Create Job-Ready Talent with a Work-Integrated Learning Program
Building a future-ready, skilled workforce has become a persistent challenge for employers in India, as the gap between academic learning and industry requirements continues to widen. According to the India Skills Report 2026 by CII in collaboration with Wheebox, the overall employability rate in India stands at 56.35%. While these numbers are improving, they also indicate a significant shortfall of candidates with the right skills. This leads to higher training costs, productivity delays, and prolonged hiring cycles. This growing mismatch calls for a more integrated approach to talent development.Â
A degree apprenticeship model, built on structured apprenticeship training and delivered as a work-integrated learning program, enables organizations to develop talent in real time while aligning learning with business needs. Unlike traditional hiring, this approach creates a sustainable pipeline of job-ready professionals trained within the organization, ensuring a better fit, faster deployment, and long-term workforce stability.
Scale Workforce Efficiency with Government-Backed Apprenticeship Training
India’s evolving government apprenticeship program ecosystem—led by the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) and the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS)—is designed to bridge the skill gap through structured, industry-aligned learning. While NATS focuses on technical apprenticeship training for graduates and diploma holders, NAPS promotes apprenticeship training at scale across industries. The impact is substantial: NATS has engaged over 2.57 lakh apprentices in FY 2023-24 and over 4.73 lakh new apprentices during FY 2024-25, while more than 21.47 lakh apprentices have completed training under NAPS between FY 2018–19 and FY 2025–26.Â
For employers, these schemes offer strong financial and operational benefits—under NATS, the government shares 50% of the stipend (up to ~₹4,500/month), along with savings of ₹3,500–₹4,000 on statutory costs, while under NAPS, employers receive 25% stipend support (up to ₹1,500/month) and reimbursement of up to ₹7,500 per apprentice for basic training costs. Â
Leveraging this framework, TeamLease delivers a structured blended learning program, managing the entire lifecycle from hiring and onboarding to compliance, enabling organizations to scale apprenticeship initiatives seamlessly.
Why TeamLease?
We are India’s largest staffing company, operating across 7,500+ pin codes in 28 states and 8 UTs. Over the past 25 years, we have hired over 24 lakh employees and supported 4,000+ companies with end-to-end staffing and HR solutions. Our culture of innovation and performance excellence makes us one of India’s most trusted workforce partners.
Building on this scale and expertise, TeamLease delivers India’s largest Degree Apprenticeship program through a unique blended learning program that integrates degree education with on-the-job training simultaneously. As a trusted third-party aggregator, we manage the entire apprenticeship lifecycle—from sourcing and onboarding to compliance, training, completion, and exit—ensuring seamless execution. Backed by a government-led PPP model with the Ministry of Education and MSDE, and in partnership with CII and NSDC, the program is designed to function as a structured work-integrated learning program aligned with industry needs.Â
For employers, this translates into reduced dependency on external hiring, significant cost savings, and the creation of a sustainable, job-ready talent pipeline. The model also reduces attrition and improves retention rates, helping organizations build a stable, future-ready workforce.
Our 3E Solution: Employment, Employability and Ease of Doing Business
Our philosophy and long-term goals are best reflected by our purpose of ‘Putting India to Work.’ We endeavour to cater to the needs of our clients and their evolving needs with our robust business model. Our strong brand recall has helped us to successfully incubate new adjacent business lines, which shall assist us in continuing the broad-based growth of our business in talent management.
We continue to bridge the employer-employee gap through our offerings and will continue to invest in leadership, digitalisation, sales, and hiring capabilities to pursue the opportunities aggressively. As we look ahead, our potential to deliver steady business outcomes despite external challenges validates our vision, strategy, and capabilities.
We are innovating a model of economic prosperity for the youth and enterprises at the intersection of our 3E solutions around Employment, Employability, and Ease of Doing Business.
About TeamLease
One of the Fortune 500 listed companies; TeamLease provides its clients a gamut of services keeping the 3 ‘E’ – Employment, Employability and E-Workforce as its utmost objectives. We bridge the gap between employers and employees. End your struggle to get employees to hire, get holistic solutions on putting the Indian workforce to work with extensive experience in a functional segment.
Our commitment stems from our vision and purpose to serve our customers’ needs as well as address the risks associated with the future changes. Our investments in digital solutions, telecom technology, engineering technology, gaming, healthcare, and other service lines have enabled us to provide a one stop shop for our customers’ needs.
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