Greetings from the World Skill Center (WSC), Bhubaneswar, Odisha!!!

We would like to introduce ourselves as The World Skill Center (WSC) which is a premier advanced skill training institute established by the Government of Odisha, Skill Development and Technical Education Department, through the Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA). Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha inaugurated the WSC on 5th March 2021. The project of establishing the WSC (Odisha Skill Development Project), is assisted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with Institute of Technical Education Services (ITEES), Singapore as the knowledge partner. The WSC imparts advanced skill training in eight trades from engineering and service sectors. WSC caters primarily to induct the best talent from ITIs and Polytechnics and train them to become globally employable in emerging areas.

In addition to that WSC has also initiated the international career center to help the Youth from Odisha with Overseas Employment Pathways and position the State as the preferred State of origin for skilled, trained, and certified workers for a global market.

Scope of Work of International Career Center

• Advocacy and awareness of overseas job opportunities for the youth of Odisha State.
• Mobilization and counseling of candidates for employment abroad.
• Facilitating placement and immigration process of candidates.
• Be a foreign language training center in Odisha for international mobility.
• Capacity building of State and district officials for facilitation of overseas mobility of skilled and certified Indian candidates.
• Demand aggregation from employers and other sources in destination countries
• Registration and creation of a database of prospective candidates from Odisha State who are interested in overseas placements.
• Facilitate preparation of CVs (need-based) of candidates in line with employer needs and pre-screening of candidates
• Facilitate departure training, recruitment, and immigration of candidates as per the guidelines of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
• Infrastructure support for the creation of international migration training, assessment, and certification.
• Post-placement grievance redressal of the candidates.

To this effect, the Govt of Odisha has taken the following steps:

• Registered World Skill Center as State Government – run Recruitment Agency (RA) with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to help youth looking for overseas employment opportunities
• Establish Migrant Information Centres (MICs) in all Districts across the State to Counsel, Guide and Register profiles of interested youth. At divisional level, the MICs will also function as Migrant Regional Centres (MRCs). All MICs to be located in the District Skill Development Offices.
• The RA will function in close coordination with the MICs & MRCs to help strategize employment trajectories for the youth.