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

Please find few submissions from my side in the ongoing interesting discussion:

1. Training, Placement, Counseling, Career Guidance, Entrepreneurism -- Functional Areas of any Placement Department.

2. Require change in the mindset w/r/t Placement Department-- From Support Function to Strategic Role.

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.

4. Many management feel it is a cost center to some extent.

5. Placement and training can not be separated and must go hand-in-hand.

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.

7. Wonder how many colleges have a separate budget for placement and in reality disbursed to the department.

8. Placement Officer must take at least one subject to understand the students and their strengths and areas for development apart from  regular interaction.

Few submissions from my side for further deliberations.

Cordially,

Bholanath

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Stephen Narayanan <stepnrn@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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

New Delhi Institute of Management.

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