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Nearly 55 per cent of Indian graduates are expected to be globally employable in 2025, up from 51.2 per cent in 2024, showing India's emerging role in addressing global workforce demand, the latest 'India Skills Report 2025' released on Tuesday said.

India's employability among graduates is expected to rise by 7 per cent, reaching 54.81 per cent in 2025, according to the "Wheebox ETS India Skills Report 2025". This growth shows the country's emerging role in addressing global workforce demand, with its young, skilled talent pool positioned to meet the needs of various industries worldwide.

Labour and employment minister Mansukh Mandaviya Tuesday said India needs to redefine job to include self-employed people and link skill enhancement with industry need to reap the benefits of demographic dividend. India's youth is its strength and we need to tweak the definition of job to include even the self-employed as per our requirement, Mandaviya said at the CII Global Summit on Skill Development 2024.

The rise of digital education platforms can help bridge the gap between students who have access to the internet and those who do not. Many platforms offer free online courses that can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection.

In 2011, two ambitious minds, Nirmal Singh and Pawan Kumar, decided to shake up the talent assessment scene. Backed by angel investment, the duo started Wheebox, a company that later went on to rewrite the future of talent evaluation.

Wheebox ETS, a subsidiary of ETS, the world's largest non-profit educational testing and assessment organization, launched the relocation of its state of art India headquarters and 2nd Capability Centre in India.

Wheebox, a leading firm in remote proctored assessments and consulting services, on Dec 19 released the 'India Skills Report 2024', spotlighting the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the nation's workforce under the theme, "Impact of AI on the Future of Work, Skilling & Mobility."

Wheebox ETS, a leading provider of talent assessment and remote proctoring services, presented 'India Skills Report' with the theme "Global Skills Mobility-India's Decade" at Association of Indian Universities (AIU) 98th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and National Seminar of Vice Chancellors.

Educational Testing Service (ETS) has acquired Wheebox, a subsidiary of PeopleStrong, in a move to expand its presence in India and globally. Wheebox will continue to operate independently as a subsidiary of ETS.

Overall young employability in India increased from the previous year to 50.03%. The resources in the top 10 cities with the highest employability were found to be between the ages of 22 and 25, with 59.7% of them being highly employable.

Wheebox National Employability Test (WNET) taken by 3.75 lakh candidates or freshers revealed women have higher employable percentage than men

PeopleStrong, a global HRTech organisation, announced today the acquisition of its subsidiary Wheebox, which specializes in assessment and remote proctoring tools, by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), a global non-profit educational research and measurement organisation.

Technology development is shifting and significantly altering how test takers are evaluated. Move over educational institutions because even the corporate sector is aggressively looking for solutions that empowers them with data on talent management.

First and foremost, there is a strong correlation between test scores and job performance. If a candidate scores highly in a psychometric test, the chances are that s/he is going to perform well in the job. As an employer, this predictive quality makes Psychometric Assessments very attractive.

The report also points out that 89% of graduates were actively seeking internship opportunities. The survey indicates that candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi had the highest employability

Assessment companies are clubbing their remote proctoring solutions with robust AI-based live proctoring by invigilators that provide an easy way to assess from the safety of home any time.

"Finally gender gap in employability is improving with Indian digital revolution. One great structural change that we found is that women participation is higher than the previous five years. Women consist of 36% of the workforce, while men comprise 64% of all workers," said Nirmal Singh, Founder & CEO, Wheebox.

Among the cities, Pune, Lucknow and Trivandrum have the most employable talent while the most preferred cities for work by graduates are Bangalore, Kochi and Chennai. "Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, and West Bengal are employing the youth talent," according to the ISR.