VIJAY KUMAR

Resourceful and innovative educator with significant experience in facilitating learning and creating insightful analysis of content and design, enabling joyful yet meaningful learning for students of diverse age-groups and skill-levels.

• Trained over 350 students from various colleges in Bangalore as part of Career Kraft Foundation under the programme name- ‘Li’l Bets’.
• Designed and trained batches of 60 and 170 students studying B.A (Literature) at R.T.G College of Arts and Science, Polur, Tamil Nadu in October 2013 and March 2014 respectively on leadership and interpersonal skills

Goobe's Book Republic (Nov 2012 - Apr 2014)

· Interned as store manager

· Responsibilities include Social Media Communication, Marketing and Inventory Management.

The New Indian Express (Aug 2012 - Sep 2012)

· Interned as a reporter for the Main Page Reporting section

· Got multiple articles published with a by-line under various beats and sections including the front page

Alchemy Career Solutions Ltd. (Oct 2011 - Mar 2012)

· Coached a batch of 20 candidates in beginner level English

· Co-ordinated recruitment for the organization at 24[7] Inc

Career Kraft Foundation (Oct 2010 - Sep 2011)

· Collaborated and designed a process for Study Party, an accelerated learning project and Li'l Bets, a Social Innovation and Design Thinking project

· Coached students from B.B.M and B.A at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, on Social Innovation and Design Thinking, which was offered as a credit course

· Progressed from Team Player to Personal Coach to a Trainer

· Awarded the Best Team Player in the first month of internship for best holistic performance

Creating Thinking Classrooms

• As part of Urbanherbs Agro Pvt Ltd, won a grant from the Government of Karnataka under the Elevate scheme 2019, which recognises the most innovative startups in the state.
• As part of Careerkraft Foundation, awarded the Best Team Player in the first month of internship for best holistic performance

• Facilitated a design workshop at the National Strategic Conference of AIESEC-India for 200 top leaders from across the country in the month of Dec 2010.
• Facilitated a design workshop in 2011 at the National Conference of Make A Difference, a Not-for-profit organization that aims at providing quality education to under-privileged children at extremely inexpensive prices.