Jalandhar: In order to facilitate active placement support to all the students going to be graduated in the year 2012, Lovely Professional University has arranged a training programme on Interview Skills. Under this, students will learn Effective communication skills, Public speaking, Presentation skills, International language for business and work place, Industry awareness, Preparing an effective resume, How to impress interview panel, Telephonic Interview, Mock interview sessions, Group discussions and so on. Well-versed trainers from across India have been hired to train near about six thousand students of the University. It has been devised under two sessions during the months of May-June and July-August.

In this Context, talking to Media, the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ashok Mittal said: “Now-a days, the expectations of the Industry have increased tremendously. It weighs presentation, communication and so many other skills in soft areas more than mere knowledge accumulations. It wants it’s would be employees to be perfect in all the skills.” He added: “Though throughout the year, students are provided with special personality development programmes, yet we thought that the students should begin with the new session alive, under special training towards the process of career advancement.” Further adding, he informed: “We are preparing our students for the next phase of their life and In this regard, a comprehensive placement policy has been framed keeping in mind the aspirations of the students and their parents on one hand and the expectations of the industry on the other.”

The Courses under the training, termed as ‘Professional Enhancement Programme (PeP)’, will mainly cover Career Focus, Soft Skills Enhancement, Inter-Personnel Skill Enhancement, Job Seeking Strategies, Aptitude Tests Preparation etc. These will cover almost all the descriptive trainings related to Industry oriented interviews. One of the trainers mentioned that the whole programme is designed and structured for Management, IT, Finance, Telecom etc so that the training may not remain confined to one sector only. Innovative techniques of team role playing are being adopted to simplify the process of training. Feed backs are taken from the students themselves on the plays, antics, body-language, communicating-delivery, behavior etc. Later on, the shortcomings are rectified by the trainers for well understanding and absorption of the trainees. Based on their performance in PeP, students are also provided with a score to benchmark their skills. She also appreciated the efforts of the University, for according as many students as possible, an opportunity to take several courses at one location.

A few of the students Nikhil Oberoi, Hina, Naina, Puneet, Sourav Jindal, Ragini said: “We are learning a lot in this special training programme. Team role playing is an excellent exercise. It is an easy training for analyzing problems from various perspectives. Through it we can try various solutions in a case scenario, develop team-work, co-operation and creative problem solving in groups.” A few others said: “We know very well that our University is always on more and more of work for the suitable placements of its students. It is evident to us all that more than 300 MNCs and other renowned companies have visited our campus for recruitment; and, more than 6000 students have already been placed. Soon, we too are going to prove ourselves as the luckiest and successful after attending these sessions of special skills.”

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