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Learning soft skills
Securing a seat in a good Engineering college is a big task. Once a student has put his foot into the gateway, his focus should be in learning soft skills.
His focus is to learn the differences of Engineering. And he lays impetus on gaining the hard skills which could land him to his dream job. When a student of Engineering reaches the third year he realizes that his knowledge, projects and assignments, and test scores would not suffice. He should be able to make an impression during the interview process, to walk through the golden gates of his Dream Company.
Other students with the same hard skills are in stiff competition. Now what is the difference and how do they make an impact? A survey of 303 employers across the country by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) in 2010 found a majority of graduates lacked adequate “soft skills” to be employed in the industry. Thus, top engineering colleges in India lay great emphasis on learning soft skills.
Is it difficult in learning soft skills?
As per the report, 75 percent of technical graduates and more than 85 percent of general students are unemployable.” Not taking soft skills as an essential skill is like asking for irreparable damage. Not only does an engineering student need these skills to make a head start in the job market but they are needed to sustain the job as well.
Soft Skills are harder to learn since they involve unlearning your instinctive reactions (which were never questioned during your entire life) and replacing them with a more deliberate approach to win in every situation. Having said that, I would like to assure every reader that, it is not that a student can’t be brought to pace and taught this subtle art. Yes, art! Now that explains why it is so evasive!!
Colleges know that they are answerable and their success not only depends on giving the working knowledge of engineering to its students but also, the Return on investment of the money, time, and energy can only sustain their position as leaders.
Every college works on making students future-ready, they are not only restructuring the existing learning system, working on acquiring unprecedented industry patronage, and striking strategic international alliances for a holistic development but have included an applicative soft skills program in their agenda.
How is Arya College Jaipur different?
The college recognized that Automation and Artificial Intelligence will result in a great proportion of jobs relying on Soft Skills. Thanks to the cutting–edge technology, tasks that require hard skills are continuing to decline to make Soft Skills the key differentiator in the workplace. Their determination to adapt and fit into the ever-changing industrial environment is extremely practical and a need of the hour.
The college has a Student Development Cell (SDC) to adapt its services to the ever-changing environment. Without wasting time, Arya has overhauled the entire approach towards student development. The process-driven SDC consists of extremely experienced trainers and their method of training is experiential. This means no soft skills can be effectively taught to a student without involving his mind and it should call for action at his end too. Just like one can’t be taught to cycle without practically getting on a cycle.
Communication skills are important
Similarly, one can’t be taught the Art of communication and presentation or attending an interview successfully without practically going through that process. SDC makes sure that they simulate the entire process of an interview so that it doesn’t come as a surprise to its students. Further, the SDC takes its students through the four layers of simulation, to do away with the fear of the English Language, the basics of the language are taught to the students in the first year. Then comes, the preparation for Verbal and Aptitude tests in the second year.
The third-year is dedicated to technical pieces of training related to the concerned branch, professionals and trainers are invited from the industry for meaningful learning of the student. While the fourth year is the year of mock group discussions, debates, interviews skills, body language. As the best b tech college in Rajasthan, we invite industry specialists for the simulation of the interview environment to give its students a flavor of variety.
No wonder their industry alliances for on-campus placements are swelling by the year. The robust placement is a result of a very systematic approach towards meeting the industry’s needs and fulfilling the commitment to the students. Fine-tuning the student’s skills, especially in learning soft skills, for a rewarding career has adequately paid off and turned us into an industry leader!
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