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— Placement Readiness Index

Recruiters will find your gaps. Find them first.

The season will grade you anyway — in offers, joins and walk-aways. The Placement Readiness Index grades you first: six weighted dimensions, one 0–100 index, your bottleneck named in your own numbers — while there’s still time to fix it.

20–25 minute diagnostic · 18-page report · standard fee ₹10,000 — currently at no cost

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the sample institution’s PRI — “At Risk”. We actually score this.
6dimensions
Employer-weighted
55questions
33 scored
<30minutes
Autosaved
1index
Four plain bands
Why measured beats unmeasured

The spend you couldn’t defend this year is already in next year’s budget.

Unmeasured prep spend renews by default — same vendor, same slate, same impressions. Measurement is how the cycle breaks: baseline first, aim the spend, re-measure what moved.

How it usually goes

Typical placement-prep spend

  • Commodity. A vendor runs training; coverage and cost are known — the effect is not.
  • Unmeasured. No baseline, no re-measure — next year’s renewal is decided on impressions.
  • Generic. One slate of activities for every stream, whatever their actual funnel says.

The Skillencio way

Measured, aimed, re-measured

  • Measure first. The PRI baselines the placement function in your own numbers.
  • Aim the spend. The roadmap ranks moves by weight × gap — arithmetic, not opinion.
  • Commit to movement. The 12-month scorecard re-measures the same lines, together.
What the PRI measures

The six numbers your placements stand on.

Each dimension is scored 0–100 from your own answers, then weighted into the one index. The heaviest — employer relationships — is the one most institutions track least.

S1 · 15% weight

Institution Details

Measures the base under the placement function — scale, accreditation, infrastructure and how mature the placement cell really is.

S2 · 15% weight

Curriculum & Pedagogy

Measures whether the teaching builds job-readiness — applied depth, industry contact, certifications and career support.

S3 · 20% weight

Student Readiness

Measures how interview-ready students actually are — academics, English, internships and what recruiters see in the rounds.

S4 · 25% weight — the heaviest

Employer Relationships

Measures the employer side — recruiter breadth, repeat hiring, engagement depth. The most common bottleneck, and the heaviest-weighted dimension.

S5 · 20% weight

Placement Metrics

Measures the outcome funnel — offers made, accepted and actually joined, stream by stream, where placements silently leak.

S6 · 5% weight

Future Outlook

Measures appetite to act — willingness to pilot, budget realism and timeline. The hope line of every report.

The four readiness bands

Your band isn’t a grade. It’s your starting point — and your to-do list.

Four fixed bands with plain meanings — no percentiles, no peer rankings, nothing to game. Wherever you land, the report pairs the band with its fixes: what to move first, and what gets re-measured at 12 months.

At Risk · 0–49

At Risk

The placement model is exposed — early on the readiness curve, with the most room to move and the clearest upside in the report.

Developing · 50–69

Developing

The function works in places but leaks in others — usually one or two dimensions hold the whole index down.

Established · 70–84

Established

A working, measured placement function — the gaps are refinements, not structural fixes.

Advanced · 85–100

Advanced

Broad employer base, repeat hiring, a funnel that converts — the model others benchmark against.

Sample report

Don’t take our word. Take the sample.

The proof is downloadable: 18 pages built from a fictional Tier-2 engineering institute’s own answers, clearly marked SAMPLE — surfacing exactly the kind of insight the PRI exists to find: the MBA wing proves it can work; the model under it is thin and exposed.

DrillThe worst-segment drill — the one stream carrying the cost, named in the institution’s own funnel figures.
PlanThe priority roadmap — three moves ranked by arithmetic (weight × gap), not opinion.
ScorecardThe 12-month success scorecard — what gets baselined today and re-measured together at +12 months.

▲  Sample report · fictional institution

Placement Readiness Index.

Where your placements stand today — and the one lever that moves them most.

48PRI / 100
At Risk · Band 0–49
Employer Relationships 38 · the bottleneck
p.3 The lead finding · risk meter
p.12 The segment drill
p.17 The 12-month scorecard
How it works

You don’t sign up. You get invited.

Every request is qualified before an invitation goes out — the report is built for you, not generated for anyone with a link.

01

Request

You request the PRI from this page — the sample report downloads immediately.

02

We qualify

A human looks at every request. We confirm fit before anything is sent.

03

Email invite

Your single-use link plus an access code, sent to your registered inbox.

04

You take it

20–25 minutes, autosaved throughout — finish in one sitting or several.

05

We score

Fixed, deterministic rules — the same answers always produce the same score.

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Report delivered

Your full report, emailed to the registered inbox — viewable online and printable.

Questions

Fair questions. Straight answers.

What TPOs ask us before requesting — including the fee.

What does it cost?
The PRI Diagnostic’s standard fee is ₹10,000. It is currently offered at no cost to qualifying institutions. It is gated: we qualify each request before an invitation goes out, because every report is built individually for the institution that takes it.
Who should take it?
The person who knows the placement function best — typically the TPO, placement head or director. The instrument is course- and domain-agnostic: engineering, management, degree colleges, universities, polytechnics.
How long does it take?
20–25 minutes. Every answer is autosaved, so you can stop and pick up later from the same link — nothing is lost between sittings.
Is my data safe?
Yes. Access is by a single-use, email-bound link plus an access code; the link expires after 7 days. All emails are transactional (sent only because you requested this service), and the report goes only to your registered inbox. Your answers are never shared or benchmarked against other institutions.
What’s the access code?
A short code in the same invitation email as your link. It confirms the diagnostic is taken by the person we invited — the link alone is deliberately not enough.
Can I retake it?
Each link is single-use. The natural retake is the re-measure: run the diagnostic again later (for example at +12 months, against the report’s scorecard) by requesting a fresh link — same fixed rules, so the difference between two reports is real movement.
Placement Readiness Index

Fix your gaps before the season — or explain them after.

One request. A 20–25-minute diagnostic. An 18-page report naming what to fix — a ₹10,000 diagnostic, currently at no cost. The gaps are already on your campus; the only variable is who finds them first.