CVL Offerings

Employability Audits

Classroom Sessions before Audit

Employability is not about having a job. Employability is about having the skills, abilities and knowledge to obtain a job of choice. The Career Vidya Labs' Employability Audit (2009) is designed to be completed as an individual and B-school activity. The purpose of the audit is help a student and the corresponding institute understand the KSA gaps in their offerings, to help academic staff consider the content and design of a course with respect to the issue of employability, and to see where they could improve the course to better address this issue. The Employability Audit is designed after active feedback and input from HR & line managers across leading organizations that recruit MBAs.

Employability Workshops - Learning While Doing

Platform School - Workshop participants meet at end of series of activities

Career Vidya Labs designs and implements unique Learning While Doing Workshops that help business school students accelerate their understanding of the real needs of the business world. The workshops are NOT about games, outward-bound activities, or role-plays. These may be useful learning tools but CVL's Employability Workshops are designed around Real activities with real Risk & Reward.

The Employability Workshops are designed with active input from industry and use some conceptual inspiration from AARs (After Action Review) designed by the US Army in Vietnam and used extensively by British Petroleum. The activities are designed around two-person buddy units and Team learning, and building trust and team integrity, are equal objectives of the process. More than 3,000 MBAs have completed the CVL Employability Workshops.

Round Table Conference (RTC) to Bridge the gap between Theory and Practice

Brainstorming white boards & participants MTHR Global, SHRM, SIMCA, MERC & CVL

Career Vidya Labs (CVL) is a partner with MTHR Global and SIMCA & MERC in an initiative to bridge the gap between business education and business. Apoorva Palkar, Director SIMCA and Anand Palkar MERC are the institutional partners in this initiative organised to identify key areas of employability of MBAs.

Corporate participants include senior executives from leading organization who are passionate about business education and Talent development. They participate in their private capacity and the goal is to develop the ecosystem and not just at one corporation. By reaching beyond the borders of their organizations, conference attendees discuss critical issues facing the future of the business Talent development and together outline a path for the future.

RTC participants are from Mahindra SSG, SHRM India, NDTV Media, GSK, Merck, IKYA Human Capital Solutions, Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Future Money, DeusCO, Atiitya Training Solutions, VN Consulting Services, Halcyon Group, Greaves Cotton, Zend Consulting.