Gone are those days when college life was only about academics and students focused on attending lectures and writing exams. One occasion that acts like a festival for college going students is indeed a College Fest. Every college will have a major festival that students organize year after year. Students put in their best efforts to make college fests entertaining and exciting. These multiple cultural events, technical fests, celebrity performances, competitions, teaming up with friends make you confident and job ready. These amazing college fests play a crucial role in shaping and strengthening the career of a student, read on to know how.

1. Hone Technical Skills: Technical fests are an amalgamation of fun and learning where spectacular ideas are displayed, and students learn and feel inspired. Hackathons encourage students to rack their brains and brainstorm to provide solutions for any existing substantial problem such as digitization, electricity issues, and other alarming concerns. These events guide engineers, computer experts, researchers to dream bigger and achieve them.

2. Incorporating Soft Skill: While organizing a fest, a student comes in contact with a range of other students both from there and other colleges. Students grow in multiple directions if they actively participate in college fests. Students who volunteer and organize college fests display their self-starter attitude, which is highly appreciated by recruiters, especially while hiring for managerial positions. Employers seek candidates who can think out of the box and possess effective communication skills. Those who can multi-task, take initiative, and are enterprising have better chances of getting hired.

3. Grooming: Choose to play roles in a college festival, which don't essentially go hand in glove with your degree, that challenge you out of your comfort zone and enable you to acquire a different skill set. So if you are doing marketing, offer to coordinate the specifics of an event such that you learn more about logistics. For most employers, it's not just participating, that counts but taking a leadership position or measurable role that makes the difference. So if you did not win the role to be the president or secretary then become part of the organizing team.

4. Feel Refreshed: College fests, especially if it's your own, serve as a well-deserved break that though drains the students out of the physical energy, mentally gives them an energy boost that replenished their minds with fruitful memories of the fests that can be now cherished and can be survived on, until the season of college festivals comes around again.

5. Learn Time Management: Time is an essential component in the college fest. There are back to back events, be it cultural, drama, followed by sports. Effective coordination with every event personnel and managing time efficiently is the essence of true manager in the said circumstances. College fest introduces students to 'Deadlines' before they enter the corporate arena. Everything has deadlines whether it is the arrival of chief guests, speech by college director or serving of snacks. The deadlines have to be met and the prudent manager takes care of that. This lets you Learn multi-tasking and the art of time management enabling you to become a horse of long run.

Apart from all these, a successful College fest instils cultural sensitivity in you. Which will for sure, help you out in future transactions or businesses, by letting you gel up with your counterpart or subordinates quickly and come up with wonderful outcomes!