About the Portal

• In an endeavour to improve the information flow and bridge the demand-supply gap in the skilled workforce market, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched ‘Atma Nirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)’ portal in 2020 to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities. It acts as a directory of skilled workforce. 
• Apart from recruiting a skilled workforce, the Artificial Intelligence-based platform has been envisioned 
  • to strengthen their career pathways by handholding them through their journeys to attain industry-relevant skills and 
  • to explore emerging job opportunities which will help migrant labour, who have been severely impacted by the socio-economic fallout of the COVID pandemic.

Benefits

• ASEEM is used as a match-making engine to map skilled workers with the jobs available.
• Through ASEEM, employers, agencies and job aggregators looking for skilled workforce in specific sectors have the required details at their fingertips. 
• It also enables policymakers to take a more objective view of various sectors.
  

Why in News?

• Around 1.3 crore candidates have been registered on ASEEM portal.

Reference:

1. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1778500