Jams academy works mainly with Graduate students and Educational Institutions in imparting employability skills & interview skills enabling the students not only to face interviews successfully but also to sustain them in the job and enable them to grow within the organization leading successful career & life

1. P Jose Mathew
Total professional experience of about 34+ years - 4 years as Head India
Workforce Management - 10 years in SAP R/3 in various positions such as SAP
Business Head, Service Delivery Manager (Offshore), Competency
Manager, Project Manager, Project Team Leader, PP Module Lead Consultant
etc..
Has extensive experience of 18+ years in the Manufacturing Industry and has
handled various functions such as Production, PPC, Purchasing, Materials
Management etc.
Skillsets
Company Position Year
» Atos India
» Leading Edge Sys
» Ygyan Consltg
» CG ltd
» Other Mfg. Cos
» Program Mgr. / Gr Mgr. WFM / SAP Delivery Mgmt. / Competency Mgmt.
» SAP Business Head
» SAP Project Manager
» SAP Project Lead / SAP Consultant / Head Production Planning & Control
» Materials Manager / Purchasing Manager / Production Engineer / PPC
Engineer
»2001 to
2013
»2001 to
2002
»2000 to
2001
»1995 to
2000
Imparting employability & interview skills to students & young executives
Trainer in Soft-skills, Functional domain & ITIL / People Management / General
Management / Customer Management / Service Delivery Management / Program
management / Analytical ability // Resource Management, Capacity Planning, Career
Planning, Contract Management, Management & Financial reporting // Competencies:
Client & delivery focus, leadership, presentation, communication, team working, people
focus, integrity, dynamism & creative pragmatism

2. Employability Skills
Development & Interview
Coaching
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P Jose Mathew
Jams Academy
Employability Skill Development & Interview Coaching
www.jamsacademy.com

3. Interview Coaching
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4. “60 Seconds”
That Is All The Time
A Candidate Gets In
A Job Interview !!!
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60 Seconds?????? 
Studies show that job interviews are:
Basically decided within the first few moments
Based more on how much the interviewer/s like/s
the candidate
Not necessarily always based on the requirements
of the position or the background of the
interviewee.
Research indicates that human beings:
 Create a firm opinion about someone in just a few
seconds of meeting him/her
 Take mere seconds to conclude whether they like
the person / have belief, confidence, faith and

6. Candidate gets but
one chance to make
the First Impression
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Needless to say, it
needs to be “Perfect
”

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60 Seconds - That Is All The Time Needed   
If & when one has:
Planned for job interview/s
Carried out preparation systematically & well in
time
Practiced, practiced and practiced
Checked performance repeatedly, assessed &
reassessed the gaps
Eliminated the gaps & polished the act to
perfection
Assuming that he/she has:
 Done well academically to qualify

8. Jams Academy Will
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Help students / candidates to prepare for interviews
through:
Comprehensive “Interview skill” training
Assessments, gap identification & action plans based on
“identified gaps”
Interview practice using “Interview Master” tool
Evaluations & fine tuning
 Training sessions would be held within resp
College premises for students
 Sessions carried out generally on week days (for
students)

9. Enablers
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 Resume
Resume Analysis
Resume Building & Enhancement
Resume Validation
 Projects
Technical Projects
Non-Technical Projects
Jams Original Idea Incubator (JOII)
Idea Evaluation support
Piloting support
Incubation support

10. Is That All That Is Needed to get one’s Dream Job?
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Getting through the job interview is only the first
step……
Employees would need to:
 Perform well & excel in their jobs
 Grow vertically & horizontally within the
organization
 Reach the full potential in the career of their
choice
 Lead a highly successful life with work life
balance
For these, they would need to have “Employability

11. Employability Skills
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12. Indian Graduates Have Low Employability!
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13. These Headlines Point To The Ground Reality
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14. Low Employability Exists Across Disciplines
Employability Quotient, Not College Name be
the New Hiring Criteria
"Engineering colleges in our country have been
growing at 20 per cent a year. ….despite the
increase in number of colleges, the competition
for acquiring fresh talent every year is so heated
that it gives an impression that resources are
really scarce….”, Azim Premji
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15. Candidate Conversions Are Very Low
Conversion Funnel: Academic Skills
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(lower threshold)
Interviews
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(Technology/Domain Knowledge)
Offers
12100 candidates
Joining
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Conversion Funnel: Employability Skills
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15
(lower, trainable scale)
Interviews
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(various abilities & skills parameters)
Offers
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100 candidates
Joining
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16. Industry Says
“One out of every four graduates found unemployable by
industry” – B Santhanam, Chairman of CII National
Committee on Skills and Human Resources
“The biggest failure is that students do not possess soft
skills to discuss, present & articulate” – Kiran Karnik,
President, NASSCOM
“If we don’t take steps to improve the quality of our
engineering graduates, we will soon lose out on our ability
to compete globally” – NR Narayana Murthy
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17. Demand Not Met Despite Large Educated Population
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“Nearly one-half of employers say the skills gap relates to
command of both hard (technical / domain) and other
(communication, team work etc.. collectively termed as
Employability Skills) abilities” – Ref: Baseline®

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22. Huge Gap Between Expectations & Availability
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23. Bridge The Gap Through
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24. Employability Skills Development
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Jams Academy

26. Employability Skills Programs
Programs designed to help students / candidates to:
Develop / enhance employability skills
Make them Industry Ready
Achieve Success In Life.
Employability skills:
 Non-academic skills
Necessary for getting, keeping & doing well on the
job
Act as launching pad for career growth & success
within and outside the employer organization
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27. We Cover Most Of These Employability Skills
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28. We Pay Personal Attention
 Individual progress tracking & monitoring
Awareness of employability skills and their vital
importance
Assessment of language skills, voice accent & computer
literacy levels of participants
Specific actions recommended for weak language skills /
pronounced accents / low computer literacy levels
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 Experiential learning with extensive use of role plays,
individual & group assignments & practice interspersed
with highly interactive lectures, presentations, videos, etc.

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Practice
Individual
specific
external
coaching
Assignment
s
Class room
sessions
Individual
specific
action plan/s
Assessment
Net gap
identification

30. We Help Achieve Success
Students / participants could be employed in the best of
organizations – (post) graduate from the best of institutions -
grow to their full potential in the career of their choice &,
above all, in life – meeting & exceeding their own
expectations…..
All they would need to do is to understand their own
employability skills gaps and work on them systematically
and well in time …..
Employability skills mastery is a must for employees if
they want to achieve success in career & life
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31. Functional Business
Students / participants would be provided a high level view
of the standard business flows explaining the various
business functions and their inter-relationship & inter-
dependencies.
Understanding of ERPs (like SAP) & how they enable
Business to get real time data leading to quicker & better
decision making and hence improvement of overall
performance.
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Sessions would be highly interactive & a mix
of:
Classroom talks / discussions
Video presentations
Power point presentations
Games
Role plays
Individual & group assignments
Progress evaluation / assessment
Q & A and Feedback sessions
Highly Interactive Sessions

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College Directors / Principals / Placement Officers
Specific tailored programs for students of:
Engineering Degree Colleges
Non-Engineering Degree Colleges
Diploma Course Colleges
BBA / MBA Colleges
Conducted within resp. College premises
Duration 1 to 3 years (excluding final year)
2 to 4 Hours single/multiple sessions every week
Pre-Training
Assessments
Employability Skills Development
& Interview Coaching
Post Training
Assessments

34. Each of you can be “employable”
Develop & enhance your strengths
Identify & work on the areas for improvement
Master “Employability skills” & “Interview
Skills”
 Be Industry Ready & Grab That Dream Job
Pre-Training
Assessments
Employability Skills Development
& Interview Coaching
Post Training
Assessments
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Graduate/Diploma Students

35. Get candidates trained & coached on
“Employability skills” & “Interview Skills”
Multiply candidate selection ratio manifold
 Reduce recruitment turn around time
 Reduce overall cost of recruitment
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Recruiting Professionals / HR Consultants
Shortlisted
Candidates
Focused Short Term Coaching &
Training
Client
Interview

36. Contact
Jams Academy
Employability Skill Development & Interview Coaching
Mumbai
Employability Skills
Development & Interview
Coaching Programs
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Sales@jamsacademy.com 9820095120
www.jamsacademy.com

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