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Employability Skills

To be employed is to be at risk, to be employable is to be secure’ The biggest challenge in India’s growth and future is the shortage of the skilled employees across the industries. According to NASSCOM , out of 100 engineering graduatee only 7% are considered employable by the rapidly growing IT and ITES segments. The need of industry is knowledge and skills acquired with an eligibility to include skill-ready employees from day one. So, what we have today is a growing skills gap reflecting very small availability of high-quality college education in India.  Since businesses are planning to increase their workforce two-to-three times, India is facing challenges in maintaining its position in the global marketplace. To maintain the sustenance, it has become important to have an innovative, competent and talented workforce of world-class standards.  A look at the Indian education system will reveal that the number of technical schools in India, including engineering colle...

Communication Skills

Before knowing the * importance of Communication Skills* let's throw light on what Communication Skills are. Communication is the exchange of ideas, emotions, opinions or instructions from one person to another person in a way that is understandable to them. Communication Skills include: - Communicating in a way that others can grasp. - Using relevant words to explain and clarify thoughts and ideas. - Listening to others when they speak. - Respecting others' point of view. - Asking questions for better involvement and engagement. But every communication necessarily doesn't mean effective communication and that is where people lack. After putting our views we feel that we have communicated effectively but it is not so. It is said that 'NOTHING IS SO SIMPLE THAT IT CANNOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD' There are many points that make communication effective and we need to take care of these things while communicating. Most important communication skills are:  * Li...

Self Confidence

There is a common misconception that confidence is something you either have or you don’t. But confidence isn’t something you’re born with; it’s something you build through intelligence and experience. Confidence is what happens when your negative self-perception is overcome by evidence of your success. For some people, this comes easily. Others, however, struggle with understanding how to gain self-confidence. When we have high self-confidence, however, we can go through life without worry of failures or setbacks. Confident people accept that they don’t know everything and can’t get it all right, but they’re also fully aware of their strengths and the value of their achievements. Building self-confidence starts with loving yourself! The most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself. For best or worse, you are stuck with yourself, exactly as you are, from now until your final moments. There is no diet, no meditation retreat, and no surgery, no ...

Personality

Personality means the characteristics and appearance of a person -- his thoughts, feeling, behaviour, communication ability and physical features, confidence, boldness etc. When a baby is born, he is strongly influenced by the environment of its family. Friends, teachers and the environment of the school have their own positive or negative impact. Parents need to be very careful while raising a child. A few years ago parents rarely gave enough importance to personality developmen t of their child, it was believed that personality is only about physical appearance, if a person is wearing good dresses he/she has a good personality. But personality is not only concerned with physical appearance. If the inner personality of a person is weak he/she will loose impact as soon as he/she speaks or acts. Such a person can not create a lasting impression. Therefore both the inner and outer personality are of immense importance. It is said that 'PERSONALITIES ARE NOT BORN, THRY ARE FOR...