Get ready to get the opportunity
Students recognise what they bring, support it with real experiences and practise communicating those experiences more effectively during placement conversations.
Why Ignite
Prepare for the opportunity and for what comes after.
Colleges already invest significantly in aptitude, technical, résumé and interview preparation. Ignite adds a different layer, helping students understand and communicate the person behind the résumé, while beginning to think about what will be expected of them once they enter the professional world.
Placement readiness is the hook. Career readiness is the outcome.
Ignite looks at both sides of the move from college to work: how students prepare to get the opportunity and how they prepare for what comes after.
Get ready for the opportunity
Students explore what the professional world may ask of them and reflect on behaviours such as communication, ownership, initiative, collaboration, adaptability and learning.
Make your move
Students identify one area they want to become more ready in, choose one meaningful action and decide when they will take it.
Student Outcomes
Ready for both sides of the transition.
Ignite gives students practical placement value now while helping them recognise what they need to develop for the professional world ahead.
What I bring, with evidence
An evidence-backed example they can draw on in placement conversations rather than relying only on generic claims.
How ready I am for the workplace
A personal reflection on the behaviours and areas of readiness they need to keep developing.
What I will do next
One personally chosen action and a date by which they intend to take it.
Workshop Format
90 minutes designed to create movement.
Ignite combines facilitator-led learning, individual reflection and student interaction. It is designed primarily for pre-final and final-year students preparing for placements and the transition into the professional world.
DURATION90 minutes
MODEIn person in college
COHORT SIZEMaximum 75 students
Frequently Asked Questions
What colleges usually want to know.
Who is Ignite designed for?
Ignite is designed primarily for pre-final and final-year undergraduate students preparing for placements and the transition into the professional world.
How is Ignite different from placement training?
Placement training develops aptitude, technical, résumé, interview and recruitment skills. Ignite complements this by helping students understand and communicate what they bring with evidence, while also reflecting on the behaviours they will need once they enter the professional world.
Is this career counselling?
No. Ignite does not recommend careers or ask students to choose a direction. It helps them think more deliberately about career readiness and identify one action they can begin now.
How many students can participate?
Ignite is limited to a maximum of 75 students per session so the experience remains genuinely interactive. For larger student cohorts, multiple Ignite sessions can be scheduled.
What does each student leave with?
Each student leaves with an evidence-backed example they can draw on in placement conversations, a personal reflection on career readiness, and one action they choose to take by a date they set for themselves.
What does the college receive after the session?
The institution receives the facilitated experience, structured student output, post-session feedback and a brief outcome snapshot.
Meet the Founder
Experience showed me that knowing yourself matters.
For nearly 30 years, Rams Parameswaran built and led technology organisations across the United States and India, working with global financial institutions including Citigroup, Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Fiserv.
Throughout his career, he hired, coached and mentored professionals and saw the same pattern repeatedly: those who thrived understood their strengths, could explain their choices with confidence and took ownership of their direction.
Rams founded The Evolve Foundation to help young people develop that self-understanding earlier.
Rams ParameswaranFounder, The Evolve Foundation
Read the founder’s story →
Explore Ignite for your students.
Start with one complimentary Ignite session for up to 75 students. Experience the programme with your students before deciding whether to bring it back for future cohorts.
Future sessions at the same institution: INR 35,000 + applicable taxes per session. Travel and accommodation outside Bengaluru are to be arranged or borne by the institution.