This document discusses the importance of employability skills for job readiness and career success. It states that technical skills alone are less important than soft skills, which are transferable between jobs and industries. The five basic employability skills employers want are: communication, problem-solving, understanding one's role, making responsible choices, and managing one's career. The document also recommends ways for students to boost their employability skills through additional qualifications like foreign language certificates, research experience, software training, and leadership roles. These extra achievements can make students more competitive in a crowded job market.
This document discusses the importance of employability skills for job readiness and career success. It states that technical skills alone are less important than soft skills, which are transferable between jobs and industries. The five basic employability skills employers want are: communication, problem-solving, understanding one's role, making responsible choices, and managing one's career. The document also recommends ways for students to boost their employability skills through additional qualifications like foreign language certificates, research experience, software training, and leadership roles. These extra achievements can make students more competitive in a crowded job market.
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This document discusses the importance of employability skills for job readiness and career success. It states that technical skills alone are less important than soft skills, which are transferable between jobs and industries. The five basic employability skills employers want are: communication, problem-solving, understanding one's role, making responsible choices, and managing one's career. The document also recommends ways for students to boost their employability skills through additional qualifications like foreign language certificates, research experience, software training, and leadership roles. These extra achievements can make students more competitive in a crowded job market.
This document discusses the importance of employability skills for job readiness and career success. It states that technical skills alone are less important than soft skills, which are transferable between jobs and industries. The five basic employability skills employers want are: communication, problem-solving, understanding one's role, making responsible choices, and managing one's career. The document also recommends ways for students to boost their employability skills through additional qualifications like foreign language certificates, research experience, software training, and leadership roles. These extra achievements can make students more competitive in a crowded job market.
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How job ready are you?
Getting your degree is only one step towards getting a job, to be successful in any role; you will need to exhibit a mix of skills: employability skills. This means that the specialist, technical skills associated with different roles may be less important than the 'soft skills' that can be transferred between different jobs and different employment sectors. Candidates may have the qualifications and 'hard skills' needed to be able to manage the job role but, without a well-honed set of 'soft skills', employers are less inclined to hire
Generally speaking, there are five basic skills that employers want you to have, no matter what industry you're working in: Employability skills are a set of skills and behaviors that are necessary for every job.
Employability skills allow you to:
communicate with coworkers
solve problems understand your role within the team make responsible choices, and take charge of your own career Employability skills are those skills necessary for getting, keeping and being successful in a job. Having employability skills can help you get a job. They can also help you to stay in a job and work your way to the top. Institutions are taking efforts to inculcate these skills in students along with degree program. This will make the students job-ready when they graduate. Just a degree and 60 per cent aggregate marks will not help you get the jobs they want. With millions of students graduating and lakhs of graduates passing out every year, students should be trained to stand tall. Adding additional qualifications to their CVs is the key to success. Educational institutes should provide several co-curricular and skill-enhancement opportunities for boosting students motivation during their undergraduate and Post graduate programmes, the additional qualifications that students can attain are: Certificate of English proficiency, learning one foreign language other than English, soft skill learning certificate, research paper presentation in a reputed conference along with faculty guide, publication of journal paper along with faculty guide, taking part in national-level competitions and having a certificate of participation, gaining expertise and having a certificate of completing a course on generic software packages such as Excel, Tally, Animation, Networking etc become an office-bearer of any of the student clubs or department activities and Take part in team projects through which they can get a letter of appreciation from industries. These achievements will speak volumes about the students capabilities. The above tips mould you and makes you ready for your Dream job.
