Month: December 2014

A national study on employability aptitude of engineering college students, conducted recently by CoCubes, a HR assessment company, found that only 14% of male students and 11% of female students of private engineering colleges are ready for employment in corporate sector.

In contrast, about 70% of the students of Indian Institutes of Technology and about 55% of other government engineering colleges were found to be fit for employment. The study is based on a sample size of one lakh students across India. The students were asked to participate in a mock employability aptitude test and the company evaluated their quantitative, reasoning/analytical, and verbal skills to determine their employability.

Simply put aptitude is the ability of students to solve problems. A typical recruiting process starts with a filtering mechanism – companies set percentage of pass marks students have obtained in schools and colleges. The qualifying students are then tested for their aptitude, which determines the employability of students to a very large extent. This means that students who are employable are strong in these three domains.

The quantitative skills are related to arithmetic and geometry. Students need to have a good knowledge in ratios and averages, simple and compound interests, profit and loses, percentages, number systems, time and speed, trigonometry and geometry. The students are expected to have clarity and regular practice of exercises based on these concepts.

The reasoning part covers a student’s thinking capability to solve real life problems, finding relationships between people, forms and shapes and ideas, coding and decoding of words and numbers, determining data sufficiency. The reasoning skills exercise student’s brain cells by offering statement and conclusion, visual reasoning and pattern finding tasks.

Verbal skill is largely about evaluating students from the perspective of the fine art of understanding what we read. Students are required to understand the main idea of a passage , how to make an inference, and to find author’s purpose of writing, and so on.

CoCubes recommends students who would like to improve their employability aptitude to clearly understand various problem solving concepts taught in their schools and colleges and regularly practice them.

If you thought that CADD Centre is meant for training in engineering software, think again. With its Student Entrepreneur scheme, this Asia’s largest CAD training institute, is offering an irresistible opportunity for its students to become entrepreneurs and run their own CADD Centre franchises in the location of their choice.

A  winner of best franchisor award from Franchise India several times, CADD Centre functions as an informal business school, teaching its student franchisees how to run a CAD training centre profitably. A large number of its existing franchise centres totaling about 500 today and spread over 20 countries are being run by its alumni.

The first choice of students, after completing a professional course could be a MNC job. But there are many students who are interested to be on their own. Student Entrepreneur scheme is designed to help such enterprising students to make it big as entrepreneurs and job providers.

CADD Centre hand holds student entrepreneurs in all aspects of business management – right from marketing to setting up team to managing logistics to counselling students and yes, to delivering courses adhering to world class standards. While students invest in setting up the infrastructure and the team, CADD Centre will offer its support and Rs 50,000 worth of marketing communication materials for free.

CADD Centre is keen to provide the opportunity of entrepreneurship for as many students as possible. The advantages of beginning the journey of entrepreneurship with CADD Centre network are many: The franchise model of CADD Centre is a proven one. The success rate of CADD Centre franchise is over 95%. This means students are taking only calculated risk. The franchisees enjoy complete freedom and autonomy in managing their centres. CADD Centre is a global network. It is the authorized training partner of many global software companies like Bentley. Hence CADD Centre is trusted by students and professionals across the country and the world for their training needs.

We at CADD Centre believe that every student can be job provider – that too in their own field of engineering, while having the satisfaction of making engineering students employable and engineering professionals’ productivity. If you think you are cut out for entrepreneurship, do not think twice. Make use of CADD Centre’s Student Entrepreneur scheme today. For more details, visit www.caddcentre.com.