To prepare young adults from underprivileged backgrounds for corporate careers, L&T’s Head Office CSR, in collaboration with the HR team, conducted a soft-skill development workshop on 17 July.

 

The participants were 70 students from a non-profit named Bright Future India, which offers soft-skill training, assists in securing jobs that ensure financial stability and provides training in entrepreneurship and livelihoods to underprivileged youth.

 

The workshop was hosted at L&T’s swank corporate office, AMN Tower at Powai in Mumbai, giving the participants their first glimpse of corporate life.

 
With Nishad Mehta (Head – Leadership Development & OD, Corporate HR), and his colleagues Saurabh Lotilkar and Deepti Cornellio acting as the resource persons, the day-long workshop covered the significance of soft skills, interview dos and don’ts, the importance of communication and the corporate working environment.

 

To round off the session, the students were taken to L&T’s corporate experience centre, Planet L&T, where they were impressed by the scale and scope of the projects executed by L&T and the accolades the Company has received over the years.

 

The learnings from the workshop are likely to help these students from a humble background make an entry into the corporate world.