For those in the corporate world who believe that they inhabit a world full of challenges whereas teaching is just about lectures on theory, think again.
For those in the corporate world who believe that they inhabit a world full of challenges whereas teaching is just about lectures on theory, think again.
Harish Thakkar, who quit the corporate world to become a teacher, finds that the biggest challenge he faces is teaching the same lesson for the 1,000th time and keeping it exciting at the same time. This is akin to public performance in the classroom every day, something no one in the corporate world ever has to do.
“While deciding to enter academics, my focus was to create industry ready manpower with all the required specialised training because I have seen the industry where employees struggle to match each others’ needs. Gone are the days when general knowledge of a subject was the aim of any degree. In today’s world youngsters need to be specialised in some or the other field. They should be able to give that X-factor to an industry which nobody else can. Only this will help them sustain and be successful,” said Thakkar, who gives specialised training about investment, corporate banking and capital markets at Imarticus Learning, a specialised institute that offers comprehensive industry specific training.
Thakkar spent 16 years in the corporate world before quitting as the associate director of a large financial firm. Even though he earns much less than before, the sheer excitement of teaching a classroom daily keeps him high.
Thakkar says that as a business head and a part of several recruitment panels, he observed many employees did not understand what a theoretical term means in practice. “Though at a lower level it wouldn’t cause much problem, it definitely created obstacles in growth of the employee and the business. So I started training company employees,” he adds.
In no time Thakkar realised that he was good at training employees. “Having knowledge is one thing, but imparting it to others is something else altogether. When I understood I can do it, it did not take much long to make that decision. Having seen some really high level corporate professionals entering academics, the choice just become clearer,” said Thakkar. Because of his industry background, Thakkar was confident that he could make a tailor made curriculum tracking specific industry needs. And there has been no looking back. Couple of years into teaching, Thakkar feels the profession is full of different challenges.
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