Ultimate Guru Mantra for freshers to be employable and to excel in life and career .

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@Dr. Sudhiranjan Dey cheers to the such discussions and megha.ms92, thanks for Inviting me in, well said too. I agree with you saying that The so called 'premier institutions' also do not do anything of great difference. I realize the fact being the part of IIM's where the students are self motivated to perform better and the best. This is due to such a great environment of self motivation, which makes students strive to improve 24x7, But coming back to the employ-ability skills. I believe this is a responsibility of the college/universities to implement this as a part of curriculum. If I see myself in a role of employer, my key responsibility would be to hire a candidate, who is JOB-FIT. Now a Job Fit guy, as the name suggest the one who can take each role and responsibility described in the Job Analysis - Job Description and Job Specification. Most candidates are good with the Job Specification, but not good with the Job Description. Megha, as you said that you don't find yourself capable of doing practical jobs assigned to you. I would rather say that you are extremely capable of handling any situation in your life. The only reason is your self motivation (being a good expert at shiksha). But coming back to practical area's. This is responsibility of the institutes and the students to make it possible. An example for implementing such employable skills are Corporate Visits, summer training's / internships, workshops. I don't say that we don't have these, but the way the things are set up needs to be upgraded. The universities/colleges need to include them as mandate with regular followup on these events. I will illustrate this with an example Suppose I study a Bachelor Degree in IT with ABC Institute. My 2nd semester is over. The ABC Institute should come up with a project submission assignment in next 2 months. The marks allocated should be from the university which adds to the percentage. The following steps shall be taken 1. Initiate a Deadline for the Project Initial Synopsis. 2. Conduct Practical Training for the students with latest technologies, or provide them a placement in training organizations ( like they arrange for MBA/PGDM) 3. Take a regular followup for Synopsis, Project. The numbers/grades should be allocated step by step, so that student knows this is serious!!! Whu will our students rely more on the paid training, if our institutes can take the initiative. They are responsible for the future of their students

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I agree with you except the last line. The so called 'premier institutions' also do not do anything of great difference but its country's most self-motivated, hard working, smartest and intelligent bunch of handpicked youth who join those institutions. Many of those who pass out does well in career and many doesn't. The missing academic culture there too as most of the best and passionate professors also had left the country to teach in foreign universities around the world.

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i would like Ashish.Gupta , Aneeket to share their expertise over it.

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People cannot expect to get "jobs at reputed posts and handsome salaries" in the beginning of their career and students need to learn, improve, excel and evolve as professionals to reach bigger posts and handsome salaries. However, in most organizations from CEO to HR all are confused and if you ask with people working in all levels in most companies will confirm the same. While government sector jobs are limited to the people who are just into cracking competitive exams and also have some strong political or bureaucratic support are also mostly reading and memorized knowledge oriented individuals who are neither visionaries nor skilled professionals. MNCs do not look into the individual talents but only obsessed by which T-school or B-school you have passed out from and not what you can really deliver. Students passing out from from lesser reputed colleges are offered poor salaries and laborious work of extended hours while their bosses have much lesser intellect and EQ. Those who want to get jobs and willing to excel to climb the ladders of success for them India and the entire world is the playground. There could be difficulties but sooner or later they all do and will be highly successful in their lives.

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Meghna, in India there is no shortage of jobs but what is its the difficult is to find people with right attitude (most importantly) and then to find people with right skill set. Read some of the statements of renowned leaders of India. "It is not unemployment that is the major problem; it is the question of unemployability that is the major crisis in this competitive arena…" Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India “The challenge today is not the supply of engineering talent but that of getting talent that meets the needs of the corporate world. In other words, the challenge is employability.” - Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro "Skill development is very high on the national agenda. Eleventh Five Year plan and National Skill Development Mission bear it out. We need to make India's youth employable so that they and the industry benefit." RP Agarwal, former Secretary,Dept of Higher Education, Govt. of India “Indian education system at the University level is out of sync with market demands. The challenge is how we convert our college graduates into employable and skilled manpower.” - K Ramakumar, Group Chief Human Resource Officer, ICICI Bank “Qualification is not equal to Employability: To be Employed is to be at risk, to be employable is to be stable.” - Keerthi, Head (Talent), Yahoo India “The biggest issue that India faces today is lack of employability skills amongst graduates. While Indian graduates know something about the theoretical aspects, they lack domain skills, communication and professional skills. Hence majority of them are unemployable.” - Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT “Today with economy booming and a number of sectors witnessing a dynamic growth, there is a great need for market-ready and skilled workforce. Youth should get into skill based courses rather than just paper qualifications from schools and colleges.” - Murlidhar Rao, President and COO, NIS Sparta (a Reliance ADAG group company) Its the academic institution, their management, academic fraternity who are at fault and not the students. Its hard to find truly passionate and dedicated faculty in academic institutions (K to PhD) who has vision, exposure, real life industry experience, and ability and attitude to guide, mentor and nurture young students and to impart right attitude, mind and skills.

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cheers to the such discussions which open a wide platform for many of experts to come together and share their best possible expertise over it. as far as youth is concerned, being educated is much simpler now a days but to enter in mainstream and earn for own survival is extremely difficult task. in a country like India which suffers from range of issues one of them being unemployment,getting jobs at reputed posts and handsome salaries is very diffficult. taking public and private sector in considerations both are at same level when employment is concerned. both sectors are contributing equally to progress of the country and it is very important for the govt in public sector and MNCs in private sector to provide jobs to young people so that we can really benefit from their thought process.

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But surprisingly, institutions in India never learn from their mistakes and keep on repeating the same and keep on mobilizing their resources in newer efforts anything other than professional marketing. They keep on spending larger budget and sign up more number of tie ups with larger network of student leaders, agents, consultants and independent counselor agents virtually making desperate efforts to fill the empty seats by admitting anybody and everybody. ‘Beggars cannot be choosers’ and so those who refer students against commission force the institutions to loosen their ‘admission criteria’ to accept admissions of students with very low academic credentials, weak intellect and poor potential. However, in these circumstances Institutions make very big promises but deliver nothing! They do not take any special initiative to work harder, smarter and improve upon these weaker talents and continue with their casual attitude, remain busy in ‘administrative and regulatory fixings’ and century old outdated and conventional practices including many unethical and self-damaging actions. This is the common scenario across the country in higher educational institutions. Students from all disciplines are suffering while fewer self-motivated, dynamic and lucky ones are getting good jobs. If students are interested to know the secret Guru Mantra then I will surely discuss the same knowing most scared owners, academic fraternity, faculty members and marketing people from various institutions with their worries of the 'cat bring out of the bag' will oppose this discussion and will facilitate personal attacks on me and even <a href="https://shiksha.com" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>https://shiksha.com</a> might be forced to remove this discussion and so I invite students opinion whether they wish to learn the ultimate Guru Mantra or not and if the answer is 'yes' I will share them with all here or in some other platform.

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Many credible surveys conducted by world renowned McKinsey Global Institute, World Bank, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), MeritTrac, Ernst & Young and several other organizations of repute and they found merely 25% of engineering graduates employable and 10% of the other graduates are employable. A recent survey conducted on MBA degree holders revealed a more shocking result according to which only 29% of Indian MBAs can successfully solve the tests of reasoning. Surveys had revealed 57% of Indians youth suffer from some degree of employability problem. 90% of the employment opportunities require vocational skills but 90% of our school, college and university output has bookish knowledge. Poor quality of attitude, education and skills show up in low incomes rather than unemployment; 58% of the graduates make less than Rs. 75,000 per year. None of the statistics and ranking support what most institutions on Indian soil claim to offers ‘quality education’ in their ‘the-state-of-the-art’ campuses, ‘highly qualified faculty’ and also claim that they have achieved 100% placements. However, 90% of these claims are false and just marketing gimmick to lure future students for admission. Neither government nor academic regulatory bodies in India work sincerely towards improving the quality of education and enhancing the employability of the students and their quality checkers always compromise on all the irregularities either accepting false documented proofs and against some bribe while institutions do not have the vision, talent pool and honest intension other than focusing short-term commercial gain. Most institutions including those ranked between 5th to 25th in India by various media and rating agencies face immense problem during the admission session as the dissatisfied and unplaced alumni act like rebels spreading the words about their negative experience driving the admission seekers away, expressing their disappointments in the social and professional networking sites and trying their best to resist new students to take admission. As a result a very large number of institutions are unable to fill their seats including those nationally ranked 5th to 25th!

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