NCERT Employability Skills Textbook For Class 9

Employability skills can be defined as those soft skills which employers look for in a potential employee. These skills equip the employees to carry out their role to the best of their ability and client satisfaction. For example, the ability to explain what you mean in a clear and concise way through written and spoken means, helps to build a better relationship with the client or the customer. Similarly, handling stress that comes with deadlines for finishing work and ensuring that you meet the deadlines can be done through effective self-management training. It can also be done by working well with other people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and expertise to accomplish a task or goal. In today’s digital age, employers expect that the employees should be able to make use of elementary functions of information and communication technology to retrieve, access, store, produce, present and exchange information in collaborative networks via the Internet. Students need to develop entrepreneurial skills, so that they can develop necessary knowledge and skills to start their own business, thus becoming job creators rather than job seekers. Potential employees need to develop green skills, which are the technical skills, knowledge, values and attitudes needed in the workforce to develop and support sustainable social, economic and environmental outcomes in business, industry and the community. Thus, as a student you are expected to acquire a range of skills so that you can meet the skill demands of the organisation that you would work for or to set up and run your own business. This textbook on ‘Employability Skills’ covers communication, self-management, information and communication technology, entrepreneurial and green skills