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Are Students Prepared For Industry?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The current education system has seen dramatic changes with the advent of technology and advancements&period; Most of the graduate colleges aim to prepare their students to get a well-paying job after wards&period; The increase in competition has also brought several changes&period; However&comma; the education system going in the colleges is still not responding to the needs of the corporate world&period; The students are ill-prepared as compared to the company standards&period; In India&comma; in most of the colleges&comma; there is more emphasis on theoretical knowledge and students practice based on the theory they have learnt&period; In India&comma; one of the biggest employing industry is IT but when students first enter to the IT industry&comma; they are almost negligent to the practices that are followed&period; It makes it difficult for the new hires to learn quickly and thus creating a need of IT professionals to train them to make them ready for the job&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-Correct-Size wp-image-14810" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;medusamagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;09&sol;Are-Students-Prepared-For-Industry-640x426&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Are Students Prepared For Industry" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"426" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>&num; Trainings Held Before Kick-off<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In most of the companies&comma; before the graduates are assigned to some project&comma; they are given rigorous training by the companies&period; Along with the practical knowledge to be delivered&comma; they are taught on the company etiquettes&period; This has become a routine for the bigger companies&comma; however&comma; in smaller companies&comma; due to lack of funds&comma; there is no such training&period; These companies thus tend to hire someone who has experience and thus leaving fewer options for the new graduates&period; If the graduate schools rather than transferring theoretical knowledge also put emphasis on teaching the practical understanding&comma; the students can get many more opportunities in the industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>&num; Practical Knowledge Being Main Ingredient<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Here is an example to explain the situation of the students&comma; a guy who used to top his semester exams from the beginning&period; He was highly knowledgeable as per his teachers and he always used to be excelling in each and every subject&period; He was favourite of all of his mentors in college&comma; everybody used to say that he would be future star of any company that hires him&period; He was also quite confident to get a satisfying job&period; However&comma; contrary to the expectation&comma; he did not get a job&period; From the interviews&comma; he realised that he lacked the practical knowledge that was being asked by all the companies&period; Some 6 months passed and all his hard work to find a job was in vein&period; Then after sometime&comma; someone asked him to join a technical course and he started working with it and soon after that he got selected with a big brand&period; Everyone was surprised to know that a merit student had to undertake another path to secure success with the placement&period; However&comma; they did not realise that it was the practical knowledge that the student was lacking&period; No matter how good you score it is very important to have practical knowledge about the technology&period; Although the industry does not expect experts from the college level but yes&comma; it expects you to know the basics of it so that they can train you and assign you into a real time project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>&num; Even a Labourer is Paid More<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">When a college student starts job hunting&comma; that phase of life is very difficult for him as it requires interim patience if you are trying your luck off-campus&period; And if you are not trying in a very big firm your stipend would be even lesser than a labourer&period; There is expectation that your work should be up to a mark however&comma; you are not paid as per your efforts in the work&period; The reason behind this is again the training that the company is providing&period; A company has a pre-decided budget of investment in a candidate&period; If a company has to spend money on training&comma; then definitely there will be lesser pay incentives to the candidates&period; If the student is already qualified to bring value to the company&comma; then the training time and money is invested directly into the candidate&period; As a result&comma; the whole process of education system affects a student’s life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A student can also take career guidance from the experts on the matter on how to gain maximum benefit from the education they receive at the college’s end&period; This can help the student to take right decision from the beginning of their career and also help them choose the right skills which are in demand in the industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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