1. Career Enrichment Program
for
Students
Vijay Anand L V
Director & Head Mentor
Hirington Academy. Chennai

2. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Gist of Vijay Anand L V (Head Mentor of Hirington Academy)
Possess 13 plus years of experience in the Recruitment Industry. Working experience includes
“Sampoorna Computer People (leading Consultancy Services) , Kumaran Systems, India
Comnet, Ikas Technologies (IT/Telecom software companies in Chennai, India). Holds a
Bachelor of Science from Madras University, India. Master of Labour Management from
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and a Post Graduate degree in Human Resources
Management, Pondichery.
Experience of interviewing several hundreds of candidates across all the verticals.
Exposure to both consultancy and corporate environment.
Groomed a team of recruiters for productive results.
Provided recruitment solutions for several hundreds of recruiters through Online and In-
person mentoring.
Founder and President of Global Recruiters Association, non profit organization for recruiters
(www.graindia.org)
Online Recruitment Journal - Hirington (www.hirington.com),
Author of Hiring Handbook,
Cross Border Recruiter Exchange (an Online Facebook Community for Recruiters)
Subject Matter Expert in Recruitment.

3. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Employability Skills - Definition
“Skills relating to choosing a career, getting and keeping a job, making
job and career changes, and career advancement”.
Threat
Recent NASSCOM study reveals that almost 60% of Indian graduates
don’t have the right employability skills.
Solution
Continuous practical training on all the employability skills from the
early graduation stage. There needs two kinds of assessment report.
a.Pre audit on the raw candidate
b.Post audit after training / assessment.

4. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Employability Skills of the Students
 “Employability and Skill set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India', which
recently surveyed employers in 20 sectors such as IT, power and
infrastructure.
 Half of the respondents were large companies with over 500 employees,
with 40 per cent from North India, 27 per cent from the West and 19 per cent
from the South.
 Interestingly, where the employers found the fresh engineering graduates
most lacking in is ‘high-order thinking' skills – Employment Skills for critical
thinking and problem solving. This is despite a good academic performance.
 Another area, considered most important by employers, and where a large
gap was found is on – integrity, teamwork, reliability and willingness to learn.
 Employers are not looking for hi-end technological skills from the fresher
and they are very well aware about student’s academic syllabus.

5. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Employability Skills of the Students
 Technical skills of the students can be groomed / compromised by the
employers. But not all the skills like decision making, email etiquette, team
work etc can be taught.
 Despite good academic performance, they lack on framing right words in
an email. Most of them send email without subject / irrelevant subject and
body of the email.
 According to the survey, jointly carried out by the Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the World Bank, 64
percent of surveyed employers are "somewhat", "not very", or "not at all"
satisfied with the quality of engineering graduates' skills.
 Student’s skills are quantified, but not qualified – says a report.
 All the students should not be trained on generic skills. For example. Java
or Dot Net. A SWOT analysis needs to be done to understand who needs
what skills and training should be based on the analysis.

6. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Employability Skills of the Students
 Most of the external training in the institution happens based on an
assumption. Training to be done based on client’s expectation alone.
 Skills gap hurts technology boom in India – New York Times.
 Urban students get better industry exposure than the rural students. There
needs unique skill set training to bridge the gap between urban and rural
educational institutions.
 Students and Educational institutions lacks on Social Media strategy.
 Campus placement strategies in the educational institution needs to be
revamped.
 Employers struggle to discuss the recruitment jargons with the placement
practitioners in the institutions. People who are practicing it are either not
from the recruitment background or a retired person from the government
job.

7. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
The Solution
 Motivation, soft skills and other short term training last only for a certain
duration among the students. So concentrate on the employability skills.
 There needs a continuous career enrichment programs from their second
year till final year. That includes both technical and non-technical.
 Capability of the campus placement practitioners needs to be enriched
based on new recruitment strategies.
 Students and Educational institutions to improve their Social Media
strategy.
 Students need to be trained more on their life skills like SWOT Analysis,
Team building, Effective communication, Decision making, Creative & Critical
thinking, goal setting etc.
 Create Student – Centric programs then Teacher – Centric programs.
 Groom students based on the industry expectation rather than generic
skills.

8. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Employability Skills – an over view
SWOT Analysis Group Discussion
Goal setting Mock Interviews
Attitude framing Email Etiquette
Body language Stress Buster
Critical / Creative thinking Self Awareness
Decision Making Team Work
Interpersonal / Problem Solving Better work space
Importance of communication Goal Implementation
Technology exposure Individual screening attention

9. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Extend your Arms
You share your hiring needs, we give you a solution – We are democratic!
Let’s open a communication;
Vijay Anand L V
Recruiter . Mentor . Author . Blogger
19/1 Aruls Manors, SBI Colony 3rd extn, Iyappa Nagar,
Nanganallur, Chennai – 61, Tamil Nadu India.
Mobile No: +91 9841696536
Email id: contact@hiringtonacademy.org
Linkedin Profile: http://linkedin.com/in/vanandhr/

10. Career Enrichment Programs for Students
Extend your Arms
You share your hiring needs, we give you a solution – We are democratic!
Let’s open a communication;
Vijay Anand L V
Recruiter . Mentor . Author . Blogger
19/1 Aruls Manors, SBI Colony 3rd extn, Iyappa Nagar,
Nanganallur, Chennai – 61, Tamil Nadu India.
Mobile No: +91 9841696536
Email id: contact@hiringtonacademy.org
Linkedin Profile: http://linkedin.com/in/vanandhr/