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Ideas to make college grads work ready from day one!
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"The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time." -
Henry Ford
A passionate , driven recruiter of a multinational
organisation needs a way to bridge the gap between ace institutions and corporates with
meaningful education that would make graduates work-ready from day one!
Problem statement
Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."
1. Expose children to a wide variety of experiences including music, plays, sports, museums, travel, reading, dance, games, food, puzzles, ethnic activities, etc. One never knows how what exposure may influence future life choices
2. Encourage kids to ask questions3. Play "thinking games". These are games where there is not just one
answer like scrabble and chess are examples. 4. Emphasize the value of thinking & thoughtfulness rather than the
importance of winning.
Kids – changes at home
5. Put them through all the streams of learning and do not restrict them
to few subjects 6. Help school kids pick their area of interest while learning7. Let children pick their stream of subject for specialisation based on
what they enjoy 8. Conduct guided reflective sessions to help them understand what
they want 9. Educate school children on job opportunities10. Run “know your career “courses11. Each school to be afflicted with a college in the same city12. Group of final year school students to be buddied by a college grad of
the same line of interest13. Each group to work on a project assigned by college buddy
Children – changes at school
14) Help students understand themselves – their strength / weakness with
self assessment tests 15) Common work based curriculum – with all self learning modules 16) Industry-academia tie-up. Each college to be affiliated to a local industry
partner for learning 17) College professors should have a minimum of 2 years of industry
experience and 5 years of research background to be able to handle a subject at a college
18) Every college to have technology transfer office – A council that will help colleges cope up with technology upgrades and industrial trends
19) Development of new benchmark evaluation criteria to encourage grads to apply knowledge rather than just score in the exams
Adults – changes at college
20) Complete 2 projects to clear a semester
Work on industry problem statements project Colleges identified application based research projects
21) Train people on life/ soft skills for the last year at college22) Every student to be active part of Form life/soft skills club 23) Competition and opportunity to win industry recognised workshops
for key work-skills 24) Group of final year grads to be 3 month mentorship program-
mentored by an industry employee
Adults – changes at college
Workplace environment 25) Think about new innovative opportunities about how
corporate and industry can interact more - Promote a positive image of the company
26) Industry to sponsor postgraduate studentships 27) Industry to angle invest college generated impressive
projects 28) Industry to identify employees mentor final year grad groups
for 3 months 29) Industry employees to train in collages at least for 6 months 30) Continued life skills clubs – for sustain learning and support 31) Provide access to company knowledge and resources
Professionals – Changes at workplace
Pre hire phase / standards
32. Ability to spot and recruit the brightest young talent based on projects 33. Folks who have completed impressive projects for the industry should be
given preference while hiring 34. Folks to be evaluated & hired based on simulations -clearing stress / life
skills workshop to become eligible for hiring
Post hire – pre on board phase35. Self study curriculum + projects 36. Trainee mentorship program to help them in seamless transition37. Interactive website to experience work at hiring organisation
Post on board training phase38. Trainees to spend the first week in observation – will be sent to project
floors and would observe(with observation pointers) people in action 39. Every group of 5 trainees to be tagged to a mentor manager 40. Work attitude module with built in 270 degree feedback 41. Train managers to be mentors – esp deal with college grads / company
entrants
Professionals – Changes at workplace
Parents:
42. Oriented on how to encourage questioning , thinking and give less emphasis on making it right and wining
43. Be more open to explore un conventional learning / employment opportunities
School teachers: 44. Qualified to teach rather than qualified on a subject 45. Should encourage children to make mistakes and learn46. Provide a on threatening learning environment
College professors 47. Qualified to work rather than qualified on a subject 48. Encourage students to apply learning rather than score marks
Recruitment policy 49. Look at projects rather than scores 50. Look at learning / coping capacity
Influencers -Mind-set change
Collaborating with people
51. School: Invite collage grads to orient school final years to help them understand / prepare themselves for college
52. College: Invite industry experts – Visiting professors for regular project coaching
53. Industry: Have industry to invite academics who may have an interest in a common problem to spend time at their facility, interacting with researchers and practitioners
54. Sponsored and honorary posts for industry best contributors at institutions and for professors at corporates
55. Dual appointments – employment at both industry & institutions
Collaborating instances 56. During research for future of work - Provide institutions a flexible and cost-
effective extension of the R&D resources (expertise, equipment, facilities) available to the company
57. During solving current industry problems
Collaboration check points
Interactive website for newly hired resources to experience
work-life at hiring organisation Context – what :
A end to end interactive website depicting the culture and work life of an organisation
A walk thro that will provide complete understanding & learning experience
Why: This would help fight anxiety of a new entrant and get him familiarised with
the organisation Help understand an organisation culture before joining
Process – how:
Every hired candidate to be given access to this website The candidate to take a walkthrough of the website ; complete all the required
milestones Walkthrough will have learning checkpoints – that will prompt / teach
organisation way of work
Most practical idea
School-college-employee continuous buddy program
Context – what :
Every school in a locality to be tied / affiliated to a college Every college to be tied / affiliated to a corporate / company
Why: Use the buddy system to help juniors to understand how a college / corporate
works Orient juniors on what can be expected & what to look forward to Buddy mentors to help in project execution / guidance
Process – how:
High School group to be buddied by college graduate from the affiliated college Final college grad group to be buddied by employee from the affiliated corporate
Most disruptive idea
Entrants of corporates spend the first one week observing on project floors
Context – what“Most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action."-Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory, 1977
Why: Harness on learn by observation Facing the project world first and then providing them with corporate training ensures
entrants aware of what they don’t know This awareness builds agility to learn – later when sent to corporate training they will
know why they are learning what they are learning
Process – how: Trainees to spend the first week in observation – will be sent to project floors and would
observe(with observation pointers) people in action The observation pointers will help associates motivated & look for opportunities to learn
My favorite idea
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein