Is RP prepare us for the working world?

Salam all,

It's my 3rd year in RP and everyone keep asking one another what they are going to do after graduate. Work or continue study? Some replied that the educational system in RP does not prepare them for the working world because of the lack of technical education given.

In year 1, I was impatiently looking forward to year 3 so that I finally feel that I am adult and be financially independent. Some of my friends from other school felt that RP is not a suitable school to get a good job with high pay. How can they evaluate the school they have never been into?

I may agree that RP does not give us sufficient technical education and grade given are only according to bell curve, even you score as low as 3/10 for UT, there's a chance you might not fail. We tend to forget what we have learn in last week lesson.

However, I felt that the educational system in RP give its student a life-long learning experience instead of 'learn to forget'. Have you ever forget how you should present? Have you ever forget how to do research? RP focus on presentation skills which other school does not really make it an important point in working life.

No matter how intelligence you are, how good is your product/service but you are not able to make use of your intelligence to present your product/service well, you are doomed to failure. Have you ever felt uninterested or bored when someone presenting? Especially for CE talks. When I signed up for a talk, I felt it was interesting. However during that talk, the presenter makes me lose my interest. He was just blindly reading the content off the slide. A presenter has to be interactive, connect to the audience.

Furthermore, critical thinking makes someone a genius rather than blindly memorizing the right answers that taught in most schools. That's why RP do research because analyzing and thinking are developed. People may replied..."but you may do off-track." So what if you go off-track when you have discover new things? People makes mistakes, discover new things and learn from it. As what Robert T.Kiyosaki said, "Skills makes you rich, not theories."

I dislike Business Process Modeling module which is my core module this year. My friend's classmate asked the facilitator, "Why we need to learn BPM?" She answered, "It's a format you need to follow..." She does not really answer the student's question. What is the importance of BPM to business, how BPM helps us in life and working world? Why need BPM? The reason I dislike BPM because it teaches us how to be a robot - 'Things you have to follow'.

Marketing module is my favorite module so far because it is based on critical thinking rather than finding the right answer. There's no right or wrong in this module. It's how well you present your answer. However, I wish my facilitator has experience in business. He is an employee of a business company thus his perspective is mostly based on employee's view. The great thing about Carmelia's Marketing facilitator, he is an experience businessman. He was talking based on experience, not a view of an employee which most likely, does not have the emotional experience in business.

Thus, is RP prepare us for the working world? Yes, I would say to the certain extend as a good presenter, effective team member and critical thinking. RP educational system is similar to Japan educational system. That's why Japanese are creative and by being creative, they become rich. Well, we should be open-minded. I guess it will take time for us to accept the different educational system. Maybe it will be a popular school one day, who knows?

Salam,
Rohani