Aptitude is an important skill that a fresher should inculcate in them so as to attract prominent recruiters.

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Career Guidance to Fresh Graduates
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Piyush Charan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronics and Communication Engg.
Integral University, Lucknow
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2. It is the First Step in Learning.
When you fail, one thing you achieve
as a life lesson is experience your failure.
You could easily analyze, where you
went wrong.
You must start working on your
shortcomings and definitely you will
succeed.
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3. • Innate, Learned and Acquired ability to
perform a task.
• Component of competence to do a task at
certain level
• Outstanding Aptitude is considered as
“Talent”.
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4. • In contrast to skills and achievements, a
aptitude represent knowledge or ability that is
gained through learning.
• It inculcate factors like Verbal, Numerical,
Spatial Ability, Sensory, Mechanical Ability,
Clerical and Diagrammatic dexterity.
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5. • Often people make a mistake while choosing
career according to their “Initial Interest”.
• Interest in a particular area does not mean that the
individual has ability or potential to perform well
and achieve success in that area.
• Interest may vary from time to time and can be
developed later but aptitude is not.
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6. • Most difficult thing to decide i.e. to choose
appropriate career or course…
• Aptitude provide help to recognize inherent
strength and talent which can further guide to
choose appropriate career that is most suitable
for you.
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7. • Example 1. If you are good at Spatial Aptitude
then you can opt career like Designing,
Creativity and Architecture.
• Example 2.If you are good at Numerical Areas
then career like Finance, Management may be
your cup of tea.
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8. • Increasingly used by recruiter as a measuring
tool for selecting candidates
• Designed to assess specific type of skill set
require for a particular job.
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9. • Essential part of Private Sector Job Recruitment
Process.
• Basic Requisite for Public Sector Job Recruitment
Process.
• Fundamental of Higher Education Selection Process.
• Essential for International Higher Education Selection
Process.
• For Success as Entrepreneur.
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10. • Even the word Impossible says “I-am-
possible”
• Every thing is easy provided you are aware.
• Persistence is the key.
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11. • Explore the facility of You Tube to listen different
experts regularly.
• Attend the expert talks without any if and but.
• Regularly take part in online practice / assessment
test.
• Regularly attend your in house training module.
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12. • Quantitative Aptitude for CAT (By Arun Sharma)
• Quantitative Aptitude (By Dr. R.S Aggarwal)
• Logical Reasoning (By B.S. Sijwali)
• Logical Reasoning (By Dr. R. S Aggarwal)
• Logical Reasoning (By Dr. Lal, Mishra)
• Books on Puzzle (By Sakuntla Devi)
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