Sunday, April 29, 2012

How can a person be creative when he has to pay his Edu Loan?

The past few years have witnessed a combination of factors that have made it difficult for MBA passouts from some of the most sought after Universities to make any impact in their jobs in some of the best organizations (in terms of present growth trajectories) across world.

Factors, including - overall economic crisis, macro economic volatility affecting businesses with international exposure, exponential improvement in technology leading to irreversible job-losses, education-inflation, higher cost for higher-ed across the world, inflated interest rates from banks, etc - all leading to a crisis that has the foundations of taking human potential and shoving it into a blast furnace and burn for ages.

We are already seeing trends across the US on student loan defaults. Are we not privy to the reasons behind such situations and what it means for companies who are to have excellent future talent bases who have strong cognitive and creative capacities to succeed?

I know for a fact that if there is a huge financial burden on someone, they will take most of the choices based on a safe financial passage for the initial phase of their lives. Which means that the most important part of their lives when they could have done quality work and could have contributed with their creativity and cognitive prowess, are now being wasted taking up jobs that are supposed to pay for their loans; and NO, the ideal combination of getting a job that one loves and also pays the loan are not out there for everyone. Such things are getting rarer by the day.

We need such youngsters to come and take up responsibilities of quality work and large businesses from Day 1 and we need them to be creative enough to solve larger problems. At most times, we are ending up people who will conform to almost anything since that will save their jobs. That will help them to not lose the race (the rat race), a tunnel that end into Suicides.

Are we, as organizations putting things in the right perspectives for people to falsely understand that a professional degree like MBA is the only answer to things that are considered best and successful in lives of common people? Who are responsible to inflate fees of Universities in ways that has absolutely no correlation in the way salaries are growing for such people passing out of these institutions?

It's scary and not at all a sustainable model. We have pushed the envelope so far to get to the solution of manpower woes that we cannot even take things back. Imagine Universities cutting down on their fees - not going to happen anytime in the future. Such strategies set on wrong premises defined by a very old traditional thinking has been ticking like a time bomb. Its devouring good minds into submission and taking its full toll on people whose dreams and aspirations have become defined by a closed set of achievements - which is becoming distant every passing day.

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