BWDisrupt interacted with Vishesh Goyal, CEO, MeetCareer.com, who founded his startup in 2015. MeetCareer.com is India’s first edu-job portal established with an aim to enable high school students to manage their academic and career life cycle.
As a process, MeetCareer.com helps students to identify their gifted talent as well as their interest areas (through various online mediums as well as preliminary exams). To further assist the students, MeetCareer.com also intends to provide and facilitate free career counseling and the tutors to support the specific needs of students.
Also, through the registration of the academic institutions on its portal MeetCareer.com plans to provide the requisite information related to career to the students and would also provide financial assistance in terms of scholarships to the needy ones. On the other hand, MeetCareer.com would also engage the potential industry; placement agencies and others to provide career options to the students after the completion of their academics.
Excerpts from the interview:
How was it started? When I was pursuing my academic career in CA, a lot of questions used to race through my mind related to my career. I would often wonder what next? At that point of time, I understood the serious need of student-focused approach in the education sector and decided to encourage and support the student community in their academic as well as career life-cycle. I felt a deep desire to make things easy for students when it comes to their career. That’s the time I decided to do something to make a difference in the lives of millions of students. And that’s how MeetCareer.com was born.
Key Features and Services• Meetcareer.com is India’s first edu-job portal.
• It is a one-stop destination for students, schools, colleges, coaching/ training institutes, job-seekers, and recruiters
• It supports and assists high school student’s career life-cycle starting from high school days until the time they find the job matching their skills and interests.
• Through career counseling, it helps high school students make wise career choices in accordance with their talents, abilities, and interests.
• It assists students in getting admission in the right college/college of their choice
• It provides financial assistance to the students in the form of fee waiver and scholarships
• It has over 2,00,000 registered users and the number is increasing
• It offers best suited job options to job-seekers
MeetCareer.com offers programs like career counseling, quiz contests, motivational sessions by inspiring thinkers and practitioners and much more. In this way, it strives to contribute in nation-building by supporting student community.
Its latest endeavor is All India MeetCareer Quiz Contest for high school students. The winners will get exciting prizes worth Rs 30 lakhs, scholarships, fee waiver and much more.
How is it different from existing ones?MeetCareer.com is one of a kind as it is the first and the only edu-job portal. It is an easy and efficient platform where students, schools, colleges, coaching/training institutes, job-seekers, employers/corporate come under one roof to fulfill their respective dreams! We handhold a student starting from high school to his dream job.
What are your Future Plans?The Company aims to be the leader, as an edu-job portal, in facilitating-
(1) The students in pursuing their higher education dreams, be it in India or in any global institution
(2) Financial assistance, counselling support, providing a platform to the qualified professionals for their career search, creating opportunities in start-up through skill set development, and also be a source to the elite academic institutions and organisations for identification/ selection of candidates.
What is your existing Monetization Model?The Company plans to adopt a self-sustaining monetization model duly supported through a volume based activity level over a period of time.
What are the Challenges you faced?India doesn’t have a consolidated territorial data base for the focused areas in which the Company plans to penetrate. The challenge at present is to, therefore, built a useful and meaningful database addressing the requirements of the activities that the company plans to introduce over a short period of time.
Furthermore, to expand the reach of the company connecting with the geographical position of the academic positions and identification and mapping of the potential employment sources is another challenge area where the information/input availability is either negligible or minimal.
What is the Market Size and Opportunities?The company is going through the brand building phase and the market size assessments are under way. Without any quantification it is assumed to be a huge opportunity open to be tapped.
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