The realities of getting Job and Working environment

1. The realities of getting Job and Working environment Presented by – Vinod Upadhyay General Manager- Corporate HR Patel Group of Companies

2. Career Options for Engineers • Industrial Career • Academics • Own enterprise

3. Employment - India • India is a logical choice of outsourcing for the world with 65% of the world’s eminent companies and one of the world's largest pools of scientific and technical talent. • India has proved its mettle in IT And BPO industries to global community. • Indian IT/ BPO industries have witnessed phenomenal growth in recent years leading to tremendous increase in the demand of skilled manpower.

4. Manpower Employment Outlook Survey - India

5. Sector Comparisons

6. “ India does not have problem of unemployment but unemployability. “ - Dr. Kalam

7. Engineering Students and Unemployability • Unlike occupational or technical skills, employability skills are generic in nature rather than job specific and cut across all industry types, business sizes, and job levels from the entry-level worker to the senior-most position. • The industry requires new graduates who understand the part they play in building their organisations, and have the practical skills to work effectively in their roles.

8. Engineering Students and Unemployability • We need professionals who are responsive to economic, social, cultural, technical and environmental change and can work flexibly and intelligently across business contexts. • It means engaging with the organisation and its goals, understanding the dynamics of the workplace, and taking up a job role with an informed knowledge of its requirements.

9. Industrial Career • Manufacturing ( Production ) • R&D • Design • Planning • Quality Assurance & Quality Control • Maintenance • Commercial ( Purchase/ Import-Export) • Marketing and Customer service • Projects

10. Get your desired job • Identify your competence • Evaluate the job potential • Job Vs. Skill Sets required • Identify the skill gap and improve • Learn how to win the interview

11. Sources for placements • Campus selection • Job Portals (Naukri, Monster, Timesjob etc.) • Placement consultants • Applying against Advt. • Unsolicited applications to the potential employers • Social sites/ Professional groups on Net.

12. Your first resume • Make it simple • Highlight • Your Academic achievements • Your Skill sets • Elaborate your Project work – It is the only practical implementation of the theories learnt • Highlight your extra curricular activities – It shows your personality traits

13. When you face an interview • Physical appearance • Mannerism • Be confident ( Or at least look so) • Know your strengths and drag the interviewer to the area of your comfort • Employers don’t really look for your knowledge but they do look for attitude & aptitude. • Be sincere and honest

14. When you get a job • The internal support systems for you • Induction • Departmental SOPs • OJT by seniors • Mentor • Challenges • Conflict between personal aspiration Vs Organisational objectives • Relationship management at Workplace • Skill gaps • Meeting the deadlines

15. What gets you Success? Success Results Actions Ideas/ Thinking Conditions

16. Who are the achievers? • Everyone sets goals but an important distinction is that the top achievers are very intentional, focused and committed while the rest of us are not. • Persist! That’s the quality true champions are made of.

17. Have you set your Goal? Type of Goals • Personal/ Self Goals • Family Goals • Social Goals • Organizational Goals

18. Importance of Organizational Goals

19. High Pay-off Activities • What are you being paid for? • What do you do that produces greatest results? • What do you do that adds to your company’s profitability? • Why did the company hire you? • What do you do that produces 80% of your results?

20. Low Pay-off Activities • 80% of the activities that you spend your time on are producing only 20% of the results. • Learn to simplify, eliminate and (delegate) your LPA’s

21. Performance Interfacing Ability Operational Ability Attitudes & Values Human Performance Layers

22. Interfacing Ability • Communication Skills • Interpersonal skills • Team work

23. The rules for work are changing, and we’re all being judged, whether we know it or not, by a new yardstick—not just how smart we are and what technical skills we have, which employers see as givens, but increasingly by how well we handle ourselves and one another. Daniel Goleman Author, Working with Emotional Intelligence

24. Self Awareness • Individual= ? You The roles you play Mobilizing strengths … • Skills • Traits and identity • Passions Role Person Managing weaknesses … • Skill gaps • Anxieties

25. Creating UR Right image • Perceived • Presented • Desired

26. Relationship

27. Three Magic Tools • There are three tools that will help you to make every relationship work: • Respect • Helpfulness • Understanding

28. Respect • Respect the person you work with. • If you don’t like him / her, and still need to work together, make the effort to find at least one nice thing about the person. • Remember, that no one is totally wrong or bad. • Even a clock that does not work tells the correct time twice a day!

29. Helpfulness • Be genuinely helpful. • Remember the objectives of a professional relationship – achieving the organizational objectives and goals, in a positive and proactive manner. • So, there is no room for personal agendas and score settling. Pettiness like – “He didn’t help me when I needed it, so why should I do it now?” – needs to be left behind in the childhood.

30. Understanding • Involves, first of all, listening. • Listening with an open mind, and non-judgmentally. • Understanding also involves empathy.

31. What is Relationship Management? • It is all about being great at your interpersonal skills and relating effectively with others. People who efficiently use their interpersonal skills always: • Get the best out of a relationship. • Handle difficult situations with ease and enthusiasm. • Behave in a situation centric way, and not a people centric one. • Separate problems from people. • Focus on solutions rather than problems.

32. Why? • “Others” are others…… you could have come across this attitude several times. • But you begin to change when you realize that the relationship you have with them indeed affects your work life as well as your personal life. • This prompts you to “understand others”. • What does “understanding others” mean?

33. Understanding Others • The first step to understanding others is learning about them. In organization context, managing your relations with your colleague could mean 2 things: • Knowing what you need from him • Knowing what he needs from you • We can learn more about others when we disclose our selves. Self-disclosure is seen as a useful strategy for sharing information with others. Also, we build trust and rapport.

34. Team work A team is a group of people who are working towards the same goal. A good team works well together, has attributes such as flexibility and synergy, and achieves more than the sum of its' parts.

35. High Performance Teams • Common goal • Constant monitoring and feedback • Open communication • Mutual trust • Synergy • Interdependence • Problem solving • Looking at the big picture • Value contribution • Good leader

36. Career Social Self Finance Spiritual Family Wheel of Life

37. Own enterprise • Family background – Entering the running business or starting afresh. • Manufacturing or Trading • Challenges • Growth prospects • Finance • Market Competition • Entrepreneurial Skills

38. Profitability Products Market share Customers Alliances Shareholder value Market capitalization Customers - The Hub

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