IIM Calcutta Interview Transcript || Nitesh Dutt, IIM Calcutta '20
Venue: Indian Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Venue: Indian Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Jayant Singhal is an Economics Hons. graduate from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. He scored a 10/10 CGPA in Class X, 96.2% in Class XII, and an 8.67 CGPA in graduation. After graduating, he worked at a consulting firm for about 7 months after which he took the CAT and made it to the premier IIM Lucknow’s Class of 2022.
Pranay Ambulkar has completed his bachelor's from Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur. Post that he joined Ideas91, a procurement and sourcing firm based in Dubai where he was exposed to the field of international trade. Following his curiosity to learn more about the trade he is currently pursuing his MBA in International Business from IIFT, Delhi. He is also an investor in the Equity stock market and has interests in international economics.
After graduating from Manipal Institute of Technology in 2018, I worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer at voestalpine India for 7 months. With encouragement from my school friends, I quit the job to try my hand at establishing a pet services aggregator start-up as I believed that it was the best time in my life to take such a risk. Though the start-up did well initially, I soon realised that I needed more knowledge in the art of business administration and made a rather late decision of sitting for B-school entrance exams. This was back in July 2019 when I got primed to run the start-up into the ground and signed up for CAT/IIFT coaching classes. 8 months later I was sitting in front of a panel at IIFT ready to narrate my professional journey and hoping they would like it enough to let me in. As many of you would soon find yourself in a similar position, I would like to share that day’s experience to help you join the college of your dreams.
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