Report on Education and Technology

This report, the first of its kind in India, endeavors to look at the issues with traditional paper-pencil examinations and the potential benefits of leveraging technology to deliver such exams. The report provides insights into the awareness, perception, readiness and experience of key stakeholders in Indian higher education with respect to technology solutions to assessment, primarily online examinations. The study was based on an exhaustive, countrywide survey of more than 75 key decision makers including vice chancellors, exam controllers, university registrars, academic experts, etc.

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Engineering Talent Pool Report

A first of its kind comprehensive report on the availability and quality of engineering talent pool clusters in India. The report features validated insights into India's engineering graduate talent pool from a data pool of 25000 candidates from 800 institutions. The report also includes a perception study of industry, academia & candidates & helps you in understanding the availability of skills across the country- both qualitatively & quantitatively apart from an updated database of over 250 engineering colleges across the country with placement officer contacts.

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National Index for Communication Skills (NI-CS)

This report is the first in a series of efforts to create an index of talent pool in the country. NI-CS aims at mapping the communication skills of talent pools across regions in India for the BPO Industry as well as the Services sector. Analyzing data collected from the performance of 11,300 candidates in communication tests, the report is an invaluable tool for companies in determining talent availability for communication led processes on qualitative parameters.

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Karnataka engineering Talent Pool Report

The report based on data gathered by MeritTrac and appropriately titled "Beyond Bangalore" highlights the large pool of employable talent based in tier II locations in Karnataka. Calculated on throughput rates the report dwells on the not so significant gap between talent pools in Bangalore and other locations. A telling fact for companies to spread their recruitment net wider and consider a larger set of locations.

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MBA Talent Pool Report

A first of its kind report featuring validated insights into India's MBA graduate talent pool after assessing candidates from top institutions in India. The report does an analysis on the aptitude levels of the candidates & also their communication skills. It gives region wise quality & quantity of the talent pool India.

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MeritTrac Psychometric Talent Pool Report: Sales Situational Personality

The report is a first in the line of MeritTrac's efforts to map the psychometric angle involving functional orientation of Indian talent. It discusses the rising demand for ‘selling skills’ and the ability of assessments to identify the inherent aptitude and orientation of an individual towards sales oriented roles. The report contains a validation of the test based on co-relation with job performance and analysis of candidate performance on MeritTrac's Sales Situational Personality Questionnaire. The analysis showcases overall orientation of candidates towards sales roles, individual parameter-wise candidate performance and draws valid conclusions and recommendations that have a bearing on recruitment for sales roles. The analysis is based on test results of 2783 candidates on MeritTrac’s SSPQ tool.

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MeritTrac Skills Survey Series: The Retail Sector

The Retail Skills Survey report is an exclusive primary study undertaken by MeritTrac to gauge customer perception of sales skills in the retail sector. The survey gauges customers' evaluation of sales staff skills at stores of leading retail chains, and relates this to their purchase behaviour. It also quantitatively demonstrates the impact of variation in skills on incremental sales and repeat purchase.

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