Campus To Corporate

Sharma Ashutosh

Description

The transition from Campus-to-Corporate is often fraught with difficulties. Difficulty - not only in getting job - but also in adapting to the big differences between academic and work life. This book is supposed to become a trusted companion of a young student as he stands on this eventful transition from college to work. It differentiates itself from other books in this genre at least in two prominent ways. Firstly, it will help the reader not only prepare for the recruitment process but also cope with the challenges in the first few years at work. Secondly, unlike most other books in this genre, this book doesn't solely depend on personal experiences of the author, but also draws learning from the recent researches in the areas of neuroscience, psychology, and management science. Another interesting aspect of the book is numerous easy but powerful tools and formats for ready application in the field. This book is a must read for students in colleges as also for the fresh employees in their first year at work. #v&spublishersContents:Publisher's NoteAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. On Campus Getting Ready a) Dipstickb) Who are you? How Knowing Oneself Improves One's Chances of Getting a Job Out in the Battle-fieldc) Who do Companies Scout For? d) Mastering Assessment Tests & Group Discussion e) Getting Through Interviews 2. On the Job a) Change and Learning b) Transition: Changes one encounters c) Experiential Learning: A Whole New way of Learning Understanding and Managing Self d) Anxiety: Managing it-Leveraging it e) Manage Yourself and Your Time Understanding Organisations f) Organisations: Structure, Culture, and You Build Your Network g) Building a Network that Works Manage Your Career h) Be Your own Guide References

Sujets

• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Public administration

Informations

• Publié par: V & S Publishers
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789350572276
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Contents
Publisher’s Note
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
P ART -1: O N C AMPUS
     Getting Ready
    1. Dipstick
    2. Who are you? How knowing oneself improves one’s chances of getting a job.
     Out in the battle-field
    3. Who do companies scout for?
    4. Mastering Assessment Tests & Group Discussion
    5. Getting through Interviews
P ART -2: O N THE J OB
     Change and Learning
    6. Transition: Changes one encounters
    7. Experiential Learning: A whole new way of learning
     Understanding and Managing Self
    8. Anxiety: Managing it-Leveraging it
    9. Manage yourself and your time
     Understanding Organisations
    10. Organisations: Structure, Culture, and You
     Build Your Network
    11. Building a Network that Works
     Manage Your Career
    12. Be Your own Guide
References
 

Read this book if your answer to these questions is NO
  Do you know what you need to learn and focus on to get that dream job?
  Do you know who do companies recruit? Do you know how to provide the answers interviewers look for?
  Do you know what changes you will face when you enter the work place?
  Do you know how to manage anxiety, stress, time, and relationships?
  Do you know how to manage difficult Bosses and Colleagues?
  Do you know which organisation type would suit you? Do you know how to build a network that will help you grow in career?
  Do you know how to grow in the organisation?
Publisher’s Note
Making the transition from College/ University Campus to Corporate World is one of the biggest challenges students face in their career as they confront an inevitable transition from the happy assignments and mid-semesters scenario to team work and deadlines. Moving from an academic environment to a corporate setting has many changes and one needs to understand the organisational dynamics in order to get well in this new environment as corporate houses prefer to recruit employees who can be immediately employed and deployed. Training college/ university students to make them more employable is one of the key challenges for most of the companies across the world. So it is evident that companies also feel the necessity to groom the fresh students to make them more professional and fitted to a corporate setup and that is why companies organise various workshops to groom their employees. However, in most of the cases it is seen that these workshops end in incomplete training and disappointment.
Students and youngsters find it difficult to adapt the requirements of corporate environment primarily because of the vast difference in the way professors and managers operate; while professors focus on increasing learning quotient and improving subject matter understanding, managers want implementation of the knowledge and therefore focus on getting the task done, meeting deadlines, etc. So, while one focuses on learning, the other focuses on significant leverage. This added pressure takes a heavy toll on students and makes it even more difficult for them to scale the success ladder at corporate level. Besides handling these pressures, it is becoming more and more important to have the correct know-how to proceed in career.
To bridge the gap that exists between Campus environment and Corporate setting and to help those students who are just entering the Corporate World or in the threshold of Campus and Corporate, V&S Publishers has launched its imprint – Campus to Corporate .
This book has been written to make the young trainees aware of the changes that they should expect on the eventful transition from campus to corporate and hence help them set realistic expectations from work life. We hope this book will help readers not only prepare for the recruitment process but also cope with the challenges they face in work life and helps fresh graduates become better employees and professionals.
Acknowledgements
It is difficult to succeed in an endeavour without help and support from significant others. This book would not have been possible without the interest in books that my Father, Sh. Onkar Dutt Sharma , gave me in legacy and the numerous selfless sacrifices by my Mother, Smt. Nirmala Sharma .
I thank my wife Ritu for the constant inspiration and motivation through the ups and downs in my career and my little daughter Ananya and nephew Aditya for their smiles and affection which keep me energised and full of life. My book would be incomplete without referring the names of my siblings – Priyanka and Tarun , in whose loving company I grew up.
I have been fortunate to have worked with Mr. L Ravichandran , my first Manager. I thank him for guiding me so well through the first two years of my career. I also can’t thank enough Mr. Andleeb Jain , my friend, philosopher and guide, who has influenced my life in more than one way. I am forever indebted to him for all his kindness.
Learning can’t happen without a Guru and I am lucky to have got at least two. I thank Dr.S Swaminathan for numerous little and big things that I learnt from him and also for igniting my passion in the field of Human Resources. I thank Mr. PM Kumar , who has been a constant source of inspiration for me. Listening to him speak for a minute is worth a thousand such books.
In the end I thank all Colleges and Institutes including my Alma Mater Delhi College of Engineering for continuously producing some of the best Engineers and Managers in the world despite the challenges that a developing nation like India faces.
Preface
Recently, I read a news article in a national daily: Management Trainees Quit a Leading Public Sector Unit . This organisation wanted to rejuvenate itself by bringing in these young people from leading premier institutes as change-agents. However, when the trainees went there, they found to their surprise that the treatment given to them was not what they had expected. As an outcome of resulting frustration they decided to quit. One can’t single out who was responsible for it. The students joining the organisation were as much at fault for having unrealistic expectations as the organisation was for not setting expectations right. This is an example of what usually happens with Management and Engineer trainees: Unmet expectations resulting in frustrations. Most of them, therefore, usually leave their first company within a year or two.
From being a Management trainee myself to handling Management and Engineer trainees, I have been for the last ten years exposed to the challenges faced by them both in securing a job that suits their personality, skills and aspirations, and then in adapting themselves to the change they encounter when they join their first job. So, when my publisher contacted me early this year for writing a book on this subject, it was a very easy and eager "Yes" from me. I thought it a really good opportunity for me to reach students and fresh Management and Engineer trainees and share certain facts and techniques with them to cope better with this transition; and, hence this book in your hands today. This book has been written to make the young trainees aware of the changes that they should expect and hence help them set realistic expectations from work life.
As I interacted with different institutes and colleges as part of my job, I realised that they are now much more sensitised to the challenges of campus-to-corporate transition than what they were a decade ago. Despite the commendable efforts of those institutes, I still find students lacking in their adaptive skills when they come to work. I found less was being done to address this adaptive challenge. Though, I am dealing with both pre-placement an