Competency development needs to be an integral part of education process. This is achieved if we follow the model Outcome Based Education. It means we are focused on the skills, competency and knowledge to be acquired through the entire program, for individual subject and also to each topic. This is hardly done in India. I strongly believe that all professional students should in-hale and ex-hale (prana) only IT. Since the last 5-6 decades we are practicing seminar and project at UG/PG level. Are we achieving the goals? For instance, we wright journals, assignments, case studies, seminar/project reports, but how? We teach communication skill subjects, but our coverage? Seminars and projects reports are hardly edited. Lack of research is a major draw back in our system. Research needs analytical mind, reasoning power, scientific temper, hard work, etc. I have come across many PhDs who cannot draft a letter, one PhD in OR (obtained degree in mid-80s, could add 10 numbers having 3 to 8 digits, believe in me, one recent PhD who worked on effects of cryogenics on tool life,told me without hesitating that he measured the tool wear on tool-bit by a dial gauge.. and so on on.
My point is why do we go for finishing schools if the major part can be made, in a natural course, integral with our day to day teaching like case study analysis, improving power of argument, interaction, code of conduct, language proficiency, etc.
We need to change the process of teaching-learning,and mind set of both faculty and students well supported by top people/organization.
In every institute, a few senior faculty, and industry personnel may form cells, as rightly suggested by Mr. Goelji, like placement facilitation and competency building. These cell-faculty members can have 25-30% reduction in their normal teaching load and they will facilitate as an integral part of the entire teaching-learning process in institute. These are the advisers, facilitators for all students and faculty. A separate budget allocation may be done for these cells, at least 5% of institute turn over and must be achievement oriented unlike Parks.
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:37:06 +0530 wrote
> My take on the matter:1. Placement should not be the responsibility of the school hence it should be placement facilitation center.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.3. The facilitation center and the competency building department should be two different units.RegardsVirendra GoelFrom: 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.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 costcenterto 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,BholanathOn Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Stephen Narayanan 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 NarayananGeneral Manager - Corporate Resource CenterNew Delhi Institute of Management.60, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,New Delhi.Tel.:- (011) 29956566-69/40111000: Extn.217.Mob.:-9868386192
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