Introduction to Project Yuva

1. Skills Development Workshops For Students
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Rohit Kuttappan
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2. Mission
• Ensuring youth employability......combining unique
value proposition with natural talents & professional
skills + Enabling skills, knowledge and enterprising
attitudes to meet the challenges in the 21st century.
Vision
• Empowering and catalyzing youth onwards to
a fulfilling and promising future.
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3. Project YuvA
• Project Yuva is a Career Counseling and Mentoring Service which aims to
build a strong and vibrant India that tomorrow's youth can be proud of today.
• Students getting a good start toward their desired career is a sign of true
potential being achieved. We are dedicated to help and assist graduate
students entering the workforce face the challenges that will come their way
– Skill Development
– Personal Finance
– Developing a resume
– Writing a great cover letter
– Searching for an internship
– Searching for a job
– Developing network and professional contacts
– Learning how to interview
– On job mentoring
– Career Development
– Goal Setting
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4. What Employers Want
• Today employers are looking for people who
can lead a team, someone who can get a small
team motivated and a person who can quickly
learn which people are best at doing what.
• Many Employers chose to hire skills rather
than people.
• Soft skills such as public speaking,
communication, interpersonal skills, and
ethics are just as important as hard skills.
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5. Why
• Skill Gap is a global phenomenon
• War for talent
• Soft and behavioral skills like Problem solving,
Decision making, Assertiveness, Conflict
resolution, Email Writing, etc compliment
hard skills thereby enhancing employability
and career success.
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6. Core Life Skills
• Self confidence
• Respecting self and others
• Interpersonal skills (empathy, compassion)
• Managing emotions
• Personal responsibility (including dependability, integrity, and work ethics)
• Positive attitude and self-motivation
• Conflict management
• Teamwork
• Communication (listening, verbal, and written)
• Cooperation and teamwork
• Creative thinking
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Decision making
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7. Workplace Preparedness
Life Skills for Job-Seekers
• Planning and organizational skills (including
time and financial management)
• Career assessment skills
• Psychometric testing
• Job-searching skills
• CV and cover letter writing skills
• Interview skills
• Image/appearance
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8. Life Skills for Employed Youth
Workplace behavior and protocols
• Planning and organizational skills (including
time and financial management)
• Customer-relations skills
• Research skills
• Financial literacy
• Personal leadership
• Workplace rights and responsibilities
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9. Life Skills for Potential
Entrepreneurs
• Business plan development
• Personal leadership
• Management skills (including employee,
supplier, and program management)
• Risk-taking
• Coping with failure
• Market research skills
• Financial management

10. What You Will Learn
Self Reliance Cycle
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11. With the result of …
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12. Chose Career Based On Interests and
Skills
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13. Resumes, Cover Letters, Applications,
Thank You Letters
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14. Career Development
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