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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