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While being critical of the higher education system in the country, Sujith Kumar, Location Head – Human Resources of Infosys Ltd, Chennai, urged students to have a positive attitude in life to come full circle.
“I was not bright in academics, although my parents aspired that I become an engineer, and that was not to be. I did, however, complete my college education, bagging a gold medal in Statistics, and this eventually proved to be a turning point in my life,” he said. He also recounted the difficulty his parents had in getting him a seat in a reputed college.
His anecdotes held the young crowd in rapt attention when it was not in splits over the humourous ones. Kumar drove the point that the focus of education will have to change drastically in the country. “What should be easy is difficult and what should be difficult is easy in this country,” he added.
He was speaking at the BL Club launch programme at GRD Institute of Management here.
He advised the students to refrain from seeking a “job” in life. “Choose a career, for that will give you satisfaction; a job will not," he said and urged the students not to get bogged down by peer pressure and aim at excellence.
The programme was held in association with The Hindu Business Line and Tamilnad Mercantile Bank. Highlighting the huge career opportunity in banks, Selvan Rajadurai, General Manager, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank, said “Bank officials are empowered with money, responsibility and incidentally, this empowerment helps create industrialists.”
He invited the students to look at banking as a career option in life. D. Sampathkumar, Editor, The Hindu Business Line , underscored the importance of newspaper reading for gaining extra knowledge. “Look at newspaper reading as something extra compared to bookish information. You can get access to information that is outside the curriculum,” he said and called upon the students to embark on this journey of discovery. D. Padmanabhan, Chairman of GRD Institutions, observed that India has a surplus of management graduates and students need to compete, excel and tap the opportunity to one’s advantage.
In a lighter vein, he remarked that despite being an agrarian economy, India had more management graduates than crops.
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