National Career Service Portal

About National Career Service Portal

• The Portal provides online career counselling and vocational guidance services to its registered users.
• This service aims to equip the jobseeker with necessary information that is required to make right career choices based on his/her qualification, skill set and interest.
• It provides a nation-wide online platform for the job seekers and employers for job-matching in a dynamic, efficient and responsive manner and has a repository of career content to job seekers.

What is the National Career Service?

• It is one of the mission-mode projects under the umbrella of the E-Governance Plan.
• It was launched in the year 2015.
• Objectives: It works towards bridging the gap between job-seekers and employers, candidates seeking training and career guidance and agencies providing training and career counselling by transforming the National Employment Service.
• It provides a host of career-related services such as dynamic job matching, career counselling, job notifications, vocational guidance, and information on skill development courses, internships and alike.
• Focus areas
  • Enhancing Career and employment opportunities
  • Counselling and guidance for career development
  • Focusing on decent employment
  • Enhancing female labour force participation
  • Encouraging entrepreneurial endeavours

Nodal Agency: The project is being implemented by the Directorate General of Employment, Ministry of Labour & Employment.

Q1: What is E-governance?

It is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve the delivery of government services and information to citizens. It enhances the efficiency, transparency, and accountability of government operations.

Source: Upgraded National Career Service portal to give job market a fillip