TCS announces a youth employment programme, with 1,100 nominations received.

Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software business, has developed the Youth Employment Program (YEP) to assist victims of the Covid-19 outbreak in rebuilding their lives and providing job opportunities. It is the company's main CSR programme, aimed at empowering youth, women from rural colleges, and unemployed graduates, particularly from socially and economically disadvantaged areas.

TCS has added courses in Quantitative Aptitude, Business Communication Skills, Programming, and Domain Skills as part of this curriculum.

"TCS is teaching Quantitative Aptitude, Business Communication Skills, Programming, and Domain Skills to the adolescents who are taking part in the programme. We will also assist them in locating employment possibilities when they have received this specialised training and mentoring "In a statement, TCS added

So far, TCS has received 1,384 nominations, which are being supported in their learning and career journey by 700+ TCS associates. Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka account for more than 80% of the candidates.

"TCS received over 1,300 nominations, with over 85 percent of them coming from employees' friends or relatives," the business said.

TCS claims that its Youth Program has benefited over 4,900 direct students, while the non-IT Youth Employment programme has trained 9,200 students and 56 external trainers and professionals.

Since its foundation, it claims to have trained 1,24,000 young people. To date, 24,800 people have found work in both private and public companies, including 13,800 at TCS.

TCS also offers a free online training for young professionals called "TCS iON Career Edge." It's a 15-day programme designed to help job seekers enhance their key employability abilities.

In accounting and artificial intelligence, the course addresses fundamental behavioural, communication, and basic abilities. The training is broken down into 14 parts. Each session is 1-2 hours long and includes videos, presentations, reading material, and recordings of TCS experts' webinars.