Our Purpose
NSDC Insights serves as the knowledge hub to create impact, supporting India's journey towards becoming a skill capital of the world.
Analyze how skills development, acquisition, and certification systems can be designed or reformed to better prepare individuals for emerging job roles and lifelong learning pathways.
Analyze how skills development, acquisition, and certification systems can be designed or reformed to better prepare individuals for emerging job roles and lifelong learning pathways.
Provide policymakers, educators, employers, and other stakeholders with actionable recommendations that enhance employability, income potential, and job satisfaction.
Identify the skills that will reshape jobs and occupations in the light of technological, social, and economic changes.
Monitor and evaluate the impact of skill driven interventions to ensure equity and inclusion.
Our Knowledge Partners
Partner with NSDC
NSDC Connect
Areas of Work
Skills Needs Anticipation
Analyze skills supply and demand, forecast future needs, and tailor strategies to specific sectors.
Skill Transformation Maps
Highlight pathways for upskilling, reskilling, and career development to meet emerging job demands and strategic goals
Labour Markets Analysis
Evaluate the demand for and supply of labor in a specific area or industry, considering factors like wages, skills, and demographics.
Policy Research
Provide evidence led insights by collecting and analysing data/documents from secondary and primary sources to inform decisions on public policy related to skill development.
International Mobility Scoping
Analyze talent flows, skill and compliance requirements to cater to the global workforce requirements across sectors.
Skill Profiling
Comprehensive overview to identify and showcase qualifications, talent, skill gaps that will guide workforce planning.
Youth Aspiration Studies
Analyze youth goals, values, and expectations related to education, careers, and build lifelong learning pathways
Market Scanning
Process of diagnosing needs, anticipating competitive actions, and identifying technological changes for newer opportunities specific to a community/region/industry.
Needs Assessment Studies
Analyze data to prioritize skilling needs, guide resource allocation, and design effective skilling interventions.
Green Skills
Skills required in all sectors and at all levels adapt to the climate change and environmental requirements and regulations.
Future Skills
Potential skills increasingly in demand driven by technological advances, economic shifts, and evolving industry trends.
Skill Taxonomy
A common language to identify, assess, and develop capabilities by breaking down broad skill categories into specific competencies to support workforce planning, talent management, and upskilling initiatives.
Area of Impact
Our focus areas
Skilling insights to inform policy
- Diagnostic assessments of skilling landscape at international, national and sub-national levels
- Alignment of skilling programs with national policies and SDGs
- Transforming national surveys into skilling intelligence
- Documenting best practices
- Development of skill ontology and skill taxonomy
- Assessing workforce skill gaps and industry demands across sectors
- Forecasting future skills shaped by technological developments and sustainable practices
- Monitoring and Evaluation of skills initiatives
- Designing skill interventions based on community needs for employment and entrepreneurship
- Country insights and sectoral requirements to evaluate international mobility and global talent requirements
- Engaging with multilateral and bilateral institutions to establish pathways for future of work and mobility
About NSDC Insights
Our research delivers actionable skilling insights by assessing global skill landscapes and aligning programs with national policies and SDGs. We map skills, forecast future needs, evaluate initiatives, design community interventions, and collaborate with institutions to shape the future of work and workforce mobility.
Bridging the employability gap across India
