Skill Set for IT - Fresher's

Perspective
Vijay Reddy
 Agenda

 Career Planning
 Confidence Building
 Time Management
 Job Related Tech Skills
 Interview Preparation
• “If you want to have more, you have to
become more. For things to change, you have
to change. For things to get better, you have to
get better. For things to improve, you have to
improve. If you grow, everything grows for
you.” – Jim Rohn
• Working hard on your job will make you a
living, but working hard on yourself will make
you a fortune
 Confidence
• Confidence is ‘State of Mind’ – not set of rules
•Beliefs
• Mindset – Fixed •VsChallenges
Growth
Fixed •
Effort
Growth •Mistakes
•Feedback
 Time Management
• Process of organizing and planning how to
divide your time between different activities
• Identify your time wasting activities
– Sometimes it’s not what you do, but what
you stop doing
• Prioritization, scheduling, Goal Setting,
Concentration and Focus
• Have breaks in-between
 Journal
• Start Immediately, prior to doing anything else
• Various types or ways
• Maintain 2 at least:
– Personal
– Professional
• Clarity, Positive, Emotional Health, Productive
Priority Matrix
 1. Who am I?
2. What do I want?
What are
What are my Options
my skills,
interests and
Personality

Career Plan
5. How do I 3. How do I
execute plan get there?

4. What is my
plan to reach
my Goal
 PDP
• Understand yourself and you set
meaningful goals
• Define these goals in terms of what you want
to achieve and the steps you need to take to
get there
• Identify gaps in your skills and you create an
action plan to fill them, so that you can move
towards your end goal
 PDP
• Personal SWOT
• Personal PEST
• SMART Goal
• Pareto Principle – 80/20
• Priority Matrix
– Create Prioritized To-Do list
• Create PDP
Personal PEST
 Tech Skills to Succeed

Basic Workplace skills and knowledge

Project Work-related Advanced Planning and Working as

Execution Technical Skills Technical Skills Execution a Team

Interview Preparation
Activities Roadmap

Never Try to boil the Ocean

Tell me and I forget.

Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Activities Roadmap

Employability Skills
Workplace Skills Basic Technical Skills
WP Knowledge

Project

Life Cycle
Theory-to-Practice Advanced Technical Skills
Project
Project

Inception

Elaboration Business Case--->Requirements --> Analysis & Design ---

>Implementation and Testing -->Deployment

Construction

JEE

Frameworks
Advanced Technical Skills
Integration

Java DB OOAD with UML

Programming Language
Project Life Cycle
OOA and OOD
XML Testing Process

Interpersonal Skills
Observes Criticality
Employability Skills
Works in Teams Problem Solving
Workplace Skills
Works within Org's Structure & Workplace Knowledge
Reads & Listens with Culture
Understanding
 Interview

• Finally you acquired skills, what next?

• If your intention is Job, then
– Company Profile
– Job Description
– Resume Preparation
– Mock Interviews
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Thank
you
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