You spent four years studying engineering, attending your lectures, completing assignments, taking tests and earning your degree.

But when you walk into the first technical interview, one question can decide what comes next:

“What can you do?”

This is why job-oriented courses for engineering students are becoming increasingly important. Because, while a degree gives foundation, practical skills help to understand how engineering comes to life in the field.

What Are Job Oriented Courses?

A job oriented course covers the skillset pertinent to the jobs in the industry.

Instead of theory-centric learning, these courses give students an opportunity to practice the technologies, carry projects, and understand the applications of the skills in the professional world.

For engineering students, this would include (but not be limited to):

1. Industrial Automation

2. PLC and SCADA

3. Robotics

4. Industrial IoT

5. Building Automation

6. Drives and Motion Control

7. Industrial Networking

Depending on your branch of engineering and the kind of career you’re looking for, a job oriented course would help to build the relevant skillset.




Why Do Engineering Students Need It?

Engineering education gives students a broad-spectrum technical foundation, but at the entry-level, most jobs require an understanding of specific technologies.

For instance, if you’re applying at an automation company, there is likely to be an expectation for you to know PLC, SCADA and other such technologies. A manufacturing concern, on the other hand, may demand your proficiency in drives, instrumentation, and industrial networking.

But knowing the definition of PLC and SCADA, or drives and instrumentation, is not the same as actually programming and configuring them.

That’s how much it matters to actually ‘know’ industrial automation technology and systems.

The Difference Between Knowing and Doing

Now, before enrolling in any such course, don’t get tempted just by the certificate.

Ask yourself these questions:

Is there hands-on practice?

Does the syllabus cover industry-relevant technologies?

Will there be any projects?

Will the course train me to use the tools and technologies as used by the industry?

Does it hone problem-solving skills?

Each of the aforementioned questions carries equal weightage. For example, you could know the theoretical understanding behind SCADA, but without a practical grasp of its implementation, you won’t be able to configure a SCADA system during your job.

Similarly, the ability to solve problems using technology is much more important than rote-learning.

How Mentric Helps You Build Industry-Specific Skills

Mentric Training & Consulting Pvt Ltd focuses on bridging the gap between education and industry by offering practical learning in industrial automation, building automation, robotics, industrial IoT and related fields.

By giving students a chance to practically apply the technology they learn in the college, Mentric’s learning ecosystem enables a deeper, more application-centric grasp of the technology.

Their primary focus is on helping the student to first learn the technology, then practice, build up, solve problems, and finally apply the knowledge.

In other words: learn, practice, build, solve and apply.

By learning beyond the conventional theory-based education, Mentric helps students build skills that are pertinent to their desired field.

Don’t Just Collect Certificates – Collect Skills

While your resume might include a list of certificates, at the end of the day, your interviewer will only ask these questions:

What have you done? Tell me a bit about it.

What you can explain about a particular PLC project, or the implementation of a certain technology, could be much more valuable than another line on your resume. In fact, it could be the deciding factor for landing your dream job.

Your degree gives you theoretical knowledge. A job oriented course can help you to implement it.

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