Employability in India: Dheya gives a solution

1. An operational definition of being employed means having a job, and employable means having the qualities to maintain employment, progress in work place and able to be employed in different work place. From the point of view of the individual, employability skills are the career capital or the learned assets that a person needs to get a job and acquire job specific skills, while on the job. From the point of view of the employers, employability skills are the generic skills, attitudes and behaviours that they require in all their employees. Hence, the employability skills in the point of view of the employer define the requirements to satisfy screening process in the job market.

2. Considering the measures that allow us to check whether a person is employable, there is a general agreement that three types of qualities are important while assessing the employability performance. These are:

a. Key technical and academic skills specific to the job, to great extent academic curriculum prepares the students to gain them. These skills include reading, language/linguistics, and numerical ability, written expression and comprehension and analysis.

b. Process skills: Unlike the key technical and academic skills, process skills need to be demonstrated on the work. These are problem solving ability, creativity, decision making, technological readiness (IT literacy), business understanding, skills that make one employable etc.

c. Life Skills: In addition to the ability to carry out the task, an employer looks for the qualities of self-confidence, communication skills, self-control, self- esteem, social skills, basic values, adaptability, flexibility, willingness to learn, emotional intelligence, stress tolerance, punctuality, efficiency and effectiveness. These qualities are very much embedded with the personality type of the individual.

3. There are either no strategies/actions or limited strategies/actions to address the issue of LIFE SKILLS which has lead to higher rate un-employability. Unfortunately life skill services remain poorly developed and accessible only to very limited numbers of young people in India. Moreover life skill development initiatives have been focused towards the existing work force, those who have left the education system than upon the student population in the education system or the drop-outs.

Dheya give a solution ....

Our objective is to get the un-employable educated rural / tribal youth improve their employability. The lack of self-confidence, self esteem and communicative skills along with certain process skills have been the major drawbacks leading to un-employability. We work with rural / tribal youth and build process skills and life skills to enhance their employability.

The whole process is in a form of a psychological assessment of individual abilities, and behavioural pattern using validated tools to define a capability profile of the individual and assigning a program that would help the individual become employable.

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Failure..nah..nah.. not for me

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.
He even made American Express card commercials because of it! However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.
You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.
Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform..
He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"

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