Career Development Cell (CDC)

The Career Development Cell (CDC) at IIST is accountable to upgrade employability, aptitude and overall grooming in the students to speak with greater fluency, accuracy, and confidence in order to excel in life. 

Personality Grooming

Career development cell provides PDP Classes to all students from 1st year itself.Personality grooming is defined as a process of developing and enhancing one’s personalityin gaining confidence and high self-esteem. The learning’sinculcates a positive impact on one’s communication skills and the way he sees the world. Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions, perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar. What an individual sees in his childhood days and most importantly his growing days form his personality outlook. How an individual is raised, plays an important role in shaping his personality. Personality is nothing but the aggregate conglomeration of memories and incidents in an individual’s entire life span. Environmental factors, family background, financial conditions, genetic factors, situations and circumstances also contribute to an individual’s personality. CDC at IISTorganizes regular PDP sessions and Expert lectures on grooming from time to time and sessions according to the time table. The students learn to improve on their Speaking skills, Reasoning, Group Discussions, Interview skills, Verbal Ability and crack Mock Tests in the course of time

Aptitude Training

CDC provides quantitative aptitude classes for all aspiring students opting for Government exams.As aptitude tests are considered to be the measure of general intelligence and majority of companies, institutions use aptitude tests as their selection criteria, therefore job-seekers especially freshersmust be well-versed with concepts related to aptitude. Aptitude refers to the competency of a person to learn or acquire knowledge. Most of the jobs in the corporate world require employees to expand their skill set through additional training. Aptitude tells about the mental ability and analytical skills ofindividuals. At IIST, we have a special team of Aptitude Experts to train & develop students’ aptitude skills. Our trainers discuss the requirements with the companies & recruiters from various sectors, so as to know what is expected by them from our students. Thus IIST students are trained in the following areas:

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  Quantitative Aptitude Skills
  • Reasoning Ability
  • Logical Reasoning
  • Verbal Abilities, Reading Comprehension and speaking skills

Aptitude Tests Preparation Strategy

We CDC guide and mentor the students to understand the various approaches to crack the aptitude test which helps students to work upon their speed of calculation analytical skills and the short cut approach to solve the questions within the time bar.

Aptitude tests are designed to determine an individual’s   skills or ability to succeed in a particular niche. 

Following are the primary areas of aptitude tests conducted by companies for hiring candidates.
• Verbal Ability
• Quantitative Aptitude
• Logical Reasoning
• Essay Writing

Higher Studies

The cell is proactive and sagacious in building students mindset to generate interest in their academics with respect to higher examinations through advising and directingthem with the help of in-house and visiting academic specialists. The Cell offers Aptitude and English language classes for GATE, CAT, GRE and other competitive examination for the students 

Career Counseling

The Objective of Career Counseling is to coach and tutor the students with respect to the different profession decisions available to them, as per their inclinations and qualities. This counseling helps students in making a roadmap of their career according to their choice to be successful.

Foreign Language

Learning a Foreign language provides a competitive edge and opportunities for students incareer over the other students.
The advantages of learning foreign languages are mushrooming day by day with the increasing global acceptance in the world. Thus being bilingual is now perhaps the most useful asset in today’s world. Some of the foreign Languages are –
• French Language
• German Language

Summary of Activities related to Aptitude, PDP and Pre placement training

Career Counseling

The goal of Career Counseling is to coach and mentor the students with respect to the different profession decisions available to them, as per their inclinations and qualities. This counseling helps students in making a roadmap about their career according to their choice.

Summary of Activities related to competitive examinations and career counseling

Higher Studies

The cell is proactive in making students mindful and generates interest in students with respect to higher examinations through advising and directing them with the help of in-house and visiting specialists. The Cell offers particular Aptitude and English classes for GATE, CAT, GRE and other competitive examination for the students

List of Students Selected or Qualified in state/national/ international level examinations

Foreign Language

People who can speak a foreign language open doors to new opportunities in India and abroad. You learn with experienced guides who are not only masters of their language but also know how to teach a foreign language in an easy and fun environment. The advantages of learning foreign languages are mushrooming as the world becomes increasingly globalized and bilingualism is now perhaps the most useful real world. Some of the foreign Languages are –

• French Language
• German Language

CDC Team

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