Wipro to impart Soft Skills Training to UGs in India

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Wipro to impart Soft Skills Training to UGs in India 
As a part of its nationwide initiative to impart communication and soft skills training to undergraduate students, predominantly from non-engineering colleges in India,Wipro(NYSE:WIT) has announced the launch of Wipro Integrated Skill Enhancement Programme (WISE). This WISE programme will further help to improve the student's employability in the Information Technology, Business Process Management (BPM), as well as other services sectors.

The pilot programme of the WISE initiative has been introduced to the student community at Kolkata-based Techno India Group. Wipro is also planning to extend this programme nationwide to over 5,000 students by the end of FY14 and especially make inroads into smaller centres in India, besides the large cities.

This self-learning programme consists of a "Business Communication Skills" module and a "Corporate Readiness" module. In addition to the e-learning modules, the programme has periodic classroom connect programmes, wherein the students can interact with trainers. The IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council (SSC),NASSCOM has provided valuable guidance in designing the curriculum and training methodology of the programme.

Subhasish Biswas, Head - Business Excellence, Wipro BPO, said, "This initiative is an employability enhancement programme that will endeavour to train students for the services sector where high levels of communication and presentation skills are required, in addition to basic domain knowledge. It aims to improve the soft-skill-based competencies, foster professional skills and thereby enhance the employability of youth for various service sector domains......See More

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