A fresher in transition from campus to corporate has a big challenge to adapt to the change, their travel is from assignments and semesters to team work and deadlines.
Student-life is mostly care-free, typically students live their own timings, bunk classes, skip lessons and still make their grades.
Their professors are focused on enhancing learning quotient and look at improving their subject matter understanding; they evaluate them on their overall learning ability and implementation to a certain extent.
However, in an organisational setting, one is not only expected to be on time, attend meetings, take decisions, but also understand team based working in order to deliver on time within acceptable quality.
From a manager’s perspective, there is a constant pressure to deliver and meet deadlines using existing and derived knowledge.
This change requires an understanding of
- realities in a corporate environment
- required attitude
- success goals
- importance of learning as a continuous exercise over earning
- excellence
- ownership
- creativity and innovation
- initiatives to solve problems
- responsibility
- conflicts
- failures as feedbacks
- health
- work life balance
- internal motivation to overcome internal interference like self doubt, limiting beliefs, negative memories
Wherever one comes from, at entry level, all freshers are lined up at a common starting point and their growth depends on their attitude, skill and performance.
For the corporate, a highly internally motivated long term performing and learning individuals will take the organisation to greater heights, as a team.
