Employability Enhancing Skills (Skill based)

Paper Code: 
24SENG301
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to enhance their employability-quotient by inculcating in them some of the essential workplace skills, usually sought by employers at the time of recruitment.

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Resume Writing

Format

Style

12.00
Unit II: 

Job Application Letters (Covering Letters)

Format

Structure

Content (Building up on CV)

12.00
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, analyzing a topic, core techniques)

Mock Interviews

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference Books:

Bark, Alaner. Improve your Communication Skills. Kogan Page, 2013. Choudhary, Sumitra Kumar. Business Communication. Pearson, 2009.

Raman, Meenakshi and Sangeeta Sharma. Technical Communication: English Skills For Engineers. OUP, 2008.

Sharon J. Gerson and Steven M. Gerson . Technical Writing: Process and Product. Prentice Hall, 2005.

 

E-Resources including links:

Special Lectures on Employability Enhancing Skills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXcHbEaoaQ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354864129_Enhancing_Graduate_Employability_Skil  ls_A_Case_for_Elearning_Environment_in_Higher_Education

 

Reference Journal:

ResearchGate

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO1. Evaluate the finer points pertaining to verbal and non- verbal communication

CO2. Analyse grammatical structures meaningfully and appropriately in language-use

CO3. Display compositional skills over a variety of written tasks

CO4. Develop editing skills for broad-based applications in content writing, journalism, etc.

CO5.Demonstrate effective use  of  communication  for debating skills

CO6. Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.