HireMee, a Bengaluru based assessment startup has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Labour and Employment’s National Career Service (NCS), aims to offer comprehensive assessment services to jobseekers registered on the portal, according to an official release.
HireMee will deploy its competence in offering a 100-minute assessment test that enhances employability of the youth. They claim that the facility will help job seekers to self-assess their suitability for a job through aptitude tests being offered free of cost, as per the release.
The candidates can also upload three video profiles of 20 seconds each, to garner employer’s attention. The employers too will benefit from this association as they can view the scores of aptitude tests and easily do the first level of scrutiny of potential candidates thereby cutting down selection time, informed the release.
At an event organised at New Delhi it emerged that the Ministry of Labour and Employment views this partnership from the perspective of the jobseekers of the country. It may spur future partnerships between various government and private organisations to help NCS to serve the interests of both job seekers and employers better.
“As a founder who sought to help companies discover diamonds from small towns, I am gratified that 57% of the job opportunities came to youth from tier-3 and tier-4 towns and nearly half of these opportunities were for girl candidates,” HireMee, founder, CEO, Chocko Valliappa, said.
HireMee claims to provide an artificial-intelligence (AI) proctored assessment covering seven sections including core domain for students pursuing their diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The assessment scores of test takers are shared with companies that list on HireMee platform without any fee.
By working closely with AICTE, National Career Services (NCS), NASSCOM and a few Indian states, HireMee platform claims to have helped more than 6.3 lakh students get themselves assessed with more than 2.25 lakh students getting the opportunity to be considered for jobs in companies, they added.