While achieving good marks in your exams is a good way of starting, academic excellence is not the only thing that graduate employers are looking for in their candidates these days. Even though every profession has different requirements, a certain set of skills are valued by every industry and organization. Here’s a list-

✻ Confidence

✻ Communication skills

✻ Time management

✻ Ability to work under pressure

✻ Leadership qualities

✻ Creative and critical thinking

✻ Problem-solving skills

✻ Emotional intelligence

All of these qualities are soft skills and while it is not necessary that you have all of them, you need to convince your interviewee that you can always learn them.



How to demonstrate your soft skills?
Soft skills are very abstract in nature and an interview could provide a very less of a time for the employer to understand yours. Which is why most of the companies conduct various personality and aptitude tests. Also, direct questions that target a particular soft skill of yours (for example: When was the last time you exhibited great leadership qualities?) could be asked, and a good, nicely framed answer could speak a lot about your personality.

What specific skills is a graduate employer looking for?
While every employer will be looking for a certain mix of hard and soft skills, you can find out what an employer is looking for by studying the job description carefully. Understand their requirements and stress on some skills accordingly. Tailor yourself and your resume based on whether the job requires more of soft skills or hard skills.

How do I work on my skills?
While most of the basics of your hard skills will be taken care of in your graduation, you would probably have to know a little something extra to just get you there. While taking a small course can help, you can also choose to intern or volunteer for a more personalized and first-hand experience.

Soft skills play a very important role, not just in getting you a job but also in determining your success in it. There are various ways in which you can work on them and you definitely should because with the right personality and a positive attitude, your dream job is not far away.

The students at AVCOE are trained with not just hard skills but with soft skills too, so that when they graduate, they are industry-ready. For this and many such reasons, we have become one of the best engineering colleges in Maharashtra.

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As rightly said by Albert Einstein, “Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been ”, Engineering has been a career an option that has held its position of prominence since generations.

Even in today’s time, engineering is one of the most sought after career options and with a growth of almost 7 percent jobs in this field in the last 6 years, its scope is here to stay.  A lot of students have a misconception in their minds that post engineering they will be confined to a monotonous desk job however the diverse career options that engineering opens one’s gates to is unmatchable. Such is the importance of engineering that an engineering graduate can find a career option to pursue in any field of his or her interest. Here are some cool, unique, fun, and very real fields you can pursue a career in with an engineering degree-

      1).    Artificial Intelligence

Are you someone who is intrigued by the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence? Does seeing Sofia make conversations leave you baffled? You can too be a part of this field that is growing with each passing day, thanks to the increasing funding and development. Various engineering majors from software engineering to mechanical engineering can help you build a career in this field.

      2).    Design cars of the future

The need of the hour is to reduce the consumption of fuels like petrol and diesel to reduce the amount of carbon footprint in the atmosphere. Most car developers have shifted their focus towards developing vehicles and cars that run on alternate sources of energy. Hence if you have been a child who always sketched cars in the back of his or her registers and imagined designing your dream car, this might be your chance. A career in this direction will not only be extremely challenging yet fun but will also help you make a vast difference for the betterment of this planet.

      3).    Fashion Industry

If you are someone who has always had a knack for fashion, this is the path for you to go on. Brands like Adidas are emphasising the importance of incorporating engineering in their products to make them extraordinary. Clothing industries have shifted their focus towards creating innovative fabrics that allow them to turn imaginations into reality. Hence you can use your love for fashion to create products that will be all the rage.

      4).    Digital Music Software Engineer

To have a career in the music industry you don’t always have to be on the stage. Digital music software engineers create and maintain computer programs used for producing sound effects. So you don’t only create software’s that allow music to be developed from, but you also build tools for millions to chase their dream using your creation. 

      5).    Formula One Racing Engineer

Formula 1 is a competition that needs no introduction around the world, but for all of its high-speed glamor and prestige, there’s not a huge amount known about its inner workings. The stuff we see on a race Sunday is merely the veneer atop a massive enterprise of globetrotting logistics, intricate planning, and multinational team organization. The job of a Formula One engineer involves various roles apart from the technical aspect of the job from managing the synchronization of the team to analyzing data. Hence if there’s a love for speed in your life, this is the career you should aim towards. 

      6).    Toy Designer

For the ones out there with a creative mind and an interest in product development, designing products is a field open to engineers. Toy designing happens to be an interesting niche- a path pursuable with an engineering degree. With the involvement of more technology, advancement, and competition in the toy industry, toy designing is a path that one should consider if they believe they might have ideas that can make a difference.

No matter what your interests, you’re likely to find an interesting career path within the broad field of engineering. Almost every field has embraced the need to make innovation and advancement a part of their core competency, hence with an engineering degree, landing an exciting job is more possible today than it ever was.

Scientists all over the world are going gaga over graphene, a material that has also been dubbed as a ‘supermaterial’. It is made from elemental carbon and is just one-atom thick layer of graphite. Thanks to its structure and arrangement, this very first two-dimensional material to be discovered, has great tensile strength (100 times more than steel), conducts electricity (250 times faster than Silicon at room temperature) and heat (10 times better than Copper), is transparent and ultra-thin!

Considering the properties of graphene, it’s not rocket science to see that it is to have tonnes of applications in the things we use every day and is soon going to be an integral part of our lives. Let us explore some of these possible applications that may become a reality soon!

Revolutionalizing the smartphone world: This wonder material is super flexible and could lead us to bendable smartphones. The use of graphene in batteries could also help us charge them in time as less as seven seconds! A news article by cnet says that this technology is not a faraway dream, but something that could happen in the next two years!

Graphene in the concrete: Exploiting graphene’s ability to conduct electricity, it can be used as concrete so as to eliminate the need for copper wires being tunneled in our houses for the supply of electricity. A study also states the graphene cement is also two times stronger then the one we use, four times more water resistant, and far more elastic. Read more about it here.

Flying with graphene: Graphene’s super-light and strong structure is expected to be used to its maximum in the aviation industry! With light-weight planes, we will be able to reduce the amount of fuel required, leading towards more cost-efficient and environment-friendly airborne travel. 

Seeing with graphene: The flexible, conducive and biocompatible nature of graphene can make it possible for us to cure blindness with it. It can be used to recreate an artificial and functional optic nerve, paving a path for a brighter future in the retinal world. Read more about it here.

Graphene to purify water: Graphene allows for a chemical-free, one-step process for purifying water. This process is considered to be cost-effective and compatible with large urban wastewater treatment plants. Curious about how it’s done? Read about the same here.

Graphene has many other real-world potential applications and considering the hype and amount of research being done on this material, they could all be a reality soon! AVCOE is excited to enter the world of graphene, are you? For more such informative blogs, keep following us!