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Unfurl is a  College Based Student Networking  for Site Skill development network, Student network India , Talent networking platform , Student Network Platform, Skill development India strengths & areas of improvement. Career assessments can help identify your skills, interests, values, or other traits.

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Unfurl is a Talent networking platform for students and Student Network Platform in India with a goal to provide everything that they need to get things done in real-time. it's a College Based Student Networking Site and unique platform for skill development networking and talent networking.

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College Based Student Networking Site, Student learning network | Unfurl

Unfurl is a Student networking platform for students, School ERP India with a goal to provide everything that they need to get things done in real-time. Students get a non-fee based platform to showcase their talents that are not easy to get noticed. It’s a unique platform for skill development, networking and talent networking.

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Posted by: Krishan Mittal, January 3, 2017

Some time back I met few students in the middle of a coaching session on developing the skills for the job market. The 3-days program by an external coach was meant to make them employable and job ready, Uh!!

Employability, isn’t it the purpose of any professional degree program these students have been pursuing for last four years? Prior to that, some had spent few months of rigorous labor in attending some coaching classes to get admission. Senior secondary education should have imparted the necessary knowledge and skills. Then, why did one has to go through coaching to get admission into a degree college? Why did school or college not educate enough to be employable? Where is accountability of the education system? Even perfect scorers (having CGPA of 10) attended the coaching and college harbour the similar feeling.

This year about 1 million students will appear for engineering entrance exams across India. About 30% of them will attend some coaching classes. Intake in the prestigious IITs and NITs is about fifty thousand. A recent news article claimed that 50% of students admitted to professional institutes never had any coaching. The other half who were successful because of coaching could still have succeeded, had they not opted for it. In the 1980s, when there were no coaching institutes, students still cracked the entrance examinations. I have a conviction that students opting for coaching can still admission if they practiced themselves. The key is discipline in preparation.

During school days, students are told and reminded that only grades matter. So, they do not study anything but syllabi to get the maximum marks. When in college, seniors and teachers confide them to maintain CPGA as companies adopt CGPA as cutoff for campus hiring. So each student does its best to thrive on the criteria of success. But, on the contrary, my interaction with many recruiters reveal that 90% students are not industry ready and might not be successful in respective jobs without further training. Read More:https://www.unfurl.in/site/blogs/ready_to_be_employed_not_exactly 

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nt to get a good job after college? Use these tips to jump-start your career!

Recently I was invited for a panel discussion on Careers in Management at a reputed management institute at Pune. I got an opportunity to interact with around 250 students who were very excited at the same time anxious about their careers. Through this article I intend to provide guidance to Fresh Graduates (from all disciplines) who are about to start their professional careers.

Most students go to college to get a degree and to gain the skills employers want. Getting good grades is not enough to impress most employers. Students that follow the strategies listed below will be better prepared to promote themselves to employers.

Step 1. Self Awareness The best place to start is by knowing yourself. It gives you a clear idea about your strengths & areas of improvement. Career assessments can help identify your skills, interests, values, or other traits. These are then matched to a broad list of careers. Assessments help you find careers that fit you best. These days there are some very effective Psychometric Tests available based on Five Factor Model (FFM) which have been found extremely reliable and useful in understanding yourself and your best career choices based your strengths and traits. Read More : https://www.unfurl.in/site/blogs/blog_post

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Posted by: Rakesh Godhwani, December 19, 2016

2016 has been a remarkable year for literature and music. For the first time in history, a Nobel Prize for literature was given to one of my favourite songwriter and singer - Bob Dylan. Times, sure are a changing. Last weekend, Patti Smith attended the prize distribution ceremony in Stockholm on his behalf and sang one of his songs- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. I watched the entire song and was inspired to write this post.

As a teacher of communication subjects, many of my students tell me that they have a morbid fear of facing an audience. They imagine that they will make mistakes and become an embarrassment. This self-fulfilling prophecy inevitably comes true, breaks their confidence and may scar their lives and careers. If you can relate to this feeling and dread facing an audience, I recommend you read this post and watch Patti singing this song over and over again.

Then she did something miraculous. She said "I'm sorry. I'm so nervous".

And then something even more miraculous happened. The audience cheered and clapped for her. Patti started singing again and finished the song to a resounding applause. This was an extra-ordinary performance. Here is the clip embedded here again. Read More : https://www.unfurl.in/site/blogs/i_am_so_sorry_i_am_so_nervous

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Posted by: Ajay Singal, December 23, 2016

As faculty who has been among students for quite some time, I often feel what makes a student industry-ready (or place-able as some would call). Is it responsibility of education system right from school to professional college or student himself in creating on(off)-campus experiences? Many of us have been part of the race to do well in various competitive examinations, secure admission to top ranking colleges that will land us in secured well-paying jobs.

Anecdotal evidence reveals that current education system is geared to prepare textually and leaves too much in the hands of students to experience and learn. Colleges are to be blamed partially for it because they exercise little focus and accountability in achieving the intended student outcomes. While growing up as teens, many had several unanswered questions and ideas that called for constant guidance and nurturing. Absence of well-trained, right skilled counselors in schools/colleges made that impossible to do and achieve.

Advancement in digital technologies has provided an opportunity to take up that challenge and offer a solution to school and colleges. Digital induced disruption is happening in the education industry. TASC (technology, analytics, social media and cloud) platform is an opportunity to overcome the shortcoming of old education systems. Education providers must move faster to adopt TASC to align education processes and delivery. There are many edu-tech startups who are redefining the meaning of education and creating a whole new digital economy out of it. One such digital platform that is riding the wave to cause disruption is Unfurl Technologies.

Unfurl Technologies - a team of technocrats - deliberated and came up with an technology based alternative, UnfurlMinds, to address some of the issues faced by current education system. It imbibed a vision of creating a knowledge ecosystem of participants (students) joining hands with other participants to make learning easier, fun-filled and relevant to future careers. It is a semi-structured networking platform in the sense that it is neither a formal professional network nor a wispy social media. UnfurlMinds operates both on the web and as a mobile based app to provide an integrated, user-friendly platform for students, teachers, employers and parents to connect.

Students get a non-fee based platform to showcase their talents that are not easier to get noticed. They can write blogs share ideas, notes and get connected with alumni who are also on this knowledge sharing network. It makes a student industry-ready by providing an opportunity to connect with the professionals in a right away. The importance of good CV is known to all, the good CV can be built by gaining practical experience and demonstrable skills. Therefore, connecting to the prospective employers to get short term projects, internships and freelance jobs is the key.

It is a widely accepted knowledge that companies prefer good communicators. If a student flunks due to poor communication skills, it is embarrassment to both sides. UnfurlMinds gives a chance to employers to know beforehand, hobbies, interests, skills of prospective employees. They can even organize regular events to attract the candidates possessing the required skill sets.

Teachers can administer assignments, take attendance online and hence, the student don't get a chance to excuse the class. Such features are of a great help in terms of managing the school/college system. Many colleges were left behind in putting proper ERP systems to use. With the app, college can virtually connect to teachers, students , classrooms and the classes.Using analytics colleges can profile the skill needs to identify the gaps and keep their students industry relevant.

In future, many edu-tech startups will start offering fee based services to build revenues. Here are a couple of ideas to monetize and create scalable digital platforms: advertisement revenues from other educational service providers; analytics based services; offering contingent digital services (gig based models); and a marketplace of student focused knowledge sharing by collaborating partners. Existing (brick & mortar) education providers can no longer ignore these upstarts. https://www.unfurl.in/site/blogs/education_in_the_age_of_technology