ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#36 | October 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
Book Details
Title: Campus Placement: A Bumpy Ride
Author: Dr. Pawan Dwivedi Head, Training and Placement Parul Group of Institutes
Number of Pages: 160
ISBN No: 978-93-5104-547-2
Introduction:
There is a serious need of assistance for the academicians working for the students placement. With this new book ‘Campus Placement: A Bumpy Ride’, there appears a ray of hope from them.
It includes importance of Campus Placement activities. Description of a survey report is given which elaborates the expectation of the students and Parents at the time of admission in the professional program. This survey includes twelve points. Students were taken from 21 engineering colleges of the state of Gujarat. They have done higher secondary from 80 different schools. These schools are located in 16 different districts of Gujarat.
Chapter-one (Day-Zero): Role and responsibilities of Institutions. Being a professional education how to promote Training and Placement cell to improve over all academic standard in the campus. Training and Placement can play a vital role in developing in reverse engineering in professional education. Because training and Placement helps to develop liaising between Institution and Industry to make teaching and learning process industry and society oriented.
Chapter-two (Day-One): ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS: For Trainers: How communication skills play a vital role in developing employability skills. It highlights the scope to improve professional skills sets.
Chapter-three: (Day: Two): ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS: AS A LEARNER: How to improve communicative English. How to prepare for aptitude test verbal section. Importance of reading news paper and magazine. Developing professional communication skills and etiquettes along with ethics and values.
Chapter –Four (Day: Three): TRAINING AND PLACEMENT CELL: How to form Training and Placement cell in Professional institution. How to take faculties and students in the committees. Roles and responsibilities of training and placement cell, training and placement officer and training and placement coordinators (students & faculties).
Chapter- Five (Day-Four): GROUP DISCUSSION (Bolo aur bolne do: Speak and let other speak): Why group discussion is a part of recruitment process. Dos’ and don’ts of the Group discussion. It also includes how to prepare for GD being in the hostel, free lectures and other free slots.
Chapter- Six (Day- Five): PERSONNEL INTERVIEW: (Sell yourself)
More than 20 general questions along with standard answer are given in this chapter. It also discuss the how to crack personal interview in the campus recruitment.
Chapter- Seven: (Day- Six): RESUME: From the day one of the professional how to develop an ideal dream resume. This dream resume will help to develop standard profile. Various specimen copies of resume is attached.
Chapter- Eight: (Day- Seven): PRESENTATION SKILLS GROW VERTICALLY: How to do homework before going for Presentation. How to break the hiccup-ups of initial few minutes of the presentation is included.
Chapter- Nine: (Day: Eight): CORPORATE ETIQUTTEES & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (Work for self satisfaction): How ethics and etiquettes will help a professional to grow in the industries and personal life.
Chapter- Ten: (Day: Nine): E-mail (communicate cent percent)l: How to write mail as an imitator of correspondence and how to write mail while responding. It also includes how to write forwarding mail to companies.
Chapter- Eleven: (Day-Ten): WRITING SKILLS (write succinctly): How to write application letter and other correspondence.
Chapter- Twelve: (Day- Eleven): INTERVIEW OF PLACED CANDIDATES: More than 10 students’ (placed in MNCs) feedback and suggestion is compiled here.