The Higher Education Review

The current education scenario is ever-changing. The traditional approach of education was subject-based rather than having their base in science and technology. At present, higher education is more focused on skills, cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, science and technology. Serac Education strongly stands with the idea of `Anchored in Excellence. Ollato is a product of Serac Education that is based on career guidance and counselling programmes with the idea of `Explore & Achieve'. Ollato is an Indian population-based career guidance and counselling service provider based in Mumbai and it has become a pioneering brand in the field of career guidance and counselling. Ollato operates with the vision "To be a premier organization in the field of education and training, enabling each individual and organization to achieve their full potential."

A trend setter in the online and offline career counselling space
Ollato is completely focused on providing a scientific and realistic base for career development of students and other professionals on the basis of their aptitude, interest, and personality factors for upper economical to lower economical class population. "In India, we use international assessment tools to know the individual's potential, personality and interest to guide a career in a specific field. In India, most of the career guidance and counselling services are expensive and which in turn makes it unaffordable to a large section of our society.

Given the situation, Serac Education aims to benefit such a group of society through Ollato so that students get the right and affordable career guidance and counselling. We play a pivotal role in empowering students, teenagers, graduates, job-seekers, working professionals, and organizations by providing state-of-the-art and advanced solutions in areas of career counselling and empowerment programs, thus making an affirmative impact on the community", adds, DR. Rajeev

Ranjan - Director & Senior Psychologist, Serac Education, when asked about how Ollato is bringing a positive change in the Indian online career counselling space.

To cater to the varied requirements of students, Ollato provides, a) Ollato Comprehensive Career Assessment Test for 9th ­ 12th Grad students Potential Future USP- Tool in different languages (Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujrati, Odia, b) Certification Course in Career Guidance and Counselling for teachers, working professional, and master degree students those who want upgrade his/her skills, parents, c)Life Skills Programme for Students, Teachers, Parents, Corporates or other working professionals, and d) Leadership Skills and Training Programme for Educational Institutions.

There are a plethora of factors that separates Ollato from the rest of the competition in the industry including Artificial Intelligence based & unbiased comprehensive test, Cost-efficient, availability of Subject experts according to students requirements or career needs, Programmes for students, teachers & parents separately, All programmes according to your time flexibility, Career counselling is affordable for low income families, and 100% hand holding supports for students and counsellors.

“Ollato's mission is to provide expert counsel to students by assisting them in developing a unique perspective on choosing a career path that leads to personal or professional progress & fulfilment”

Changing the lives of many through online career counselling
Ollato is providing a wide range of subject experts, psychologists and counselors to support students to get clarity about subjects, concepts, and higher studies. Every month Serac Education organizes webinars, workshops, talk shows that are related to students, education and career development topics with a team of experts. Serac Education also conducts special training and guidance sessions for teachers, students, parents and other education professionals and has collaborated with several NGOs, CSR, Foundations, Colleges, Coaching institutes to provide proper career guidance and

counselling for students to complete higher education. To offer the best experience to their students, Ollato always conduct online offline sessions for students that are based on exam preparation, career guidance as per their needs, subject based preparations, guidance, tutorial and other guidance facilities. Serac Education has also established networking with different educational institutions, subject experts and the local community as well.

In the changing higher education scenario, Ollato is committed to provide live, virtual as well as face to face services by complying with the latest technologies. To know the need of the present situation, they also do research and determine the services according to them. "We are always ready for change and work on ground level with large marginalized groups. We are making more people friendly applications & services and we have committed to develop in-house testing tools, and design skill-development courses for students, teachers or other professionals.

We are also specially focused on a) Career-development ­ to assist youths to identify and fulfill their career goals using interactive technology. The vision is to help budding youth in their early careers by matching with eminent mentors in given fields, b) Youth Opportunities ­ to ensure those youths have access to the numerous opportunities both locally and internationally ranging from development work-shops to educational scholarships, and c) Professional Development ­ to assist youth with gaining meaningful professional experience through internships and gaining access to employers and available jobs within their respective career fields", says, DR. Rajeev while talking about the future plans of Ollato.

DR. Rajeev Ranjan, Director & Senior Psychologist Serac
A pioneering educator that aims to offer the best value for money career counselling services to the students. Under his guidance, Ollato has been growing rapidly and has created a niche in the market. He was also aformer associate professor of Psychology in medical university, corporate & Leadership skills trainer. He has more than 13 years working experience in the field of education, training & development, clinical practice (mental health).