LPU - Lovely Professional University
What you'll learn

This is a practice-oriented training program designed to prepare students for successful entry into the workplace and future leadership roles. The course integrates career readiness, employability skills, and foundational leadership development through self-assessment, interactive activities, case studies, and reflection. Students learn how to make informed career decisions, present themselves professionally, and lead themselves and others effectively in diverse, real-world contexts. Outcomes Identify their key strengths, values, interests, and transferable skills and relate them to suitable career paths and roles. Formulate a realistic short-term and medium-term career plan with specific, time-bound action steps. Employability and job-readiness skills. Prepare a professional CV and a basic cover letter or profile that clearly communicate their skills, achievements, and career goals. Describe key leadership concepts, including leadership versus management, leadership styles, and the role of followership.

  • Understanding corporate vs academic environment and expectations. Communication practice based on corporate expectations .Teamwork, accountability, and basic work ethics which can be crucial element in the interviews.
  • Use SMART goal approach to work on the strengths and weaknesses, continue to practice presentation skills and practice. How to search for jobs (portals, LinkedIn, campus placements), common do’s and don’t’s.
  • Interview preparation: Resume drafting, Interview practice based on the different placement companies, scenarios, using S.T.A.R, SWOT analysis and refining the communication through the practice.
  • Begin your journey to resume excellence, get the Alumni interaction in general from the industry. QnA to resolve any doubts.
  • Discussion on different pre assigned, KYC. JD's , resume, through the group discussion mode. Discussion on different pre assigned, KYC. JD's , resume, through the group discussion mode.
  • Put it all together with real time group discussion and interview practice on company and domain based evaluation

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Mukesh Mahay
Assistant Professor

A Personality Development Trainer with goal of transforming lives. Making learning as fun and enriching audience with outcome-oriented sessions. With a rich background in human resources and soft skills development, my journey has taken me from Senior HR Executive at IBM, Arth Enterprises to Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University. My expertise lies in mentoring, employee training, and development, underpinned by a strong foundation in recruitment, payroll, and basic SAP functionalities. At the core, my focus is on fostering growth and efficiency through strategic training initiatives and effective communication. Our team's dedication to developing soft skills within the academic setting has resulted in enhanced performance . 10 years of experience in students mentoring for different placement drives with result oriented approach and delivering the best results.