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The future of the students who are placed
through any placement program largely
depends on the students themselves. What they are today and what they intend to become;
are they sure that they want to slog at least in the
initial phases of their adopted careers? The path
to organizational success is more or less decided. There is an inevitable target, an
achievement review, followed by an appraisal and if
possible rewards. And most people, who have
succeeded in the past, have traveled the same path, with
some variations. The students must realize this
simple fact of life. Nobody can help the student any
more once he is placed - the teachers, the institute,
the parents and the so-called friends as it is only
the well-equipped student who can do something worthwhile. The gap between the promised
and actual performance is huge and most of the
time the students find the going extremely hard.
The result is obvious, most of them cannot
survive. When they confront the frightening moment
when they are told to put in the papers, they
instantly remember all the things they should have
done while they were in college. They are once
again reminded of the inherent inadequacies and
expect instantaneous solutions, helping them to cope
up with the challenges.
Recently, there was a headline in a newspaper, The Hitavada, dated January 5, 2009, saying that
only 7% of the graduates are employable. Maybe, it
is true. What is more serious is that out of the
7% who are supposedly employable, very few meet the required levels of performance in
their organizations. The more worrying part is that
the requirements are not aiming for the excellence
in that particular field but a mere fulfillment of
basic duties. Ask any person who is supervising
the fresh crop of new employees and he would
relate treasured anecdotes.
The aim of education is to provide the skills and temperament to survive in future jobs
or businesses or professions (like lawyers,
doctors, etc.). That we find a huge gap between
the expectations and the actual makes everyone to think about the reasons. The reason for this
goes back right to the primary education, where
the students go on to the next higher classes, more
out of administrative compulsions, rather than
their performance in the exams. Their expectations
are not realistic; more like daydreams. The
delinking of education from that of the promised performance of the person is and would be
the major factor resulting in the failure of the
students in the job situations. Later on, such kicked
up students are invariably told that they do not
need any competence in English. They become graduates, postgraduates or even PhDs and
yet cannot string a decent sentence in English, or
for that matter even in their mother tongue. Because
of this single factor, most employees from such a
lot force themselves to live a life of secondary
citizens in the organization they work for. |
