'We Like Both Freshers And Experienced Candidates' - Team Unilever on InsideIIM
Careers in Sales & Marketing at Unilever – HUL Oral Care Category Head Speaks to Business School Students Across India
Careers in Sales & Marketing at Unilever – HUL Oral Care Category Head Speaks to Business School Students Across India
There is very little change to the IIM Calcutta shortlisting or selection process as compared to last year. Clearly, it is a formula which has worked for IIM C.
Welcome to On Demand economy. In this economy customers will ‘pay for performance’. Realising this reality business are reworking on their business model to cater to this new reality.
Till recently, competition was visible and direct. Car manufacturers competed with other car manufacturers and at best with other four-wheelers like jeeps, or two-wheelers. In most cases, competition was benign—a company would get ample opportunity to respond and recover.
Note: SPJIMR is the only B-School in India to launch a unique pedagogic mentoring programme called 'Abhyudaya'. Every SPartan has to mentor a bright, underprivileged kid in the first year of their MBA. This form of 'Experiential Learning' helps them get a more nuanced perspective of 'Bharat', and trains them not only to be better-equipped business leaders of tomorrow, but also better human beings. The following is a diary entry of one such SPartan (me!) on his first visit to his mentee's house.
It all unfolded on 7th March 2015 when sitting amidst the quaint surroundings of Hampi I received a phone call from an unusual number and a baritone voice from the other end congratulated me saying that I had made it to SPJIMR. Two years of incessant efforts finally bore results and thus began my journey to of one of India’s finest b-school.
Like millions of people around the world I too admire Warren Buffet. He has been liberal in sharing his wisdom with rest of us through simply worded quotes which all of us can understand. I want to share some of his wisdom which have resonated with me. I am sure they will resonate with you too.
In 2013, an engineer with high-flying dreams graduated from BITS Pilani. With a perfect undergraduate life and a CGPA of 7.4, he was placed with Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS) as a Senior Technical Associate during 3rd day of campus placements. He had also cracked IIM Kozhikode (IIMK), a premier B-School that provided a 2-year MBA course. The icing on the cake was a pre-placement offer (PPO) from a startup where he enjoyed working during a 6-month internship program that was christened Practice School-2 (PS-2) by BITS Pilani. Here he was, standing at the cross-road, wondering which path to take. You may note that there were three roads instead of two mentioned in Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’. Additionally, it was not a yellow wood but a harsh economy that had just started taking baby steps after the recession period of 2009-11. What did he do then?