This document discusses graduate employability and the skills needed to succeed. It defines graduate employability as the achievements and attributes that make graduates likely to gain employment and succeed in their career. Employers look for skills like communication, self-management, leadership, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence. The document outlines important employability skills and attributes, opportunities in different industries and job types, and emphasizes the importance of ongoing preparation and development to ensure career success.

1. Graduate Employability
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2. Overview
 What is graduate employability?
 Why is it so important?
 What do employers look for?
 What are the skills required for graduate
employability?
 What are the opportunities in market
today?
 Conclusion
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5. You are a “Professional”!
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6. What is
GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY?
Why is it so
IMPORTANT?
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7. What is Graduate Employability?
 A set of achievements
 skills
 understandings
 personal attributes
 That makes graduates more likely to gain employment
and be successful in their chosen career
 Which benefits
 themselves
 the workforce
 the community
 the economy
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8. What is Graduate Employability?
 Ability to
 demonstrate
knowledge and understanding in
the field of interest
 apply the knowledge in professional manner
 collect and interpret data in order to formulate
judgments and arrive at decisions
 communicate information, ideas, problems and
solutions to specialist and non-specialist
audiences
 develop learning skills needed for further growth
with a high degree of autonomy
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9. Why Is It So Important?
 Growth of knowledge economies
 Shift from production to service-driven
economies
 Less certainty among employers regarding the
future requirements
 Call for improved forecasting of skills needs
 Move away from the traditional job-for-life
 Trend towards greater civic participation
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10. What Do Employers Look For?
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Acting with integrity
Taking ownership
Communicating
Motivation and resilience
Continuous learning
Building relationships
Problem solving
Delivering quality
Business focus
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11. Personal attributes that contribute to
overall employability
 Loyalty, integrity, reliability, commitment
 Professional attitude
 Ability to deal with pressure
 Motivation, enthusiasm, ownership
 Adaptability
 Proactive and inquisitiveness
 Positive approach, can-do attitude
 Positive self esteem
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12. What are Employability Skills?
 Communication
 Oral, written, listening skills
 Email writing
 Presentation skills
 Meetings and conference calls
 Document writing
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13. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Self-management
 Time
management
 Work-life balance
 Organized, methodical
 Leadership and working in team
 Large picture and attention to details
 Emotional intelligence
 Out-of-box thinking and problem-solving
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14. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Technology that contributes to effective
execution of tasks
 Having a range of basic IT skills
 Applying IT as a management tool
 Using IT to organise data
 Willing to learn new IT skills
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15. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Numeracy
 Use simple statistics
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Calculate percentages
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Exercise: A certain jacket was marked down 20% the
first week and another 20% down the next week. What
percentage of the regular price was the final cost of the
jacket after the two markdowns? (Options: 0.36, 0.4,
0.60, 0.64)
 Multiply and divide accurately
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Read and interpret graphs and tables
Manage a limited budget
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16. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Judgement/decision making skills
 Planning & organising
 Business awareness
 Enterprise and entrepreneurism
 Hard skills
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Using numbers effectively
Using words effectively
Using technology effectively
Speaking a foreign language
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17. Opportunities in Market
 All industries
 Automobile,
IT / ITES, BFSI, BPO, Pharma,
Healthcare, …
 Types of jobs
 Market
research
 Marketing
 Business development
 Operations
 Human resources
…
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18. Very Important
 Know your passion
 For
the function
 For the role
 For the industry
 Prepare yourself
 By
developing awareness for the industry
 Reading / listening to business news
 Keeping up-to-date with market happenings
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19. Very Important (Contd.)
 Understand the difference between a job and a
career
 Learn to be transformed into a professional
from student life
 Do NOT hop jobs
 Be
open to learning new function / skill / role
 Develop organizational perspective
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20. Conclusion
 Graduate employability skills are very important
– not only for the first placement but also for
growth in career.
 These skills can be developed through
observation, introspection, adaptation,
conscious efforts.
 Opportunities exist in market but with changing
economies and globalization, requirements
have changed.
 So…
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21. Conclusion
Let us prepare ourselves for the
years to come…
TODAY!
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22. THANK YOU
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