Skill Upgradation

Why Skill Up-Gradation?

The quality expectation of a finished product today is higher than before. To deliver up to these expectations, candidates are required to have adequate skills, without which the delivered product will never be up to the required standards. The gap between skills present in candidates and the skills required to work is vast, and even though candidates are willing to learn, no mechanism/program has been able to bridge this gap.

DSS has the ability to train candidates and empower them with a skill that is acceptable by International standards with proper safety induction and assessment of productivity.

Advantages of Skill Up-Gradation

An ideal learning environment with implicit motivations: Based on our experience over the last three decades with a multitude of operatives, it is our view that an Indian operative’s motivation to learn would drastically decrease once he knows that his job is in hand. An environment where he has to learn to earn an attractive job motivates him tremendously.
Attitude Assessment: Unlike the traditional selection process, training gives us the opportunity to assess the candidate’s attitude. This is a critical advantage as not all skilled candidates are beneficial for the client and in fact, historically, it has only taken a few operatives with a disruptive attitude to create challenges for companies.
Instilling of discipline and preparation for life in Foreign Land: Most workers have never lived in a camp facility or worked in a regimented environment. DSS’s training is the worker’s first introduction to the type of environment they would be expected to live and work in, for the coming few years. Further, a worker from different regions gets to meet and connect, easing their initial period, post landing in the Gulf or/and other countries.
Impact on skill and foundation knowledge: Most tradesmen in India have learned their trades through informal means. In most cases, they are aware of what to do; they are not aware why it is done that way, whether there is a more efficient way to do it and how their work fits into the greater scheme of the project.
Prepare the workers to deal with negative influences on worksites: Most workers who do not have prior overseas experience are simple and sometimes naive and typically would fall prey to the negatives influences on worksites — overtime and slowdown of work, group bargaining, alcohol, etc.
Prepare the workers to make the most of opportunities available to them: It can take a very long period of time for workers to develop an understanding of how they can maximize their opportunities through incentive programs, skill upgrades, developing communication skills, etc.
Hit the worksite running: Workers arriving at the job site with prior knowledge of items like safety, PPE, modern construction methods, etc. are likelier to commence delivering faster than those who do not.

Training Process

In all of our facilities, we provide food, accommodation, and medical services to candidates.

Step 1: Finalize Training Curriculum

DSS engineers will share with you our training programs for the trades that you require. Our curriculum is simply a guideline. DSS engineers will work with your engineers to mold our program according to your needs. We will go through the exact site requirements of each tradesperson including project tools, materials, location, climate, safety laws, working conditions among other critical points to build a unique program to fulfil your needs. Together, we will decide the length of the program.

Step 2: Strategy related Collection of Candidates

Option 1: Ex Middle East Candidates – DSS has the ability to recruit candidates with Middle East Experience. These candidates understand the quality requirements as well as dedication required to deliver the best in the class project within limited timelines.

Option 2: Local Experienced Candidates – DSS will recruit candidates with domestic experience. All candidates will go through a strict induction test. Candidates who pass our induction test will be invited into our training program.

Option 3: Your Current Workforce – DSS also has the ability to induct your current workforce into our training institute and provide them with the skill up-gradation you feel they require.

Option 4: Combination of Option 1, 2 and 3: DSS can accommodate a combination of the options mentioned above. Often, recruiting a small percentage of Ex Middle East candidates has a very positive effect on the rest of the workforce as they get to learn from the most experienced candidates.

Training your workforce under charge hands and foreman with overseas experience will improve the overall productivity. We have witnessed this in a large number of cases.

Step 3: Final Test and Mobilization

Your team will share with us the mobilization timeline based on which our team will recruit and train candidates. Upon the completion of the training program, your technical team will be requested to visit our centre to conduct a ‘Final Test’. We will only mobilize candidates who pass your final test. You will pay us for the same. Candidates that fail your test will not be your responsibility.