93% Management Graduates Are Un-Employable; Average Salary Rs 10,000
This isn't the first time, such sensational headlines showed up on the internet. Even when the internet wasn't as penetrated as today, Indian youth are simply unemployable: Report had trended in 2007.
Let's take a look at some other news in the same genre that made headlines in the past:
Only one in five MBAs employable: Survey
Only 25 % IT graduates readily employable: Nasscom
Minister says only 25% grads are employable
I've written about it in the past : Are you Employable? - Survey Paralyzing graduate sentiments and I'll say the same again.
I would not be surprised to learn if the samples size in the ASSOCHAM report is flawed, or the methodology has loopholes to support such sensational headlines.
For good or for worse, they have succedded in doing what they set out to do. Be the talk of the town. Be the conversation that frowns on Indian b-schools and MBA graduates over a cup of coffee or a bottle of beer or near the office water cooler or in the placement office of an MBA institute. They've succeeded with their headlines and the impact these ripples create won't be pleasant.
This isn't the first time, such sensational headlines showed up on the internet. Even when the internet wasn't as penetrated as today, Indian youth are simply unemployable: Report had trended in 2007.
Let's take a look at some other news in the same genre that made headlines in the past:
Only one in five MBAs employable: Survey
Only 25 % IT graduates readily employable: Nasscom
Minister says only 25% grads are employable
Only a tenth of engineering graduates employable, says survey
I've written about it in the past : Are you Employable? - Survey Paralyzing graduate sentiments and I'll say the same again.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Sensationalism sells. Controversy sells and these stories sold. That's all that there is to it.
I would not be surprised to learn if the samples size in the ASSOCHAM report is flawed, or the methodology has loopholes to support such sensational headlines.
For good or for worse, they have succedded in doing what they set out to do. Be the talk of the town. Be the conversation that frowns on Indian b-schools and MBA graduates over a cup of coffee or a bottle of beer or near the office water cooler or in the placement office of an MBA institute. They've succeeded with their headlines and the impact these ripples create won't be pleasant.