Category: Careers

Engineering includes a wide area of opportunities and specialties; we have selected a few and provided the details about the nature of work involved to give an idea to the upcoming professionals and have an insight to the employment trends and possible career advancement opportunities.

Aerospace Engineer – Aerospace engineering is the study of the design, development, and production of air and spacecraft. It is branched out between those who pursue careers on the aeronautical side and those working on a space craft. Both these vehicles contain complex subsystems that require specialists from many engineering groups such as electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering.

Agricultural Engineer – Agricultural engineering is also known as biological engineering covering a wide range of areas like, aquaculture to land farming and forestry. They also develop biofuels, plan animal environments, and discover better food processing methods.

Automotive Engineer – Automotive engineering is one of the most exciting, challenging and rewarding careers. They research, design and develop vehicles and their subsystems.

Biomedical Engineer – Biomedical engineers work with a combination of biology, medicine and engineering to improve the services in patient care. They are the professionals behind sophisticated medical equipment like MRIs and microscopic surgical machines; they are also responsible for research and development of medical innovations like artificial organs and prosthesis.

Chemical Engineer – Chemical engineers make use of their knowledge of the physical world to handle the interactions of individual atoms and molecules. Their talents are generally employed in the research and development of new materials and are critical to numerous fields including nanotechnology, energy storage, and computing.

Civil Engineer – Civil engineers focus on road, bridge, buildings and water supply system design and construction and supervise and direct construction teams and work with other engineers. These professionals ensure to build a structure which is environmentally protected to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes.

Computer Engineer – Computer Engineers develop and improve the software and hardware programs that make computers operate, like the operating system software, Windows and Linux, to individual computer programs, such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office, Software Engineers turn heaps of hardware into fully well-designed computers. Hardware Engineers develop the hardware of computers, like the motherboards, graphics and audio cards and drives that are later programmed by the Software Engineers.

Drafting and Design Engineer – Drafting and Design Engineering is one of the exciting career options that allows the engineer to be involved in every stage of the design process, from commencement to demonstration of the finished plans. It also demands a working knowledge of drafting and design principles, material types and properties, and manufacturing processes.

Electrical Engineer – An electrical engineer specializes in power supply and generation and designs, develops, tests and supervises electrical equipment manufacturing. They also get trained to handle responsibilities like wiring and lighting installations in buildings, automobiles and aircraft.

Environmental Engineer – Environmental engineers use science and engineering principles to protect and improve the environment for example, the quality of air, water, and soil etc. They find out solutions to water-borne diseases, wastewater management, and air pollution and provide improvised solutions to recycling, waste disposal, and industrial hygiene.

Mechanical Engineer – Mechanical engineering involves the study of motion, energy and force and the ways to control these elements by using a combination of material, human and economic resources by developing mechanical solutions

Petroleum Engineer –

Petroleum engineers specialize in designing and developing technology and methods for digging the earth’s surface to extract oil and gas. They are also responsible to find the means to obtain them from the ground.

GENERAL SKILLS THAT EVERY

ENGINEER MUST POSSESS

1. Skills in IT – General IT skills are an important asset for any career opportunity and every institution inculcates these within their courses. Every engineer works with specialist software, such as CAD/CAM/CAE packages.
2.  Skills in communication – An engineer should definitely be able to communicate effectively within the team, his superiors and the customer too. Initiating group activities and encouraging more involvement with the team can enhance the communication skills.
3.  Skills in Mathematics – Mathematical skills are vital to engineering not only for the job, but also for the regular calculations and general problem solving.
4.  Skills in Organization and time management – Engineering courses are usually very rigorous and are likely to include big projects that requires effective time management and proper organization of tasks at hand.

Problem solving – Engineering is all about finding solutions to problems which require certain basic tact listed her

Problem solving

Engineering is all about finding solutions to problems which require certain basic tact listed below:

• Be specific:Any problem at hand should be specifically identified first to provide a complete and easy solution.
• Break it down:Whenever surrounded by a problem, try to simplify by breaking it down to smaller divisions to ease out the solution providing method.
• Convey it to someone:Talking the problem over with someone can bring in better solutions and options rather than breaking one’s own head in solitude.

India is on the verge of witnessing a sustained growth in infrastructure build up. The construction industry has been witnessing a strong growth wave powered by huge expenses on housing, road, ports, water supply, and rail transport and airport development. While the construction sector’s growth has fallen as compared to the pre-2008 period, it has picked up in the recent past. Its share as a percentage of GDP has increased considerably as compared to the last decade. To put things in perspective, the total investment in infrastructure – which in this case also includes roads, railways, ports, airports, electricity, telecommunications, oil gas pipelines and irrigation – is estimated to have increased from 5.7% of GDP in 2007 to around 8.0% by 2012.

The Planning Commission of India has proposed an investment of around US$ 1 trillion in the Twelfth five-year plan (2012-2017), which is double of that in the Eleventh five-year plan. The construction sector is a major employment driver, being the second largest employer in the country, next only to agriculture. This is because of the chain of backward and forward linkages that the sector has with other sectors of the economy. About 250 ancillary industries such as cement, steel, brick, and timber and building material are dependent on the construction industry. A unit increase in expenditure in this sector has a multiplier effect and the capacity to generate income as high as five times.

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Employability skills are essential for getting, maintaining and excelling in any profession.

These skills and attitude help employees to move effectively and maintain a friendly relation within the organization while making critical decisions, solving problems, developing respect and eventually becoming strong ambassadors for the organization.

Employability is the foundation of a career building block and they are recurrently found lacking in most of the professionals. Subsequently companies have to spend a lot of time and money to improve their basic skills. During times of high recession and competition employers prefer candidates with well-rounded employability skills.

Our educational qualifications and professional experiences will provide eligibility to apply for a job but to be successful in the position and place we must possess a mix of skills which is ’employability skills’ which means that the specific capabilities, technical skills associated with different roles and positions are important at their own place but employability skills are the most crucial for any job or position.

An organization’s progress depends on its employees who have been identified for their right skills and qualities for their specific roles accordingly. The applicants might have the qualifications and ‘hard skills’ required in managing the role but without a well-honed set of ‘soft skills’ and ‘interpersonal skills’ they would not be able to do justice to the position. Interpersonal skills are the skills used to interact with people; they allow you to take part effectively as a member of a team, gratify customers and clients’ anticipations, negotiate, make decisions and manage efficiently to build a better working environment which can be less stressful.

The Employability Skill Development Program (ESDP) at the Synergy school of business instructs one with the required skills to gain a competitive edge in any job market. This program, with an importance on hands on training, makes use of techniques like role play, business communication, and team leadership. It aims for an overall development of the participants and seeks to provide a deeper understanding of various aspects of human relations, social awareness, presentation of self, working with a team while learning to negotiate and manage conflicts while at the same time encouraging independent thinking and decision making.

Enhancing communication skills and overcoming barriers in communication forms an important part of this program. The course also focuses on personal traits like body language, pronunciation and self-confidence, it is designed to encourage the candidate to focus on personal developmental goals, understand the significance of information mapping and thereby excel in interviews and group discussions.

They use the ‘role play’ technique in the program which helps participants understand the challenges of teamwork, barriers in communication as well as the confidence issues that go hand in hand with team presentation and public speaking. Individuals looking for personal and professional growth, enhanced career opportunities and improved personal relationships can join this program. It is relevant to even a fresher from all streams as well as those from different age groups. For further details please go through our website.

http://www.synergysbs.co.in/employability_skill_development.php

Skill is a learned ability of a person to carry out a job and produce a desired result using a reasonable time and energy. Every job demands a skill. There are domain general skills and domain specific skills. The first one are skills that are common for all jobs.

Domain General Skills

The US Department of Labor has listed about 16 such basic skills. They are: ability to learn, reading competence, writing competence, computation competence, listening, oral communication, creative thinking, problem solving, ability to maintain self esteem, goal setting, planning for career development, interpersonal skills, negotiation skills, team working capability, influence, leadership.

It is important for us to know that some of the skills are imbibed at a very young age or may come inborn, many skills are learned and acquired with practice. This is especially true for domain specific skills.

Domain Specific Skills

The National Skill Development Council (NSDC) has standardized about 850 job roles, defining the skills required to perform those jobs. If you take the retail sector, about 80% of jobs are created in the following four jobs: operations assistant, cashier, sales associate, and trainee associate.

According to the National Occupational Standards (NOS) of the NSDC, each of these retail job has to be performed with certain skills. With the job description of Cashier is to “service and process all customer transactions through various tenders as per accounting principles”, the person is expected to be strong in few domain skills such as basic accounting.

Self Learning

Though there are standards for job roles. Practically not all work culture and places are common. There could be a variety of challenges that employees may face. Depending on the need to respond to the job needs, employees should take the responsibility of mapping his or her occupation and do a functional analysis – that is activities that have to be performed and the expected outcomes.

It is always a good practice to create a checklist to measure your own performance and constantly develop new skills and enhance existing skills. This will lead to career progression.