Are your new employees "job ready"?
Industry representatives have been demanding that the prospective employee should be job ready.
If you are employing a fresher straight from the college, polytechnic or ITI, your expectation is unfounded. A person coming out of the educational institution has to be career ready and not job ready. Today, a young person usually goes through 16 to 18 years of education. This education has to prepare him/her for next 30 to 40 years of career. Through these years this person will move from one job to another job even if he stays in the same organization.
Making the person "job ready" is the responsibility of the employing organization. Industrial organization have been trying to cut down on expenditure on training of fresh employees. If you want to do away with this expenditure, you have an option of employing only people with work experience. While you save on training expenditure, you have to pay a higher salary. Some of my clients pursue this policy and have no complaints. Only organizations of certain type and certain size can pursue this policy. For larger organizations, this may not work.
In order to achieve the objective of 1. reducing cost and 2. reducing time period in which the employee becomes productive, employers should tie up with the educational institutions and in last six months of education of prospective employee, they should provide inputs which bridge the gap perceived by them.
General complaints and innuendos would not help. Let us adopt the attitude, "If we have a problem, let us solve it."
If you are employing a fresher straight from the college, polytechnic or ITI, your expectation is unfounded. A person coming out of the educational institution has to be career ready and not job ready. Today, a young person usually goes through 16 to 18 years of education. This education has to prepare him/her for next 30 to 40 years of career. Through these years this person will move from one job to another job even if he stays in the same organization.
Making the person "job ready" is the responsibility of the employing organization. Industrial organization have been trying to cut down on expenditure on training of fresh employees. If you want to do away with this expenditure, you have an option of employing only people with work experience. While you save on training expenditure, you have to pay a higher salary. Some of my clients pursue this policy and have no complaints. Only organizations of certain type and certain size can pursue this policy. For larger organizations, this may not work.
In order to achieve the objective of 1. reducing cost and 2. reducing time period in which the employee becomes productive, employers should tie up with the educational institutions and in last six months of education of prospective employee, they should provide inputs which bridge the gap perceived by them.
General complaints and innuendos would not help. Let us adopt the attitude, "If we have a problem, let us solve it."
posted by Y N Kaushal at
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