Like any recruitment professionals, I’ve interacted with thousands of fresher
candidates and I’ve seen one thing in common amongst almost all the freshers
who have done part-time job during their education, be it under-graduation or
MBAs or any degree for that matter.
Unlike others, they carry good amount of maturity and balance. They are realistic in their expectation. They
are grounded and they carry themselves much better than most the other freshers.
They seem to know the value of money and job.
They seem to take rejection much better than most of the other freshers.
In my experience, of many
HR interns that I’ve seen, Interns with part-time job experience during their
MBA were much different. They show lot of seriousness and accountability in
doing a job and they don’t carry themselves as a student. For a moment, you
could mistake them for your regular employees. Campus to Corporate transition
has already taken place for them and they are for real. BTW, when I say part-time job, I don’t mean
internship. I mean the real job wherein you get to take up real time work and
you are accountable for that.
So what is so special about them and what do they learn from their part-time
job that they don’t get to learn in MBAs?
I think they come out of their protected and pampered environment and get
to face and experience the real world. When the “real world” becomes your
school, the lessons are real-time and life lessons.
In this Blog posting, I just thought of sharing couple of examples that I’ve
come across.
1. Billionaire’s
MBA son in India sent to do odd jobs for a month
I’ve recently come across a News update wherein a Gujarat-based Billionaire
dad decides to teach his son doing MBA a real world experience. He persuades
his son to go and survive in an unknown place for a month with certain conditions
as given below
# He should not disclose his identity.
# He should try to get a job, earn money and survive on his own for a
month. He should not work in any place for more than a week.
# He will be given Rs.7000/- but he should spend it only in case of
emergency, not for day to day expenditure.
Though it sounds unrealistic or like a movie, it did really happen in
Gujarat.
His son accepts the challenge and goes to Kerala to realize many things
about the real world. He could not get
any job for about 5 days. No place to stay.
After lot of struggle, he would find jobs in few places and mostly odd
jobs. However, the lesson learnt,
according to him, were many life lessons that he did not learnt / would not
have learnt in his MBA.
This life skill lesson in real world was planned by a Gujarati based
diamond merchant of Rs.6,000 Cr company.
Mr. President’s daughter taking up restaurant
job in the US
Points to ponder
# What the class room cannot teach, a real
world will teach us:
If you are interested to know what it means to face the real world and
want to come out of your pampered /protected world, do get into some kind of
part-time job.
If you want to become a recruitment professional, do take up a part-time
job in any head hunting agency. Just reading about recruitment and case studies
on Books will not help much. If you want
to know what customer care is all about, do take up a part time wherein you get
to interact with customers directly. You will have hands-on experience on all
about customers and how to handle them.
If you look at some of the most successful people in the world, they
were not necessarily formally educated which only confirm the learning
potential that lies outside the typical classrooms. Example – Thomas A Edison
So there are many things beyond class rooms that could complement and
enhance your studies. Are you ready to explore
that?
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