In this video, Ankita Aggarwal, AVP - General Manager, Beauty & Wellness, UrbanClap, Ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Ex-Cisco, IIM Indore Alum tells us about her role at UrbanClap. She talks about her b-school placement experience at IIM Indore and gives some long-lasting advice for placements and life. Ankita tells us about why and how you can choose to work at startups.
(This is Part 2 of the video series featuring Ankita Aggarwal)
Check out Part 1 of Ankita's talk here
Summary of the video
Ankita talks about the various innovations and processes she worked on during her stint as Head of the “Salon at Home” offering at UrbanClap. She shares how she was able to make a meaningful difference to the lives of people working with and buying from UrbanClap.
She further talks about managing work and a baby. She talks about how organizations have evolved to accommodate working mothers and fathers, and just how trust is earned by an employee. She tells us about how UrbanClap was a supportive employer and helped her manage work and home life with relative ease.
Next, she talks about how one can find work at a startup and how placements play a role in finding good jobs but are not the sole path to a successful career. She tells us how she feels startups allow a person to make the maximum impact.
She talks about how you can strengthen your CV before placement season and what to practice specifically for a finance internship and PPO. She finally talks about the secret behind getting hired and tells us what recruiters are looking for.
If you want to know what it takes to build a strong career from scratch, this video is a must-watch for you.
Key Takeaways
1. Staying with an organization for a long time, performing well and climbing to a leadership position helps to foster trust.
2. Startups allow you to have more flexible roles with a high amount of ownership and resulting satisfaction.
3. B-school competitions help you understand team dynamics of the workplace right at our campus.
4. You learn team dynamics, people management skills, problem-solving skills, etc on campus.
5. Add diverse experiences, interests and achievements to your CV to showcase your adaptability.
6. Keep a cool head, practice case studies & guesstimates during placements.
7. Nobody is looking for the right answer while hiring, they’re looking for the right approach.
8. Reach out to companies if you feel like you can contribute meaningfully.
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Comments
Ansuman Mishra
All said and accepted. But is the opinion doing justice, by extrapolation on the basis of past and present figures? There will be a time when competition will be so high that the e-commerce companies will look for more than just the retail segments where they could differentiate themselves. There are sectors like agriculture, consumer awareness , education and medical facilities,to name a few, especially in rural India where the e-commerce companies can either make their own segment or outsource their services so as to reduce the distribution bottlenecks and provide better services. With mobile services penetrating rural areas now, it is a very large and untapped market. Done in the right way, it could give large returns and hence justify the valuations, if not now, then in the long term.
26 Aug 2014, 01.32 PM
venkat iyer
When we talk about valuations being inflated, we are talking about a context extending to a maximum, of say, 10 years. No valuation, for that matter, no projection is carried our beyond 10-12 years. Rural India has still a long, long way to go. When even electricity and roads are not implemented well in those areas, talking about e-services is a tenacious (in a frivolous sort of way) claim to make. We agree that there is growth, but not as fast as these valuations show us. In a matter of three months, the valuations rose in billions. Why did they not factor in this rural potential an year back? Was India so different? We say this is all because of the hype. It might not be a genuine valuation (calculated and rational).
26 Aug 2014, 06.59 PM
venkat iyer
"There will be a time when competition will be so high that the e-commerce companies will look for more than just the retail segments where they could differentiate themselves" Then why are just the valuations of e-tailing firms increasing? Why not other firms?
26 Aug 2014, 07.01 PM