are you employable ? to know more attend "employability skills" training program
DESCRIPTION
• It requires much more than a Degree to find a place in this competitive and globalized job market. What it takes to be employable, marketable and successful? • Today’s need is to understand student’s employability/ Marketability for the student to be successful. Employability skills are those basic skills necessary for finding employment, and doing well on a job. Employability skills refer to specific skills essential for employment. These are the critical tools and traits required to perform tasks at workplace. These skills are much sought after these days by employers. The needs of employability skills differ from country to country and from sector to sector and from time to time. However, certain qualities, attributes in a person such as: 1. Communication skills, Interpersonal skills 2. Managing Values and Maintaining Integrity. Managing Personality and attitude, 3. Problem solving under complex situations. 4. Goal setting, Planning ,Organizing, Discrimination and Decision making 5. Team building/Management skills 6. Self (Mind) Management skills. Can be taken as a few common skills essential for employability. Why we need Employability Skills? All businesses look for employability skills in candidates they want to employ, as these enable employer’s growth and competitiveness. These skills are essential for all employers, in their employees for smooth functioning of all business related activities, cutting across all industries. Besides, Indian youth began realizing that without these employable skills it is difficult to grab jobs from the potential employer exactly as they expect. So, it becomes essential for them to take a step ahead and focus on developing their employability Skills along with their academics (Graduation /Post graduation).TRANSCRIPT
WORKSHOP ON
EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
The Workforce of Tomorrow**How young people of today can be prepared for
their future employment?
**What is the gap between the skills available with them and what industries and business expect ?
**How this Gap can be bridged?
What we’ll cover
•What employers want?•Why they want it?
•How we can help them...and the young people with us?
Are we doing enough?
“…we believe the current supply of graduates and even Post graduates are broadly acceptable in
terms of quantity, there are question marks over quality – especially what they’re studying and how
they use what they’ve learnt.”
What employers are looking for ?
Subject vs General Ability
• 44% looking for specific technical knowledge, eg
•48% take degree as indication of all-round ability
Employability skills• Highly sought-after
• Need to hit the ground running and add value
• Evidence of skills in team-working, • communication, • creativity,
• having a positive attitude,• good work ethic,• being punctual,• reliable and
• able to meet deadlines.
Common Top 10 Skills
1.Honesty and integrity;2. Basic literacy skills;
3. Basic oral communication skills (e.g. telephone skills);
4. Reliability;5. Being hardworking and having a good work
ethic;6. Numeracy skills;
7. A positive, ‘can do’ attitude;8. Punctuality;
9. The ability to meet deadlines; and10. Team working and co-operation skills
Employers most impressed by...
•Honesty and integrity (93%)•IT skills (85%)•Reliability (85%)
•Ability to work in teams (82%)
...but less impressed by gaps
• Business acumen
• Leadership skills
• Decision-making
• Negotiating/influencing skills
Where evidenced, a big “sell” for employers
Net result•Only 25% of employers believe young people (graduates and post-graduates)
are well-prepared for employment•Employability skills keenly sought•90% of directors believe universities
should do more to enhance employability skills
Overall
•Most companies satisfied overall with standard
•Many satisfied with technical skills but dissatisfied with other skills
How universities compare
•51% - quality of university education good or excellent
•But there is a gap needs to be filled.
Recommendations
•No one “right” way, but employability and enterprise must be central to education•Embed within programmes – not an
optional extra
Three big changes required...
• Skills embedded in programmes – not “do you know how to do it?”, but “have you done it?”
• Leadership and mentoring module– compulsory part of every programme
• Team working assignments- having to work with people you don’t like, persuading and
influencing, presentation skills
...and the biggest one of all
- cross disciplinary problems- synthesising knowledge
- concentrates on “real world” application
- managing in an uncertain environment- group dynamics
We develop in them?
•Business acumen• Leadership skills•Decision-making
•Communication skills
Thank you
Opportunity for questions ???????