As a follow up of earlier post, let us bring the perspective of 'Deployability'!
We know what is Employability now and this is what the HRs want from institutions. But the Project Managers need 'Deployable Talent'. So what's the difference?
Employable Candidates are the ones who are JOB SPECIFIC TRAINABLE and once trained, they can become DEPLOYABLE. As we all know that any fresher recruit undergoes an intensive training once they join any company. The training period varies between 1 - 4 months depending upon company. Now the cost involved to shape a fresher runs to lakh for each company. Only after successfully completing the training, the candidates becomes DEPLOYABLE.
Almost all SMEs want Deployable Talent as most of them cannot absorb the cost of training an employable candidate. And even large organisations today would love to absorb Deployable talent to reduce their cost of training and start generating output from the first week.
It's a fact that only a very few percentage are Deployable on recruitment as we are still fighting to solve Employability problem. Now how really this can be solved? Should we solve first Employability & then after 5 years talk about Deployability? Deployability is already discussed a lot in companies.
We are forced to compare this scenario with western countries where students opt for real time internships in startups/SMEs whether paid/unpaid. The culture of INTERNSHIP makes the difference. In India, a large percentage of COLLEGE PROJECT is done on something outdated and not relevant to the problem worked by the companies.
Several Indian companies especially startups today hire through internships. The student is allowed to work on real-time projects for 3-6 months and based on their LEARNING CURVE, a large percentage of companies absorb them. This is at a very nascent stage in India and requires a lot of drive from universities & prominent institutions to position internship as an important step towards Employment. And it is important to educate our students that Internships is more to LEARN than to EARN pocket money. The student should be guided to apply for internships based on their interest & skill rather than seeking the one which pays more money!
A student can do at least 2 internships before completing their college. One of them can be related to their educational background and one can be on their additional interest. These internships will help the student to explore their skills and shape it better for the future.
Top institutions like BITS Pilani, IITs and few courses in CEG,CIT,etc have a mandatory 6 month internships. Several private universities are actively working to implement successful internship model. A lot of work needs to be done to make internship culture as a significant part towards creating employment.
There are some companies which help students to apply for internships. A large percentage of companies do pay stipend for internships. You can find some prominent websites that help students for internships.
www.letmeknow.in
www.twenty19.com
www.letsintern.com
www.hellointern.com
www.10internship.in
www.blog.internshala.com/
While we are helping our students to make them employable, let us also guide them to be deployable!
See you in the next post!
Bye
Praveen
We know what is Employability now and this is what the HRs want from institutions. But the Project Managers need 'Deployable Talent'. So what's the difference?
Employable Candidates are the ones who are JOB SPECIFIC TRAINABLE and once trained, they can become DEPLOYABLE. As we all know that any fresher recruit undergoes an intensive training once they join any company. The training period varies between 1 - 4 months depending upon company. Now the cost involved to shape a fresher runs to lakh for each company. Only after successfully completing the training, the candidates becomes DEPLOYABLE.
Almost all SMEs want Deployable Talent as most of them cannot absorb the cost of training an employable candidate. And even large organisations today would love to absorb Deployable talent to reduce their cost of training and start generating output from the first week.
It's a fact that only a very few percentage are Deployable on recruitment as we are still fighting to solve Employability problem. Now how really this can be solved? Should we solve first Employability & then after 5 years talk about Deployability? Deployability is already discussed a lot in companies.
We are forced to compare this scenario with western countries where students opt for real time internships in startups/SMEs whether paid/unpaid. The culture of INTERNSHIP makes the difference. In India, a large percentage of COLLEGE PROJECT is done on something outdated and not relevant to the problem worked by the companies.
Several Indian companies especially startups today hire through internships. The student is allowed to work on real-time projects for 3-6 months and based on their LEARNING CURVE, a large percentage of companies absorb them. This is at a very nascent stage in India and requires a lot of drive from universities & prominent institutions to position internship as an important step towards Employment. And it is important to educate our students that Internships is more to LEARN than to EARN pocket money. The student should be guided to apply for internships based on their interest & skill rather than seeking the one which pays more money!
A student can do at least 2 internships before completing their college. One of them can be related to their educational background and one can be on their additional interest. These internships will help the student to explore their skills and shape it better for the future.
Top institutions like BITS Pilani, IITs and few courses in CEG,CIT,etc have a mandatory 6 month internships. Several private universities are actively working to implement successful internship model. A lot of work needs to be done to make internship culture as a significant part towards creating employment.
There are some companies which help students to apply for internships. A large percentage of companies do pay stipend for internships. You can find some prominent websites that help students for internships.
www.letmeknow.in
www.twenty19.com
www.letsintern.com
www.hellointern.com
www.10internship.in
www.blog.internshala.com/
While we are helping our students to make them employable, let us also guide them to be deployable!
See you in the next post!
Bye
Praveen
This is the right time to think about developing deployability.
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