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DIPALI AWASEKAR 

STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

SOFT SKILLS
This piece of writing discusses the significance of students’ participation in Personality Development Program to encourage student equip themselves with an investigative attitude that make them find their own way to gain an in-depth knowledge of Personality Development and soft SkillsSoft Skills.

KEY ATTRIBUTES TO SUCCESS
Enabling students to have an effective communication and interpersonal skills, so that they can be better value, understand, engage with and respond to the needs of various stakeholders’ preferences.

With the changing educational trends, versatility in educational courses, availability of masses of qualified personnel, the competition for job acquisition and job sustainability is becoming more and tougher. To get an edge over the competitors, students are left with no choice but to add values to their hard skills with soft skills to exhibit their true potential. Hard skills are academic skills, experience and level of expertise while soft skills are self-developed, interactive, communication, human and transferable skills.Literature suggests that hard skills contribute to only 15% of one’s success while remaining 85% is made by soft skills. Most employers these days want to hire, retain and promote persons who are dependable, resourceful, and self directed, having effective communication, willing to work and learn and having positive attitude. With the onset of economic liberalization, the Indian market is also becoming global, so the attributes of soft skills are to be imbibed by Indian youth to show their real potential at intra and international levels.

As the economic conditions have drastically hampered the market in always, jobs have become scare. This tells us that the job market is now inundated with many talented individuals who are competing for jobs at a time when fewer jobs are available even to the very talented. And just like companies try to become more competitive in their markets, we as individuals must make ourselves more competitive in the labor market. Individuals to open up more job opportunities for themselves can use some of the marketing strategies that organizations utilize to position themselves.

Self Analysis is one of those strategies. I put forward some suggestions for making aboveinitiatives more effective for developing students fully equipped with relevant soft skills by Personality Development. Self Analysis involves that we identify the following traits:

IDENTIFY YOUR SPECIAL SKILLS
By asking yourself, "What special skills do I bring to the market that no other candidate may bring?" These skills might include the ability to work and manage virtual teams, work across cultures, or lead and motivate a team of individuals under pressure.

IDENTIFY YOUR PERSONALITY
It’s very important the way people see you and which terms best describe your personality. These personality attributes need to be related to your skills and the position you are looking for. Examples of distinct personality attributes are being a high achiever and having a tolerance for frustration.

IDENTIFY YOUR BENIFIT
You need to think in terms of cost benefit. What would a company gain, achieve, avoid, and/or increase if it hired you?

Think about: What resources would you have to identify and utilize to notify others that you are in the job market? For example, it might mean joining professional online networks.

Are there any skills/certifications you need? You can only identify this if you understand your key differentiators before you become an active job seeker. For example, you might have to become certified in business coaching if you are applying for a position in human resources.

If you have considered changing careers, do you need to revise your values/priorities to identify a new career that is compatible with those values/priorities? And what steps do you need to take in order to change careers?

Difficult times are opportunities for growth, for making us more resilient, and for uncovering and developing skills and abilities that we did not have time to develop before. So, take advantage of these turbulent job environments and become stronger in your own profession. Sometimes it takes getting us out of our comfort zones to discover that there is always something new to learn about ourselves.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."

CLOSING THOUGHT
REMEMBER: “A LIFE WITHOUT SELF-CONFIDENCE ISN’T A LIFE!”