PR discussions: Re: [prpoint] Attitude of students - Need for good Business Communication skills

Dear Friends,

My observations with youngsters that too freshers mostely lack basic interest. They always expect others to do their work, even sending resumes. if they dont get any response for the resume they have sent they completely lose interest. They never want to experience pain, the difficulty in getting a job etc. only few are fortunate to get the desired job at the beginning itself, others just sit and only think why he/she has got the job , y i didt get the job. They beleive in luck more than them. They are not ready to take challenges, expect everything should be got easily without any pain or effort. They are not ready to learn for the sufferings.

Mostly they try to creat negative energy. If they learn to build positive energy they can reach great heights at a very young age itself. Guidence from parents & teachers will be a effective tool.

Also to touch upon the basic thing of people replying back to official mails , How many of as reply back or acknowledge to any mail we get? Just replying back takes few seconds which also speaks a lot. If we dont lets start doing it.

Best Regards

Poornima.V

On 11/25/09, Narendran A <naren_vna@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Friends

Recently we had a dicussion in the group about attitude of students passing out of premier colleges. I wish to highlight an email communication between a student and PR executive

The incident:

A Communication student from a well known Chennai college called our Moderator Mr K. Srinivasan over phone ten days back and wanted a PR internship. Mr Srinivasan asked her to send her profile to his e mail id. The student sent her profile as attachment without any request for internship or covering mail.

Though, her mail had only her profile as attachment, Mr Srinivasan forwarded her profile to me and to Sakthi with a request to help her to get an internship. He also endorsed a copy to her with a request to contact both of us over mobile with more details.

Since, she did not contact either of us for a week, Sakthi sent a mail to the student. I reproduce below Sakthi's mail and her response. I have suppressed the name of the student and the college.

Sakthi's mail to the student:

Dear XXXXXXXX,

This is further to the email sent by Mr. Srinivasan regarding your internship. Have you got any internship or still looking out? pls let me know.

Regards,
Sakthi Prasanna.

The response by the student:

"I havent got a conformation yet. I am waiting for it. I have applied in XXXXXXX & XXXXX. I am also interested in PR. If i can join your company I would like to know my work profile or what will be my work contribution and other details. My contact no is 9xxxx xxxxx."

(The student's mail did not even contain customary words like dear so and so or hi or even regards, as it was official and for the first time. The response also lack politness, when she seeks an internship. She does not even request an internship. It looks as though, she is going to honour the Agency by joining there as intern. Further She has provided her contact number probably expecting Sakthi to contact her and explain the job profile.)

Though Mr Srinivasan had asked her to contact us over mobile, she did not contact for a week. Atleast on receipt of Sakthi's mail, she should have contacted him over phone for guidance.

Nowadays, many of the mails received from the young students lack humility and politeness. I am sharing this communication with all, so that young students should learn to write good letters/mails. They should develop good communication skills when they write formally.

Even the educational institutions should devote some classes to teach 'Business communication skills'.

Request members to share their views.

Best regards
Narren