Skill Letts
VIEWS , VOICE & WAYS OF SKILLS
An in house journal of Additional Skill Acquisition Programme
PLACEMENT DRIVE : Out come of skilling process is that students acquire employable skills leading to employment . Thiruvananthapuram Team has always accorded high priority for student development including their placement . Engaging students in skill competitions and providing them grooming sessions are part of this commitment . Success stories are numerous but few are worth mentioning .
“ I would have become a coolie or a driver , if there was no ASAP in my life . ASAP was a God-sent messiah for me . I am ever indebted to ASAP and will continue to follow the values that ASAP had instilled in me .”
Shameer was a student of Govt HSS Poovachal . His father is a coolie and mother a homemaker and the family struggles hard to make both ends meet . He was not a studious student and had no plans to join for a degree programme as he wanted to support his family . He was planning to follow the footsteps of his father when ASAP intervened in his life . After getting selection he chose Plumbing as his skill course . Successful completion of internship helped him to get selected as a technician in CERA during the ASAP Placement drive . He now earns close to Rs 20,000 and other benefits and has already drawn a road map for the next 10 years . “ I wouldn ’ t have got all these opportunity if I had not joined ASAP , ASAP is a blessing for me ”. As any teenage gir , Anjali of GHSS Neduveli , also dreamt of good education and comfortable life . But the poor family of five struggled hard to live with the daily wage income of her father . Anjali badly needed employability skills to become job ready and to start earning to support her family . She completed the ASAP Front Office Operation Skill course under Hospitality Sector and participated in the ASAP Placement drive . Happiness knew no bounds when Glue Tech Technologies offered her a position as Customer Relation Executive
Anjali outperformed in her work and is the STAR performer in the organisation . The company encouraged and supported her to join for distance education for further studies . Salary increment and incentives were showered followed her as result of achievements . Also she got promoted to the post of Senior Customer Relation Executive .
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