Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Employability - Fundamental to a professional program...

Employability and selection of students are two different activity. Employability is an essential requirement of a professional course. If the employability factor is not built in to the curriculum, then it is incomplete. There are courses which are for the sake of knowledge, for the sake of building other competencies, but not a professional course like MBA. An institute can have selection criteria to any level, but if the students are not prepared for the professional life, then it is incomplete. SMOT gives utmost importance to employability of its graduates by bringing in focus on what kind of job roll will fit a particular student and what kind of learning to be imparted to the student to achieve that objective. This is fundamental. In the absence of this, there is no point telling the world that we are creating leaders of future when the students do not even know which job they are best at.

1 comment:

Austin said...

Employability rate of MBAs now standing at a meager value of only 5% is alarming and indeed a very pathetic situation, The industry had made a big cry about this situation, but never the less ha done any to close the gap. It is interesting to know that SMOT is taking adequate steps towards empowering MBAs towards employability. Good Luck SMOT!!!