What do Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Dr. Manmohan Singh , Amitabh
Bachhan or Ambanis have in common. They are most successful persons in their respective fields in our times. Every one of you longs to be like them, but do we know what the inherent qualities they have in them are. To be successful in any career we must have the following five essentials in our kitty, namely,
1. Technical Skills related to our field
2. Selling Skills
3. Communication Skills
4. Computers are way of life
5. English
Technical Skills are the core of our career. By Technical skills I do not mean fields related to Engineering, it means the essential core skills that are fundamental and indispensable to your trade and profession. A CA should have a knack for figures and their application in real life problems, whereas an engineer should have an aptitude for analysing the problem and designing the solution for it; a medico should have the propensity to diagnose the disease and rectify it; Similarly an Event manager should have an inclination to manage men, money, materials and above all time (Though Time Management is critical to every profession but we will handle that in some other post).
But where do we get all these skills? Obviously, from a professional college. But do we? ... Yes, if we study in a professional college for Knowledge and not for a mere degree.
Almost all of us complain that we do not find in books what we have to do in life. But do we read those books for understanding or for just clearing our university exams.
How many of us do our assignments, practical tasks, industrial training and project work with enthusiasm and sincerity to learn and not just to complete a mere formality?
How many of us read the books thoroughly and try to relate them with real life happenings? How many of us grill our teachers if those two do not relate? Remember teachers are being paid for answering those questions and a good teacher will always like challenging tasks.
I remember I was in selection board for some company and I was interviewing an M.Sc(IT) candidate who passed out from one of the popular IT centres of so called distance learning centres of Universities. I started with questions of programming and he could not answer any one of those. Then I quizzed him about applications like MS Word, Excel etc. He was ridiculously wrong in even simple questions. At last I asked him how to shut down a PC running Windows XP and shockingly he answered that he didn't know that because he always left the PC on when he left his study centre (and he had an M.Sc. (IT) degree with good grade.) Evidently the candidate was rejected but all of us in the selection board wondered at the standard of post- graduates and graduates we are churning out from so called education shops.
So for attaining good, workable, practical technical skills we need to put ourselves through the mill and hard work, relate every thing we read in our books with real life, question our teachers and study for Knowledge and not for a waste paper called DEGREE!!!
Bachhan or Ambanis have in common. They are most successful persons in their respective fields in our times. Every one of you longs to be like them, but do we know what the inherent qualities they have in them are. To be successful in any career we must have the following five essentials in our kitty, namely,1. Technical Skills related to our field
2. Selling Skills
3. Communication Skills
4. Computers are way of life
5. English
Technical Skills are the core of our career. By Technical skills I do not mean fields related to Engineering, it means the essential core skills that are fundamental and indispensable to your trade and profession. A CA should have a knack for figures and their application in real life problems, whereas an engineer should have an aptitude for analysing the problem and designing the solution for it; a medico should have the propensity to diagnose the disease and rectify it; Similarly an Event manager should have an inclination to manage men, money, materials and above all time (Though Time Management is critical to every profession but we will handle that in some other post).
But where do we get all these skills? Obviously, from a professional college. But do we? ... Yes, if we study in a professional college for Knowledge and not for a mere degree.
Almost all of us complain that we do not find in books what we have to do in life. But do we read those books for understanding or for just clearing our university exams.
How many of us do our assignments, practical tasks, industrial training and project work with enthusiasm and sincerity to learn and not just to complete a mere formality?
How many of us read the books thoroughly and try to relate them with real life happenings? How many of us grill our teachers if those two do not relate? Remember teachers are being paid for answering those questions and a good teacher will always like challenging tasks.
I remember I was in selection board for some company and I was interviewing an M.Sc(IT) candidate who passed out from one of the popular IT centres of so called distance learning centres of Universities. I started with questions of programming and he could not answer any one of those. Then I quizzed him about applications like MS Word, Excel etc. He was ridiculously wrong in even simple questions. At last I asked him how to shut down a PC running Windows XP and shockingly he answered that he didn't know that because he always left the PC on when he left his study centre (and he had an M.Sc. (IT) degree with good grade.) Evidently the candidate was rejected but all of us in the selection board wondered at the standard of post- graduates and graduates we are churning out from so called education shops.
So for attaining good, workable, practical technical skills we need to put ourselves through the mill and hard work, relate every thing we read in our books with real life, question our teachers and study for Knowledge and not for a waste paper called DEGREE!!!
