SELF-ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES: A STEP TOWARDS CAREER GOAL

Self-assessment, the process of evaluating individual strength, weakness and nature of personal capacities among the youth, especially graduating student is very important and it plays a greater role in both their career aspirations fulfilment and in leading a comfortable life in future. Engineering is considered to most prestigious and high rewarding job across the globe many of engineering’s passing- out with good academic track records exhibit in competent in both hard and soft skills. Finding imbalance between these two elements act as an hinderance for them in acquiring more promising job by the engineering graduates. Bridging the gap between employability and unemployment is possible through self-assessment through strengthening individual job skills. It is the need of the hour to understand the need for self-assessing individual’s employable skills to make one self-more suitable to the current job market requirement i.e., by building correlation between individual skills and the nature live hood they would expect to have. KEY WORDS: Self-Assessment, Employability, Job Skills