Employability is an option aptly focused through skill development. The perfect blend of soft skills and hard skills shapes any aspirant into a person of employable skills. Identification of employable skills paves way for perfection towards the designed destination. The present study covers the major parts that should be focused on to obtain employability skills. It identifies, suggests and modifies some sets of skills to make use of the prospective opportunities available. Taking the recommendations made by the NASSCOM survey on identifiable skills into consideration, the study focuses on nine important factors of employable skills, viz., training needs, personal traits, academic skills, communication skills, soft skills, corporate skills, technical skills, job-seeking skills, and schooling (NASSCOM, 2009) and presents its findings.

Skill set development as a process involves students, faculties, corporate and support from the government (NASSCOM, 2009). Employability skills development process is a perfect blend of technical and generic skills which helps students to get their dream jobs. The employable skills expected by recruiters among budding engineers are training needs, personal traits, academic skills, communication skills, soft skills, corporate skills, technical skills, job-seeking skills, and finally schooling. Besides these skills, the recruiters also expect the job aspirants to possess generic skills. Generic skills include having a personal vision and goal, evaluating and monitoring one’s own performance, having knowledge and confidence in one’s own ideas and vision and articulating them, taking responsibility, working ethically, working under pressure and demonstrating resilience (The University of Sydney Careers Centre, 2010). This study wholly focuses on the above-mentioned nine important employable skills.

Soft Skills Journal, Acquisition, Corporate Employability Skills, NASSCOM, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), Corporate Training and Employability skill Empowerment Program (CTEEP), Engineering Graduates.