IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND PLACEMENT SCENARIO POST COVID19

Abstract

As a part of Life Skills Development, the students should be trained in various fields of personality development and communicational skills. The trainings can be imparted on Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Ability, Mock Group Discussion, Mock PI and skill development in technical domains. Students should be encouraged to attend the training programs to upskill their performance in the campus interviews. Students should be hand hold through career guidance; motivational activities, counselling, knowledge sharing activities and by various capacity building measures. The trainees should be closely monitored for improvements and gauged through several practice sets. Due to pandemic COVID-19, companies have been scrapping interviews. It is to be expected that 60-65 per cent interviews would get dropped or delayed due to lockdown in many parts of the country and people are encouraged to stay at home to curb the spread of the virus. The overall hiring sentiment in the country is likely to witness an adverse impact in the short term with 60-65 per cent interviews getting postponed, especially in the services sector, following the slowdown across industries triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.Vision 2020: To empower the students with pre-placement training so that they get employed, which helps the institute/ university to boost its brand image? A thorough discussion on the importance of Group Discussion during placement, Assessment parameters during placement, Verbal and Non verbal communication to have a successful GD round and Do’s and Don’ts in participating in a Group discussion round has been dealt with. The importance of the rules to write a resume and Frequently Asked Questions in an interview during placement drives has been discussed.