GrabGuidance is the best career counselling online portal. This particular session was focused on providing career guidance after graduation to a post graduate candidate. Learner shares his brief introduction that he is having 6 month of work experience as a merchandiser in Retail Company, V Bazaar. V Bazaar is just like Big Bazaar. A merchandiser’s main responsibility is to organize products which he was also entrusted with. Most of the time, this means organizing products on displays, but merchandisers also work with inventory management teams to organize the warehouses they house their products in. As the learner is almost a fresher, he feels lack of confidence in him in the company where he works. Learner asks many questions like how can he improve his personality to fit in the industry? How to show off the skills in front of his superiors? Learner is an introvert. He does not have client interaction but he needs to interact with the vendors. Expert educator focuses on communication skills by giving him an example of communication between vendor and merchandiser. The communication with vendors is not a big deal for the candidate as vendors mostly speak in Hindi and the same language is his mother tongue. The student hesitates in speaking in English with his seniors & other managers in the office. Expert shares few ways to overcome that fear of communicating with others in English. Expert suggests him to read English news and make a short summary of that in the notebook and read that short summary aloud in front of the mirror. Over a week he should start gaining confidence. Expert also suggests him to start interacting with people in his office because his colleague will help him by talking to him in English in the office premises. It will take time for him to overcome his fear. The communication gap between him & his manager will go down if he makes proper time table & mention each & every detail in English what he has done in a whole day. It will be easy for him to carry out his day-to-day work in a much more organized way too. These tips & tricks will help him to increase his efficiency. He’ll be able to see in the time table as to how much time he is giving to a specific task or where does he need to reduce his time.
