Skill enhancement programs focus on training using practices from education, psychology, social work, career counseling, sports, and technology. They assess skills, construct programs, implement them, and provide feedback and evaluation. The programs aim to develop basic academic skills, higher-order thinking skills, and personal qualities through curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Employability skills can be taught both in school and employment settings, and parents, supervisors, trainers and teachers should model desired behaviors.

1. S. VIDHYA, M.Com.,M.Ed.,M.Phil., Scholar

2.  The two greatest concerns of employers
today are finding good workers and training
them.
 Employers willing to provide the specialized,
job-specific training for those lacking skills.
 Employers need reliable, responsible workers
who can solve problems and who have the
social skills and attitudes to work together
with other workers and creative thinking.

3. Employability skills are those basic skills
necessary for getting, keeping, and doing
well on a job.
Employability skills are generic in nature.
Employability skills implies something about
the capacity of the graduate to function in a
job and be able to move between jobs, thus
remaining employable throughout their life.

4. Skill enhancement provides the opportunity
and knowledge for a client to develop and
strengthen the necessary skills to gain,
maintain, and advance in a chosen area.

5. Skill enhancement programs are focused
around training that combines the best
practices from
 education
 psychology
 social work
 career counseling
 sports and
 technology training

6.  Assessment
 Skills program construction and selection
 Implementation
 Feedback/Evaluation

7.  Basic academic skills
 Higher-order thinking skills and
 Personal qualities

8.  Curricular
 Co-curricular and
 Extracurricular

9. Everything to do with our academic subject
 Projects
 Work based learning
 Presentations
 Research
 Group work
 Work related learning
 Placements

10. The skills we gain while studying which don’t
count towards our degree
 Personal tutoring
 Positions of responsibility
 Team work

11. Everything else we do as a student from which
we gain employability skills
 part-time and holiday jobs
 student activity groups
 work experience
 careers & employability service sessions
 summer internships
 volunteering

12.  It may be taught in both school and
employment settings.
 Parents need to be involved in goal setting
and modeling behavior for in-school youth.
 Teach employability skills using a democratic
approach
 Supervisors, trainers and teachers should set
good examples of the desired behavior.
 When possible, classrooms should replicate
the features of real work setting.

13. Skill enhancement provides the opportunity
and knowledge for a client to develop and
strengthen the necessary skills to gain,
maintain, and advance in a chosen area.