For Engineering Graduates: Make Yourself Employable

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Today after the completion of the secondary course the students and also the parents are looking for a professional course to provide a concrete base for their career. They are not showing any interest in the traditional arts and science streams, though there are rare cases. The traditional courses become the last preference for the majority. For the science aspirants the career planning is started after the matriculation itself. The students join for the different coaching classes to take the entrance exam after two years.

Such a long preparation is taken for the professional courses especially for the medical and engineering courses.Hence the decision for the course is taken much before and after the brainstorming discussion with the family and the professional people the student manage to take a stream and a college.

When you observe the professional courses the Engineering program sharing the same status as that of what cricket is enjoying. Even though Hokey is our National game, cricket is the popular one in the country and so there are many other courses available in the nation, most of the students are choosing the Engineering streams. One reason behind this is the massive opportunity offered for the graduates in various engineering back grounds. As the number of opportunities are increased in this profession, the higher education sector responded by increasing the number of available seats for the aspirants. In a year around 55lakhs of engineering graduates are passing out each year and there are enough opportunity for these graduates within the country and abroad but unfortunately still our unemployment ratio is a little higher. A recent survey carries out by World Bank answer this question and raise a new question on the potential capability of the Engineering graduates.

The Conclusion

The survey result shows that majority of the employers are not satisfied with the fresh graduate engineers. Around 64% saying that they are some what satisfied and 4% are not at all satisfied with the newly hired people. The 17% of eth employers are concluding that they are not very pleased with the fresher’s performance. The survey also states that the massive engineering pass out are failing to meet the demands from the employers side and they are failing at the communication, professional and employability skills. Our education system is also not showing any positive response for imparting these skills in the graduate level.

The increased numbers of engineering colleges are not meeting the quality standard both in the learning environment and in the teaching aids. The country lakhs the qualified professional as faculties and the p0rofessonal education system focusing more on the business side rather than spending on improving the needed talents in the candidates. Memorizing the books are not at all a skill in the present worlds and unfortunately our education system promoting the same starting from the primary level to the higher education level. The world as well as the industries is demanding and the student need to have some expertise to meet the demand and competition. Here are some important areas the student give attention,

Improve Your Skill Part

The engineering graduates are expected to be good in the areas of creativity, application side of mathematics and different theoretical aspects, customer service etc. They should have know-how in using the moderntools and should have a basic technological background. The graduates working in the different sectors like IT, Infrastructure, Power etc. must have the knowledge in the contemporary issues.

The employers are looking for the people who hold the critical thinking and problem solving capabilities. Besides the professional skills they need people with basic attitudinal and emotional abilities. The graduates should be a potential team player and they should be reliable in every situation. The students should concentrate on improving their soft skills including eth communication skill, which is one of the important concepts in the job market. The student should try to work on the skills at the campus level itself.

How to Improve Your Abilities?

Everybody have a good potential in some areas and if you are not a person forced o be in the engineering level you can start working one your strong areas. The campus and the friendship circle is the best way to self improvement. To increase your ability as a team player, you can organize some events and participates in those of the same nature. The projects and other challenges are the best way to improve your reliability and your ability as a team player. Taking the projects from outside also give you some valid exposures and help you to apply your subject knowledge in the practicable way.

When you learn a concept in your subject try to learn the application side of it. There are events in the form of inter colleges competition were the talented students are competing with their innovative ideas. Participating or organizing such events will helpful for the employment path. It is not important that you have to win these competitions, being the part of this competition is important.

There are many finishing schools which help the student to increase the soft skills as well as the technical skills needed to get an advantage in the job market. Updating yourself with the current affaires, especially what is happening in the desired induatry is very important for improving your employability. Today there are many institute which help the students to improve their skills in the communication English part. The spoken English classes are very useful for them to have a basic in the communication part. Reading the English newspapers and watching the movies in English are also helpful for this part.

These are some way to improve yourself to match with the expectation and with the demands, though nobody can fulfill the expectation completely since it doesn’t have any limits, you just have to reach near to these demands. The Government and other concerned body should also give important consideration to reframe the curriculum and system that make the student never fail in front of any demands. We have to dream for a system which made everybody employable…

 
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