career development, Innovation

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The Other Shoe !

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5. What Our Students Want
Meaningful employment
Competitive advantage in today’s economy

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Undergraduate Degree and Job
“Degree is a qualification to
apply for a Job,
but
not to get a Job”

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• What you need to GET a job?
• How you get what you need to
get a job?

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What you need to GET a job?

9. What Industry Says
 Able to Work In Teams
 Able to Take and Give Direction
 Able to Communicate in Writing
 Able to Communicate by Speech
 Able to quantify and relate mathematically
 Able to analyze, prioritize, evaluate
(sometimes called “Critical Thinking”)
 Sensitive to other points of view, other cultures,
gender, ethnicity.
 Able to Solve New Problems

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According to
Harvard Business School:
Your technical Skills contributes
to your success!
What is
responsible for
balance 85%?

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What you need to GET a job?
Mainly two skills are required:
1. Technical/ Hard Skills
2. Soft Skills

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Technical Skills
• It is obtaining all required knowledge
under each discipline
(subjects/qualification/degree)
• This can be obtained by participating
lectures, research work, reading text
books, reading lecture notes and etc.,

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Soft skill for successful career
skills that a graduate requires when start
working in either public or private
sector.
www.kln.ac.lk/careers

15. Mr. G D Birla
Employers criticize university
output as having their heads full of
theories, concepts and principles
but graduates are often ill-equipped
to deal with real life situations

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‘Soft skills are a lot
harder to teach in the
world of work‘
Wall Street Journal Article, 2002

17. SOFT SKILLS:
Connecting Classroom to Careers

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Soft skills defined …
Skills, abilities and traits that pertain to
personality, attitude and behavior
Moss and Tilly, 1996

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What are the Soft Skills?
• Communication skills
• Team work
• Time management
• Leadership skills
• Written communication skills
• Self motivational ability
• Presentation skills
• Professional ethics
• Right working attitudes etc.,

20. Soft skills: The two domains
•Planning/ organizing
•Time management
•Problem solving
•Showing enthusiasm
•Stress tolerance
•Creative thinking
•Team work
•Leadership
•Adaptability
•Written and oral
communication
•Grooming

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• Traditional class room will not help you
to develop your soft skills.
• Modern class room teaching will
facilitate to improve some soft skills of
students.
Then HOW can I improve my SOFT
SKILLS?

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24. People generally use
less than 20% of their
potential.
80% is hidden and
rarely brought into
awareness.

25. Success & security
means being prepared for
change.
Know the package of skills
and strengths you really
possess.

26. By uncovering your Dependable
Strengths, you become free to use,
develop, or combine them in different
ways to accommodate change.
Change, then, comes to mean
adaptation, flexibility, and opportunity,
rather than the unknown and feared.
This is true career success.

27. Soft skills: The two domains
•Planning/ organizing
•Time management
•Problem solving
•Showing enthusiasm
•Stress tolerance
•Creative thinking

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නනොනගී
කුමොරතුංග මුනිදොස

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Need to develop
the innovative
culture within us.

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Google was founded by
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
while they were Ph.D.
students at Stanford
University
September 4, 1998
Market value of $468.3 billion

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February 4, 2004
Mark Zuckerberg with his
Harvard College roommates
and fellow students

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By Drew Houston, 2007

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University of Houston
students
Matt Mullenweg and
Mike Little were
freshmen when they
came up with the
idea of a free
blogging platform
that can be used,
changed, and shared
by anyone.

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February 14, 2005
by three former PayPal employees
bought by Google for US$1.65 billion

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Toyota, Nissan, Honda,
Mitsubishi & Mazda of
Japan, Ford, General
Motors and Chrysler of
USA, Volvo, SAAB,
BMW, Aston Martin,
Opel and Renault

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Lanka Harness Co. (Pvt) Ltd is established in 2002
Rohan Pallewatta

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needs to be injected.

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