“We would also be opening new centers in Nepal and Ghana this year”

Jetking Infotrain Ltd is a hardware and networking institute that trains non-technical students to be the IT professionals of tomorrow through some of the most in-demand hardware and networking courses. Dataquest speaks to Suresh Bharwani is the Chairman and Managing director of Jetking Infotrain to learn more about the company's plans to cater to the changing needs. Excerpts...

 

What are the new student focus areas?

As a new student enters Jetking, we make sure that he graduates as a professional. To meet the market requirements we at Jetking provide updated and advanced technical skills to the students, our JCHNE and JCHNP courses are designed to meet the recruiter and industry demands, The basics of both these courses include, computer application, basic computer electronics, PC hardware support skills, networking essentials, exchange server, network security, cloud computing and Linux to equip a student to work efficiently in multi domains and leverage his IT skills and further have a specialization in any of these domains above.

Moreover these courses are aided with personality development sessions and the necessary CRM skills that enable a student to have good command over language and start his career with a professional attitude and to be employable from day one.

How would you rate the skill set available in the market and sharpen it further?

Today employers are looking for individuals who are employable and equipped with the latest technical knowledge. The skills sets available in the market today lack the competitiveness that is required for students to survive in the dynamic IT industry, to hone the skills further we offer courses that are mapped to recruiter and industry demands, aided with multimedia rich lectures and practicals so that the student is hands on since day one.

Today due to poor infrastructure and lack of good faculty in government and higher education institutes, students rarely have the skill sets to join the industry we have identified this as an opportunity and taken up as a challenge to train students in the right kind of skills sets and make them job ready to join the industry.

What are the future plans for the company?

We currently have close to 100 centres pan India and for the year 13-14 we plan to open more 10 centres mostly in the southern part of India. After successfully launching 2 centres in Vietnam we would also be opening new centres in Nepal and Ghana this year in a master franchise model.

Additionally we have been executing orders in states like Haryana for retail training, Gujarat for computer application and networking training and in Andhra Pradesh for hardware networking training. We plan to build stronger relationship with government bodies to train and empower the youth in India, furthermore our partnership with NSDC is already underway and we plan to open upto 40 centres in the next two years as multi skill learning centres, we would cover hardware networking training, retail training and a number of different courses as a part of this initiative.

Any sort of market trends that you have noticed in the last few months?

With the shift in the industries, students today need a more in depth knowledge about the domain they are looking to getting skilled in. Surface level knowledge is being ousted by students. With the boom in retail, hospitality and IT we are seeing huge demands in adoption of IT infrastructure with new networkings and smarter networks, students are fortunately aware of such offering which creates a huge opportunity for us to cater to these students. In terms of Information Technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation, Big data and networking are changing the face of IT industry, the world is become more techno centric than ever with advancement in these technologies.

What are the new areas of opportunity emerging for students that the company is training them on?

With networking and IMS gaining momentum, we have introduced new courses like CCNA Voice and embedded technology we will also be introducing courses on CCIE and CCNP in the second half of the year.