Student's corner

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:  Do you think management institutes should adopt a different thinking line to improve the employability of MBAs?

BEST RESPONSE

Employability has been one of the main issues haunting management institutes. With only 1 in 5 MBA's being employable, according to the MeritTrac MBA employability Study 2011-2012, management institutes should adopt a different line of thinking.  They should be much more connected with industry, both to validate and enrich MBA programmes.  Further, managers need to be trained in the subjects of crisis management, stress management, healthy life style for managers along with HR, Finance, Operations and Marketing.  Also continuous and rigorous improvements in soft skills and communications skills can be a helpful to a great extent.

 

- Bhushan Orpe, Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Management Studies (FCRIMS), Vashi.

OTHER RESPONSES:

Management institutes should focus more on developing a student's personality. The efforts should begin at the entrance test level itself. In other words, management entrance test also should be more focus on attitude, not aptitude.

- Vinay Gupta, BITM , Pune

The employability of management graduates is a factor which depends basically on the level of institute. The top rung institutes providing MBA degree do not need to undergo any thought process regarding their placements. So in-order to improve the employability among business graduates, the inferior colleges should keep a watch on the pattern of the superior ones. This is bound to help them in diligently carrying out placements, with the result, an increase in strength as well as quality of employment.

- Shivam Chhabra, Integral University, Lucknow.

A management institution should strive and build premium quality manpower with techno-managerial skills, to help students act as 'business leaders' and 'change managers', in the various fields.  The management institute should be backed, guided and supported by the industry academically, and blend in the best of the Technical & Managerial skills in its curriculum into the most sought after and highly valued breed of future managers, professionals and entrepreneurs. Actively engaging students in variety of research projects with the case study based methodology makes MBAs employable and entrepreneurial.

- Joel Jose, MIT School of Telecom (M.I.T.S.O.T.), Pune.

In today's corporate epoch, the industry is demanding a much more advanced, informed and a 360 degree skills set from an MBA graduate. Change is the only constant thing and in order to meet the corporate demands, the MBA institutes should adapt themselves by running niche and specialised courses and train their students so that these students can easily fill the gap of a personnel required in the industry. The USP of the institute comes from the right mix of courses offered to the students as demanded by the industry and not just offering the outdated courses.

- Harsh Mehta, St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad.

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