iDreamCareer unveils platform for career guidance & mentoring for school students

With schools closed due to COVID-19, iDreamCareer (iDC) India’s only multilingual and largest unbiased full-stack career solution and guidance platform, has launched “Industry connect hub” – a platform to offer both career guidance and mentoring. Students in classes 8-12 now benefit from the unbiased career guidance offered by iDC’s certified counselors while accessing their school alumnus and industry professionals. The hub connects students on a real-time basis with mentors who can help them better understand a career, help with test preparation, college admission process besides scholarship & financing options. Machine Learning algorithms crawl through millions of data points on mentors - where they studied, what career they’re in, entrance exams they have cracked & what scholarships they received, to ensure the right mentor is connected to the student. Students asking for help appear on the mentor’s dashboard as “Chat Request” along with a small introductory message. Mentors have the option to accept or reject the chat based on what he is comfortable and confident of answering. With its objective of 100% data privacy, iDC continues to offer this feature with no sharing of data among student-mentors unless they are mapped and both agree to connect.

According to Ayush Bansal Founder & CEO, iDreamcareer,“There have been platforms that offer alumni connect to school students and ones which offer industry connect or mentoring for college students. But none that combines both and delivers it for school students layered with machine learning. This powerful combination allows the most smart and effective way for students to plan their course choices and thus their potential career paths. We look forward to helping millions of students being impacted by the current crisis and get their decisions right.”

About iDreamCareer: Founded by Ayush Bansal in 2012, iDreamCareer is one of India's largest unbiased and the only multilingual career counselling/guidance platform. It helps 2.5 million+ Class VIII to XII and undergraduate students annually across 48,000+ schools and colleges in India & Middle East, in choosing the right career. iDreamCareer also works with 12 state governments (Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, etc.), various International Agencies (UNDP, UNICEF & Central Square Foundation, etc.) besides non-profit/CSR organizations (Bharti Foundation, Uber, Magic Bus, Miracle Foundation, Hero Group, DS Group, etc.) ton effective career guidance for students. Some of its private school clients are - Shiv Nadar Foundation, The Shri Ram Schools, Scindia School, Navy Schools, Sunbeam Group, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh, Indian School Muscat, Kunskapsskolan and Orchid International group, etc. It has a team of over 850 certified career counselors located across 103 Districts in India and Middle East. iDC is backed by US-based Impact VC Gray Matters Capital, Mohit Satyanand (Chairman, Jaipur Litfest), Neeraj Gambhir (President, Axis Bank) among others. Its Psychometric Assessment tool helps students map their abilities, personality traits & areas of interest to discover their inner potential while its Career Planner tool aligns this with suitable career options. it has proprietary content on 500+ careers, 1,849 specialization tracks, 19,000+ colleges, 1,049 entrance exams, and 960+ scholarships.