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SkillCubator: Incubating Skills That Transforms Career

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Chetan Mehta, Founder & Principal Instructor

Chetan Mehta

Founder & Principal Instructor

In the waves of continuous transformations of the IT sector, staying agile is not an option, but a necessity. With new tools and frameworks launching every day, mastering an adaptable demeanor and embracing new methodologies is critical for maintaining technical mastery. Individuals seeking growth opportunities and career transitions cannot simply be masters of their domain anymore. They need to have foresight to stay ahead, continually incubated with skills desired for the targeted positions. This is where Skillcubator emerges as the launchpad that puts professionals on the path of success.

Incepted formally in 2012, Skillcubator’s journey traces back to 2007, when the founder Chetan Mehta helped train a friend looking to transition his career. This first experience set in motion a journey of training and mentoring more friends, and friends’ friends, inspiring the idea to create a formal business. With the establishment of Skillcubator, Chetan created a platform where individuals could leverage structured training programs that are job-based and certification-based to transition into new career paths.

All-Encompassing Training Courses

Renowned for its wide range of courses that are designed to elevate the candidate’s skills, the platform can be utilized for both job-based and certification-based training programs. The key programs for professional enhancement include its flagship Certified Agile Business Analysis with PSM-I and PSPO-I Certifications, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Cloud Data Engineer program, Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst, Data Analytics,, Full Stack Analyst (FSA) with PSM-I and PSPO-I Certifications, Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Business Analysis, PSM-I(Professional Scrum Master-I) Certification, PSPO-I (Professional Scrum Product Owner-I) Certification, Business Process Management, Business Process Model and Notation(BPMN), and Project Management Practical + PMP Exam Prep.

In response to the evolving technological landscape and shifting market demands, Skillcubator recently restructured several of its core training programs to empower trainees with niche skills that are in high demand. Among the newly launched initiatives are specialized extension programs in business analysis, including Artificial Intelligence Business Analysis, Cloud Business Analysis, Fintech Business Analysis, Salesforce Business Analysis, ServiceNow Business Analysis, Workday Business Analysis, and Guidewire Business Analysis. This strategic approach aims to build a skilled workforce capable of adapting to today’s technology-driven world, while also aligning with each individual’s strengths and career aspirations.

Apart from its job-based and certification-based training programs, Skillcubator also offers a host of services across diverse business domains, professional branding, coaching, mentoring, and job placement support. Under the ambit of business domain training, the platform offers training to build skills across diverse business specializations including healthcare, primary mortgage, investment banking, retail banking, secondary mortgage, electronic payment processing, and insurance. The scope of the platform’s professional branding services extends to making the professional resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile more attractive to the right audience. Its placement support services help with interview preparation, placement support, and mentoring and coaching guidance.

“Our tagline ‘Learn and Lead’embodies our goal, which is to build life-long skills and expertise in an individual and ensure that we design a strong growth oriented career path, which is created based on one one-one interaction with an individual, their future career aspirations, education background, prior work experience”, shares Chetan Mehta, Founder, Skillcubator.

The programs strive to help professionals refine softskills that play a pivotal role in
enhancing leadership qualities. Its mentorship program has been uniquely designed to guide the alumni through their career paths, ensuring they succeed in achieving their professional goals.

Tech-Powered Training Experience

As an online platform delivering coaching, training, and mentoring services, Skillcubator leverages and integrates technology in its programs, as well as overall operations. Google Classroom is utilized as its learning management system, and the main platform through which training is provided to the trainees. Training content is updated at regular intervals along supplemented with interactive learning aids to provide an immersive learning experience.

As an online platform delivering coaching, training, and mentoring services, Skillcubator leverages and integrates technology in its programs, as well as overall operations


To address looming challenges pertaining to inactive participation, limited attention span, and maintaining trainee engagement, the teaching approach involves a number of interactive tools like quizzes, polls, video participation, discussion forums, use of engaging multimedia content, and more. All these facilities rely heavily on advanced technological tools. Additionally to offer real-world learning experience, AR/VR, and artificial intelligence are integrated. AI is also used for automated feedback and assessments. Gamification software such as Kahoot and Quizizzz play an important role in enhancing classroom engagement, offering challenges, rewards, leaderboards, and more to encourage participation. Online tools like Zoom and Google Meet are leveraged for encouraging collaborative learning, forums, group discussions, and more.

“Skillcubator’s unique and comprehensive training,coaching, and mentoring approach is what helps our trainees succeed with flying colors. We truly believe in leaving no stone unturned, which enables us not only to build sustainable, employable, and in-demand skills but also to ensure that learners are able to successfully apply those skills on the job with unflinching confidence”, adds Chetan.

Past, Present & Future

Established as a means of providing especially professionals seeking to level up in their careers or transition, Skillcubator has carved a distinctive place as a premier training institute across U.S. and Canada. With over 20years of experience across diverse specializations including business analysis, project management, business process management, data analysis and agile disciplines, the platform offers superior training, mentoring, and coaching services, across the range of programs it offers. Chetan’s professional experience and his passion to guide professionals to chart a successful path encouraged not only the foundation of the company, but continue to guide its direction to this day.

Expanding the company’s offerings, he established the Skillcubator Training Institute in 2014, driven to train, coach, and mentor aspiring business analysts. He aimed to empower these professionals with the required skills, knowledge, and expertise needed to succeed in this domain. Marking another the company ventured into training programs pertaining to the IT domain.

“With more than 16 years of professional training, coaching and mentoring experience, I take immense pride in saying that Skillcubator has touched countless people in a positive way and helped them transition their career, irrespective of their education background, work experience, location or age”, Chetan adds.

Overcoming barriers along the way, most prominently the complete shift from a physical classroom and one-on one approach to a fully online presence, that the onset of the pandemic demanded, the company has continued to grow and redefine. Today, it has achieved a number of accolades, most recently a recognition as one of the Top 10 Franchises for IT Training Institutes. These recognitions speak of the impact that Skillcubator has had.

Motivated by these recognitions, the company has ambitious goals for the coming years which will help it propel to a leading position in this domain. One of its key goals is to set up a physical training center in the UAE. The company is focusing on providing immersive learning experiences to the trainees, for which it plans to offer embedded virtual labs, sandbox environments, AI Powered simulation exercises, gamification and challenge based learning models, flash cards, microlearning videos and more. The company also has plans to offer trainees the opportunity to work on real-world projects via internships/coop program once they complete their training program.

Through these diverse strategies, Skillcubator aspires to build a foundation that supports sustained career growth among trainees.

Multilevel Program Structure

-Skillcubator’s programs are designed in structured format, including the foundational, core, and advanced levels. Every individual needs to complete the first step before moving on to the next.

-Program success is assured through reinforcement techniques like quizzes, in-class exercises, and group exercises. Collaborative learning practices like working sessions, workshops and lab work are also implemented.

-The program’s differentiated case study approach enables learners to excel in real world applications.

-Completing the entire cycle can take 3 to 4 months, post which, the professional gains an expert hold over the subject, which can be leveraged to shape their career path.