Description
With over million graduates joining the job market in India, the nation faces a paradox of simultaneously grappling with shortage of employable young people on the one hand and lack of fitting jobs for millions. Employability is a hot topic. This book will simply explain the concept of Employability and help graduates and students to self-learn the necessary skills to become employable, in the modern world. According to the author, Employability is blended competence comprising of basic intelligence, soft-skills – a basket of behavioral traits, technical skills and ambition to perform. To simply explain this profound concept a model called “Diamond ASSET competency Model” has been used in this book. The book could be a single source addressing employability comprehensively, which would help young graduates to Get their First Jobs.A J Balasubramanian aka“AJB”– Author of Get your First job is an Engineer from class of 1984 of the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai. AJB has over 30 years of professional experience as founder of high tech start-ups, and has held senior positions in IT companies and built teams, mentored and groomed them successfully. His is a passionate human resource professional. He has been identifying, recruiting, training, and mentoring young engineers, which helped him develop a deep insight in to development of competencies of fresh graduates and employability. Balasubramanian is the co-founder of Techruit Technologies, a company focused on “First Job and Fresh Talent”.