Re: [MTC Global] Req for suggetion regarding Training & Placement Officer.

Placement is the logical end point of a training process and cannot be wished away

Good education should lead to. Employability and training to placement

Just a thought !

Ganesh Natarajan

San jose CA USA

On May 31, 2012, at 10:39, "bnath.dutta@gmail.com" <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

> My Further views :
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> 1. It may not be possible to separate placement from the school process in professional/vocational courses.
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> 2. School must take all initiatives to ensure that the finished products are sold in the market.
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> 3. School processes need to be fine tuned based on the industry feedback wherever necessary and suitable.
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> 4. Creating separate centre may create problem in coordination and understanding.
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> 5. Placement department is having more interface with corporate hence must play the pivotal role in building the competency of students.
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> 6. Ultimately students need to perform but they must be made fit and which largely depends on faculty teaching subjects and placement department to give finishing touch.
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> 7. The title 'TPO' may not fit well as the placement head needs to interact with senior executives from corporate. The title ' Placement Director' can redefine the role of placement head.
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> 8. Many B-schools have the title of 'GM-Placement' etc but many colleges may not like to corporatize/commercialize (perception) the placement department and avoid such names.
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> These are some of my views for further deliberations,
> Cordially,
> Bholanath
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> Sent from my Nokia phone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virendra Goel
> Sent: 31/05/2012 8:58:20 pm
> Subject: RE: [MTC Global] Req for suggetion regarding Training & Placement Officer.
>
> My take on the matter:
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> 1. Placement should not be the responsibility of the school hence it
> should be placement facilitation center.
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> 2. There should be a competency building department that should take
> care of skill building and additional knowledge that the curriculum does not
> provide but found to be essential for competency. There should be a process
> of competency mapping every quarter and results passed on the individual
> concerned.
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> 3. The facilitation center and the competency building department
> should be two different units.
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> Regards
>
> Virendra Goel
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> From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Prof. Bholanath Dutta
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:40 PM
> To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Req for suggetion regarding Training & Placement
> Officer.
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>
> Please find few submissions from my side in the ongoing interesting
> discussion:
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> 1. Training, Placement, Counseling, Career Guidance, Entrepreneurism --
> Functional Areas of any Placement Department.
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> 2. Require change in the mindset w/r/t Placement Department-- From Support
> Function to Strategic Role.
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> 3. Placement Department must work along with other departments---Mostly it
> works in isolation. And all departments blame placement department , if
> placement is not good which is not correct but a common practice.
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> 4. Many management feel it is a cost center to some extent.
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> 5. Placement and training can not be separated and must go hand-in-hand.
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> 6. Always there is a shortage of Manpower in Placement Department given the
> reason that placement only happens in a certain period of the year which is
> not correct as this is a round the year activity.
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> 7. Wonder how many colleges have a separate budget for placement and in
> reality disbursed to the department.
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> 8. Placement Officer must take at least one subject to understand the
> students and their strengths and areas for development apart from regular
> interaction.
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> Few submissions from my side for further deliberations.
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> Cordially,
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>
>
> Bholanath
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> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Stephen Narayanan <stepnrn@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>
> Well...indeed it is a dual responsibility that most Management B-Schools
> want to impose on a Placement person but not without the logic as we are in
> touch with Corporates and understand the qualities which HR's look for in
> candidates...it is easier for the Placement person to mentor and guide the
> candidates accordingly.
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> My own observation through my experience says: During a Placement process (
> external) if I am there with the group of students sitting for selection,
> the % of selection goes up.Each candidate who comes out shares how the
> process went and any area where he got stuck, I guide him and others who
> throng around as to what would be the correct response to the querry....and
> to be alert for any googlies which may catch them unawares. In our Institute
> One Lecture every week is devoted for CRC ( Corporate Resource Cell - of
> which we are the Placement Group )....and we share with the students the
> current changing trends, the new emerging sectors offering better
> opportunities, besides putting them through the mock GD, P.I. sessions to
> prepare them for Corporate processes.
> In my view...Training & Placement...Go Hand in Hand.
>
> Stephen Narayanan
>
> General Manager - Corporate Resource Center
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> New Delhi Institute of Management.
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> Bholanath Dutta
> Founder, President & Convener: MTC Global
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