Employability Enhancing Skills

Paper Code: 
EES 161
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)

8.00
Unit III: 
Interview Skills

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

8.00
Unit IV: 
Group Discussion

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

Unit V: 
Practical Sessions

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

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Business Communication by Bovee, Thill and Chaturvedi
  2. Technical Communication by Raman Sharma
  3. Cover Letters! Cover Letters! Cover Letters! by Richard Fein
  4. Improve your Communication Skills by Alan Barker
  5. Technical Writing: Process and Product by Sharon J. Gerson and Steven M. Gerson