Higher education is the precursor to success in today's competitive world. Thus, every individual want to have a professional degree after schooling. After higher secondary, whether one should directly go to a university, or he/she should take a break before higher education, has always sparked a highly intense debate. In my opinion, a break is very much important for professional growth, at the same time it also helps in increasing focus at studies.
Firstly, it is very apparent that in order to reduce training cost, companies nowadays prefer skilled professional rather than a mere fresher. Thus, break in studies and investing the same time for gaining a relevant experience, will make the students prepared for the professional challenges. For instance, the Indian IT giant "Infosys", which annually fire almost 20% of fresher hired by them. This number can be highly reduced if the employees are already trained for the job. Hence, it can be easily stated that the gap-year taken by students, when invested for proper training, will help them in future.
Moreover, after 12-14 years of rigorous studying, a gap-year would act as a refresher for the students. They can plan their future studies in the meantime. Talking about my personal experience; my elder brother after his 12th standard in science, was fully prepared to have an honours degree in Mathematics, as Math was the subject which had always excited him. But, after having one-year training in an IT company, he realised the scope in IT field. The professional growth in IT was exponential as compared to a linear growth in the field of Math. Thus, after rejoining his studies he went for an Engineering degree in "Computer Science", which catalysed his career growth. Today, he is well settled, and is drawing a handsome salary! Now, after stating this we can easily say that the gap-year can work wonders, with respect to the decision making of a student.
After analysing the above points, we are in a position to safely conclude that, gap-year is something which every student should opt for. This will be helpful in terms of their professional growth and plans for their future. It is also believed that in the coming future, more and more students will take a break from studies before joining the university and will invest that gap for getting themselves trained.
Higher education is the precursor to success in
today
's competitive world.
Thus
, every individual want to have a
professional
degree after schooling. After higher secondary, whether one should
directly
go to a university, or he/she should take a
break
before
higher education, has always sparked a
highly
intense debate. In my opinion, a
break
is
very
much
important
for
professional
growth
, at the same time it
also
helps
in increasing focus at studies.
Firstly
, it is
very
apparent that in order to
reduce
training cost,
companies
nowadays prefer skilled
professional
rather
than a mere fresher.
Thus
,
break
in
studies
and investing the same time for gaining a relevant experience, will
make
the
students
prepared for the
professional
challenges.
For instance
, the Indian IT giant
"
Infosys
"
, which
annually
fire almost 20% of fresher hired by them. This number can be
highly
reduced
if the employees are already trained for the job.
Hence
, it can be
easily
stated that the gap-year taken by
students
, when invested for proper training, will
help
them
in future
.
Moreover
, after 12-14 years of rigorous studying, a gap-year would act as a refresher for the
students
. They can plan their future
studies
in the meantime. Talking about my personal experience; my elder brother after his 12th standard in science, was
fully
prepared to have an
honours
degree in Mathematics, as Math was the subject which had always excited him.
But
, after having one-year training in an IT
company
, he
realised
the scope in IT field. The
professional
growth
in IT was exponential as compared to a linear
growth
in the field of Math.
Thus
, after rejoining his
studies
he went for an Engineering degree in
"
Computer Science
"
, which
catalysed
his career
growth
.
Today
, he is well settled, and is drawing a handsome salary!
Now
, after stating this we can
easily
say that the gap-year can work wonders, with respect to the
decision making
of a student.
After
analysing
the above points, we are in a position to
safely
conclude that, gap-year is something which every
student
should opt for. This will be helpful in terms of their
professional
growth
and plans for their future. It is
also
believed that in the coming future, more and more
students
will take a
break
from
studies
before
joining the university and will invest that gap for getting themselves trained.