How to Prepare for Placement

The following skills are most important for an individual to get placed in a good company…

·        Employability Skills

·        Effective Communication Skills

·        Soft Skills

·        Facing  an Interview. 

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS 

Ø      Clarity on the career roadmap.

Ø      Charting the career plan.

Ø      Need for employability skills.

Ø      Honing employability skills.

Knowledge + skills = Employability. 

SECRET OF SUCCESS:

Ø      Communication

Ø      Team work

      Ø      Workplace knowledge.

Ø      Workplace skills.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

         

Ø      Form a mental map on what to communicate.

Ø      Way to communicate.

Ø      Clarity.

In corporate, its always the word “WE” and not “I” symbolizing the team work.The main thing that we want to do in communication is creating “+ve impression”.

Our communication should consist of the following components as the mixture,

Ø      Listening

Ø      Writing

Ø      Verbal

Ø      Non-verbal.

            It has been found that in communication,

Ø      7% spoken words

Ø      55% non-verbal.

Ø      38% tone of voice.

ASPECTS OF BODY LANGUAGE:

Ø      Gestures

Ø      Individual space

Ø      Eye contacts and Facial expressions

Ø      Tone-pitch of voice

Ø      Posture

Ø      Dress

SOFT SKILLS:

Ø      Open flexibility & transparent

Ø      Creativity & innovation

Ø      Lateral thinking

Ø      Stay ahead on the learning curve

Ø      Multi-tasking ability-ready to take additional responsibilities.

Ø      Strong community and team management skills.

Ø      Problem solving skills

SOFTWARE ORIENTATION

Ø      One programming language of choice.

Ø      Data structures & database management

Ø      Ability to understand a problem statement and write a pseudocode.

 

FACING AN INTERVIEW 

Ø      Forum to display one’s view to others.

Ø      Structured meting between u and the employer.

Ø      Interviewing is a skill. (like riding a person).

PURPOSE:

Ø  Opportunity to market

Ø      Sell our strength and skills

Ø      Assessing the position of the employee by the employer.

COMPANY PROFILE PREPARATION:

            Should contain

Ø      Products

Ø      Business

Ø      CEO

Ø      Clients

Ø      Awards and honors won recently

TYPES OF INTERVIEWS:

Ø      Phone

Ø      One-on-one

Ø      Panel

Ø      Group

We ll mostly face one-on-one and panel.

WHAT TO DO WHEN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTS?

            If quests like

Ø      How old are u?

Ø      Do u have children?

Ø      What religion do u belong?

Just ANSWER

Its not related to interviewer say we can have the personal discussion outside. 

FOR UNKNOWN ANSWERS

Ø      I am not familiar

Ø      I am not prepared

Ø      I don’t know 

Ø      Don’t say ‘no’

WHAT QUEST TO ASK WHILE LEAVING?

Ø      Type of assignment I can look for?

Ø      What u like most about this company?

Ø      Biggest challenge facing the industry right now?

Ø      Skills looking for in the position?

Ø      Leave without asking rather than asking some silly or terrible question which may make to loose your job.