6. A Win – Win Situation
Students
If Institutes:
•Start working on skills
Institutions
and attitudes apart from
knowledge
• Use case Methodologies
• Frequent industry
interactions
Then:
Institutes’ will get a better placement record.
Gain name in the society and therefore
better admissions.
Overall Growth
If Students :
•Start working on realistic expectations
• Change belief that a degree will get me job
Then:
They will be able to focus more on
enhancement of skills
They will be in a better position to be
hired
Organizations
If Industries:
•Do Frequent learning and
development program
• Visits Campuses and focus
on more interaction
Then:
They will get better workforce
Industries will be able to hire more fresher
9. GlobalLogic’s Success Story
GlobalLogic has GlobalLogic Development Forum (GDF) which aims at promoting Industry‐
Institution interaction and removing inadequacy of the university syllabus in C.S., C.T. and I.T.
In order to achieve the objectives of GDF, SETU Project (Bridging Academics and Industry) was
launched in 2005
Few Objectives of the Project:
• Identify the right talent during the academic tenure of the students and guide them to
come up to the industry expectations.
• Properly align the students resources to meet the industry standards.
• Integrate the students technically, professionally and culturally with the IT industry
• Build a pool of trained resources which are available as per requirement
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Videocon’s Success Story
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Videocon started with Knowledge Sharing
In Aurangabad, they introduced a curriculum based on industry requirement – areas which are
a need but not a part of the academics
10. Reliance Fresh Store’s Success Story
Reliance Fresh launched a “Train – and – Hire Model” to hire large numbers of non‐
supervisory sales staff, for their upcoming stores of Reliance Fresh.
They have tie‐ups with local institutes, NGOs, universities like AIMA, IGNOU etc and ask them
to run short‐term Retail Management courses where
• The first month of the course be a Classroom Training;
• Second month include 15 days of classroom training and 15 days of store training.
• During the third month, each week contain 5 days of store training and 1 day of
classroom training.
After successful completion of the course, the institute would a training completion certificate
to the students and best students according to their criteria are also hired by them.
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Cognizant’s Success Story
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Cognizant does two programs:
• They identify prospective students in the 3rd year of their academics and provide them
internships during last six months where they put these students on their module,
projects and Trainings. Through this program by the time students complete their course
they are ready for the company.
• Mentorship Program where the employees of the Cognizant frequently visit the selected
students and engage them. This done before on boarding of the candidates. A proper
details of the mentors is maintained.