Pharmacy Students: facilitating Personal effectiveness, Leader effectiveness and Resource effectiveness

Abstract: The objective of the present study is to assess the need for career orientation programme for First Year pharmacy students. A Questionnaire Survey was conducted amongst First year students of few Pharmacy education institutes affiliated to Pune University and the data obtained was analyzed. Of total sample size of the students participated in survey, 85 % of students feel that the college should undertake career orientation programme, which in turn will help them in deciding career option after completion of their graduation. The 90 % of students surveyed were very enthusiastic about knowing the various requirements of their job like leadership skills, personality development nature and functions of the job, etc. They feel that they may mould themselves according to the job requirements during their four years of the course, which may save their energy and time that they would have had invested after the completion of the course which may lead to decrease in employee turnover in the pharmaceutical industry. This should be beneficial for the industry as low employee turnover rate can save a lot of time, energy and money on training and development of employees. Moreover, institute can tie up with the industry and thereby can facilitate the students with experts from the various fields to deliver seminars and delibrations on the job requirements and functions in various areas of pharmaceutical industry. Thus an effective liaison, networking and co-operation between them can make a difference where both pharmaceutical educatio