HOW TO PREPARE FOR PLACEMENT!!!

· 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.