Context: Recently, the Ministry of Labour and Employment has started offering free online career skills training through its National Career Service (NCS) project for job-seekers registered with it.
Key Points

• The training will assist the learners in enhancing personality development with modules on corporate etiquette, improving interpersonal skills, making impactful presentations including other necessary soft skills demanded by the industry today.
• The training module is available in Hindi and English on this portal.
• The course has been launched in partnership with TCS iON ( a unit of Tata Consultancy Services).

About National Career Service (NCS)

• It is a Five Year Mission Mode Project launched in 2015.
• It is being implemented by the Directorate General of Employment, Ministry of Labour & Employment.
• It is a one-stop solution that provides a wide array of employment and career related services to the citizens of India.
• It works towards bridging the gap between jobseekers and employers, candidates seeking training and career guidance, agencies providing training and career counselling.
• It is also supported by a multi lingual call center where the users can call the NCS Toll Free Number for any support.

The National Career Service Project reaches out to the people of this country through its three essential pillars i.e.

• A well designed ICT based portal which is NCS portal,
• Country wide set up of Model Career Centers and
• Interlinkage with all the states through employment exchanges.