Ideate campus to corporate cycle time

IdeateReduce Campus-to -Corporate Transition Time in IT sector

Meeraa Jayaraman

Reduce Campus to Corporate Transition Time in IT sector

Problem StatementAn empathetic, truly concerned, highly capable, knowledgeable, pragmatic, 38 year old Head of Corporate University of a multi-billion dollar IT service organization who has been serving in various positions within the IT industry in his 16+ years of experience of which 6 years have been in shaping the talent development of the organization

NEEDS A WAY TO

reduce the campus to corporate transition time

BECAUSE

it would impact the bottom line of the organization


Non-Linear IdeationLeveraged Mind Mapping technique to think in non-linear angles

A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas.


Categorization Ideas are grouped based on where they

are to be implemented


Changes in Educational System - School

1. Sow the seeds for out of the box thinking through self-exploring experiments

2. Teachers to be trained for encouraging OOB thinking

3. Contests to encourage exploration - by Government and Industries

4. Identify students interests and organization can adopt students and pay for their education

5. Adopt story telling and experiential learning as the primary means of teaching


Changes in Educational System - College

6. Industry aligned curriculum

8. Encourage research & development

7. Form knowledge sharing / self interest groups to enhance sharing

9. Include Corporate culture, business communication as mandatory topics in graduation


Changes in Educational System - College10. Field assignments for students

11. Introduce Student teaching hour to encourage knowledge sharing and ability to learn by themselves

12. 4 years of graduation turned to apprentice duration

13. Mandate internship for Professors in industries to gain industrial knowledge which they can impart to the students


Organizational Changes- Effective Recruitment

14. Select candidates in pre-final year and engage with them thru out final year with assignments 15. Recruit only from relevant streams

16. stringent entry criteria

17. Recruitment thru knowledge application mode rather than just knowledge assessments

18. Educate recruiters on the recruiting process19. Only certified employees can participate in recruitment drives

20. A magical shredder, which shreds only the misfit candidates application forms


Organizational Changes- Pre-Onboarding Stage

25. Move few of the on-campus training to self paced training before they join

21. Provide an organization owned mobile device loaded with required curriculum and assessments

22. Assess readiness of the students and have normal and fast track streams for training

23. Appropriate rewards for those who complete the training curriculum before they join the organization

24. Access to corporate technical forums to feel the job


Organizational Changes- Tiny Changes in Training

26. Teach them how to learn in a corporate setting first before teaching what to learn

27. Support training and post-training period with a mentor

28. Curriculum as close to real project scenario as possible

29. Trainees to shadow associates in project for a specific duration

30. Reverse mentoring during training period



31. Training pills to impart knowledge

32. Do away with training process and put them in work directly

33. Organizations to mandate campus training hours to their employees

34. Offer self-but-fast-paced track for students who are willing to take their career in their hands

35. Brain Transplant to all new joinees with that of experts



36. Encourage paired learning similar to pair programming

37. Provide a virtual tree to every trainee which grows according to the knowledge they have absorbed;

39. Gamify the campus to corporate journey with appropriate tools and levels

38. Guiding robot to every trainee for a charge


Organizational Changes- Pre-employee Engagement

40. Constant engagement with all educational institutes through stimulating contests 41. Open one day every quarter for

college students to visit the organization and interact with anyone they want

42. Set up Know Your Organization labs in the institutes for the students to feel the corporate environment before they step in

43. Holograms of a day in corporate made available to students


Encouraging Society 44. Like earlier era of 4 castes, identify sects of population who are eligible to work on specific industries.

45. Forecast industrial need and inject appropriate gene into the fetus to ensure they become work ready when they reach the right age

46. Government mandate for industries to provide industry specific training at educational institutes

47. Create learning doctors as a profession to cure those who cant learn48. Have brain scans to new born

babies to identify learning challenges in future and treat at an early stage


Spot Light

50. During graduation ceremony, his likely supervisor to be tagged and informed for recruitment

51. During recruitment, green light to glow behind the student, if he is fit for the role

49. Babies born with birth mark indicating what is their suitable profession


Most Practical IdeaAppropriate rewards for those who complete the training curriculum before they join the organization

• Encourages students to take their career in hand

• Reduces the training effort on students for the organization

• Typical win-win situation for both the employees and the students


Most Disruptive Idea 4 years of graduation turned to apprentice duration

By the nature of its operation, key asks from IT industry’s employees are to be effective in problem solving, decision making and logical thinking. They seldom use their non-IT engineering concepts at work. Hence a more meaningful learning environment that is close to or the real environment in form of apprenticeship will help bridge the gaps


My Favorite Idea

Gamify the campus to corporate journey with appropriate tools and levels

Gamification in learning helps to establish a sense of achievement; In a standard training model, trainees have the number of days to pass by as the counter to keep them ticking.

If the training is gamified with appropriate milestones and rewards, it could be very effective and trainees have something more tangible to look forward to than just counting days

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