Industrial Placement and Employability

My industrial placement experience and the role it played in improving my employability
rating.
Introduction
As it stands, the world has become increasingly dynamic. In order to keep up with the ever-
changing technological space, one has to get equipped with knowledge, skills, and experiences
relevant to his/her particular profession. There is a need for people to keep up to date their skills
and knowledge so as to maintain their professional space. As much as academic qualifications
are important, it is also essential to accumulate relevant experience in a particular profession.
Academic qualification when wrapped together with experience and devotion to work builds
competence in an individual. It is often said that continuous practice brings perfection.
Competence, in its part, is the key element which employers look for in employees today. This
need is emphasized in the fact that people today get employed not for the knowledge they have,
but for what they do with the knowledge.
The specific attributes that employers look for in an employee are diverse depending on the job
requirements. In this assignment, only three specific aspects will be discussed alongside the
relevance of the industrial placement in competence building.
Employability skills improvement and relevance of industrial placement in its achievement.
The importance of my stint at the JB Steel India LTD where I undertook my industrial placement
cannot be underestimated. While I was there, I got to learn most of the thing that employers
require from employees. I am a better professional now, thanks to them.
Communication is a vital component in day to day operations of any organizations. It is the
engine that drives the operations of any firm. Research shows that 70-80 percent of the time in
work places are spent on communication (Worth, 2004). For anyone to improve his
employability ratings, he has to cultivate good communication skills. Communication can either
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