Constructing Powerful Scope Statements

Question: Discuss about the Constructing Powerful Scope Statements. Answer: It has been found that a majority of Engineering students find it challenging to get good jobs after college or through campus because of lack of understanding of how organizations work and what employers expect from them. There is a huge gap in what they are taught in colleges and what they are expected to learn for working in corporate. Employers feel that Engineering students are not prepared to take up jobs which are why companies need to spend significant time training them on professionalism and other job related aspects. If students already had some level of exposure to corporate or industry people then it would help them understand what they are expected out of by the employers. This would enhance their chances of getting jobs and at the same time would help organizations get more skilled employees even at entry level jobs. Engineers may also get direct projects from organizations in their final years that they can use to learn practical. To address these concerns and bridge the gap between engineering college outputs and the industry expectations, a leading industrial magazine in India plans to build an industry connect platform that can be used by Engineering students and the corporate employers to connect at one place. This project would help students get projects, internships, jobs, and general guidance on industry requirements for better career planning. The project would also involve others ways of establishing connection between students and corporate. This would be through direct college sessions taken by the magazine company calling employers and through the magazine content pages that would be used by students to ask career guidance questions to employers directly(Bright Hub Media, 2013). The Objectives of the project are: Events where industry people can meet each other as well as aspiring engineering students and employees Events would have seminars covering topics on latest technological developments, employment scenarios, and industry requirements. The traditional magazine run by the organization would have a section added for industry connect which would be used by engineering students and graduates to get answers to their professional or career related queries from the industry experts The project would also involve running of special industry connect program sessions in individual engineering colleges allowing students to meet the employers and industry experts in their colleges(Bright Hub Media, 2015). The scope of the project includes: Development of the plan for events, magazine content, and industry connect program sessions. Connect with employers and invite them to participate in industry connect events Connect with engineering students as well as working engineers and invite them to volunteer for or participate in industry connect events Make arrangements for industry connect events Make arrangements for industry connect program sessions to be conducted in Engineering colleges Plan and deliver content on the concept in the industrial magazine(PMI, 2015) The project would follow a timeline as follows: The project would begin on 20th Feb 2017 with the introduction of the program through the publication of relevant content in the magazine. For this, a new section called industry connect would be started in the next issue of the magazine in which the need for industry connect would be identified and at the same time, the coming event information would be share with the invitation for a reader. People from the industry would be invited to participate in the coming event along with the free magazine distribution to them by 25th Feb 2017. The free magazine distribution would create awareness in the industry about the magazine as well as about the event. With a free magazine bounded with the event invitation, there are significant chances of getting people interested into the events considering reciprocity. Colleges would be approached and advertisement for the events would be posted for students to read by 1st Mar 2017. The company would make use of notice boards in which the event and session programs would be posted with support from the college officials such that students can get the information about the coming events and do a registration considering the trust they have on college. Students registrations for the events would be taken by 10th Mar 2017. The registrations would be taken online through a website for free. First event would be conducted on 25th Mar 2017. The event would involve some seminars from industry experts on latest technological developments, career development options, and so on. The first industry connect session would be taken in the participating colleges by 1st Apr 2017. In this session, industry experts and employers would be called to deliver guest lectures and seminars for a set of college students from nearby close areas. 5 set of Engineering colleges would have the sessions conducted by 15th Apr 2017 and the feedback would be taken from students as well as employers to understand what they need and how they found the industry connect event was. The new issue would be published on 20th Apr with the coverage of events and sessions. The coverage of previous session would attract more and more readers to consider attending next event which would also be announced in the same issue of the magazine(Project Management Institute , 2000). The above sequence of activities would be carried out in every three months till 2 years and by the end of 2 years, the industry connect project aims to achieve a mark of 100 Engineering colleges and 1000 Companies participating in the events. Students are likely to get benefited by the project by enjoying the opportunity to learn from experts, talk to them in person, get their career related questions answered, seek approvals for projects or internships, get jobs and connect with fellow students from other colleges. Companies would get benefitted indirectly by giving away information about their skills related expectations from students such that the students would equip themselves better in future which would be useful for companies to make recruitment decisions and get good candidates for their jobs. The colleges participating in events and programs would gt benefits through improved placement in their college. Bibliography Bright Hub Media. 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