Transcript The realities of getting Job and Working environment

The realities of getting Job
and
Working environment
Presented by – Vinod Upadhyay
General Manager- Corporate HR
Patel Group of Companies
Career Options for Engineers
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Industrial Career
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Academics
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Own enterprise
Employment - India
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India is a logical choice of outsourcing for the
world with 65% of the world’s eminent
companies and one of the world's largest pools
of scientific and technical talent.
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India has proved its mettle in IT And BPO
industries to global community.
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Indian IT/ BPO industries have witnessed
phenomenal growth in recent years leading to
tremendous increase in the demand of skilled
manpower.
Manpower Employment Outlook
Survey - India
Increase
Decrease No
Change
Don’t
Know
Period
Net
Seasonally
Employment Adjusted
Outlook
%
%
%
%
%
%
3rd Quarter
2011
49
2
31
18
47
46
2nd Quarter
2011
57
8
16
19
49
51
1st Quarter
2011
48
7
30
15
41
42
4th Quarter
2010
47
5
36
12
42
39
3rd Quarter
2010
44
2
46
8
42
41
Sector Comparisons
Sectorwise- Q3 2011
51
50
Wholesale & Retail Trade
43
41
Transportation & Utilities
48
Services
Public Administration & Education
30
53
34
Mining & Construction
46
Manufacturing
45
46
49
47
49
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
0
10
20
30
Net Employment Outlook
40
50
Seasonally Adjusted
60
“ India does not have problem of
unemployment but unemployability. “
- Dr. Kalam
Engineering Students and
Unemployability
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Unlike occupational or technical skills,
employability skills are generic in nature rather
than job specific and cut across all industry
types, business sizes, and job levels from the
entry-level worker to the senior-most position.
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The industry requires new graduates who
understand the part they play in building their
organisations, and have the practical skills to
work effectively in their roles.
Engineering Students and
Unemployability
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We need professionals who are responsive to
economic, social, cultural, technical and
environmental change and can work flexibly and
intelligently across business contexts.
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It means engaging with the organisation and its
goals, understanding the dynamics of the
workplace, and taking up a job role with an
informed knowledge of its requirements.
Industrial Career
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Manufacturing ( Production )
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R&D
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Design
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Planning
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Quality Assurance & Quality Control
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Maintenance
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Commercial ( Purchase/ Import-Export)
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Marketing and Customer service
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Projects
Get your desired job
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Identify your competence
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Evaluate the job potential
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Job Vs. Skill Sets required
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Identify the skill gap and improve
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Learn how to win the interview
Sources for placements
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Campus selection
Job Portals (Naukri, Monster, Timesjob etc.)
Placement consultants
Applying against Advt.
Unsolicited applications to the potential
employers
Social sites/ Professional groups on Net.
Your first resume
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Make it simple
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Highlight
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Your Academic achievements
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Your Skill sets
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Elaborate your Project work – It is the only
practical implementation of the theories
learnt
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Highlight your extra curricular activities – It
shows your personality traits
When you face an interview
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Physical appearance
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Mannerism
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Be confident ( Or at least look so)
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Know your strengths and drag the interviewer to
the area of your comfort
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Employers don’t really look for your knowledge
but they do look for attitude & aptitude.
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Be sincere and honest
When you get a job
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The internal support systems for you
• Induction
• Departmental SOPs
• OJT by seniors
• Mentor
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Challenges
• Conflict between personal aspiration Vs
Organisational objectives
• Relationship management at Workplace
• Skill gaps
• Meeting the deadlines
What gets you Success?
Success
Results
Actions
Ideas/ Thinking
Conditions
Who are the achievers?
• Everyone sets goals but an important
distinction is that the top achievers are very
intentional, focused and committed while the
rest of us are not.
• Persist! That’s the quality true champions are
made of.
Have you set your Goal?
Type of Goals
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Personal/ Self Goals
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Family Goals
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Social Goals
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Organizational Goals
Importance of Organizational Goals
High Pay-off Activities
 What are you being paid for?
 What do you do that produces greatest results?
 What do you do that adds to your company’s
profitability?
 Why did the company hire you?
 What do you do that produces 80% of your
results?
Low Pay-off Activities
 80% of the activities that you spend your time on
are producing only 20% of the results.
 Learn to simplify, eliminate and (delegate) your
LPA’s
Human Performance Layers
Performance
Interfacing Ability
Operational Ability
Attitudes & Values
Interfacing Ability
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Communication Skills
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Interpersonal skills
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Team work
The rules for work are changing, and we’re all
being judged, whether we know it or not, by a
new yardstick—not just how smart we are and
what technical skills we have, which employers
see as givens, but increasingly by how well we
handle ourselves and one another.
Daniel Goleman
Author, Working with Emotional Intelligence
Self Awareness
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Individual= ?
You
Role
The roles you play
Person
Mobilizing
strengths …
 Skills
 Traits and identity
 Passions
Managing
weaknesses …
 Skill gaps
 Anxieties
Creating UR Right image
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Perceived
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Presented
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Desired
Relationship
Three Magic Tools
There are three tools that will help you to make
every relationship work:
 Respect
 Helpfulness
 Understanding
Respect
• Respect the person you work with.
• If you don’t like him / her, and still need to work
together, make the effort to find at least one nice
thing about the person.
• Remember, that no one is totally wrong or bad.
• Even a clock that does not work tells the correct
time twice a day!
Helpfulness
• Be genuinely helpful.
• Remember the objectives of a professional
relationship – achieving the organizational
objectives and goals, in a positive and
proactive manner.
• So, there is no room for personal agendas and
score settling. Pettiness like – “He didn’t help
me when I needed it, so why should I do it
now?” – needs to be left behind in the
childhood.
Understanding
• Involves, first of all, listening.
• Listening with an open mind, and nonjudgmentally.
• Understanding also involves empathy.
What is Relationship Management?
It is all about being great at your interpersonal
skills and relating effectively with others. People
who efficiently use their interpersonal skills
always:
 Get the best out of a relationship.
 Handle difficult situations with ease and
enthusiasm.
 Behave in a situation centric way, and not a
people centric one.
 Separate problems from people.
 Focus on solutions rather than problems.
Why?
• “Others” are others…… you could have come
across this attitude several times.
• But you begin to change when you realize that the
relationship you have with them indeed affects
your work life as well as your personal life.
• This prompts you to “understand others”.
• What does “understanding others” mean?
Understanding Others
The first step to understanding others is learning
about them. In organization context, managing your
relations with your colleague could mean 2 things:
 Knowing what you need from him
 Knowing what he needs from you
We can learn more about others when we disclose
our selves. Self-disclosure is seen as a useful
strategy for sharing information with others. Also, we
build trust and rapport.
Team work
A team is a group of people who are working
towards the same goal.
A good team works well together, has attributes
such as flexibility and synergy, and achieves more
than the sum of its' parts.
High Performance Teams
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Common goal
Constant monitoring and feedback
Open communication
Mutual trust
Synergy
Interdependence
Problem solving
Looking at the big picture
Value contribution
Good leader
Wheel of Life
Career
Self
Social
Finance
Spiritual
Family
Own enterprise
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Family background – Entering the running
business or starting afresh.
Manufacturing or Trading
Challenges
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Growth prospects
Finance
Market Competition
Entrepreneurial Skills
Customers - The Hub
Profitability
Products
Market share
Customers
Alliances
Shareholder value
Market capitalization
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