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Did you find your knowledge already outdated after graduating from university?

Business works faster nowadays. Change is happening sooner rather than later.

With this, we’re seeing recent graduates who join the workforce lack the skills needed. To combat that, one young and savvy entrepreneur provided the solution. SkillBank’s CEO Mehak Vohra is helping people get jobs in marketing by skilling them up to get them to land the job.

Find out how SkillBank is cutting through the noise to get people into a revitalising industry. Tune in now!

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What we discussed in the epsisode:

  1. What Mehak does [01:38]
  2. The biggest hurdles facing people getting into the industry [02:03]
  3. What companies are looking for [02:53]
  4. Who is SkilBank for [03:45]
  5. How SkillBank works [06:35]
  6. A cool story about how SkillBank helped someone level up  [07:38]
  7. What inspired Mehak to start SkillBank [08:29]
  8. Hurdles Mehak faced in building and scaling her company [11:13]
  9. The first roles she hired for [13:06]
  10. Her vision for the next 5-10 years [13:41]
  11. What has changed in the last 18 months [14:31]
  12. What’s lacking in university education [15:32]
  13. Mehak’s reason for doing what she does [17:09]

This week guest

Mehak Vohra is the founder of SkillBank. SkillBank is helping train the next generation of marketers through their online program. Through their free upfront cohort package, students only pay them after they graduate and if they get a job paying $40K or more.

Mehak is a 2017 Thiel Fellowship Finalist, and she has been featured on ABC, Forbes, Adweek, AwesomenessTV, and Huffington Post as a consultant for personal branding, Gen Z, and B2B growth marketing.

 

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