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

Basic purpose of so called TPO is to establish Academic Industry
Interface. So KRAs are :

1. Arranging Training / Internship in Industry.
2. Placement.
3. Arranging Guest Lectures from Industry
4. Mentoring, Counseling and Career Guidance to students.
5.Relationship with Corporate and professional organizations.
6. Institute Branding and Marketing

To fulfill KRA it becomes necessary to prepare students for Industrial
Training and Placement. It involves following activities:

1. Preparing for Tests being conducted by Corporate.
2. Preparing for GD, PI
3. Soft Skill Training and Attitudnal Training.

Organization :

1. It should be handled by a senior Professor preferably with Industry
background and well connected through professional organization.

2. The designation can be Director Corporate Relationship.

3. He must be the Teacher himself and taking regular subject.

Note - Here Training does not mean FDP. It is a separate function.

Regards.

Raj Verma


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:08 PM, 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
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