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Job Readiness: by Vedant Dahibawkar

This document provides advice on developing job readiness skills in 14 areas: soft skills, self-management skills, work experience, interview skills, networking with friends/professors/industry mentors, intellectual growth, time management, lifelong learning, professionalism, creative and critical thinking, and self-management. The key skills discussed include communication, leadership, self-regulation, goal-setting, interview preparation, networking, continuing education, responsibility, organization, project management, and planning/execution.

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Job Readiness: by Vedant Dahibawkar

This document provides advice on developing job readiness skills in 14 areas: soft skills, self-management skills, work experience, interview skills, networking with friends/professors/industry mentors, intellectual growth, time management, lifelong learning, professionalism, creative and critical thinking, and self-management. The key skills discussed include communication, leadership, self-regulation, goal-setting, interview preparation, networking, continuing education, responsibility, organization, project management, and planning/execution.

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Job Readiness

By Vedant Dahibawkar
Work on soft Self-managem
skills ent skills
Soft skills are a combination of Self-management skills are your
people skills, social skills, ability to regulate and control
communication skills, character your actions, feelings, and
or personality traits, attitudes, thoughts, With these skills, you
career attributes, social can follow through on the work
intelligence and emotional you’re supposed to be doing.
intelligence. soft skills like Likewise, being able to manage
communication, leadership, yourself can help you be more
collaboration, and time successful in your goal-setting
management hold an important efforts.
place in an organization
Practice your
Get work interview
experience skills
Getting an internship or Rehearsing is one of the best
part-time job Having a prior ways to prepare for a job
experience in your field will not interview. A mock interview with
only expand your subject a professional is one way to
knowledge but would also give learn and practice interviewing
you an edge over others while skills. Before facing an actual
you apply. interview, do work on your
communication skills, be
confident about your approach
as well as gestures.
Connect with Connect with
friends and industry
professors mentors
Getting an internship or Connect with industry and
part-time job Having a prior company executives. Also you
experience in your field will not can meet corporate leaders at
only expand your subject various offline or online events.
knowledge but would also give The success of social
you an edge over others while networking websites like Twitter
you apply. and Linked in on the internet,
the world has become more
connected than ever.
Intellectual Time
growth management
Books and seminars don’t just Managing time is something
have to be about business. You everyone wants to do but seems
can provide continuing impossible to do. Plan your day
education around personal ahead. Keep buffers for
finance or fostering healthy unexpected events, so that you
relationships. get fewer surprises.
Never stop
learning Professionalism
There is a lot to learn in this Entering the workforce directly
world. Even if you are the after college is not easy.
master of your business, there Individuals need to demonstrate
is still something that you would that they are responsible, can
have to learn to keep yourself in maintain good relations with
the market. If you think you others, are organized, can manage
know it all, you have lost the plot projects well, and can display a
already. deep sense of self-control and
good time management, These are
essential in a professional setting,
and unfortunately, are not always
taught at the university level.
Creative and
Critical
Thinking Self-Management
Creative thinking is having the Employers are seeking entry-level
ability to solve a problem or employees who most likely will not
issue in a way that is different be project/team leads at the outset.
from traditional methods, thus But these individuals do need to be
creating a new pathway to able to demonstrate
problem solving. Critical self-management with the capacity
thinking is the ability to to plan, organize, and then execute
evaluate, investigate, and the task at hand. By developing
assess the best possible these skills, an entry-level employee
solutions to resolve problems. should be able to manage his or her
job well, and handle pressure as it
comes his or her way.

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