This article is based on Newsweek's article entitled "Corporate Learning", September 20, 2010.
They will mold you. They will improve your skills. Push you to reach your best, for you to become the best employee they can have.
Big companies are on it. They're establishing universities and institutions focusing primarily this very same goal: to equip the "learners" with the necessary knowledge and skills to produce employees that can somehow be 'perfectly fitted' for their own company.
This, in itself, is actually not a bad thing. They help much people develop multinational corporate skills and can be a great help for career advancement and financial freedom and security. But, unlike the traditional learning institutions, these corporate campuses established by the said big companies do not grant degrees. They only provide you with the necessary things appropriate for your any future position in their establishment.
Unlike traditional universities, corporate campuses generally do not grant degrees (though many partner with tradional colleges that do), concentrating instead on short-term immersion courses tailored to enhancing particular careers and business disciplines.
Job seekers and aspiring employees are turning to these corporate campuses.
Today, corporate colleges are considered the fastest-growing sector in higher education.More than 4 million individuals are studying at a company university where by some estimates enrollments may soon outnumber those of traditional universities.
Some traditional learning institutions (and many do) may have somehow failed with their primary purpose, but they are to be blamed totally. Many factors might have influenced the lack of knowledge and skills students may have acquired from his years of studying. But, it sometimes depends on how the teachers encourage the students to learn.
In some countries, where traditional classroom education has failed, companies find themselves teaching reading and writing.
One superior advantage of enrolling in these corporate campuses is the individual company's advanced technology. They do not, in any way, double-mindedly provide you with the necessary things to equip you should they be secured that you will be a loyal employee , and will serve the company for long period of years.
But what really stands out is the curriculum. Young engineers undergo a program equivalent to an advanced computer-science degree.
They also teach you many practical things which you can never meet inside a traditional university's four walls.
You can go to business school and learn about global-supply-chain management and leadership. What is not easy is to learn about ways that are applicable to your business.In a time when companies are often pioneering technology and innovation, there are things that no school can teach.
Taht is why, probably, they can not afford to hold back some of the company's secret information and innovations to those that have the greatest potential. It is an investment for them. Great minds are what they need. Each of them is aiming forward and upwards. And they're there to bring you to the peak of your own potential, molding you in their own unique way.
Infosys picks bright but often poorly trained recruits and turns them into world-class techies on its own campus.
The advantage here in the employee's part is that he's already got the skills, the ideas, and the experiences. And if given the opportunity, if they have desired in their heart to start their own, they can. But not necessarily as a competitor of their previous company who poured to them almost everything they have to know.
