Medha Alumni 3month survey report April'16

MEDHA

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Introduction Alumni team works for students who complete Medha training program via Career Advancement Bootcamp(CAB) or Technological (skills) Advancement Bootcamp (TAB). We engage with the Alumni via usage of different platforms (Personal meetings, Telephonic Conversations, Social Media, Emails and WhatsApp Groups). The main purpose of interaction capture relevant information about our alumni regarding their career, achievements, and aspirations to support their career/personal goals over an extended period of time.

Aim and Scope After the completion of Medha training (CAB/TAB) program, the students are required to undergo a 4week internship within 2months. This survey is aimed at students who have completed 3months since their certification. During this period, they have either completed the internship or have used their learnings in their day to day activities, giving them enough time to reflect on the things taught during Medha program. This also serves as a way to have their updated contact information and future plans (study/look for job/prepare for competitive exam) Methodology Alumni team created a form in “www.surveygizmo.com” named “Medha Alumni Status Update at 3month”. The survey was completed using five approaches: a) The link of the form was sent via email b) Bulk SMS sent to remind them about the form c) In the case the email ids were not available, the alumni team called the students and filled the questionnaire while on a call based on the respondents answers. d) Follow up was done to the Alumni who didn’t fill the form within 5 days of sending the mail. e) A reminder Bulk Sms was sent again to the Alumni who didn’t fill up the form within 7 days of the follow-up.

Our Findings We sent out the survey to 238 Alumni and received 69 responses at a response rate of 29%, reflected in the table no 1 and 2 below: In table 1 we are showing form sent and received by total number of males and females individually and their response rate: Gender

Form sent

Form received

Response rate

Female

110

28

32.03%

Male

128

41

25.45%

(1)

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The pie-chart below shows the response rate of Male/Female. A majority of respondents were Male i.e. 59% while the female respondents were 41%.

Responses

41% Male Female 59%

The below table(2) shows the college wise data of the form sent, form received and response rate: College Name

Sent

Response

Rate

Colleges Avadh Girls’ Degree College, Lucknow

Form Sent 52

Form Received 14

Response rate 27%

F.A.A. Government PG College, Mahmudabad

4

2

50%

Government Polytechnic, Barabanki

66

29

43%

Feroz Gandhi Polytechnic, Raebareli

45

8

18%

M.R.P.S.P. Girls College, Barabanki

18

8

44%

Lucknow Polytechnic, Lucknow

16

3

19%

3

Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University

6

2

40%

Sanjay Gandhi Polytechnic, Jagdishpur

16

3

19%

MBP Government Degree College, Lucknow

7

1

14%

Mahamaya Rajkiya Mahavidyalaya, Mahona

5

0

0%

(2) Out of the ten colleges that we surveyed, the majority of responses were collected from F.A.A Government P.G College, Mahmudabad, M.R.P.S.P. Girls College Barabanki, and Government Polytechnic, Barabanki. Very few responses were received from MBP Government Degree College, Sanjay Gandhi Polytechnic (Jagdishpur) and Lucknow Polytechnic while no response was received from Mahamaya Rajkiya Mahavidyalaya, Mahoney due to unavailability of Alumni.

WOW Responses Received 80 67

70 60

51

52

53

53

69

53

50 35

40 30

28 16

20

14

7

10

1

1

0

0

4

5

6

7

2

0 1

2

3

No. of Responses

8

9

Cumulative Responses

We received 69 responses in total, out of which 28 responses were during the first week itself and on the 3rd and 8th-week we received 16 & 14 responses respectively which are more in numbers as compared to the rest week. To conclude, when we do follow-ups to remind alumni to get the form filled then we see a good response on that week.

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Questions asked in the form: Below are the questions we asked our Alumni and the answers we received.

Q. What are you currently doing?

In Medha Alumni Status Update Form we asked our alumni about what they are doing at present, where we provided them with three options; Higher Studies/competitive exams/jobs.

The following chart shows the responses received.

43

14 10

2 Status

Working in a job

Studying for a competitive exam

Pursuing higher studies

No response

Analysis: 1. 62% Alumni, which is 43 in numbers are pursuing their higher studies. Most of them are from Government Polytechnic Barabanki and Avadh Girls Degree College.

2. 14.5% Alumni, i.e 10 students are studying for their competitive examinations of which maximum are from Avadh Girls Degree College and Government Polytechnic Barabanki.

3. Only a small percentage of Alumni, i.e 2.8% which comprises of only 2 Alumni are currently woking in a job.

4. 20% of Alumni have sent a blank response for this question.

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Q2. Would you like additional career counseling by someone from the Medha Team?

We also questioned our Alumni if they need career counseling from team Medha, where we found that majority of students responded positively. About 58% of Alumni have opted for career counseling.

Q3. What would you like to discuss during your career counseling session?

When we asked Alumni what they want to discuss or where they are confused we received following responses: 1.

2.

3.

4.

How to prepare for CAT exams & how to get a good job With higher studies I want to enroll myself for the training to enhance my skills Jobs related to Electronic engineering.

What will be the right career choice after they graduate, job or higher studies?

Q4. Why did you join Medha?

Analysis: 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

To enhance soft skills and to overcome the fear of public speaking Training on personal interviews and how to be professional To know about strength and weaknesses and to work on it accordingly To enhance their personality and learn about professionalism.

To grab opportunity on Internship and Placement in their desired field.

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Q5. What was your biggest learning from Medha?

Analysis: 1.

2.

3.

4.

Gain confidence in public speaking & improved soft skills How to work on time management and teamwork Self-actualization and personality development Learnt how to face interviews and how to prepare a resume

Q6. Would you recommend Medha to a friend/family member?

8.33%

91.67%

yes

no

When we asked students that would they recommend Medha training to a friend’s/family members, about 91.67% of students said yes, but the rest 8.33% said no. We called them to know the reason behind it. We received following responses: 1. Mock interviews sessions were very limited everyone hasn’t got the opportunity to interact 2. Internship opportunities were not so impressive and they were not related to our fields too.

3. Most of the Alumni has selected “No” option by mistake.

Q7. Do you have any additional comments/requests/feedback?

We can see the feedbacks/comments/request from our students below: SUGGESTIONS

APPRECIATIONS

Duration of the Training should be increased.

Medha should talk to more companies and organization for internships. For many fields, there are no internship opportunities

Medha helped me in gaining confidence...believing in ourselves and it provides us various opportunities which will guide us to select the right path in our future

I would like to suggest that the students should be provided with some more videos about interviews and some CAB program

Medha is great opportunity for me, I really learned lot of things from medha, I really want to say big thanks to medha

More classes on Presentation

I heartily thank medha for improving myself 7

CHALLENGES

While collecting the information we faced following challenges: 1. We have received some incomplete forms by our Alumni.

2. During follow-ups, few contacts were found unreachable or they don’t exist.

3. Many students were not able to fill the form because they don’t have access to emails FUTURE PLAN

When we send survey forms to our Alumni via email Id, it creates a unique survey link which is used only for 1 time and it can’t be open again if it has been closed once. We received 14 incomplete forms because students open the link and in between they just close the form to fill it later. Going ahead, we will add content of the mail guiding the respondents about the survey unique link and its functionality.

CONCLUSION

We have received updated 16 contact numbers and 23 email Ids which will help us in contacting them in future. We also came to know about the number of Alumni who want career counseling and in which field. In future, we are looking forward to more success in getting positive responses. According to the Medha Alumni Survey Report, our majority of students appreciate Medha for helping them directly or indirectly in any way in their lives which seem to be our biggest achievement.

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