Placements

CMR Life Skills Institute, the training arm of the CMR Group will be organizing on-line training programs to improve the employability quotient of the students in the following areas, which will be part of their academic curriculum

 1. Communication Skills – All the four areas of communication, namely LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing), will be addressed.

1. Cambridge University books and materials will be followed

2. Students will be administered an on-line test to determine their present proficiency level in the English language, and training will be conducted at the appropriate level to bring them up to B1-B2 levels of  CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference for languages.

 2. Aptitude Skills – Students will be trained on about 50 topics in the following areas, on which companies test the students’ skills during recruitment. This is most often the first hurdle that students have to cross in the placement process

1. Quantitative Aptitude

2. Logical Reasoning

3. Verbal Ability

 3. Soft Skills – Corporates look for these skills among freshers, so that they would be able to smoothly blend with the existing teams which they would become part of, once they are taken on board by the companies. The importance given to these skills is even higher than what is given to domain knowledge, since soft skills take time to learn and imbibe, while it is much easier to learn hard skills on the job.

These skills include:

1. Self-Awareness

2. Time Management

3. Goal Setting

4. Positive Attitude

5. Interpersonal Skills

6. Body Language

7. Presentation Skills

 4. Finishing School Skills – Students polish off their personality in the penultimate semester, when they are trained in the following areas to help in their transition from the academic to the corporate / business world.

These include:

1. Know your etiquette

2. How to look your best through grooming and power dressing

3. How to write an impressive Resume

4. Do’s and don’ts while participating in a Group Discussion

5. Breezing through a Personal Interview with confidence

 5. Practice Tests and Mock GD & PI Rounds – Students get to attempt a series of practice tests in Aptitude to improve their accuracy in solving and improving their speed, as these tests come with a time constraint.

1. Students are encouraged to attempt as many tests as possible on-line, which are grouped into three categories:

• Topic specific tests

• Full length tests

• Company specific mock tests

1. Students are also taken through mock rounds of placements – Where they submit their Resumes, attend mock Group Discussions and Personal Interviews. Results are declared and the students are given feedback on areas where they need to improve their skills.