After matriculation, for me, the goal was to get into a decent pre-university college. After pre-university, to get into a good university for graduation. After graduation to get into one of your dream companies. After emep, ???? Agreed, it’s an executive program, agreed it lasted just over a year, but still, what next? As long as you have a job in hand answers for what after eMEP would not be easy to arrive at. So is quiting one’s job and starting a fresh is a solution, well that’s not a very sensible idea. Where is an eMEP or for that matter any partime executive management education program student headed after his/her course?
Education is an end in itself some times, not always, unless you are doing exceedingly well in something totally different. Education and iron rusts with passage of time if unused. Opporunity to use what you learnt comes by your way not easily. Couple of things that one can do:
- Try to understand what other departments in your companies are doing and how does that map to whatever you have learnt. For example if you are in an engineerning role, then take a look at your company’s marketing strategies.
- Read & understand balance sheets published
- Increase your professional network beyond your scope of work
- May be ask for a new role you desire as you are now armed with a certified management education from a well known institute
If you are reading this post, and have some good ideas, you are welcome to post them as comments.
November 22, 2007 at 11:38 am |
Congratulations to all of you for completing the course.
A few years back some students of the same course had taken some initiative of approaching companies and arrange for some interviews in an informal way.
Are you also trying something like the one I have mentioned above?