Pre-Employment Cards and Educational Startup Opportunities to Prove Yourself

On the official website of the Ministry of Manpower, it is stated that the Pre-Employment Card is a government program for the development of work competencies aimed at job seekers, workers who have been laid off, or workers who need competency improvement. Each holder of this card will be injected with funds in stages. These funds should later be used to access training through designated partners.

Interestingly, quoted from the official website, the government cooperates with many digital startups as a place to "exchange" the incentives contained in the Pre-Employment Card with various forms of training.

latest news, government It is said that they will increase the budget for the Pre-Employment Card Program which was originally Rp. 10 trillion to Rp. 20 trillion. The value of the benefits received by participants also increased, the total reached Rp. 3.550.000, with details of Rp. 1.000.000 which can only be disbursed for training costs, Rp. 600.000 per month for 4 months for incentives for completing training, and Rp. 150.00 for incentives for job surveys.

"The Pre-Employment [Card] prepares them so they can enter the workforce. But they have to take part in training first. So it's not unemployment benefits, but really prepares people for the job market." light Minister of Research and Technology / BRIN Bambang Brodjonegoro.

The participation of many digital platforms in the implementation of the Pre-Employment Card program has brought some fresh air. The first is a matter of trust that is starting to grow, starting from the government and slowly to the community, and secondly, this transaction from the beneficiaries can be the right moment to encourage business growth, improve quality and show off to be better known by the general public.

Edtech startup opportunity to prove yourself

Want to LearnWhat and Skills Academy, along with Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Pintaria, SekolahMu, and Pijar Mahir, are the platforms the government has chosen as a place for Pre-Employment Card beneficiaries to choose the training they are interested in.

The founder of MauBelajarApa, Jourdan Kamal, said that his party was contacted by the Presidential Staff Office in the middle of last year. The government is said to be looking for a platform that provides training, MauBelajarApa was one of those who was contacted because the concept that was carried out matched the needs of the government.

MauBelajarApa is an online platform like e-commerce, especially for training, both online and offline.

Long story short, the agreement was reached, the government and MauBelajarApa decided to collaborate and make MauBelajarApa one of the platforms where the beneficiaries of the Pre-Employment Card received their training.

"So [the mechanism] is more for us to run our business as usual. It's just that the different classes that make Pre-Employment Cards must beApprove same curation first by the government. So if you haveApprove, later the Pre-Employment Card holders will be directed to landing pagemaustudiapa.com/karturprakerja to take classes that have beenApprove earlier," said Jourdan.

Currently MauBelajarApa provides approximately 1000 classes each month, both offline and online, with a total of 20.000 users.

Meanwhile Ruangguru, tech startups education which is currently on the rise, is also involved in providing training for the beneficiaries of this Pre-Employment Card through one of their services, Skill Academy. Slightly different from MauBelajarApa, Skill Academy provides a wide selection of courses in online form.

"The appointment and announcement of Skill Academy as the official partner of the Pre-Employment Card is a very big honor for us. It is our mission here Ruangguru to facilitate access to lifelong education. We launched Skill Academy as a business unit in Ruangguru which focuses on helping professionals and prospective workers to be able to improve their competencies so that they can be relevant to current industry needs," said the Co-Founder Ruangguru Iman Usman.

This is the right time for startups in the education sector to prove that they are ready to be an alternative to improve the skills of people in Indonesia.

Other educational startups, for example those with a special focus on languages ​​such as Cakap and Bahaso, Hacktiv8 for technology solutions, and others can also take this opportunity.

By the number of beneficiaries reach 5.6 million people, this could be the right time to contribute to the country while proving that edtech in Indonesia is qualified enough to be a learning choice.