CAMPUS TO CORPORATE TRANSITION

One of the biggest challenges every student goes through is the transition from college to corporate life. All of a sudden, there is a transition from assignments & mid-semesters to team work and deadlines. 

There is a vast difference in the way professors and managers operate. Professors are focused on enhancing learning quotient. They look at improving subject matter understanding; evaluate on the overall learning ability and perhaps to an extent on the implementation. From a manager’s perspective, there is a constant pressure to deliver and meet deadlines using the existing and derived knowledge. So, while one focuses on learning, the other focuses on significant leverage. Student-life is mostly care-free, typically students live their timings, bunk classes, skip lessons and still make their grades if they burnt-mid night oil. However, in a typically company setting, one is not expected to be on time, forget not attending a meeting. Also to a large extent there is decision making out of team based working.

Everybody has dreams and wants to fulfill dream in one’s life span. But only few can live their dreams. Because, education and technical Skills are not only enough for success in career, profession or business. A large component of your career success depends on other people skills. Many professionals and businesspersons are highly competent and well trained and dedicated in their works but still fail to advance to their potential because they lack soft skills, i.e. skills of "Dealing with people." We are living in highly connected and cutthroat competitive global world. In addition to required academic, technical education and work experience, one needs soft skills e.g. effective communication skills, interpersonal skills, and business etiquette and telephone skills to blend in today’s corporate world. All these skills including leadership skills, motivation skills, teamwork, public speaking, group discussion and even appropriate dressing are people centric skills. 

Corporate houses need employees that can be immediately employed and deployed. Nasscom president Kiran Karnik also confessed recently that there is huge demand and supply mismatch in quality manpower in terms of technical skills, communication, articulation and team work. In the present scenario, the organizations are getting extremely choosy and cost conscious about their expenses on new recruitment.

MNCs and other professional organizations use the past placement record of the institute as a measure of the quality of the students. They base their decisions to come to the campus; the number of students to be hired and their salary and position on the image and the so-called rating of the Institute. This calls for a specialized and professional approach.

Our “Soft Skill Training” program is designed to help one first understand and deal with oneself before moving on to building interpersonal relationships. This is followed by training to work in teams and the program concludes with helping the new recruit look at the big picture of working for the organization to achieve common goal.