The presentation is a guide to students to understand the job market scenario. It covers higher education data, desirable skills campus recruiters want in students, Do's and Don'ts for job seekers and students as regards getting a job, job opportunities available, policy changes required etc.

1. What Indian Youth Must Know
To Get A Job
Dr. Gopaldas Pawan Kumar
BE(M), MBA, MS c(EBM),PhD(Mgmt )
Vice Principal, David Memorial Institute of Management,Hyderabad

2. The Presentation covers
The Current Education Scenario
The Higher Education Scenario In India
What Is Expected Of Students?
Components Of Managerial Skills
Skills Sought By Employers
Most Desirable Hard Skills Campus
Recruiters Look For
Most Desirable Soft Skills That Students
Lack As Per Campus Recruiters
 Sectors That Provide Job Opportunities
The Basics Skills Required For Job Seeker
Some Facts Youth Should Know
What A Job Seeker Should Know?
Changes Required In Higher Education
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3. The Current Education
Scenario
1. Research shows that approximately 25% students who pass
out of higher education are employable.
2. Most of the students are forced to work outside their domain
areas as they lack the relevant knowledge /skills.
3. Governments spend around Rs 5 lakh crores on education
out of which 77 % is borne by State Governments/UTs.
4. Share of States/UTs and Central Government expenditure in
terms of GDP is 3.4% and 1% respectively.
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4. The Higher Education Scenario
in India
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Source: Ministry of HRD , Dept. of Higher Education , AISHE Report,2018-19
Category Numbers
Universities 993
Colleges 39931
Stand Alone Institutions 10725

5. Enrolment in Higher Education
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Source: Ministry of HRD , Dept. of Higher Education , AISHE Report,2018-19
Total Enrolment(No’s) 3.74 Crore
Male Students 51.4%
Female Students 48.6%
Gross Enrolment Ratio (18-23 years) 26.3%

6. Course-wise Enrolment
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Source: Ministry of HRD , Dept. of Higher Education , AISHE Report,2018-19
Course Enrolment
Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences 36%
Science 16.5%
Engineering and Technology 13.5%
Commerce 14%
(Total Enrolment-3.74 Cr.)

7. Course-wise Enrolment..
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Source:.(AICTE-2019-20)
Course Number of Students
Engineering 7.36 Lakhs
MBA 2.42Lakhs

8. What is Expected of Students?
1. Soft Skills
2. Hard Skills
3. Social Skills
4. Subject Knowledge
5. An urge to learn and earn
6. Passion for seeking relevant information
7. Discipline-Respect for rules
8. Loyalty and commitment to work
9. Passion to excel in his/her area of work
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9. Components of Managerial
Skills
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10. Hard and Soft Skills
 Hard skills are a set of technical skills you need to have to perform at work place.
Technical skills are specific talents and expertise an individual has to have to perform a
certain task or job acquired through practice and learning.
Hard skills include analytical reasoning, sales, coding, data analysis and so on.
 Soft skills are inherent skills relating to an individual’s character or personality.
They include interpersonal skills , empathy, leadership , management skills,
adaptability , learning skills, communication, negotiation skills, creativity etc.
They are usually inherent and are extremely difficult to teach.
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11. Skills Sought by Employers
1. More Common, Less Desired.
-Initiative/risk taking
-Decision making
-Global mindset
-Entrepreneurship
-Quantitative Skills
2. Less Common, Less Desired.
-Strategy related work experience
-Adaptability
3. Less Common , More Desired.
Strategic Thinking
-Creative Problem Solving
-Leadership Skills
-Communication Skills
4. More Common, More Desired.
-Analytical Thinking
- Ability to work collaboratively
Source: Bloomberg Employer Survey,2014
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12. Skill Gaps in MBA Students
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Source: https://www.topmba.com/jobs/employers/employers-name-skills-they-seek-mba-graduates

13. 5 Most Desirable Hard Skills
Campus Recruiters Look For
1. People Management
2. Quantitative Skills
3. Data Science & Analytics
4. Special Marketing
5. Supply Chain Management
Source: InsideIIM .com
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14. 10 Most Desirable Soft Skills That
Students Lack As Per Campus Recruiters
1. Adaptability
2. Curiosity & General Awareness
3. Self-Awareness
4. Active Listening
5. Critical Observation
Source: InsideIIM .com
6. Emotional Intelligence
7. Leadership
8. Problem Solving
9. Team work& Collaboration
10.Conflict Resolution
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15. Sectors Which Provide Job
Opportunities
1. Retail
2. Automobile
3. Supply chain management
4. Insurance
5. E-commerce
6. Education
7. Logistics
8. Food
9. Organic foods
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16. Sectors Which Provide Job
Opportunities
10. Manufacturing of small engineering items
11. Content development for media
12. Health-Diagnostic centers
13. Local distribution activity
14. Software development
15. Repair services
16. Online Services
17. Franchising
18. Construction
19. TV/Media
20. Banking
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17. The Basics Skills Required For
Job Seeker
1. Subject Knowledge
2. Domain Knowledge
3. General Knowledge
4. Company Information
5. Industry Knowledge
6. Communication Skills
7. Application Skills
8. Common Sense
9. Sense of Presence
10. Empathy
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18. Some Facts Youth Should
Know…
1. Getting a job is the main purpose of getting a degree, unless you want to become an entrepreneur.
2. The aim of a student is to excel in studies. Every thing comes next.
3. Parents support is available as long as they are alive. Then what?
4. If you are not born rich, you need to work; to live.
5. Money can make things easy. Lack of it will force you to compromise in life.
6. Time is the only product which cannot be stored in a freezer. Strike the iron when it is hot.
7. Instead of regretting later , invest in career building.
8. Beauty is skin deep. Talent takes you far.
9. Love can wait. Get a job first.
10. As Robert Mugabe has said- “No girl will choose six packs over six cars, so stop going to the gym and
go to work ”. Get a job first, then desire for love.
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19. What A Job Seeker Should Know?
1. Getting a good job is not easy. Plan and organize activities to achieve the goal.
2. Government cannot provide job to everybody. The best will succeed.
3. Time is fugitive , respect it.
4. Your own classmates would be your closest competitors during placements.
5. Learn to implement. Study to apply the concepts.
6. Be prepared to relocate. Don’t expect to get a job in our own city/town.
7. Make the employer feel desperate to recruit you. Show some promise.
8. Don’t only look at salary/position; organization's reputation matters.
9. Don’t be in a hurry to become CEO. Respect seniors.
10. The Journey to the top is not a waltz, it is a series of acrobats.
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20. Changes Required in Higher
Education
1. Parents have to take equal responsibility for the students education.
2. Managements should look at education as a philanthropic activity and
not as a business.
3. The Government’s education policy has to be made more result
oriented and outcome based. There is a feeling that the money is being
wasted through various schemes
4. Curriculum should be redesigned to provide livelihood to the pass outs.
5. More vocational courses have to be introduced. NEP2020 aims at
vocational education in schools from Class 6. A welcome move.
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21. Changes Required…
6. Students should be trained to start his/her career as an entrepreneur or
as a salaried person. There should be no two ways about it.
7. Institution-Industry collaboration should be made mandatory . States
should seek Industry cooperation.
8. Governments should make mandatory for industries to offer internship
to students. Allocate Institutions to different industries.
9. Teachers are integral to the education system and without improving
their effectiveness it would be difficult to improve the quality of education.
10. Every two years new subjects need to be introduced in the curriculum
to align with the emerging technologies. Foresight of planners is very
much the need of the hour.
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22. End
What Indian Youth Must Know To Get A Job
Dr.Gopaldas Pawan Kumar
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