Wadhwani JobRise and Wadhwani JobConnect -employability and career-readiness programs designed to help learners build workplace skills, prepare for interviews and connect with job opportunities – will be made available through Knimbus-powered institutional digital libraries after Skills Development Network Trust (SDN Trust) supported by Wadhwani Foundation announced its partnership with with Knimbus, a digital library platform.
The partnership was formalized through an MoU signed at Sharda University, Greater Noida, last week during on the National Librarian’s Day. Over 600 institutions and more than 2 million authenticated users are already on the platform and now students at participating institutions will be able to access the programs through the same authenticated digital library environment they already use for academic resources.
The rollout will be undertaken in phases in consultation with participating institutions.
Tarun Arora, Founder and CEO, Knimbus, said, “With Skills Development Network Trust, the millions of Knimbus logins can now also opens job-readiness and interview preparation programmes. No new system for the college, no new registration for the student.”
Col. Santosh Kumar, VP – Skilling, Skills Development Network Trust, said, “Our focus at Skill Development Network is to help youth find a dignified, sustainable path into the world of work, whether as an employee or as a microentrepreneur. Through the Wadhwani JobReady Programme, we prepare learners with the skills employers actually need, and through our Micro-Entrepreneurship Programme, we help others build livelihoods of their own rather than wait for one. Knimbus already has an established digital relationship with hundreds of institutions and their students. This partnership gives us a practical, at-scale way to bring Wadhwani JobReady and Wadhwani JobConnect directly into platforms students already use turning readiness into real opportunity, faster.”
Dr. S. K. Sahoo, University Librarian and Event Director, Sharda University, said, “Connecting a student to what they need next is what librarians have always done; this partnership simply widens what we are able to offer them. In the tradition of Dr S. R. Ranganathan, our library becomes the place where learning meets livelihood.”
A leadership panel featuring Prof. (Dr.) Sibaram Khara, Vice Chancellor, Sharda University; Col. Santosh Kumar; and Tarun Arora explored the changing role of campus libraries in an era of AI and growing employability expectations during the event.
