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About

The development of skills, employment, and good personality among the students of the nation is the main responsibility of the government and the medium of education is a major deciding factor in achieving this goal. With this objective in mind, the Finishing School Training Initiative was launched in the year 2016 by the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, the Department of Education, and the Government of Gujarat. The objective of the Finishing School Training is to impart soft skills training and spoken English training to the students of Gujarat State and increase their employability. For this, Empanel trainers have been appointed who train students in a total of 371 colleges of Gujarat state.

Purpose of Initiative

  • Finishing School Training aims at empowering students with various Skill sets in addition to Knowledge that makes them Industry ready. Finishing School Trainers enable students to hone their Life Skills, Employability Skills, Functional and Spoken English Skills so as to carve a niche in the competitive and dynamic world.
  • Finishing school training is given to final year students studying in college. Finishing school training is also given to postgraduate students from the year 2019-20.
  • So far, there are 85 trainers for Life Skills and Employment Skills components, and 37 English Component trainers who have national/international certification and corporate experience have been impaneled by KCG.
    • A total of 80 hours of training is given to the students under finishing school. which have been divided into a total of 4 components.

Vision

·       To prepare Graduating students of Gujarat for better employability, Industry readiness, and a prosperous career through appropriate training interventions. The vision goes a step further beyond Gujarat to spread the progressive initiative of Finishing School throughout India.

Mission

  • ·        The Mission of Finishing School initiative is to train the young minds such that they emerge as polished diamonds in their respective fields and to prepare them for the corporate world by enhancing their Leadership and Employability Skills.
  • ·        The Finishing School Initiative aims at creating an India where no Youth is left behind when it comes to seeking employment just due to skill gaps. Thus, we take a step towards creating trained Industry ready youth and they take a step towards creating a better nation and a brighter future.

Plan

Finishing School Training aims at empowering students with various Skill sets in addition to Knowledge that make them Industry ready. Finishing School Trainers enable students to hone their Life Skills, Employability Skills, Functional and Spoken English Skills so as to carve a niche in the competitive and dynamic world.

The components which help to students to survive in this competitive environment are shown in tables:

Set-A

Life employability skills                                                                    Hours of Sessions

Self-awareness SWOT                                                                                    2 Hours

Self-esteem and self confidence                                                                     2 Hours

Life and professional goal setting                                                                  2 Hours

Grooming personal hygiene and body language                                            2 Hours

Resume writing and cover letter                                                                     2 Hours

Job searches and career options                                                                      2 Hours

Group discussion                                                                                            2 Hours

Interview skills                                                                                                2 Hours

Interview skills and Empathy                                                                         2 Hours

Interpersonal skills                                                                                          2 Hours

Total Hours                                                                                                    20 Hour

 

 Set-B

Functional English skills                                                                              Hours of session

Self-introduction and introducing others                                                                    2 Hours

Nouns and Pronouns                                                                                                   2 Hours

Describing words                                                                                                        2 Hours

Vocabulary building                                                                                                   2 Hours

Verbs part 1                                                                                                                2 Hours

Tenses part 1                                                                                                               2 Hours

Prepositions                                                                                                                2 Hours

Conjunctions and Connectors                                                                                     2 Hours

Framing is right                                                                                                          2 Hours

Telephone and E-mail etiquette                                                                                  2 Hours

Total Hours                                                                                                                20 Hours

 

Set-C

Life employability skills                                                                    Hours of session

Team work                                                                                                      2 Hours

Leadership skills                                                                                             2 Hours

Problem Solving                                                                                             2 Hours

Crisis management and professional ethics                                                         2 Hours

 Positive attitude and motivation                                                                        2 Hours

Presentational skills and meeting etiquettes                                                   2 Hours

Time management                                                                                          2 Hours

Self-discipline and emotional intelligence                                                      2 Hours

Stress and anger management                                                                         2 Hours

Social media and cyber etiquettes                                                                  2 Hours

Total Hours                                                                                                    20 Hours

 

Set-D

Functional English                                                                            Hours of sessions

Verbs part 2                                                                                                    2 Hours

Tenses part 2                                                                                                   2 Hours

Developing a paragraph                                                                                  2 Hours

Report writing                                                                                                 2 Hours

E-mail etiquette part 2                                                                                    2 Hours

Communicational skills and barrier                                                                2 Hours

Telephone etiquette part 2                                                                              2 Hours

Speak and contribute part 1                                                                            2 Hour

Speak and contribute part2                                                                             2 Hours

Group discussion advance part                                                                       2 Hours

Total Hours                                                                                                     20 Hours