1. Ensuring employability Prepared for Sharda University www.quabal.com

2.  Employability has 2 parts:  Getting a job ▪ Selection process: Aptitude test, group discussion, interview process  Growing in a job ▪ Working in teams, dealing with managers, peers, subordinates in a corporate work environment A

3.  Employability has 2 parts:  Getting a job ▪ Selection process: Aptitude test, group discussion, interview process  Growing in a job ▪ Working in teams, dealing with managers, peers, subordinates in a corporate work environment  Typical College curriculum lends focus on technical growth, but employability criteria take a backseat A

4.  Employability has 2 parts:  Getting a job  Growing in a job  Typical College curriculum lends focus on technical growth, but employability criteria take a backseat  Job-Ready: An innovative program by IIM A alumni  Aptitude  Attitude  Communication

5.  Aptitude  Aptitude based Maths,  Aptitude based English  Logical & Critical Reasoning  Aptitude  Aptitude based Maths,  Aptitude based English  Logical & Critical Reasoning  Communication  Spoken, Written  Reading, Listening  Communication  Spoken, Written  Reading, Listening  Attitude  Group tasks  Behavioural Games  Team building exercises  Attitude  Group tasks  Behavioural Games  Team building exercises

6.  Each module broken into 3 stages – Following IIMA case based methodology  Pre-session work  Session  Post-session work  Time awareness techniques  Learning by doing  Capitalization learning v/s Compensation learning  desirable learning + overcoming difficulties

7.  Analogical Reasoning  Deductive Logic  Complex relations  Direction Understanding  Reasoning Puzzles, Theme/ Pattern Recognition  Game based  Assignment questions  Puzzles  Solution strategies: ball-parking, internalize learnings 89 x 91 = ?  recall a 2 –b 2  Test-taking strategies: Elimination, smart guess work, Substitution, plug-in, +ve/ -ve, odd/ even etc

8.  Pre-workshop and Post-workshop Test  Assessment Metrics  Accuracy metric: % right answers  Speed metric: % questions attempted  Overall: Shift in score Each metric calculated on a class average basis

9.  Cover complete curriculum for aptitude based entrance tests for placements  Concepts + skills development for communication  Mock GD’s & PI’s + Individual Feedback by Industry panelists  Periodic practice tests to gauge progress

10.  24 sessions: 3 hours each (2 sessions/ day)  1-2 days a week  Facebook group for continuous learning ProgramFees Job ReadyINR 2,500 per student100 students

11.  Over 10 years of career development experience  Lead Faculty  Engineering from McMaster University, Canada  MBA from IIM Ahmedabad  Past experience ▪ VP in Retail Consulting ▪ Investment Banker at Merrill Lynch, London ▪ Project Leader at TCS

12.  Anish Passi  98 99 29 6345  anish.passi@gmail.com