Most of us say that college days were the best days of our life!
When we enter college, we are so less serious about life and career. It is in the final year of your college that reality creeps in, the reality is learn to take up responsibilities. The responsibility of stepping into corporate life and facing the work stage. For many people, this move is exciting and this transition will be full of hopes.
Well, corporate life is extremely different from campus life. In college, you may have read about concepts and memorized them to be able to put them down in your exam answer sheets. In corporate life, these are not just concepts. One has to readily transfer the learnings in real time, unlearn, relearn, continuously upgrade and cope up with multiple challenging situations & expectations, some of which probably they never faced till college days. At the end of the day, working is about doing your bit to earn livelihood for yourself or family, a job, a source of income.
Social life is easier in college as you spend significant portions of your day together, even more so if you share a hostel or a dorm room. In the work world, however, the social life will be completely different. It tends to be much more formal and your interaction will be with a varied group, in terms of profession, culture, beliefs and values.
It has been observed that people who are equipped with the basic knowledge of the survival skills needed in a work setup tend to do much better.
Employability requires four key ingredients of proficiency – Attitude, Knowledge, Skills & Habit – While academia has been doing a fairly good job on the knowledge front, but the gap is mostly observed in areas of technical skills development including enhancing soft skills abilities of the students.
The A.K.S.H or K.A.S.H box divides performance characteristics into four distinct categories. These four categories are further segmented into :
| HABIT | ATTITUDE |
| SKILL | KNOWLEDGE |
Knowledge or Skill deficiency = Knowledge or Skill gap = Training solution
Attitude or Habit issue = Performance gap = Coaching or Counselling or Mentoring solution.
The need for a c2c originates from the dynamic environment that we operate in, though our education system prepares us thoroughly & prudently. The work challenges require various business skills that are not part of the educational program in many institutions today. The c2c training program boosts the confidence of the freshers and provides them with tools like goal setting, teamwork, time management and stress management.
