Confidence, public speaking, body language, communication skills etc may be considered "soft" skills, but mastering them is quite hard and would require hours and days of practice.
If you have some spare time before starting the PGP course at a B-school, you could utilise that to pep up your resume and acquire some useful skills for the course.
An enriching session on ‘Introduction of GST in India & it’s likely impact on business’ was given by Ms Vidhya Srinivasan, Executive Director & Chief Finance Officer, Puma India on 9th February 2017 under the Vaarta series at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. Ms Srinivasan is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Ahmedabad and has over 19 years of experience at various leading Corporate & MNC organisations like A.T. Kearney, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Aditya Birla Retail Limited in the areas of Strategy, Business Planning, Commercial, Finance & Accounting Management. As a member of the leadership team, Ms.Srinivasan helps in understanding business environment, develop a clear business strategy and execution plans and a comprehensive business plan.
Life of an MBA student is incomplete without taking part in corporate competitions, and this is especially true for marketing students. ‘Lessons in Marketing Excellence (L.I.M.E)’ hosted by Hindustan Unilever Limited is one competition you can’t miss! Our team, Team Armageddon (Shreya Singh, Saurabh Mantri and Saurabh Mundra) had a riveting experience as we went from being a wild card entrant to being the first runners-up at the national level.
It is one of those places that has gained a popular mythical stature - people who have been here, know all about is harsh realities, along with its awesomeness, and the rest can be divided into two parts - one aspire to be here and the rest are either indifferent or despise its excesses it in all its glory. It's an early hour of the morning (or late hours of the night) when I have just started to write this vague and ambiguous piece, in the hopes that I will be able to get back to a part of myself that I lost in this maze.
The highest number of questions asked to us about future careers by aspirants on InsideIIM are about Consulting. A sector with relatively few firms has a glamour attached to it. A large majority of rankers at top business schools in India end up joining Consulting firms.
