What makes this offering different from others?

The mission:
The mission of ‘BigLeap with Konfidance’ is to bridge the ever increasing gap between industry requirements and the output of current education system.
The Great Indian Hiring Paradox is that India churns out 3.6 million graduates every year. In 2005, 450,000 students enrolled in four-engineering courses across India. Even though many of the new private engineering colleges are in district head quarters and more than 5.3 million graduates and post-graduates are still searching for a livelihood. Still corporates claim severe talent shortage. We believe that a great divide exists between the “Job Aspirant” and “the right job”. It is our mission to bridge this gap through employability enhancement programs.  That is the focal point of the venture initiated by BigLeap and Konfidance - “BigLeap with Konfidance” which literally helps job aspirant take that Big Leap with Confidence.

The people behind:
BigLeap is one of India’s leading Talent Acquisition and Management Companies. With headquarters at Cochin, Kerala and presence PAN Kerala, BigLeap is ideally suited to provide employability solutions to freshers and young graduates. Konfidance is a niche player in training and skill enhancement area. Konfidance was started by Mr. Kishan Kumar and Mr. KrishnaSwamy, both graduates from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) after forfeiting lucrative MNC campus jobs. During the last couple of years Konfidance have carved out a niche for itself by focusing on employability enhancement training programs. Konfidance with its dedicated team of experts brings experience and innovative training methods to the Employability Enhancement space.
The synergy between BigLeap and Konfidance is sure to bring unmatched value to its customers.

The Unique Course Design and Delivery Model

• The program is designed as a 100hr program.
• It will be delivered in 3 hour sessions [Monday through Friday]
• It will be completed in 7 weeks. 
• Batch size will be limited to 30 students

Some features of the 100 hr course

• Aptitude tests designed in tune with screening tests of companies. [Comparative ranking will be provided to the test takers so as to know their relative standing vis-à-vis other students. Benchmarking against the best allows the students to know the level of effort they need to put in order to be among the top performers]
• It includes training towards approaching aptitude tests. [Here we look at test taking techniques and ways to improve the performance in aptitude tests]
• It builds verbal, non-verbal and analytical skills of participants. [The basic theory and fundamentals behind the common test areas of verbal, quantitative ability and analytical ability are covered]

• Soft skill improvement modules will be intermingled with aptitude training modules. [These include Public Speech / Extempore, Group Discussions and Debates. Students will be divided into small teams for communication activities so as to foster a healthy competitive spirit among the participants. Feedback based on individual performance and corrective measures would be suggested. Methods to generate more ideas during the discussion would be demonstrated.]

• Reading and Presentation sessions [Students will make presentations to the class, the theme being current affairs and social issues. This serves the purpose of improving the communication skills, elevating overall information level of the batch and makes the participants more confident]

• Personal Interviews:  Detailed analysis on the HR interviews would be done and methods for preparing for the same would be looked into. Personal interview experience will be offered to all the candidates.

• Moreover, in these training sessions, students will Practice to perfection, Work in small groups, learn and experience the smarter ways to get employed in the right job, Meet and interact with people from different industries

The course will

• Wipeout the students’ hesitation to express their ideas in English
• Make the student a good performer in Aptitude tests
• Improve the Group discussion and debating skills.
• Enable the participant to present himself / herself well to interviewer
• Impart relevant industry information and awareness
• Inculcate in students a strong desire for continuous improvement

The program is designed as

• an Extremely Interesting and Interactive course
• a Rigorous and Demanding course
• a Result Oriented course

In short, the course makes the participants Industry Ready Candidates