With the lock-down in force for close to 2 months, Grazing Minds, a Consulting and edtech start-up has added over 10,000 learners for live online classes focused on skilling and career transition to BFSI, logistics and hospitality sectors. The preferred courses among the learners have been API driven banking, Financial Modeling, Creating Smart Banking Products, Understanding Credit Scoring, Ind-As and IFRS in Banking, Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Big Data. The reason behind these courses being the preferred ones is that these are focussed on jobs of the future, and also it helps them to obtain employment and getting deployed on live projects available with Grazing Minds or it's partners.
This increase in the learners can be mainly attributed to a combination of new courses, behavioral change to consume the same category online and referrals from learners who have already got job placements through Grazing Minds. The company is seeing an increase of learners from tier 2 and 3 cities such as Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, Siliguri, Madurai, Nagpur, Calicut, Belgaum, Raipur, Udaipur, Ranchi and Kanpur.
Commenting on the increasing number of learners during COVID-19, Mehak Verma, VP Sales of Grazing Minds says, Since the lockdown, we have added more than 10,000 learners with a 5x increase in its inquiries to the platform. Out of this, 40 per cent of this is driven by referral customers. She further added that they were are also seeing a surge amongst young professionals taking up live online classes to enhance their skills, thus preparing themselves for the road ahead post COVID 19.
Grazing Minds is a modern Consulting edtech company floated by serial entrepreneur Asish Dash and senior banker Mr.R.N.Das. Their aim is to bring sachet courses in less than $50 and deploying students on live consulting projects of their company, with International clientele. This they are able to deliver by garnering deep partnership network across Europe and S.E.Asia with smaller tech and consulting companies and outsourcing their projects to these novice learners.
Grazing Minds is aggressively investing on tech platform for creation of greater content modules, so as to bring variety and offer a range of learning programs and ultimately a total consulting company.