These companies promising to bring out job-ready graduates are all bogus. I worked in some of these and they are out there just to cash in on the Indian craze for degrees and more degrees. Guys, finish your basic education, get in somewhere as trainees and learn stuff the hardway. There is no shortcut to success, irrespective of how much you may pay for those fancy sounding certificates. So get your basic degree, join somewhere and start working and LEARN on your job. NEVER JOIN THESE EDUCATION COMPANIES. After all how many of us put into practice at work all that we learnt in school or college! Same goes for all..
Re: Bogus
by Venugopalan on Dec 18, 2009 11:04 AM
excellent observation. brilliant..nothing can be achieved without hard work..and if achieved it is short lived..
on the name of recession company are hiring graduate on very low salary, so high eduacated graduates(mba) r also going through same condition. on the name of recession company is taken benefit getting worked through graduates on less salary. recession is over now stop crying on recession.
Education must have a direct linkage with different domains of trade and industry tailor-made to suit job requirement not putting students at loss when faced with related job opportunities instead of churning out educated unemployable persons en masse.
Well, whatever the HRs say in this article... I would agree to a certain extent. These HRs speak/write something but actually practice something else, and these two views are completely contradictory in principle to each other.
They say they don't have the right candidates, who have required skills and blah blah. What I am shocked is with those HRs who have always put the DEGREE with more importance than the person's willingness to work.
Like I am an MBA (Marketing) and I wanna work as an Analyst with Financial Services companies but just because I am not MBA(Finance) or CA/CFA...I am not even given a chance. Apparently, I don't have any issues like Bad Communication skills or bad english or lack of soft skills.
I am already working as an Analyst for Energy & Power Sector with an MNC but I wanna change over to financial sector but because of lack of chance. I am stuck here. God Knows, till when.
So, why don't the HRs look for candidates like me... but they won't because they don't think that I have the required skills.
In the case, I don't have, why don't they train people like me in the required finance domain. I am sure the cost to train graduates like me is way lesser than the cost incurred in hiring a complete newbie, adjusting him into the culture, providing him soft skills training and other things.
It's so frustrating and still these HRs cry too much.
Re: The HRs are turning into a mob of Fools
by MaheshChandra Rastogi on Dec 18, 2009 10:34 AM
Agreed. These very HR people cannot be vindicated in their approach when they fail miserably in identifiying skills in a person. Their own credibility is at stake.
Re: Education system
by Rigved Kulkarni on Dec 18, 2009 11:27 AM
That's a good observation. Our education system and the way it is imparted are solely focused to impart basic knowledge. However, it is not job oriented and that's we feel the need to take higher education like MBA. Most of us wouldn't afford IIMs or other Tier1 institutes and that doesn't help when we go for job interviews. Part-time education has been losing its value and almost no value for correspondence courses, even though the knowledge levels are mostly the same as the full-time courses. There are people who go for part-time/correspondence not because their level of grasping & understanding is low. HRs across the industries must understand that these courses too are equally competant. In fact doing a part-time or correspondence course along with a job adds upto the working knowledge and these candidates are practically more competent than the full-timers.
