Yday, I met a young girl who has completed her BTech from a rural college with over 90 percent mark and with an eagerness to pursue her career. She is from a rural village from a neighboring district and lacked confidence and English communication skills, due to her poor schooling. On enquiring further about what she is doing after Btech, she said that she has joined for a CCNA course (Cisco Certified Network Architect) in an IT training institute in Cochin. The course fee is Rs 20000. and she,who is coming from a very poor family background has somehow arranged loan from a wellwisher and has reached Cochin with a lot of aspirations. The training institute has withheld the truth that there are providing only the CCNA training and the certification will actually cost another 75K . This girl was under the imagination that she will soon become a CCNA and that all her family woes of an ailing father, mother and sisters will end, when she gets a job in two months time, whereas in real, she doesnt even have the money to survive in cochin and can't even imagine of arranging 75K for the exam fee!! Only a certified Network engineer can actually think of getting a high paying job and most others end up back to square one or taking up BPO jobs !
I felt really upset when i came to know that the training institute has actually cheated her by not providing the right career guidance! When asked, whether she actually enquired about the credibility of the course and the center, she said that the counselor told all their previous students have got job in MNCs.
The word MNC IT company lured this girl too ...coz she thought that her Engineering education with 90 percent did not get her job..may be this course will atleast help her! And the highlighting part is that she is no way connected to the field of hardware or network engineering before and her Btech was in Electronics and communication! And still she got convinced that this will bring a magical twist to her career!
But, her problem in my assessment is only ONE - Lack of English Language skills. If only she corrects that, she will easily get through any of the interviews..coz , she already has the confidence and the attitude to learn. Instead of giving solution to the core problem, unfortunately, people spend time, money and resource on something else and then end up frustrated!!!
Wish, each educational institution plays atleast some interest in the development of soft skills and communication skills in the students , rather than producing engineers like broiler chickens!
Wish ,the training centers provides the right guidance , instead of just trying to sell their courses on these poor victims who lack financial background ,exposure and are really perplexed about their career!
Wish students become a little more sensible in developing their skills by understanding their own weaknesses and the education system provides such opportunities.
Wish, every parent (especially the lower and middle sections) stop taking huge loan for their child's education unless they are sure about the child's area of interest, capability and possibility for placements by doing the course.
And Wish, our country provides the best quality education in the Schools where the foundation is laid properly!
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N.B. This girl is now part of my office, quitting her useless course and saving atleast the remaining of the course fee installments. But how many can I save like this?
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