Google today introduced a training programme for young professionals in India in alliance with NIIT Ltd.
The programme named Google Web Academy , aims to bridge the digital skill gap in the country and help students and professionals tap the emerging job market for the online industry.
Under the initiative, NIIT will be Google’s first partner to offer specialised courses through its centres across the country.
Google will provide NIIT with its world-leading training curricula and certification standards to offer advanced training programmes that are specially designed to create a pool of high quality Google qualified professionals and help young professionals to gain useful skills required in the job market for the online space. The programme will be initially offered in India, and subsequently launched in other parts of the emerging world.
Mr Rajan Anandan, Vice-President and Managing Director, Google India, said: “As the Indian Internet market continues to show robust growth, we believe a capacity building programme to help young professionals gear up for the opportunity is the need of the hour.
Google Web Academy is part of our initiative for emerging Internet economies and launched this in India first. Google has been working with NIIT to offer online advertising programme and offers training programmes to professionals and students in India.
Mr Vijay Thadani, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Ltd, said: “This initiative will introduce the latest technology to students and working professionals to help them carve a challenging career path in emerging Internet economies.”
The courses offered by NIIT under the Google Web Academy programme will include certification programmes for online professionals covering
topics such as search engine marketing, optimising online presence with Web analytics; enhance business productivity with Google products and
technologies. Subsequently, the programme will also offer technical courses for IT professionals and developers covering topics such as building new Web and mobile applications using Google technologies, integration across Google products and third party APIs, Web optimisation -- bandwidth and loading performance, Introduction to cloud computing, including web standards, System integrator -- Google Apps for Business, including configuration, deployment and management and Performance tracking and monetisation (Google Analytics, SEM).