JAGSAR International: Strengthening Professional Careers through Advanced Skill Development Solutions Date:   Sunday , November 23, 2014 The ability to overcome skill gap is considered as the critical bane today. 80 percent organizations indicate that their skill gap affects productivity by 41 percent, customer service by 32 percent and security by 31 percent. This circumstance has in turn led enterprises to invest more on professional skill development firms. Corporations are reported of allocating approximately 70 percent of their investment in skill building programs which cover executive development, managerial and supervisory skills, IT and systems training, interpersonal skills and orientation. To enable an effective use of such investments and to deliver concrete solutions, enterprises need a nimble career catalyst that stands apart with its highly effective IT training solutions. This need also became a bee in an IT expert\'s bonnet which motivated to kickoff a Hyderabad based IT Learning and Certification Organization that endeavors to succor the predicaments. The vision of JAGSAR International came true through the IT wizard Uday Shankar, and the company now stands cornering the market with its gamut of services, delivering the best value to the IT professionals through its advanced IT training & certification programs. The brand has moved beyond the generic problems of accountability & grey market and aids the woes through rigorous pre & post assessments and personalized career guidance. Assessments at JAGSAR move beyond the mere boundaries of customers and ensure concrete real-time training processes through testing and selecting the trainers. Accredited by global education agencies and key governing bodies, the company endeavors to enable both short term and long-term skill enhancement of corporate employees through regular 360� assessment processes. Even though virtual training offers comfortable training models, it is also considered as non-interactive medium. To annihilate this assumption, JAGSAR crafted out most advanced virtual learning platform named J-Connect Platform that bridges the gap between trainers and trainees and make interactions easy by facilitating communication through voice, video, chat, questions, presentations, board and other efficient modems. As a training partner for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, JAGSAR offers authorized & value added services such as collaborative e-Leaning, IT proficiency development programs, trainings and certification courses that are also underlined by their quality-driven and cost-effective facets. As a pioneer in the skill development realm, JAGSAR provides diverse and managed skill advancement portfolio & highly experienced and certified Knowledge Transfer Expert (KTE) across a global clientele. With its focus on customers, the brand outlays an ideal pathway that takes care of the customer\'s needs which has in turn made them to annex 98.64 percent of rating as feedback. \"From the 1st enquiry call to the feedback of training, we make sure that the customer is happy. We tell customers to come with a fresh mind to learn and we will take care of the rest,\" says Uday Shankar, Founder & CEO, JAGSAR International. Living up to the customer\'s time and commitment, JAGSAR provides vast modes of delivery conduits such as classroom and virtual e-Learning over flexible time slots, while also emphasizing on-time deliveries. While the company utilizes a right mix of people, content, tools and purpose to make learning more appealing, it also uses contests, stories and gaming elements like badges to encourage people to fully experience the social tools and voice their opinions on the potential of the technology. The Happy-Employees-Happy-Business Strategy In this survival-of-the-fittest world, companies sometimes overlook keeping the chief constituent, their employees motivated, leading to high attrition rates and low success ratios. JAGSAR not only believes that happy employees create happy businesses, but also practices best policies that drive employees to outperform. With its standard and human-friendly shift timings, the company ingrains staff members with all required information, facilities and latest services, thus drawing an ideal work-life balance. This environment also fosters the crew to go beyond their profession and contribute towards a better community. SAVEBLUEPLANET.org, educating underprivileged children, complimentary job-oriented vocation workshops and blood donation camps are some of the examples initiated by JAGSAR. The Future Rain Checks As a fastest growing Professional Learning and Certification Organization, JAGSAR owns 20,000+ training hours and a record of training 3000+ aspirants in its repository. This corporate education provider has already branched out its wing across UAE, Singapore, U.S., Australia, Sudan and Nigeria through virtual modes and is geared up for expanding through collaborative approach. With 50+ courses in its syllabi, the firm also has stronger plans to sum up its courses to 125 in its near future through partnering with International Universities and B-Schools. While JAGSAR supports India through its robust centers, it is also preparing the ground for initiating 365/24/7 customer support centers worldwide where participants can get their Course and Certification related queries resolved instantly and conveniently. Uday adds \"We have been rapidly growing vertically in IT related Training and certifications by adding about 5 new certifications Trainings every quarter. We are also initiating plans to grow horizontally by catering courses in Finance, Banking, Medical, Construction and to be a one-stop solution for advanced level professional trainings\". We have many untapped opportunities in the market for growth in this vast area. JAGSAR is actively capturing these markets and is seeing phenomenal growth over past 3 years. In the process of increasing company credibility in the market and capturing vast opportunities in overseas markets, JAGSAR management opened up investment opportunities in it.\"We are keen in choosing an Investor, who are aligned to our interests in a way that we are both charged and who truly believe in our Vision and Mission,\" concludes Uday. Panel: Solutions/Services: JAGSAR is an expert in Customized Training for Companies and has been annexed with finest feedbacks for its customized trainings. 1. Classroom, Virtual, Video Based learning\'s, Seminars, Elearning 2. Corporate Trainings Training &Certification Expertise in 1. IT Service Management 2. Project Management 3. Quality Management 4. Advanced Cloud Computing 5. Big Data & Analytics 6. Information Security Management 7. Lead Auditing and more. Key Management: Uday Shankar- Founder & CEO As an IT & engineering expert, Uday has experience of working as a management consultant, business analyst and also as a software engineer prior to founding JAGSAR. He has also been crowned with Leadership Award for Community Service (1999). Clients: Google, HSBC, Cognizant, Bank of America, Accenture and more Fortune 100 Companies. Offices: India, U.S., UAE, Africa, Australia, Singapore, China and UK.