Training & Placement

You were born alone, and alone you shall be for evermore. You shall be alone when the death scatters your days. You yourself would have to walk in entire life. During your life, in this materialistic world, Food, Shelter and Cloth/e will decide your position in society. Certainly, only right placement fulfills all three basic needs appropriately, in fact more than that.
Placement is the heart of an institute/college/school/university. Ultimate goal of an institute is to guide their pupils towards social engagements. A school should place students in apt college or institute. Surprisingly, apt college/institute/course is always a confusing subject in mind of students, parents and teachers.
Placement means placing someone for job. But I believe there can be several definition of it:
Placement 1: Students and Parents both walk parallel. If student is not further study oriented and parents are unable to finance further study, institute should place that student in training institute (skills based training institute). It is placement for training and better career.
Placement 2: If student is further study oriented and parents are unable to finance, institute should guide appropriate course wherein student can make his/her career in less cost and in short duration and further study s/he can do learning with earning. This is also placement for training.
Placement 3: If parents can afford but student is unable to go for further study, institute can find out area of interest of candidate and can guide him/her in apt course/institute simultaneously part time job. This is placement for training and job.
Placement 4: If parents and student both are efficient, institute can counsel both the best program so that society can get a right person with right education. This is placement for further study.
Placement 5: Student should always be promoted for industrial exposure so that s/he can understand value of time and money, and institute should continuously suggest part time program/ training/ industrial visit/ workshops/ projects are also part time placement. This is Placement for placement.
Entrepreneurship is apex target of any professional graduate. But life starts from nadir. Unless one has worked under someone, one can’t learn professional requirements. Either you work under your parent’s hand or any other but entrepreneurship is a systematic step by step process. Without industrial exposure it can be dangerous or short lived career. Even a farmer’s kid works years and years in fields before start taking its own judgment and decision. T&P should arrange workshops and training programs on entrepreneurship and motivate pupils to go for entrepreneurship at any point of time.
Training and Placement is there to remove unemployment from society and fulfilling manpower requirements of industries. Motivating needy students to go for job just after graduation and inviting industries for recruitment. It helps to reduce gap between skilled man power and employer.
Pre-Placement talk/Presentation make students familiarizes with requirements of industries and motivates listeners to develop required skills sets. Training and Placement remains very nearer to industries and motivate students to keep gear up.
Since we know higher percentage and consistency in performance is a basic requirement among industries, T&P motivates First year, second year and pre-final year students to maintain higher percentage and consistency in semester wise performance; it helps to improve over all result of institute.
In fact T&P guides and motivates students to participate in industrial training, visits, projects and contacting seniors to remain updated and skilled.
I have experienced student they take T & P as their nearer and dearer part of the institute. They feel T & P approachable and solution giving department. I decided to promote three skills through T&P.
1. Communication skills and confidence
2. Further study (Post graduation)
3. Improvement in over all result.
We made students’ committee at first level, second level and third level for PDP and fourth level for T&P.
Student committees had to motivate their classmates to attend all the programs conducted by PDP Cell and T&P. On the basis of feedback and demand of students, we modified our programs and approach.
It was overwhelming experience when we took Personality Development Program (PDP) as a prime target to make successful at our institute with the help and support of T&P, followed by workshops on GATE, U.P.S.C, G.P.S.C, G.R.E, GMAT, CAT and activities like presentation competition, quiz, Group discussion, Debate and Elocution competition.
It helped us to motivate students to go by choice.
T&P can play a vital role in brand building of an institute. Since it is directly connected to industries and students. It can bring students in college during vacation, holidays and other than college hour even. Therefore responsibilities of T&P increase.
An ideal T & P is who can perform three roles successfully as follows:
Responsibility
1. Role of motivator and facilitator.
2. Role of parents.
3. Role of bridge between teachers, students and industries.
I trust T & P can convert an institute into a brand.