MeritTrac
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MeritTrac™ is India’s Largest Skills Assessment Company
MeritTrac designs and delivers assessments to evaluate abilities, skills and knowledge for both corporate & individual customers. Since its inception in 2000, MeritTrac has assessed over 2 Million candidates for over 150 clients across industry verticals like IT, BPO, BFSI, Engineering, FMCG, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing, Public Sector Units and Education among others.
MeritTrac is neither a Placement/Recruitment firm nor a Training organization. It is uniquely positioned to be an “Independent” assessment company that provides quantitative inputs on the talent pool and helps in measuring competencies for specific roles.
Our suite of scientifically designed assessments is used by corporate customers for pre-recruitment and employee assessments, and by individuals for measuring their skills for employability. MeritTrac’s strong Test Development team has created a validated suite of tests in over 300 areas spanning Communication Skills (English and other Indian Languages), General Abilities, Domains Skills (Technologies, Engineering, Accounting, etc.) and Behavioural Assessments. The team has been instrumental in generating over 75,000 questions across all these test areas.
All the tests are delivered in both Online and Offline (paper – pencil) modes, under supervision. All online tests are delivered using OnTrac – a proprietary web-based testing engine. Our Test Delivery team has administered tests in over 75 cities in India.
We currently test over 100,000 candidates every month across industry verticals and count among our clients some of the world’s most admired & respected companies like ABB, Accenture, Aricent, Cholamandalam DBS, Cognizant, EDS-Mphasis, Google, HAL, HP, HSBC GLT, ICICI Bank, ICICI Prudential, ITC Foods, Microsoft, MindTree, NSE, SAP Labs, Satyam, TESCO, Wipro and Wockhardt.
TracSkills – our Individual Certification program for IT, BPO, Services and the MBA Talent Pools has assessed and provided structured feedback on industry-readiness to thousands of candidates across the country. TracSkills is endorsed by several companies across sectors and partners with academic institutions like Bharathiar University, Visvesvaraya Technological University, among others on employability enhancement initiatives.
Pariksha - our program for Education Assessments has successfully supported educational institutions like Manipal University in conducting large scale national level entrance examinations online, in a highly secure mode.
Headquartered in Bangalore, MeritTrac has 450+ fulltime employees and over 1000 certified test administrators operating out of offices in all the metros of India. MeritTrac also operates 21 state-of-the-art online testing centers - “MeritTrac Assessment Zones” across 16 cities, having 1300+ online terminals.
MeritTrac is a winner of the Red Herring top 100 Asia award for 2007. The award is a recognition of the Top 100 Most Promising Private companies in Asia and is probably the first instance of an assessment company winning this award- a testament to the importance being placed on innovation in talent engagement practices globally.
MeritTrac assessments have also been delivered in countries like Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Mauritius & Philippines. MeritTrac is represented by business partners in the USA & the Philippines.
MeritTrac is an investee company of Manipal Education Group (MEG).
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