Being job ready means preparing your skills and interests for the right opportunities. To become job ready, one should know their skills and passions, identify possible jobs of interest, and build themselves up through internships, skills training, and networking. An effective resume is also important, keeping it short, simple, in PDF format, and focusing only on relevant work experience and qualifications.

1. Job Readiness ANUSHKA AGARWAL
The Sparks Foundation
Talent Acquisition Intern

2. Being Job Ready means
preparing yourself for the
perfect job that fits your skills
and interests. It means getting
yourself ready to be open to
the right opportunities. One of
the greatest challenges in
your career is being job ready.
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3. How to become job ready?
Know Yourself
• Recognize your skills, interests and passion.
• Keep practicing and learning.
• Take help from your mentors.
• Ask for feedback from others.
Identify possible job of interest
• Don’t be that person that applies for any and
every job out there.
• Always be specific about the roles that
interest you before applying to any opening.
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4. Build Yourself Up
Enhance soft skills.
Connect with friends and professors.
Get an internship or part-time job.
Take part in seminars and conferences.
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Develop self-management skills.

5. Creating a
Nice Resume
• Keep it Short and Simple.
• Use only PDF format.
• Use Reverse Chronological
Order.
• Quantify.
• Remove date, sign,
declaration, family details
and other irrelevant details
which are of no use to the
employer.

6. The way to get started is
to quit talking and begin
doing.
Thank You!
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