Employability Enhancing Skills

Paper Code: 
EES 161
Credits: 
5
Periods/week: 
5
Objective: 
  • To enhance the employability of the graduates by inculcating in them some of the essential workplace skills, usually sought by the employers at the time of recruitment.
4.00
Unit I: 
Resume Writing

Format
Style
 

6.00
Unit II: 
Job Application Letters (Covering Letters)

Format
Structure
Content (Building up on CV)

10.00
Unit III: 
Interview Skills

Types of Interviews
•One to One
•Panel
•Telephonic
Understanding the Process
Preparing for the Interview

12.00
Unit IV: 
Group Discussion

Essentials of Group Discussion
Preparing for Group Discussion
Evaluative Components of Group Discussion (4 Parameters)

12.00
Unit V: 
Practical Sessions

GD Practice Sessions (Steering an argument, analysing a topic, core techniques)
Mock Interviews
 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Business Communication by Bovee, Thill and Chaturvedi
  • Technical Communication by Raman Sharma
  • Cover Letters! Cover Letters! Cover Letters! by Richard Fein
  • Improve your Communication Skills by Alan Barker
  • Technical Writing: Process and Product by Sharon J. Gerson and Steven M. Gerson
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017