8: Ashwin Ajila and Pankaj Bansal on the big billion opportunity in solving India's employability problem

While globally there is a large scale fear that automation will replace jobs and humans, India- the country with world's largest youth population- has a bigger problem, that of employability.

For far too long, the traditional education system and regulations haven't kept up with the fast-changing business needs, thereby making graduates less employable. With some promising startups coming-up in the education tech space, green shoots of growth are beginning to be seen however, a lot of ‘patient’ capital coupled with deep understanding of edutech and its scalability, is the need of the hour.

On one hand while Edtech startups are making the workforce job-ready, on the other hand startups in HR space are effectively deploying mechanisms to help workforce cope with the changing workplace dynamics. From L&D to hiring for Gig economy, HR Tech startups are developing one-stop solutions to all HR-related challenges of companies.

In this episode, we have Ashwin Ajila from India’s largest virtual university iNurture and Pankaj Bansal from PeopleStrong- which is transforming HR operations for companies. Ashwin and Pankaj share the opportunities and challenges in these highly regulated sectors and shed light on how they are making India’s workforce, future-ready.