Out Of Syllabus E-Book

V. Rajesh

• Herausgeber: V&S Publishers
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 108

Beschreibung

Career success tips that no one taught you

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Contents

I. Introduction & Overview

II. Importance of Career Planning

III. The Three Bucket Theory of Career Planning

IV. The 1st Bucket

     Life skills learning

     Functional learning

     Organisational learning

     Personal effectiveness

V. The 2nd Bucket

     Defining your Personal Success Secret

     Developing Behaviours for Success

         Harmony and Balance

         Urgent Vs Important

         How is it relevant?

         Learning never stops

VI. The 3rd Bucket

     Confidence Vs Overconfidence

     What is the “Wallenda Factor” and how to avoid it

     People first

VII. The most important one; The 4th Bucket!

VIII. The Last Word

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all my

mentors, well-wishers and Gurus

I have been lucky to have had.

I hope that the inputs, I have had,

which are captured in this book

help enrich the lives of the reader

as it has mine.

Publisher’s Note

“Your book bag has transformed into a brief case and your casual attire into business attire; it’s time to start thinking like a professional.”

Making the transition from College/ University Campus to Corporate World is one of the biggest challenges students face in their career as they confront an inevitable transition from the happy assignments and mid-semesters scenario to team work and deadlines. Moving from an academic environment to a corporate setting has many changes and one needs to understand the organisational dynamics in order to get well in this new environment as corporate houses prefer to recruit employees who can be immediately employed and deployed.

Training college/ university students to make them more employable is one of the key challenges for most of the companies across the world. So it is evident that companies also feel the necessity to groom the fresh students to make them more professional and fitted to a corporate setup and that is why companies organise various workshops to groom their employees. However, in most of the cases it is seen that these workshops end in incomplete training and disappointment.

Students and youngsters find it difficult to adapt the requirements of corporate environment primarily because of the vast difference in the way professors and managers operate; while professors focus on increasing learning quotient and improving subject matter understanding, managers want implementation of the knowledge and therefore focus on getting the task done, meeting deadlines, etc. So, while one focuses on learning, the other focuses on significant leverage. This added pressure takes a heavy toll on students and makes it even more difficult for them to scale the success ladder at corporate level. Besides handling these pressures, it is becoming more and more important to have the correct know-how to proceed in career.

To bridge the gap that exists between Campus environment and Corporate setting and to help those students who are just entering the Corporate World or in the threshold of Campus and Corporate, V&S Publishers launches its imprint – Campus to Corporate.

Foreword

The Syllabus is a pivotal thing in the formative years of anyone. Our lives are defined by the syllabus. Even when not finished on time it causes serious concern and angst in the minds of students as this typically leads to special classes, Saturday school, etc. Before any test or exam we are all worried only about the portions from the syllabus that are included for that test or exam. Most things we don’t know conveniently become out of syllabus for the exam and hence the responsibility no longer rests on the student’s shoulders.

Overnight, this mighty thing called as syllabus becomes powerless.

A common quotation is”Just when I learnt all the answers to life, the questions changed”. In other words, this means that the syllabus followed till then was no longer relevant. One can leave a question during an exam and expect full marks for that if the question happens to be out of syllabus. But in real life, there is nothing called as “Out of Syllabus”. Especially when a person embarks on his career this excuse of “out of syllabus” becomes unacceptable.

In that context the various syllabus taught to us during the 17 plus long years of study which is filled with many things should ideally prepare us completely at least for a career and especially success in one’s career, if not to handle life.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. Success is not wholly based on pure academic knowledge. Actually what students get during their 17 plus long years of study is academic information, not knowledge, and this difference between information and knowledge is one of the many things this book will explain. There is obviously a huge gap with regard to various inputs required to be successful in a career. Sadly, this is not taught to the vast majority during the almost 2 decades of academic preparation towards a career.

These crucial inputs end up being “Out of Syllabus”.

As mentioned before, in the tests of daily life one cannot escape by using the excuse of “Out of Syllabus” That is why most people are handicapped when managing their careers and this leads to frustrations, stress and unhappiness. And obviously is nowhere near success.

One interesting reality is that many if not most successful and visionary people are those who chose to spend time to learn the lessons which are “Out of Syllabus”. In fact there are many examples of people dropping out of formal education and being phenomenally successful, mainly because of their “Out of Syllabus” learning.

However, everyone who drops out of formal education cannot be assured of success by default. A conscious awareness is required that life will cast situations which are “Out of Syllabus” and efforts to learn about handling the same will definitely increase the chances of success.

This book Out of Syllabus covers those inputs, tips, guidelines and suggestions that are hardly ever taught formally to anyone. A few lucky people might get to learn some of these things from their parents, friends, colleagues, etc. But most are bereft of these crucial inputs. These “Out of Syllabus” lessons will help a person become more effective and efficient and also leverage his academic learning in a better manner.

One very interesting and important concept discussed in the book is about “Personal Success Secret”. This is one of the bedrocks of success and if you look around and notice any successful person you will find that they have their own “Personal Success Secrets”.

The inputs discussed in the book are very basic and simple and are not rocket science. The key to making it work is to internalise these inputs and make them into habits through repetitive learning as the author often mentions.

The author’s intent to help enrich the lives of the reader is surely possible because of the simplicity of the ideas and the ease with which it can be incorporated into one’s life. We do hope that you derive the maximum benefits from this book and also share the learning with others to enrich the lives of others around you.

True success lies in being remembered as a great human being who made a difference in the lives of others. Hope every reader achieves this success.

IIntroduction & Overview

There is a common saying in corporate circles which is “What is measured can be managed”. The unsaid part of this statement is that one needs to plan and set definitive objectives and only then can anything be measured. So it is with one’s career. Usually one’s career is supposedly planned because everyone tends to study based on this plan and aspirations. However, most often this is not well thought out and the criteria used for career planning is misguided to say the least.

The criteria to decide on careers vary from personal choice (rarely) to parental pressures, peer group influence, monetary considerations, etc. The issue is that these factors very soon lose relevance and a person is left wondering about the career (s)he is pursuing. By then time has also passed by and people tend to get by in this default choice of a career. Considering this, is it any wonder that the stress from job related issues is on the rise and most people don’t seem to be happy?

This fundamental flaw in career planning is best illustrated by this incident I once witnessed. A lady with her daughter had come for counselling. This lady was lamenting that her daughter used to be a very good student and was consistently topping the class in her school. The previous year they managed to get her a seat in one of the best engineering colleges and that’s when the trouble started. The daughter had progressively become dull, morose and lost interest in everything including studies. Obviously she was doing very poorly in the college and this was becoming a major cause of concern. It was then the turn of the daughter to express her views.

The daughter started off being withdrawn. But, with gentle prodding started opening up and said that she did like the college and the students there. She had no problem with anyone there. After a few repeated questions about what was the reason for her dullness and poor performance, she suddenly burst out,”I don’t want to be an engineer. I don’t want to study engineering.” A second of silence followed.

Then her mother very forcefully and almost curtly told her daughter, “You don’t know. You want to be an engineer. You study well and can become a good engineer and earn lots of money.”

This incident sadly reflects how the career choices for youngsters are made.

I cannot claim to have been blessed with foresight and had planned my career with perfection. However, what I can claim is that several mentors and well-wishers gave me very good and sound advice which I internalised and acted upon. Over the years this has helped me shape my career broadly in the way I would have liked it to be. I firmly believe that there is no single success formula and in that context am very sceptical of self-improvement books such as this one itself.

Therefore, what I put forward through this book is to be taken as an indicative direction and as inputs which need to be thought about and then one needs to structure these ideas and inputs to suit his self, his personality, his aspirations, etc. If these inputs are well adapted and acted upon, they will develop into your own unique success formula which is not only powerful but also enduring.