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Quick Facts

Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 17 Feb, 2025

End Date : 14 Mar, 2025

Enrollment Date

Start Date : 17 Feb, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 03 May, 2025

Other

End Date : 24 Feb, 2025

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Palakkad

The Syllabus

Introduction to hiring and jobs
  • Understanding the hiring process
  • How to identify the right sector and company
  • Understanding the economics of labor markets
  • Understanding the tradeoff between salaries, skills and work life balance 
  • The issues with chasing high compensation
Industry, sector and company differences
  • Pros and Cons: Startups vs established companies,Core jobs vs software jobs, stable jobs vs high growth,
  • Why core engineering jobs should be taken more seriously
  • Choosing startups and entrepreneurship careers

Resume preparation
  • Skill identification
  • Customizing resume
  • Recruiter expectations.
  • Tips to a perfect resume
  • Honesty & Integrity in creating resume, why exaggeration and manipulation backfires
Networking
  • Importance of networking
  • Improving Linkedin profile
  • Connecting with industry prospects and how to pitch yourself
  • Using employee referrals & how it works
  • Good and bad practices during networking

Pre-Interview preparation
  • Skill identification
  • STAR interview preparation
  • How to impress HR recruiters
Interview preparation
  • Skill identification
  • STAR interview preparation
  • Best practices & tips to answer screening questions
  • Communication skills
  • Best practices after job offer or rejection by company
  • How to decline offers gracefully

Communication skills and body language
  • How to improve communication skills
  • How to communicate effectively
  • Body language and presentation skills
Post interviews
  • Best practices after job offer or rejection by company
  • How to decline offers gracefully
  • How to handle failure
  • Why early success and failure has little correlation with long term career success
  • The business and people skills that you will need in the future and how to gain them
  •  A better framework to view careers, how to measure career success
  • How to pass your knowledge and legacy forward
Higher studies
  • Higher education from a skill perspective
  • Pros and Cons of MS, PhD, MBA programs
  • Life in academia
  • How you can optimize careers uniquely

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