career enrichment program for students

Career Enrichment Programfor

Students

Vijay Anand L VDirector & Head MentorHirington Academy. Chennai

Career Enrichment Programs for Students

Gist of Vijay Anand L V (Head Mentor of Hirington Academy)

Possess 13 plus years of experience in the Recruitment Industry. Working experience includes “Sampoorna Computer People (leading Consultancy Services) , Kumaran Systems, India Comnet, Ikas Technologies (IT/Telecom software companies in Chennai, India). Holds a Bachelor of Science from Madras University, India. Master of Labour Management from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and a Post Graduate degree in Human Resources Management, Pondichery.

Experience of interviewing several hundreds of candidates across all the verticals.Exposure to both consultancy and corporate environment.Groomed a team of recruiters for productive results.Provided recruitment solutions for several hundreds of recruiters through Online and In-person mentoring.

Founder and President of Global Recruiters Association, non profit organization for recruiters (www.graindia.org)Online Recruitment Journal - Hirington (www.hirington.com),Author of Hiring Handbook,Cross Border Recruiter Exchange (an Online Facebook Community for Recruiters)Subject Matter Expert in Recruitment.


Employability Skills - Definition“Skills relating to choosing a career, getting and keeping a job, making job and career changes, and career advancement”.

ThreatRecent NASSCOM study reveals that almost 60% of Indian graduates don’t have the right employability skills.

SolutionContinuous practical training on all the employability skills from the early graduation stage. There needs two kinds of assessment report.a.Pre audit on the raw candidateb.Post audit after training / assessment.


Employability Skills of the Students “Employability and Skill set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India', which recently surveyed employers in 20 sectors such as IT, power and infrastructure.

Half of the respondents were large companies with over 500 employees, with 40 per cent from North India, 27 per cent from the West and 19 per cent from the South.

Interestingly, where the employers found the fresh engineering graduates most lacking in is ‘high-order thinking' skills – Employment Skills for critical thinking and problem solving. This is despite a good academic performance.

Another area, considered most important by employers, and where a large gap was found is on – integrity, teamwork, reliability and willingness to learn.

Employers are not looking for hi-end technological skills from the fresher and they are very well aware about student’s academic syllabus.


Employability Skills of the Students Technical skills of the students can be groomed / compromised by the employers. But not all the skills like decision making, email etiquette, team work etc can be taught.

Despite good academic performance, they lack on framing right words in an email. Most of them send email without subject / irrelevant subject and body of the email.

According to the survey, jointly carried out by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the World Bank, 64 percent of surveyed employers are "somewhat", "not very", or "not at all" satisfied with the quality of engineering graduates' skills.

Student’s skills are quantified, but not qualified – says a report.

All the students should not be trained on generic skills. For example. Java or Dot Net. A SWOT analysis needs to be done to understand who needs what skills and training should be based on the analysis.


Employability Skills of the Students Most of the external training in the institution happens based on an assumption. Training to be done based on client’s expectation alone.

Skills gap hurts technology boom in India – New York Times.

Urban students get better industry exposure than the rural students. There needs unique skill set training to bridge the gap between urban and rural educational institutions.

Students and Educational institutions lacks on Social Media strategy.

Campus placement strategies in the educational institution needs to be revamped.

Employers struggle to discuss the recruitment jargons with the placement practitioners in the institutions. People who are practicing it are either not from the recruitment background or a retired person from the government job.


The Solution Motivation, soft skills and other short term training last only for a certain duration among the students. So concentrate on the employability skills.

There needs a continuous career enrichment programs from their second year till final year. That includes both technical and non-technical.

Capability of the campus placement practitioners needs to be enriched based on new recruitment strategies.

Students and Educational institutions to improve their Social Media strategy.

Students need to be trained more on their life skills like SWOT Analysis, Team building, Effective communication, Decision making, Creative & Critical thinking, goal setting etc.

Create Student – Centric programs then Teacher – Centric programs.

Groom students based on the industry expectation rather than generic skills.


Employability Skills – an over view

SWOT AnalysisGoal settingAttitude framingBody languageCritical / Creative thinkingDecision MakingInterpersonal / Problem SolvingImportance of communication Technology exposure

Group Discussion Mock InterviewsEmail Etiquette Stress BusterSelf AwarenessTeam WorkBetter work spaceGoal ImplementationIndividual screening attention

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Vijay Anand L VRecruiter . Mentor . Author . Blogger19/1 Aruls Manors, SBI Colony 3rd extn, Iyappa Nagar, Nanganallur, Chennai – 61, Tamil Nadu India.Mobile No: +91 9841696536 Email id: [email protected]

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