Taking Charge
Taking Charge: Soft Skills to get you the job of your dreams
Competition for good jobs is fierce – last year Infosys received over 15 lakh applications and offered jobs to about 15,000 candidates. A similar pattern is seen for all the major blue chip companies. Out of every 100 applicants for a good job only 1 gets selected. HR experts feel that students are totally unprepared on how to find a good job – from their job search, to resumes, interview behavior, communications skills and overall personality.
Young people in India who enter the workforce need a lot of guidance if they are to be successful in getting their first job. They need to be guided on how to ‘package themselves’, prepare their resumes, undertake a job search, ace the interview, and do well in their first job. These are skills that are not covered well in the normal curriculum.
Lotus Learning has developed a Course called Taking Charge: How to get the Job of your dreams to fill this need. Lotus Learning is a company with a proven track record of training over 1 lakh people to start a new career and make their dreams come true.
Taking Charge is targeted at young people who are either in the job market, or about to enter the race for a job. It will be offered as an individual self study program on a one to one basis, or as part of the Curriculum for colleges, and technical training institutions.
Taking Charge gives the student essential Life Skills that are not typically part of a College Curriculum.
The skills cover the following areas:
- Job Search
- Goal Setting
- Time Management
- Money Management and
- Success Strategies
These skills will also help in overall Personality Development.
he Course consists of 8 Workbooks, and 8 Audio CDs that are a guide to the workbooks. The Workbooks and Audio Guide work together. The Audio Guide explains each page, and guides the student on doing the Activity. There will be no need for any teaching to conduct the Course since the Audio Guide will fulfil that function.
Taking Charge contains 144 activities. There are no lectures or theory. It is a practical, hands-on course that keeps the student fully involved. By doing all the activities, the student is able to internalize what has been learned.
The purpose of the Course is to help students leaving college get the job of their dreams. It also imparts many soft skills they will find very useful later on in life.
