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What are soft skills ?

Why I need soft skills?
• Unit-I Engineering Soft Skills

• Unit II-Communication Skills

• Unit III Know Yourself

• Unit-IV Personal Branding

• Unit-V Interview Skills

• Unit-VIGroup Discussion
 Skills attained with PES 318

• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Leadership
• Grooming
• Professional attitude
 PES 318-MOOC
• MOOC Associated with this course:
• Developing Soft Skills And Personality
• Prof. T Ravichandran
Weeks: 8
• Assignments: 8
• ETP: Offline Proctored Exam at the designated center.
• Charges: Registration (Free) / Examination Fee (Rs.1000/- + GST)
• Equivalence: 60%
• Link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc23_hs116/preview
 PES 318

Sample Certificate
What makes it different from regular classes?
 What makes it different from regular classes?
• Interaction … Rule of 70:30
• Imbibing Professionalism
• Effective Body Language
• Activities -Simulating Real Life Situation
• Applying knowledge through Collaborative Learning
• Use of Audio-Visual aids
• Building confidence in Communication
• Generating quest for Reading and Knowledge
• Dressing professionally
for the classes
• Wearing ID cards
• Communication in
English
• Active participation in
• Class activities
• Club activities
• Events
• Reading newspaper
Overall Assessment
• LTP- 1-2-0
• Credits-3
• Total- 100 marks
• Academic task- 4(compulsory)
• Academic Tasks- 30 marks each
• No mid term examination
• Attendance - 15 marks
• End Term Practical- 55 Marks
 PES 318 Syllabus
• Engineering Soft Skills : introduction to soft skills and its significance,
importance of grooming, interpersonal communication, adaptability,
time management and teamwork

• Communication Skills : introduction to communication skills, verbal

communication, non-verbal communication, para verbal
communication, barriers to communication , techniques and tips to
improve communication, how to strike a social conversation
 PES 318 Syllabus
• Know yourself : understand self-evaluation technique –PLOT, creating
a SMART goal sheet and designing an action plan

• Personal branding : introduction to self-branding, various platform for

self-branding, offline branding(CV building-elements of creating an
effective CV), online branding ( GitHub, LinkedIn, video CV overview-
with respect to job description
 PES 318 Syllabus
• Interview Skills : essentials of pre-interview preparation- placement
kit, prerequisite for grooming during interview, types of interviews,
interview answering techniques, interview etiquette for online
interviews and face to face interview

• Group Discussion : introduction to group discussions, idea generation

techniques- SPELT, KWA, brainstorming, POPBEANS, VAP, types of
group discussion topics, picking the right strategy, do’s and don’ts of
group discussion, types of group discussion
Course Outcome PES 318
MAPPING OF CO WITH PO
Course Assessment
• CA1 – Presentation 1-Sophomore chit chat

• CA2 – Presentation Individual 1 – PLOT

• CA3 – Group Discussion

• CA4 - Interview
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy