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About Job Standard?

The emerging technologies have swept the world of work so quickly that every company is scrambling to put up their plans in place to hire or retrain workers. Each company is creating its own hiring and assessment criteria and each potential employee is trying to figure out which certification should be acquired to get a great job. With a plethora of certifications in the market, it is hard to identify certifications that are relevant and useful for one’s career trajectory.

In order to provide some clarity, the IT-BPM industry got together and defined the common job roles in the industry. Using these descriptions, the IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council (SSC) nasscom created a set of government recognised certifications to match these job roles. For example, if you need to hire someone to work in an Analytics role, an Associate Analytics certification assures your potential employer that you have the skills to perform in that job. For employers, this certification means that the employee is ready to work. from Day 1

Why Job Standards

  • The single most important function of the job standard is to bring clarity to the upskilling & reskilling initiatives being undertaken across academia, industry & government by creating a common understanding & terminology when discussing job roles & job skills.
  • This common language can move the talent transformation narrative to industry wide collaborative action instead of working in organisational silos.
  • They can provide industry approved benchmarking for certifications.
  • They can be used to drive talent transformation initiatives at scale since they provide a common point of reference to everyone involved.
How Job Standards Help

Every company has a job role that requires a skill set. Each company creates its own job descriptions and evaluation criteria. If these job descriptions and evaluation criteria match a job standard, it would create a common understanding across all companies, thereby making it easier to.

  • Post a job vacancy using the standard Qualification Packs (QPs).
  • Evaluate job applicants using National Occupational Standards (NOS)-aligned criteria.
  • Align post training assessments to NOSs that can offer a government authorised certificate to the learner at the end of the training.
  • Avail government incentives to mitigate the cost of training if your assessments are NOS aligned.
What’s in it for the Industry to use Job Standards?
  • Employers
  • Employees
Reduced Time
to Competency
  • A certified employee needs only business related training rather than generic skills.
  • Use job standards to enable internal employee mobility.
Reduced Recruitment
Effort & Costs
  • No need to conduct extensive assessments.
  • Use job standards to enable internal employee mobility.
  • Common language to communicate across colleges, partners & agencies.
Targeted Skill/
Capacity Development Interventions
  • Build precision into your requests for talent using job standards.
  • Use job standards to improve the efficacy of your campus initiatives.
Reduced Time
to Competency
  • A certified employee needs only business related training rather than generic skills.
  • Use job standards to enable internal employee mobility.
Reduced Recruitment
Effort & Costs
  • No need to conduct extensive assessments.
  • Use job standards to enable internal employee mobility.
  • Common language to communicate across colleges, partners & agencies.
Targeted Skill/
Capacity Development Interventions
  • Build precision into your requests for talent using job standards.
  • Use job standards to improve the efficacy of your campus initiatives.
Job Standards on Emerging Technologies So far, job standards have been defined for job roles across the following 4 technologies
  • AI & BDA
  • IOT
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cyber Security
EmailUs

Write to futureskills@nasscom.in to know more about how you can use job standards in your organisation or college.