We are at the fag end of the MBA program and like many, we all are paranoid as well about where we would get to work (or will we ever to work at all, given India’s current macro economic conditions!) after our program. For weeks now, professors have been visiting us, more regularly than ever, to scare us about how we could perish in the job market if we don’t prepare well.

But the faculty here at Ohio University Christ College (my institution) came up with a program called Management Competency Program, or ‘MCP’ as we like to call it. Its a series of activities run everyday for two hours as part of our academic learning. We get our CVs fixed, attend mock interviews, participate in Group Discussions and help each other to prepare us for the forthcoming judgement day – Placement Season! At the core of this ambitious, life-saving, career-structuring, brand-building program is the ideology that students who take this seriously would get a job, and those who don’t will not even be given a chance to sit for placements.

While in spirit it sure does look good as a well thought out process, not many of us have taken it seriously yet. Maybe we are immune to warnings of forthcoming trouble. Like just after every exam, we crib about how we couldn’t answer a simple exam paper and had we only studies for a few good hours, we could have fared better.

Dr. Raghu Iyer, our director must be having nightmares each time he reads an article on MINT about how this year’s job market is horrible. He so neatly prints these articles and strangely picks me every time to read it to the whole class.  Maybe he’s sending out a message to me. Lol. Mrs. Gayathri Nandakumar is putting in extra hours and I am sure she’s wondering how she’ll place nuts like us into good organizations. Prof. Amalendu Jyotishi is equally worried. I haven’t checked his blog in a long time now. Maybe he might write a poem about how we are hopeless at times. By the way, I love few of his poems. He’s a genius when it comes to writing good lines.

The situation in college right now is so gloomy. Just like in movies, where thirty minutes before the movie ends everyone is crying their hearts out about how life is treating them so badly(Indian heroes cry so shamelessly at times. People say, if you don’t cry, you are not a man! Wonder where that came from). If a movie was ever made on our MBA Woes, our campus would be the setting, Dr. Raghu and Mrs. Gayathri would be the lead actors and the movie would have 100 villains!

And the movie would be called ‘Dr. Raghu and the 100 thieves!’

Love
Sen