Corporate training grounds - the next solution to Talent shortage!?

A quick glimpse of today's newspaper and there were 4 articles on large corporates (Pantaloon, another IT company) and a couple of ads calling for training franchises (Bharti Walmart, if am right!).....

With oft-repeated statistics highlighting the abysmally low 'employable' graduates passing out of the country's institutions, and the scramble for good talent in the face of exponential growth in some industries - like consumer, media, telecom and retail, just to mention a few... well it looks like corporate engagment into graduate training and grooming to be 'employable' is the next inevitable trends.....

Now look at what it means to recruiters/recruitment organisations and also to human relations pro's in any of these emerging industries... the new trend would call for a broader understanding of curriculum in colleges/universities, basic skill levels in various geographies across the country - skills akin to communication, selling, client interface, basic technical skills in IT (not sheer theory, but practical hands on exposure to keep them ready for the employment engagement...... all this would mean that recruiting organisations can also look at a completely different kind of engagement at the college/university level, where they could engage with placement cells/curriculum planners in proffering crucial inputs that would be a wealth of information for 'reskilling' and making the would be graduates 'employable'.....

The day is not probably not far when recruitment thought leaders and HR pro's could be on the curriculum committee and even the decision making bodies of our educational institutions... I am not saying this is not there now, but to what extent these stakeholders are impacting critical curriculum decisions??!! That is bound to take a leap in the next few months and years!

An example is Symbiosis, Pune engaging the services of an eminent PR practitioner in Chennai Mr Srinivasan www.prpoint.com to advise on curriculum development for a hands on PR course that ought to be radically different from the courses of today. Although this is PR (public relations), this will be more in the case of HR and recruitment in the days to come!!

Think of a scenario where we have a whole lot of 'employable' recruiters to work for corporates and recruitment organisations, with hands on exposure to various techiques of recruiting 'right' people...... Guess even large recruitment companies like Manpower, Adecco, Kellys etc can look at training would-be graduates to make them 'employable' recruiters........