of the career fair were: the aptitude test, the interview and customer service film, the science & technology [...]
Moving ahead on curriculum
The Past Week: 01.20.08 01.26.08
*As I gear up for the Retail Training course which is to begin on the 4th of February, I have two major goals: curriculum development and marketing. Prior to this, I taught five students for six weeks. My thought process in starting with a small group was to allow those [...]
empowering our advisory committee
*One of GDL’s newest initiatives is BEI, Bagar Employment Institute which my team members and I started up as a means to provide industry relevant training to community members. While we see value in charging for our classes, we also don’t want the fees to be a barrier for people to take them. Hence, we’ve [...]
Read More..>>Business Development for Source for Change
Business Development for Source for Change continues to be a challenge. Initially, I had expected marketing for our all-women run rural BPO to be much easier than actually training women who had no previous computer experience. I have unfortunately found the opposite to be true. The women are typing at 40 words per minute, have [...]
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