'Enhance professional competency to achieve success'

Communication skills and leadership qualities help in enhancing professional competency, said KCCI president Vathika Pai.

She was speaking at a one-day national-level conference on, "Enhancing professional competency through skill development – Facing up to modernity" at St Agnes College in Mangaluru on Wednesday.

"Professional competency is essential to get employed in the present scenario," she said.

In a job interview, the interviewer asks for professional competency and experience. Communication and language skills are also important.

A person should develop leadership qualities to become successful. Leadership qualities help one to develop self-confidence. Work pressure should be dealt with properly to become successful in life. One should overcome negative qualities in them to develop self-confidence. Time management is also essential, Vathika Pai said.

St Agnes College Commerce Department HoD Dr Deviprabha Alva said personality development is the most important aspect of an individual, especially during his/her formative period. One needs to work towards developing his/her professional competency by enhancing skills that make him/her employable by the corporate world and wanted by the society. Just a degree will not help in fetching a job. Along with a degree, one needs to have professional competency, experience, and mannerism.

St Agnes College principal Sr Dr Jeswina called upon students to develop communication skills and professional competency.

Niveditha Mirajkar, freelance soft skill trainer, Mangaluru; Ashish Agarwal, director, Manufacturing Services, Infosys Ltd; CMA Milind Date, chief learning officer, ISDC, India; Mithun Bhat Kakunje, director, Kakunje Plastipacks Pvt Ltd; and former student president, CA Saudamini Chandarana and Lynn Misquith, student of III BCom were the resource persons. There were sessions on soft skills for professional competency, campus to corporate life: challenges and prospects, rebooting employability skills, manpower performance–perception of industries and so on.