and a great evening. It's indeed a great pleasure in and delight, in fact, of great honour to be amidst all of you and to be given this opportunity from the organizer's to greet and welcome you all on this wave. Wonderful day and a special day as it stands for the entire team of Gen. Lee, India's first self discovery and career lifecycle management platform, a platform that will help you in unleashing in unearthing your innate talent, your potential. We are going to be going into more deeper in understanding Jen Leap. And for that I would like to invite here on stage the man behind the show, one of the idea Tres who was brought this idea here. Please the ladies in general, put your hands together as I invite Mr Sachin Sandy here. The founder and CEO Jamie Fun, delighted to welcome you to this brand launch of Gen. Gen. Leap is India's first self discovery of Skilling and employability platform. So one of the most important decisions in the person's life is to actually figure out what they would want to do with their careers, and we try to fix that problem by helping people with self discovery. Traditionally, people have used a lot of psychometric tools and they have some limitations. And what we are doing is we're combining psycho metrics with, you know, with with genomics. So the second part of the self discovery was genomics. And the third part and, you know, we have been questioned about it. Why cognitive Estermann see and are not gonna be defensive about it. You know, when the chips are down, most people, you know, think turned to somebody you know, for divine intervention. And he felt that Astra Mincy also had a role to play as far as as far as a self discovery was concerned. So we are triangulating these three sciences to actually help predict what a person would do, what a person would become and we and mapping this to what is called ocean, which is valley fairly well known. Psychometric. I mean, a method of a discovery that is widely used. The second better was we want to satisfy being a disserved discovery business and helping people will with discovery. We wanted to go beyond discovery and make sure that they got killed in that area to whatever we said. We would actually advise people to pursue. We wanted to make sure that they got still in that area and what we decided to do was we didn't decide to build our own content. We said we would create a market place for Skilling and get all the ecosystem partners attack partners, training partners, coaches, tutors, mentors all onto one platform and become a large market place for Discovery and Skilling and then having set up in education, business and having run it for a decade. I know the importance of employability in a in the life of a student and we said, You know, we're not just going to leave it, leave people with Skilling But we also wanted to make sure that we made them employable because that's the only way for them to become happy and become the best version of themselves. So that's broadly the genesis of the entire idea of self discovery of killing and employability, which is the latest mountain. We're now going to be moving into a panel discussion. Hello and welcome everyone. The topic today they were talking about a discussing is the importance of self discovery in finding the right career path and employability. Sounds interesting, it is. And I have a stellar panel. Today Seibu died deepen. But before that just three important facts that we all need to be aware of. The first factors that India is a very young country. I think we all know it. But if you look at the median age of India, it's 28 compared to 37 in U. S and China, 45 in Europe and 49 in Japan. So we have what's called a demographic Boone, something that we need to nurture and cherish our young people. But then you look at the flip side of it and you see CMI data and you find the 37% of unemployment and this is the largest. Unemployment in any age group is in the Group of 22 24 which means the young adults coming out of college and not finding the right chops in the third one, which is very disturbing. And I think all of us have probably seen some of it happening across in our families of friends is that WTO finds that India actually tops in the number of depression related suicides in the group of 15 and 29. So what do we do to not fritter away this demographic dividend? That India has a fantastic and fabulously talented young people? Michael and I am going to come to you first. You pin in India and you have you. You're self employed people across embassy office parts. You have tenants, Fortune 500 companies coming to India, hunting for tax, isn't it? So what do we do, right? Going forward? I think the the anchor to all of those things that you've said here in India is about talent. And that is why global companies set up so many world class businesses here to cater to their businesses all around the world. I've had the pleasure of being in India for over 20 years, and when I'm asked what's kept me here often, that thing I 0.2, is the number of great young, hardworking, talented people that I've come across, and I've had the pleasure to work with. Perhaps Count saw, mentor teach and then, over a period of time, they also become my mentors and people that a nice sounding boards. So I think that one can one can identify problems, but The fact is that here in India you we have the world's greatest talent pool and anything that can be done to help to provide that counselling. Provide that men touring where in where, In a wonderful stage of our evolution in the world where information is accessible just as much to any individual here or in any part of this country as it would be in the more developed world 20 years go. That wasn't the case. I think these sort of platforms or another way that we can open the door to that talent that is there and help that talent on the way to develop and leverage the great strength that India has in terms of people. And I think that generally is another piece in the jigsaw that can help with it. And, as he rightly said, My education is now has become so equal ist over the world with the attack platforms, $30 billion. That's the potential of a tech firms leverage. What? I mean, you've also been in the corporate world, your apparent as well. How can we? We've always had this discussion on the fact that we're a very marks driven country. And that's because we have never had the challenge of educating so many young people at the same time that that is the reality that we face right and even parents like us who say we're not going to beat marks or academic rigour, just a big thing with our Children. But somewhere in a body language, when we speak to our Children, we do want them to get those fantastic marks right, and we somehow tend to miss out on their other talents and other skills that they have. And what else could they explore with their lives? So generally put overall, how do believe that we can bridge this gap between employability, education and skills? Certainly militia in terms of both as a parent as well as has been tracked with people. You know, when you hire them, you nurture them, and they do go on to become leaders. You know as well. I think there is a very clear perspective which keeps coming in. That's a very classic debate as well. That is it born or made or this nature or nurture there, and I think generally is a very clear and a shining that's both And in that the mention. If there is a discovery which can happen in time, and the discovery can actually act in some ways and lose the you can call it like a GPS, in some sense around it to say that you've got your destinations figured out, you know, when you step into that, you got not only the path to that, but also what you need to do to kind of get there as well, which is where it is an ecosystem office saying that you know that from a perspective of understanding that what are the options, and then for reaching to this options what all will take to kind of get there. I think the universe is changed so much in the last 10 and 15 years and change so much as well the kind of job such a coming in the kind of skill sets which you may have can get applied so beautifully to them, which was what never there before. I mean, I can't think that, you know, in 15 years back, he said. If you are a youtuber, you know that there was a professional rounded, you know, they're like the way we should talk about sports sometime back 2025 years back that you know, if you're doing sports, not make any good sense of you or a good career out of it, I think similarly, be treated some of the other things as well. So the shift from marks to skills and to the ability to kind of be be EPA so you can learn, be better at what you can do on a continuous Mrs. I think that is very critical. And which is where? Even in the corporate side of fate, you know, many work with Junior's, you know, Artie members or no pierces Well, in a lot of times, you find that the effort that you're making, you know is taking time, you know, for people to change. And there are different people you know as well there. So I think you know the again, in that scenario is, well, there is a a perspective available to say that whose natural disposed of certain things, who's got a in a talent around certain things. We discover that through efforts, So you're saying that even in the corporate world approach of like Jen leaves will be quite useful in probably realigning people to what they are best suited to, Isn't it to validate some of, you know, the effort that you would have done? And, you know, so every performance manager in a large manners, appreciative of the talent of the person's bringing along and the differences between the list five team members that he has a night or she has already there would be clearly available differences on know those getting validated. Plus the fact that you know the fact that can you do the justice to the individual where he or she can also tap into himself ourself most of the need for the education system to change and become more futuristic. Mr. Agarwal, you're the best person to answer that. So the recognition is there. He have a new education policy, and the government says that Look, we have to do a more holistic education. You've spoken about it as vice chancellor of several universities and now looking at universities seeing the quality, whether they should be a credit or not, give us a sense of something like generally right. Would it support universities and schools Should should it come it come there or Do you think that there is a need to change the wavy teaches as well? Very interesting question. Yes, you're right. Many of our problems started with must've fication of agitation and therefore, I can say with some degree of confidence that the entrance tests to decide which is the best course for you is probably the least correcting we could ever do in a governments and added to that when we converted into multiple choice, question and justice. But this problem really arose because of the massive fication, because we had to philtre out something and you have referred to new education policy. It's not only the admission g r and all that the questions, the questions are wrong distribution in everywhere. For example, there are institutions, schools and colleges and universities where you have a rat race for admission and there are institution which are running for getting students at any cost. It is still happening in this country. This part of the gr fact the problem really is we really never explore the interest of the student, the capability of the student, and this has become all the more relevant Now. I think it was always relevant but all the more relevant now because now the school graduate from the university does not have one. Correa, our statistics now, says a graduate has about 10 careers till he retires. When we graduated, probably we started with a job and ended with the job, and you could probably try and prepare the student for their job, nor when he or she has to go in for 10 jobs and worst parties. Neither none of us knows which will be those standoff nor the student knows, nor the parents. So in such a scenario, unless you can discover yourself and try to make sure self it not for day one only, but for day 50 years also or that will not be possible. And Gen lip kind of situation is, I think, too late to lay too late to litter. But unless people are able to discover themselves. So for all of us have gone to the school of the college where our parents just decided for whatever reason, on her and we have seen in the education system so many mishaps happening only because the interest in on match. So I think if we could match the competencies and the interest by this package, which is a comprehensive package, hopefully taking three different viewpoints. I remember a book which I studied long back. It was the son that Gino and the Internet. I think we're coming almost close to that. The sun, the genome, an Internet because all these scenes ultimately have a unifying. So this unifying threat is being discovered by Jan Leap To discover the self discovery in the students, I welcome the step and hope that we will have a little better hope for the jute of the country. And when I says youth, it might be meaning people of 50 60 which are again looking for a change. They're looking for a change. Absolutely Nim ish. But everyone has played the devil's advocate a little bait like, um, it said that it shouldn't become Once you have been identified to be good at something, then it shouldn't become the Laxman Rica that you cannot cross right and somebody else's talked about the fact that it's great to self discover and see that you're suited for particulars area of work. But then that can't be the same over your next 30 us, because you can probably have 10 professions strike. So how are you going to tackle or which and Leap and Jen leaps, offering all of these cynics who are going to come and ask you the fact these questions were very much in our mind. And if you possibly notice what Sachin said when we started looking at expanding the vision of General, we didn't want to stop at self discovery. That was the original idea that was idea which we discuss that this is something which we want to. But realising that giving only the same discovery to an individual may not help the personal chief what we want to do, which is where I think the points made around, where their interests are, making sure that we sit with them, understand where their interests are aligned, the safe discovery of their personality, traits in the direction in the directional growth of competency, skill and knowledge, making sure that you measure them at every step. See, we were trying to follow, So if you understand, how do we are? We are trying to do up. Skilling is making sure that we do a quarterly appraisal on the philosophy of the Mac defined measure, analyse, improve and control. So that is the kind of approach we're taking. Which means if you have decided that this is what we want to do, we want to be the enabler. We want to be the platform which is providing with that ecosystem which which was shown over there, which gives you opportunities in terms of making sure that you take that directional growth towards that exact competency, exact skill and exact knowledge in that graded manner so that he eventually get there. One thing which was extremely important over here was to understand that while we're looking at it, we have we have not stopped at only the seven Discovery. We have also mapped out the 12,000 jobs tax which are going to happen in future, knowing very well that service talking about the jobs which we have for today will not be the same. Tomorrow there will be few which will morph into something. There will be few additional one social coming, and some of some of them will get sacrificed to robotics itself. That's the wave you're talking about. It's important that we have been able to see, and 63 it was extremely important to lay out the vision in such a way that the future of the entire generation which were trying to assist, is being seen today. 10 years, 20 years because, let's say for child goes through self discovery, he will realise that what have given to him will possibly materialise 2025 years later. By the time he would've possibly forgotten what's in Leap is all about. And that's where it was important for us to expand the vision, to make sure that we become possibly words first and only complete career lifecycle management from seven discovery to upscaling employed, ready, aligning along that path of competences killer knowledge. I got to price it right because I will tell you one thing. The bigger problem is not with families like ours. Our Children have a Lord of Comfort of, you know, financial backing. And parents who are educated can allow them to flounder and figure out a self discovery, right? The pick of problem and and mike would second that because they're running under their E s C programme social inclusion schools right from a lot of schools in Karnataka. Couple of schools in Karnataka How do we take something like this percolated to where it's really need it, like the government schools, a sector. Is that is that a thought to do that? That's a very good question of us. And I would like to thank my partner Cary over here, who has been working with us in trying to make sure that this test, which is actually extra manically a strong islamically, costly in the Western world, we have been able to bring it down to a level where in people are able to take this test in less than ₹10,000. That's the M R. P. We're talking about of these three test now when he equated to another genomic test, which is possible limiting it to feud personality traits. Maybe 40. 45. Those are being charged $500 so that is the kind of price point. We were very sensitive to Indian demographics overhead that we should price it that way. Now coming to the government schools, which is something which we have already initiated right now, is to ensure that we are taking this product every nook and corner of the country. Now, while they will be able to afford the price point? No, obviously not because not everyone will be will do that. That's where we are looking at C. S R. Funds to come into picture to make sure that we are able to provide because Manisha to be honestly the World Service talking about demographic dividend demographic dividend of India can be converted into skilled evident only when those 70% un privileged people who were there, languishing in some hinterlands of the country, are given that opportunity. And that oppurtunity aligning to their strings, abilities and talents is something which is what we are a good thank everybody on the panel year. Thank you very much.
