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Beyond the boundaries

3 September 2009

For 80 Bhutanese graduates, month-long training by a multinational company was at once inspiring and enriching. And more. Metho Dema reports

After month-long training in business process outsourcing (BPO) and a recruitment interview, 40 out of 80 Bhutanese graduates have been offered jobs at Infosys or Genpact, two huge multinational companies.

These graduates are among 100 Bhutanese graduates who were sent for month-long intensive training in Mysore, India, provided free by Infosys technologies limited.

According to Rinzin Namgay Dorji, the project manager, getting jobs at the two companies was a big achievement.

He said those were big and distinguished companies and there were many people trying to get into them. “The fact that our graduates fulfilled their competency and skill requirements is a big deal for us,” he said.

However, whether the graduates will take up the offer will depend on them. “I think they should not miss out on such an opportunity for opportunities like this do not come often,” Rinzin said.

And for the rest of the 40 graduates, who did not make it, there are no regrets. The training, most believe, had a greater positive impact on their personality.

Eighty graduates, who are back home after the training, say learning experience at the training was one of the best they have had, with some even claiming that they learnt more in the month-long training than they ever did during their entire schooling years.

Spread over 334 acres of land, the Infosys campus in Mysore is said to be the largest corporate training centre in the world. The campus facilities, according to many graduates, were impressive and “beyond imagination”.

The campus boasts a multiplex theatre in a unique globe-like architecture, swimming pool, facilities for almost all indoor games, gym, shopping mall, food courts, laundry service, and yoga centre, among others.

With so many recreational distractions, one would think that being trained in such an environment would be exasperating but that seemed to have had just the opposite effect on the trainees.

The training covered a wide range of topics – from developing a neutral accent to dealing with difficult costumers.

Every day had been a new learning experience. “We would always look forward to our classes. In college, we would sometimes want to bunk or miss classes but we never felt that way in Infosys,” said Karma Tshering, 22.

This positive attitude towards learning, according to many, is because of the kind of training they were exposed to. According to Tshering Dorji, 23, the trainees never used pen and paper throughout the training period because they were not required at all.

The training was practical mostly done through presentation. “It really helped me in confidence building,” he said.

Trainers, on the other hand, are equally impressed by the Bhutanese graduates. Infosys has gone on record to say that the Bhutanese graduates were “one of the best batches they have trained so far”. “They said we were well-mannered and were impressed by our performance,” said Tenzin Kuenzang, 21.

Among the 40 graduates who were offered jobs by Infosys and Genpact, some cannot take the offer because their parents are apprehensive about their children working outside the country. However, there are many who are grabbing the opportunity and embarking on a new career path. “An IT park will be soon set up in Bhutan, and Bhutan may become one of the best BPO centres in the world. That’s why I chose to take up this offer,” said Dendup Tshering, who will be going back to work for Genpact in Gurgaon, Delhi.

Twenty out of the 100 graduates are still in Infosys. They are undergoing training in operation and networking and will return in less than a month.

The next batch of trainees would be lecturers, who will be trained to become trainers. There are plans to send more graduates for such training in the near future.

For now, the trained graduates are happy that they were fortunate to experience such a life-changing and enriching experience. “From this training, I realised that, given the right resource and training to realize your potential, you can find a better person in you,” said Karma Yeshey, 21.

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One Response to “Beyond the boundaries”

  1. kuzu on September 4th, 2009 9:44 am

    Oops, didn’t see this story. Well, this is good news. I think the concerned parents should trust the maturity of their kids and allow them to pursue their goals; you have to let go some time. Infosys and Genpact are big names in the global IT arena so it would be a mistake to turn down job offers when many from India or abroad don’t make it. Think of the experience and skills their will learn and eventually bring back to Bhutan.

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