New Delhi: Pernod Ricard India Foundation will launch India’s first Academic-Corporate Fellowship Program for the transgender community. This program will systemically enable transpersons from underserved communities across India to craft their career paths in the corporate world.
This fellowship program will provide training and exposure to transform them to take on managerial and higher up positions in the corporate ladder. Transpersons between the age group of 18-25 years can apply for the program as there is no higher education bar for the applicants.
These applicants will be shortlisted through an online process followed by a round of group discussions and personal interviews.
The one-year fellowship program is divided into two distinct phases. The first phase seeks tobuild theoretical acumeninbusiness subjects and workplace skills through 6 months of immersive classroom training and project work led by the faculty and mentors at TISS.
It will be followed by 6-months of hands-on workplace immersion through internships at leading corporates and non-profits to provide multi-faceted exposure and experiential learning.
Upon successful graduation, the fellows will be awarded with the completion certificates from TISS. This will provide them with strong credentials that will enable corporate inclusion.
Further, the fellows will also be assisted in charting out their future goals, and the program will attempt to facilitate corporate placements for interested fellows in partnership with Pride Circle.
