With unemployment at an all-time high in Nagaland, the question of being employed seems to be the concern of every youngsters who are uncertain when it comes to their career and job options that lie in front of them. Business student Inato Aye opines that not only good grades but also possessing ‘job skills’ such as good communication skills, effective use of technological gadgets, self-confidence, etc. are paramount in securing a job in this highly competitive age.
“You got the interview because the company believes you have the necessary skills to handle the job. The interviewers are looking for ‘fit’. Before making a job offer, they need to know that you mesh with the cooperate culture.”
‘How should I answer the interviewers? What should be my sitting position? How should I walk in and greet the interviewers which would create a good first impression?’ are often the most nerve wrecking thoughts that tend to bother different individuals when it comes to perhaps the most decisive moment that an individual must get through to be employed and independent.
With unemployment at a high rate in Nagaland, in this modern age, the problem of being employed seems to be the concern of every youngster and individual who are uncertain when it comes to their career and the job option that lies in front of them. Before the question of the strategies to be undertaken in an interview, ‘Is my mark sheet sufficient enough to land me a job? Or sometimes, is education really helping me and taking me somewhere?’ are the questions that tend to keep bothering an individual when it comes to the topic of finding themselves a suitable job in the near future, when in fact, the questions that an individual should be asking oneself are, ‘Do I possess the skills that are required for a certain employment opportunity, whether it be in terms of clear communication skills, effective use of technological gadgets, self-confidence, and others? And how can I take steps which improve my skills in different areas which eventually prepare me for the future?’
As a business student myself and having known the importance of acquiring certain skills, skills that will give me a career and help me maintain the employment or job that I get and eventually to help me keep on growing, the opportunity of internships that are working under a certain company whether it be large or small, a mobile store, retail stores, and others for a certain period, is one way that I tend to look to, to improve my skills, apart from learning the most useful thing, which is the concern of every company that is the skills that they want an individual to possess, been an intern under a company or store gives me the perfect practical experience and answers to certain problems which include the questions of, how I should deal with the customers?, what steps should I take to gain more customers?, how I should act towards certain individual who differs in terms of behaviors? Which ultimately helps in selling the products that the enterprise has to offer, achieving the goals and brings satisfaction to both the customers and the enterprise, it also tends to be a perfect time to apply the knowledge that is been taught and gained in different schools, colleges, and universities.
Summer and winter vacations can be a great time for the students to work as an intern. Apart from the different assignments that were given to us, recently we were given a winter assignment under which we were supposed to work under a certain enterprise for a certain days to understand “customer relationship”, having worked as an intern in a mobile store, my winter vacation seems to be fully utilized as apart from spending time with my family, grandparents, and others, I got to learn and do something useful which enhances my practical experience and eventually my skills.
Presentations, participating in co-curricular activities and others often seems to be boring in the eyes of most students, when in fact on the other side, all these gives them the perfect opportunity in improving and building their skills whether it be in having the confidence of speaking in a clear manner while facing different individuals and crowds standing in the stage and others, which in one way can be compared to the scene of you having the confidence to speak to the interviewers in a clear manner. With the inclusion of technology in the education system, students can also get to use it and understand that in this modern world of ours, the ability to use and adapt itself to technology is also preparing them in the future job fields as every company, educational institutions and others seems to use technology in dealing with most of their day to day activities and problems. As students if we are time conscious about our daily routine, we also tend to build time management abilities, every opportunity that are given to each millennial is, in fact, the perfect preparation of building every skills that are required.
Ascertaining and building job skills has become all the more important given the fact, we are living in a competitive world and that every profession that an individual wishes to take up, whether it be a doctor, engineer, an entrepreneur or even a mere tailor, barber, demands the skills to perform the duties that is expected from it.
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