The document discusses job readiness and how to become job ready. It defines job readiness as being prepared for a job based on an employer's requirements. Some key aspects of becoming job ready include enhancing soft skills, learning hard skills, self-awareness, setting career goals, and having a strong resume and cover letter. Soft skills are personality traits like communication and attitude, while hard skills are technical abilities. Self-awareness involves understanding one's personality, values, habits, emotions, and needs. Career goals and resumes/cover letters help employers understand a candidate's fit and qualifications.

1. The Sparks Foundation
GRIPJAN21- TALENT ACQUISITION
TASK-2-JOB READINESS

3. Job Readiness has a different definition for each job. Generally, job
readiness is based on what employers are looking for -
Are you ready for the kind of job you are looking for?
Would an employer agree with this decision?
The concept of job readiness suggests that you can reach some
magic moments when you are “ready” to work.

4. How to become job ready?
 Enhance soft skills
 Learn hard skills
 Know yourself
 Career Goals
 Good Resume and Cover Letter

6. Soft skills are those set of specific personality
traits that makes an employee compatible to
work with.
Soft skills are desirable qualities for certain types
of employment that do not depend on acquired
knowledge: they include common sense, the
ability to deal with people, and a positive
f lexible attitude.
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8. Hard skills are learned abilities acquired and
enhanced through practice, repetition, and
education.
Hard skills are important because they
increase employee’s productivity and
efficiency.

9. Types Of Hard Skills:
Research and Analysis:
Hard skills can also be analytical in
nature, where they can be used to
extract,interpret and present
information.Translating,statistical
analysis and transcribing are such
processes where data is used to
generate relevant ideas or solutions.
People Oriented:
Professions such as teaching,project
management and banking, often have
distinct methodologies and systems
that govern how they perform their
responsibilities. Hard skills for such
people-oriented roles include building
lesson plans, project budgets, filing
systems, risk assessment policies
and financial management.
Creative hard skills:
These are skills employed by
animators, sculptors, chefs,
copywriters, graphic designers,
photographers and musicians to
create their respective forms of art as
per their job or client specifications.

10. Computer/information technology skills
Agile project management
Web/app development skills
Digital marketing

11. SELF AWARENESS:
 Self awareness is an awareness of one’s own personality or
individuality.
 “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” -Aristotle
 Without being aware of and understanding your own
emotions, it will be diff icult for you to move into the other
emotional competencies like self -management, social
awareness, and team leadership.
 Understanding yourself would help you make much better
decisions in setting and reaching appropriate goals and
altogether living a more productive life.

12. Key Areas for Self-Awareness
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 Personality: – Understanding owns personality can help us find in what environment we can
sustain. Awareness of our personality helps you analyze such a decision.
 Values: – It’s important that we know and focus on our personal values. When we focus on our values, we
are more likely to accomplish what we consider most important.
 Habits: – Although we would like to possess the habits that help us interact effectively with and manage
others, we can probably all identify at least one of our habits that decrease our effectiveness.
 Needs: – Maslow and other scholars have identified a variety of psychological needs that drive our
behaviors such as needs for esteem, affection, belongingness, achievement, self-actualization, power and
control.
 Emotions: – It’s one of the five facets of emotional intelligence. Understanding your own feelings, what
causes them, and how they impact our thoughts and actions is emotional self-awareness. Person with high
emotional self-awareness understands the internal process associated with emotional experiences and,
therefore, has greater control over them.

13. Career Goals
A career goal is a specific statement that explains
what you want to achieve throughout your career.
Questions to keep in mind while setting career goal:
 Where do you want to go?
 What do you want to achieve?
 Who you want to be?
A hiring manager is often looking to hire a
candidate who is passionate about the position.
This is why setting a career goal can help you get
ahead in your career.

14. Resume
When you think of getting a job, the first thing you should do is work on creating a good resume.
A resume is a brief summary of personal and professional skills, experiences, and education history.
How to create a good resume?
 U s e a p r o f e s s i o n a l e - m a i l a d d r e s s
 Ma ke s u r e yo u r c o n ta c t i n f o r m a t i o n i s u p t o d a te
 U s e r e ve r s e c h r o n o l o g i c a l o r d e r
 Ma tc h yo u r c o ve r l e t te r t o yo u r r e s u m e
 P r o o f r e a d yo u r r e s u m e .

15. Cover Letter
A cover letter or an application letter is a letter you write to apply for a job, along with your resume.
It’s purpose is to elaborate on the information contained in your resume.
How to make a cover letter?
 Emphasize on the positive reasons why you should be hired for the job,
 Mention your skills and experience that are relevant to the job,
 Cover letter should not be more than 1 page
Go for the three paragraph cover letter format:
 1st - To grab hiring managers attention
 2nd- To show what you have got to offer
 3rd- To prove that you will fit in