This link which I found on twitter (the first good thing I've found so far, I think) was too good not to share with my readers - especially those who have gone through the B-school campus recruitment circus already, a few who are about to face it and chewing their nails, and those a lot younger who are still fantasizing about it (and their parents too, of course).
Many thanks to Omkar Mazumdar/'splashyellow'.
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8 comments:
Respected Sir,
That was really a nice post. Humor apart, the stark reality strikes me most. In addition the solutions are so prudent. Finally I have the much needed support - when I say that institutions are becoming zoos and organizations are running circus.
Sincere regards,
Anirvan
Arrey! Thanks man.
You are welcome, Sidin. Your article made good reading, and I hope it will open some people's eyes.
Dear sir,
First I would like to thank you for posting this article on your blogspot, either I would have missed this wonderfully written article. The article is truly sarcastic and full of irony. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I would love to put in my observations regarding this article.
In India, there is a craze about studying MBA. It’s almost a fashion to study MBA now-a-days. You ask anybody – what do you want to do after college – I am sure almost 90% will say I want to “ do an MBA ”. So, it’s big business for CAT-coaching centres all across India and also for the B-schools. The writer has righty pointed out that there is indeed a capitalist conspiracy to run this lucrative business. Management education is indeed a big business in India. You want to be rich, open a B-school. The situation is aggravated by the fact that unlike in USA and UK, in India – you don’t need to have at least 3 years of work experience as a vital criteria to get into the IIM’s and other top B-schools – except for ISB Hyderabad. This is being deliberately done to make this business of management sustainable.
Now, this has four important ramifications :
1.where you ‘do’ an MBA is more important than what you study – at least for the really good students to distinguish themselves from their relatively inferior counterparts in this highly competitive job market.
2.In India, students in their final year in college go for an MBA to find a job. This is a highly flawed approach in reality. One should study MBA to master his core area of excellence rather than to find a job. This is an area where the majority of the people are going wrong. In reality, it is desirable to work somewhere, get some practical work experience after graduation and then go for an MBA. If a student can get through CAT exams in his final year in college, he can surely get good percentile if he appears for the exam again after two or three years. One just needs to retain his self-confidence to get through. In fact, there are many people who sit for their CAT exam after ten to fifteen years of work experience. Several army officers after their retirement are also aspiring to get into IIM’s at present. If this realization does not come to the students, this unholy nexus between coaching centres, B-schools and campus recruitment companies will never be broken.
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3.I feel there is a more sinister trend here and a danger to our society. I find that the majority of the college students in their final year who aspire for an MBA degree do not know themselves what they want in their life. So, they follow the latest trend – MBA. They wander about aimlessly and just like a man sinking in water waiting to catch hold of something solid to stay alive, these students go for an MBA. At least they can say to their peer group that they are doing something ‘worthwhile’. So, unless the students know what they want out of life and why they are doing something, the annual circus will continue eternally.
4.I found it quite interesting the author mentioned about dressing style. I however quite agree with him on this point. In our college, we are told to dress well before appearing for an interview. Now-a-days, it is taken for granted that a person’s ability is decided by his appearance. This although sad, is the harsh reality of today’s life where a person’s intellectual ability has attained second place to his dressing sense. The companies, mainly the MNC’s suffer from a mindset that a person entering office without wearing a suit is semi-literate. Rightly, the author advises students against digging the nail into their coffin. ‘ pehle darshan dhari, baad mein guun bichari’ was and will be the order of the day. Even in matters of seriousness like a project report, we are told by our teachers – although your research efforts are inadequate or you may have downloaded almost 70% of the project, if you package it well or your editing is good enough and you are capable of making a good power point presentation – you assured to get at least 80 out of 100 marks. So, branding has assumed more importance over substance in real life.
I appreciate the effort made by our education minister towards reforming the present education scenario in our country. Somebody needs to tell him to give his precious attention towards this issue as well or the writer’s article should be brought to his urgent notice. He would do well to get the ghost of MBA out of the mind of our young college graduates. Foreign education institutions would soon open campuses all over India for providing world class management education. I get a feeling this does not bode well for India. There is a high chance that these are being promoted by lobbyists for the one and only purpose of business and not for the purpose of education. Unless certain terms and conditions are well laid out for these institutions, this shall only pave the way for greater business opportunities for these B-schools.
Regards,
Avishek Mondal
( Student )
Dear Sir,
This one was hillarious! It was a fantastic read.
Somehow, I always seem to forget what a brilliant blog this one is -- I think I even like it better than the other one. Promise to myself: Return here more often.
Regards,
~Mayuri
Thank you for the kind appreciation, Mayuri. It may surprise you to learn that some people have told me they cannot find much merit in this blog.
Sir,
This article has brilliantly summarized all the necessary points. I believe this will help many to take informed decision.
Regards,
Subhajit
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