Category: Vocational skills

Common Engineering Obstacles and How to Overcome Them

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The engineering professionals tackles the most pressing issues in the market. They constantly bring new solutions while working under the tight deadlines. Three of the most common obstacles that the engineering professionals faces with the actionable tips to overcome them are mentioned below.

  • Staying Updated

As an engineer, it is important to stay updated on the recent trends. Not following the trends can make an engineer fall behind. Thus, it best to read daily updates related to technology.

  • Lack of Creativity

Engineering requires the professionals to be creative all the time. Sometimes, when professionals are too occupied with the deadlines, they might miss the creativity. For this, it is best to spare some time out of the schedule. A workout away from the work area can be beneficial.

  • Boosting Productivity

Working on tight deadlines sometimes needs the professionals to sit in one position for long hours which might cause stress and body pains. To avoid such situations, it is best recommended to take stretch breaks regularly.

Skill Development and Career Future in CAD Industry

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The world has experienced a huge rise in Information and Technology in the recent past years. The current scenario in the field of science and technology have showcased the power of technology and skills. Being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India needs a more skilled workforce to compete with the world.

A Degree isn’t Enough 

When it comes to technical graduates, there is a countless number of engineers that pass out every year. But these graduates still lack the skills and expertise required by the industry. Engineering graduates undoubtedly have good grades. Still, there is huge talent gap that needs to be filled to make them immediately employable.

Graduates Needs to be Multiple Taskers 

Employers across the industries are always hunting for people that are multiple taskers. This means that graduates need to have more than one skill or even one particular mastered skill. Not only technical skills, but the industry also expects the graduates to have a personality and soft skills to work in the industry.

Need of Skill Development 

With the change in technology, the industry today needs more skilled manpower. For instance, regarding CAD, all the manual work is replaced by computers and drawing pencils are replaced by mouse. Thus, to fulfill the needs of the employers and to make a future in the industry, the youth needs some additional technical training.

Career in CAD Industry 

CAD technology is most widely used technology across industries. Civil, Electrical and Mechanical domains are hiring technical graduates that are well acquainted in CAD and its applications. It is therefore, important for the engineers to learn and master these skills. CAD is one of the lucrative fields in the market that demands highly skilled and compete engineers for the market.

India expects highly skilled man force from the upcoming generation. These expectations can only be met when the engineers are technically trained to work across the industries.

Winning Strategies to Land that Great Engineering Job

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Getting a perfect job is something every professional is looking for. But there are some hurdles you need to take care of before you get hired by the employer. To get the job that fits you perfectly, you need to get through all the structural hurdles to prove your suitability for the desired job. Therefore, it requires a carefully crafted strategy that reflects your strengths for the position sweeping aside all the obstacles.

  1. Crafting the Resume

Preparing a tailor-made resume for the position you are applying for is necessary. Your resume should clearly mention all your skills, experiences, accomplishments, and education that perfectly align to the job posting. It is best to rank and rearrange the job-relevant skills and experience to catch attention from the recruiters.

  1. Passing the Applicant Tracking Software

Most of the engineering firms today use a software tool to filter out a resume for a single job posting. While every tool follows a different set of rules, some guidelines can help you win this game. The primary one is to keep it simple using the standard fonts and avoiding any fancy elements such as colors or pictures. Secondly, format the document clearly and group the relevant information. Also, use clear and common terms to make it readable.

  1. Always Follow-up

This is one of the most overlooked parts of applying for a job. It is best when you go for a follow-up with the recruiters as it denotes an expression of interest from your side. A phone call or a follow-up email sometimes can make them pull your application from the pile.

Apart from the things discussed above, you also need to prepare yourself for face to face meetups. To grab the opportunity, you strive for, research about the company and its goals. It is recommended to use every set of your skills and abilities to maximize your chance of success.

Unconventional courses are the future, traditional streams have hit a low!

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Engineering and MBA have become the main stream of courses that most of the students desire. However, they do not offer the worth as their name suggests. Recently, a survey of MBA and Engineer students, identified that only 7% of the MBA and engineering students are employable. The rest, if placed, earn less than ten thousand per month. These traditional courses have been affected a lot in the global market. The students are greatly discouraged due to such stats.

 

The End of Traditional Courses

A faculty of IIM, Varsha Khander, said “Yes, many streams in engineering, such as Mechanical Electrical, and Chemical have reached a point of stagnation. There are very few jobs in the market, and they are not very exciting. Traditional MBA has also reached its tipping point. There is a clear mismatch in the demand and supply. Students are looking for fresh courses that will rule the job market in the coming years”. Thus, students are shifting from traditional to unconventional courses. “I want to perhaps study Spa Management, let’s see who offers that. Or else, have to move abroad,” says, Vinith Kumar, a student of a Top International.

 

New Unconventional Courses

Some institutions have lately gained awareness for the demand of unconventional subjects. For example, iNurture in Bangalore has partnered with Golden Valley Education Trust and Europe’s Galileo Educational Network to provide new-age global programs to Indian UG and PG students. The programs help the student to pursue global careers such as

  • Sports Management
  • Luxury Management
  • Tourism
  • Hospitality Management
  • Cartography
  • Anthropology
  • Tea Tasting
  • Art Restoration
  • Puppetry
  • Design
  • Digital

MBA degrees in these courses is not only exciting, but they also have a lot of opportunities. They are the youth courses for the new age youth. Dr. T Venkat Vardhan, Founder of DNA Entertainment Networks Pvt Ltd. believe that the future of education is in the hands of such courses. He says, “The vocational, allied and technical disciplines need to be paid attention, and through Golden Valley Education Trust, I am trying to do that.”

 

Keys to Nailing your Engineering Job Interview

Job Interview is the worst nightmare for all the Engineering students. It haunts every student right from the beginning of the final semester. So to help the students and to make them fearless about interviews we have curated a list of interview tips. Read the tips given below to nail your engineering interview.

  • Never miss building a rapport. Create an excellent First Impression with a firm handshake and eye contact with the interviewer. It signifies confidence and professionalism.
  • Acquire all the information about the applied Job position. Learn about the job roles and the key skills required for the same. It will help you navigate the interview.
  • Know your company. Gather maximum information about the company including its product, press release, partners, affiliations, etc. This background research will help you nail the interview.
  •  Be well versed with your CV. The interviewer may ask you anything from your CV, so make sure every information present in the CV is justifiable.
  • Never miss the fundamental learning. Interviewers usually ask questions from the engineering basics. Make sure you are well acquainted with the fundamentals.
  • Don’t hesitate to talk. Communication skill is an important parameter for evaluation in a job interview. So keep the conversation alive with sensible discussions.
  • Always ask questions. It will give an impression of vigilance.

 

All the engineering students and graduates must follow these key tips to nail their upcoming job interviews.

 

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Need for Technical and Vocational Skill Development in Africa

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The term Technical and Vocational skills Development follow the 1997 UNESCO International Standard Classification of Education definition, which is education and training to “acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation, trade or group of occupations or trades.” Africa has roughly 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 that are required to be trained to develop skills so that they are either employable or can start their own enterprises. In order to train and modernize their technical labour pool for rapid industrialization and national development, African countries need to embrace Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The skills shortage is a priority that the Africa’s leadership in various sectors will need to address urgently, otherwise the country would be forced to ease restrictions for foreign workers to be able to meet the human resource requirements. Education and skills can open doors for economically and socially rewarding jobs and can seek growth for small-scale unofficial enterprise. The development of job-related skills therefore, should be a part of Africa’s human resource strategies and its poverty-reduction strategies.

 

Characteristics of Technical and Vocational skills Development systems:

TVET delivery systems are placed to train the skilled and efficient entrepreneurs that Africa needs to create wealth and thus emerge out of poverty. It can respond, not only to the requirements of different types of industries, but also caters to the needs of the learners from different sections of the society, and prepare them for a meaningful and supportable life while giving them employment.

 

The Impact of Technical and Vocational Training in Africa at present:

With the turn of the century, a fresh awareness of the analytical role played by TVET in economic growth and national development has been perceived by policy makers in many African countries and within the international contributing community. In its poverty reduction strategy document, Cameroon for example intends to develop vocational and professional training to promote union into the labour market; Cote d’Ivoire talks about strengthening vocational training; Ghana has associated vocational education and training with education of the youth and the development of technical and business management skills; Lesotho and Rwanda focus on linking TVET to businesses while Malawi emphasizes that it is required to promote self-employment through skills development. Other countries that have prioritized TVET initiatives in their national development policy documents including Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. Below is a graph showing the decrease in unemployment rate from January, 2014 to January,2015 from the data collected by Federal Reserve Bank.

The Education minister of Rwanda in Africa, Musafiri stated that expanding the training for technical and vocational skills development will bring innovative solutions to various challenges in the country which is its top priority requirement. The growing youth population of Africa comes with high energy, creativity and talents and the time has come to be able to utilize it by the development of their technical and vocational skills.