About us
स्वYAM is one place to learn a trade, prove it with a certificate employers recognise, and find work that pays fairly — whether that is a full-time engineering role or a part-time shift ten minutes from your home.
To make practical skills the shortest honest route to a livelihood. We bring training, certification, mentorship and hiring into one place, so that a capable person is never held back by not knowing where to look, what a certificate is worth, or who is actually hiring this week.
An India where the question asked at a hiring table is what you can do, not which city you studied in or whose name is on your degree. We want every district to have the same access to training, mentors and employers that a metro already takes for granted.
On the platform
Six things, all free to start, and none of them requiring you to pay a placement fee to anybody.
Browse courses from verified institutes, many of them free, filtered by category, mode and difficulty.
Browse coursesA curated library across programming, AI, design, business and soft skills, each with a difficulty level and the courses that teach it.
See the libraryPart-time shifts near home, freelance briefs, and full-time salaried roles — with transparent pay, honest timings and no placement fee.
View jobsPaid and credit-eligible placements with real teams, listing stipend, duration, work mode and the skills each one expects up front.
View internshipsDescribe what you know and where you want to go. The Sarthi AI Chatbot returns a shortlist with reasons rather than a wall of buzzwords.
Follow other learners in your trade, read how people actually got hired, and ask the questions you would rather not ask an employer.
Open communityWhy we exist
The talent was never the missing part. The infrastructure around it was.
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Course listings sit on one portal, apprenticeships on another, and most local jobs never leave a WhatsApp group. Searching for all three at once meant searching in four places.
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Employers could not tell which certificate meant competence. Aligning everything to a single national framework makes a certificate something a recruiter can actually act on.
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Government funding for training exists, but the paperwork hid it. We surface which courses are free, which are subsidised, and what a scheme actually covers.
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A learner in a district town had the same ability and a fraction of the access. Remote courses, online mentors and nearby part-time work close most of that gap.
Two minutes. No fee. No catch.
Create a free account, tell us what you already know, and we will show you the courses, internships and jobs that actually fit.