Career Advice, Life Skills and Placement Training at GMU
1.Career Advice
-HIGHER STUDIES / Overseas education:
Career counselling helps students discover their true potential and interest in various subjects in order to help them choose the right career. Career counselling is the assistance provided to a student to achieve goals. The advice and counselling provided is based on - personality, ability and curiosity. The counsellor is trained in administering tests that determine the aptitude and skills of a student, personality traits and subjects of interest. There is a face-to-face interview with a career guidance counsellor. The interview provides the student with the opportunity to clear any doubts or queries student may have regarding career options and educational courses. It also allows the counsellor to further judge the aptitude of the student, thus building on the preliminary results of the written tests.
Entrepreneurship:
An entrepreneurship cell is an organisation that provides support and guidance to the aspiring entrepreneurs to help them turn their ideas into successful businesses. These cells are usually found in academic institutions, including colleges and universities, where they work to promote an entrepreneurial culture and provide resources and opportunities to the students and faculty members who are interested in starting their own ventures.
Competitive exam:
This Cell aims to provide a platform to students in preparing for competitive exams like KAS, IAS IPS exams preparation. Under this cell we organize various programmes, activities and workshops for students preparing for competitive exams. Along with this, cell provides assistance to the students for their career development and career counselling.
2.Life Skills Training:
Life-skills training encompasses practical approaches and hands-on learning. These skills empower trainees, build confidence and enable them to gain employment. Life skills help individuals to deal with rapid changes brought about by modernization. Life skills include creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making, the ability to communicate and collaborate, along with personal and social responsibility that contribute to become both a good citizen as well as a successful person.
• Verbal Communication
• Personal Development
• Decision Making
• Written Communication
• Time Management
• Stress Management
• Team work
• Leadership
• Creativity
• Attitude
• Professionalism
• Responsibility
• Acceptance of diversity
• Ability to follow Instructions
3. Placement Training:
Placement training plays a major role in shaping up the career goals of students. It is a dream of every engineering student to get placed in a top organization visiting their campus for recruitment. Keeping this key aspect into consideration, it is realized that training is important for students to enhance their employability skills and achieve good placement in various industries.
Oriental Group of Institutes has a state of the art Soft Skills Training Dept, which teaches prospective candidates about the vital soft skills that are necessary for them if they plan for long innings in the corporate world
Below, we are providing a list of soft skills we provide and a brief insight into the details:
English Grammar: Fluency in spoken English is nowadays a non-negotiable soft skill for most firms. Most companies operate on a national or international basis nowadays and good verbal skills in English is a must for employees, especially if they are in a job, that involves much public interaction – describing a product/service or project to many people at large.
So if you are a candidate who is not much comfortable in English, it can harm your competence/efficiency level. Here at Oriental Group of Institutions, highly experienced faculty members will help you develop formidable English speaking skills through regular debates, extempore, speech exercises etc. According to experts, the more you speak in a particular language, the more articulate you become in that language. So the faculty ensures that you participate in as many speech exercises as possible.
Aptitude Building: Most of the renowned firms or recruitment agencies take several assessment tests/aptitude tests for shortlisting candidates for personal interviews. Aptitude is basically your ability to solve a problem creatively, your ability to analyse data etc.
Aptitude tests become even more significant if you are from an engineering background, as the IT firms want engineers who have maximum problem-solving potential. Training cell of Oriental Group of Institutes offers extensive aptitude building training, where you can brush up your pie chart solving skills, percentage basics, pattern recognition etc.
Competitive Coding: This is a very important skill, as most jobs will require you at some point to work in a team. Competitive programming helps you learn how to effectively work together, as you must work with others on your team to complete the same task. You learn how to assess your team members’ strength and weaknesses and effectively divide responsibilities amongst each other and make you a desirable candidate for major companies. All big IT companies always have a look and they pick the candidates with high potential and with the best ability to solve complex tasks.
Interpersonal & Communication Skills: As long as people work together, they will need to communicate and do it well. During the personal interview round, the interviewer will check your communication skills. If you are good at it, then you can shape your thoughts better and convince them that you are the right candidate for their profile. The recruiter also understands that it will be easier for other people to work with you as you have clarity in your thoughts and speech
Personality Development: Personality development is one of the most important aspects of training sessions, wherein the Training Cell organizes a series of tests and workshops to recognize their talent and shortcomings. The main aim of the Training Cell is to groom students so that they can deal with challenging situations at work. Since pre-placement time can be quite daunting, these sessions also help in motivating the students by conducting various workshops on how to increase their self-esteem.
Group Discussions:
Group discussions have become an integral part of the hiring process. Companies select students for the final interview round on the basis of their performance in the group discussion. One of the best ways to study the attitudinal and behavioural responses of the participants, group discussions are more of an interaction than a conventional test. The Training and Placement Cell conducts mock group discussions to develop confidence, communication skills, teamwork (how you manage and engage fellow participants) and technical knowledge of the subject.
Technical Interview Practices:
Intensive training on technical and core knowledge of all the streams is provided through special classes and the subjects are chosen from all the previous semesters and the nature of the training is like a refresher course.
CV Writing Skills:
Your resume is a summation of your achievements, skills, education background etc. Most of the resumes are piled up on the HR desks and unless you make your CV stand out, they will most probably gain just a cursory glance and trashed into the bin. They say the first impression is the last. It is so true about your resume. When the recruiter hasn't seen you, he has seen your resume. Make sure, it stands out! Training cell will teach you how to make your CV more attractive and striking (and of course relevant to the position you are vying for) during the pre-placement training, which begins from day one
Personal Interview:
One of the most crucial steps to get hired by your dream company is to excel in the final rounds of personal interviews. While some companies schedule 2-3 rounds of interviews including technical and HR interviews, a few select students on the basis of panel interview round and Skype interview. The Training and Placement Cell train’s students on important interview skills related to dressing code, confidence, and creativity, ability to react and respond, and handle stress.
