Day 1 to Orientation by Seniors

Now comes the First day In IIT Kharagpur 

Entered the campus late night and had a informal meet with all the classmates of the new batch. We are allotted one of the latest halls among the 22 halls of residence in IIT with a dual room share and a attached bathroom resembling the Apartment architecture.

The first day started with the introductory seminar for all the PG students in the auditorium by the dean and heads of different departments and we were asked to move to a different auditorium for the registration process which is just 1 km away from the present location. Long lines to stand and hot sun welcomed us to the IIT.

 After registration which ended in the late afternoon all of us rested our poor souls for a sleep followed by a delicious dinner ( being the first day ) in the night. 

P.S:Food is not too good nor too bad all the stay we had till now for the past 2 months . After all 9000 bucks for 6 months 

Orientation by seniors 

Here comes the tough and interesting part of the newbiees in to IIT 
The orientation classes by the seniors lasted for 10 days with every day a new event .

1.Treasure hunt in pairs  (girl and a bicycle ) which resulted minimum loss of 2-3 pounds of weight 

P.S:Krishna and his team won this  2.Business Quiz 

3.Dramatics

4.Ad Design and making 

5.Extempore

6.Anthyakshari 

7.Case study and review of books, Movies 

P.S: Seniors noted almost each and every point of juniors and graded them accordingly for committee selection 

Besides this we also had introductory speeches from seniors of various committees and about the college department and placements 

We came to know about each other in the very early 10 days

5 things that business students must do before they graduate

India has more than 1,500 business schools as of now. Barring the top 50 to 75 colleges, most of the MBA colleges have very little to offer in terms of skills required to meet the demands of the job market.

Since MBA is a professional degree, all we do during MBA should revolve around building a good career for ourselves.

Students must strive to catch up with the industry needs and getting placed well. Here are five tips for Business Grads to focus on in order to make themselves more employable.

1. Brush up your language skills

Communication skills, undoubtedly, play a real important and crucial role in professional life in corporate India. For a fresh MBA graduate, it becomes all the more important from the campus recruitment viewpoint. If you are an MBA student, focus on polishing your communication skills in English and also learn a second language.

It's not a bad idea to join a finishing school to develop your personality, body language, inter-personal and social interaction skills.

2. Develop corporate awareness

What a recruiter likes to see in a candidate is the application orientation. Students in B-school study the concepts of management in their classes but hardly understand how this knowledge can be applied in real business scenario; there is thus a gap in application.

As students, it is imperative to understand what business is all about and how you can contribute to the growth of any organisation. That's because if you can justify how your skills are going to add to the growth of the organisation, then chances are that the interviewer will consider you right-fit to the organisation.

3. Develop team skills

Concentrate on developing leadership skills. Your employer would like to know how effectively you can work in a team and able to manage a group of people.

Wherever you work, you work in teams. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND.

Do not treat your management programme as just another degree you are going to get after two years. Think of it as a skill-enhancing programme. Concentrate on soft skills while pursuing management.

4.Build knowledge

Keep updating and refreshing your knowledge through peer learning. Participate in all kinds of group activities like group case studies, simulations, industry interaction programmes and inter- college level academic and extra-curricular competitions.

Technical knowledge along with good inter personal skills are the key qualities companies look for in a potential candidate. Focus on improving these skills right from the commencement of the course.

5.Carefully select internships and placement

Search for internships while pursuing your course. Your internship is the only opportunity where you can exhibit your skills by translating them in performance. At the same time, you learn about a particular industry and its operations in detail.

Ensure that you select an internship in the same profile or industry you intend to work in future. It helps you justify your knowledge and leverage the internship during an interview.

Select a job / placement irrespective of the designation and salary. Starting career as a sales trainee should not bother you. The job description / job content should be the major consideration.

Going for an MBA programme is itself a very important decision in its own right, if we be a little careful about the things we do and the decisions we make while pursuing a management programme, we can ensure that things go well during the placements.

A Day in life of a KGPian

So every one is actually wondered how is a typical day for a IITian specially KGpian is 
Here we go !

A day in Life of a Kgpian

*A new day dawns with the chirping of the birds and the loud cry of the alarm, followed
by a flurry of activities, some known and some unknown. KGPians should consider
themselves lucky if they manage to grab a quick bite before huffing and puffing their way
to the classes in their bicycle.

*Classes are enjoyable and thought provoking with case studies, presentations and role
plays. KGPians usually get a cup of coffee from NESCAFE to remain all ears to one
lecture after the other. Just when they think that the class has ended, there is a surprise
quiz waiting for them or sometimes a great guest lecture.

*After the grueling day, the students unwind with a cup of hot chai and fried maggi at
TIKKA. The greenery around is so mesmerizing; that it entices them to take a long
stroll along the lush green paths. They also take the heat off by engaging in a game of
basketball or lawn tennis.

*But KGPians never forget that they have an assignment to submit tomorrow, so
they rush back and start working on it, sometimes alone, sometimes as a group. The
brainstorming is at its best when they are having dinner at VEGGIES.

*Few hours into the assignment, they realize that they have to put up a good fight against
their drooping eyelids which makes them rush to CCD for a steaming mug of coffee.

*Finally KGPians return to their rooms and hit off their bed realizing that their day has
come to an end with just a few hours for their day to begin.


Courtesy: Supraja Rajagopalan MHRM 2011-13 

Meet you tomoro with a new past taking you back to the day 1 we visited the campus !

Introducing the Batch

Before introducing the life at IIT Kharagpur and MHRM i would like to share with you all the batch profile but in little different way 

Supraja R.--- Chennai,Tamilnadu
Amrita Mukharjee ---Kolkata,West Bengal
Shubhra Singh ---Bokaro,Jarkhand
Vikas Kumar ---Patna,Bihar
Manish Kumar ---New Delhi
Pankaz Parag Minz --- Bihar
Dinesh Babu ---Srikakulam,Andhra Pradesh
Divya Chaddha ---Yamuna Nagar
Bhavnish Kohli ---New Delhi
Ashish kumar ---Bihar
Nishi sharma ---Dehradun 
Dilip jha ---Gwalior,M.P
Mansingh hansda--- Bihar
Surojit Chakraborty ---Kolkata,W.B
Perumal samy K. ---Kanya Kumari,T.N
Ritika Tiwari ---Bhopal,M.P
Krishna Vamsi A.---Tirupathy,A.P

The batch comprises from New Delhi to Kanya Kumari, East India to Punjab , from the worlds famous pilgrimage places , from the central India and a perfect mix of freshers to work ex.

From next post i will take you through the memories and journey of these 18 people who are from different parts of India in to a beautiful campus ... Asia"s largest Campus ... Indian Institute that offers highest number of post graduate programs... The oldest and mother of all IITs --- Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kharagpur

Before Ending this post would like to mention and also wish the IIT Kgp a Sparkling Diamond jubilee year .

All Set Go . . . !

                    Its 01.43 am in the morning and 16 th of july which makes me more excited because of the upcoming feast called "IIT Kharagpur" . For all most all the M.P.C  students of Andhra , IIT is always a dream, I'm nothing special and belong to the same flock, So hyper excited with the 2 year journey in front and this would be my last blog post in next 2 yrs from Andhra,My home. Leaving office , fun , and beloved colleagues (it would be a sin terming them colleagues better word is friends/family )  and beautiful Bangalore night life..... hmmm hard but for sure my first job after the course would be probably Bangalore , literally bored of staying in home for these 14 days. 


' A small video that can depict the fun i had in Bangalore in one of Amoeba's Bowling track ! 

and  more at a marriage reception of my colleague 

Going to miss this fun .
And coming to the post confirmation final admission process in to MHRM 
here comes the real test !


1.50000 bucks draft to confirm your admission (15 days of ample time is given though)


2.Medical tests...the real test for any human ... elevating the soul of real doctor from an engineer 

•  Electro cardiogram
•   Chest x-ray
•   Abdomen scan 
•   B.P 
•   Urine test
•   Blood test (including HIV,lipid profile & 3 more)
•   Opthamalogist (eye)
•   Audiometry  (ENT)

All these cost me around 3.5k bucks and 3 days 


3.17250 bucks extra for the hostel fee


4.ERP system of IIT Kgp where you have to update the scanned copies of the certificates (medical) along with your personal details to get Library cards and desired mail ids at IITKGP.AC.IN and now my email id is


"krishnavamsi@iitkgp.ac.in"


At last done with all the proceedings and packed bags are ready to leave.Just now planned a meeting of all the batch mates at CCD on 19-07-2011 , my first exhibition of organisation skills but have to see how it goes ....


Hey forgot to show you my organizing skills... I could made my last year organised events pics in to a youtube video here it is and signing off for today and next blog will be from 


the LAN of IIT Kharagpur !!!

My last day in OFFICE

Hi all,

As every one knew I'm hyperexcited with the admission in IIT KGP MHRM . So as of now I'm done with the payment of fee 50000 bucks and yet to take a draft of 17250 towards hostel and mess fee. The other side I resigned my job today with 2 months of wonderful experience. I would like to share the videos of the last farewell words of my colleagues and CEO of my company freshersworld.com!!!


here it goes from my CEO Joby Joseph

and followed by my colleagues and manager ... .

and i also spared my time today in designing the july desktop background of IIT KGP 

Sad that i'm missing Blore but excited to spend rest of 2 yrs in IIT KGP

At last The dream comes true

Hi Guys

the blog has been dumb since the results were out and no doubt the reason is that i'm not shortlisted in the final list besides i am being in the main list of NITIE ,IIFM,TAPMI .I felt dejected and lost because of the negative result. Decided to take break and hit after 2 yrs to the institutes TISS/SCMHRD/XLRI and joined Freshersworld.Com as business consultant on may 6 th and started earning ever since before the results came out .And first list was out and i removed from the MHRM 2011-13 Pagal guy thread and also Facebook group i created MHRM IIT KGP 2011-13  I gave admin access to others and left hopes and started enjoying for the full in cool climate of Bangalore .

One day suddenly i got mail from IIT KGP  that i am selected for the course in the final list on 17-06-2011 as a wonderful delicious surprise.As some one said i felt lyk flying in air ..... felt lyk hang overed after a hell of party night .

Immediately told my manager and he agreed and now packing bag back to leave office where i had wonderful 2 months in butiful city of bangalore . Now
IIT KGP
i'm gonna hit you hard!

Exactly 15 Days before the results

Hello Every one 

Exactly 15 more days for the results to hit the sites and here came the first speculation.Some of the students received mails from the admission team to update their JMET  details like application numbers,registration numbers and score.

Hmmmm i took the risk of not paying the fee to NITIE and wait for the IIT Kgp results and on the other hand some of the applicants recieving the mails made my heart beat rouse to 300 times a min .Chalo yaar wat the heck is this ? Am i playing a spoilsport with my career ? And the number of people receiving the mail increased day by day and tension went to its extremes and I immediately booked tickets for attending IIFM Bhopal GD/PI .

And surprisingly i got the mail today for updation of details and i felt happy now.Great sigh of relief but one of my friends started crying because she didn't get the mail.I am such an arrogant that i knew the phone numbers of admin team but why am i panicking without calling therm .Did that at the end and he cleared that mails are only to the students who haven't submitted the JMET scorecard xerox copy at the time of GD/PI .Damn god I'am relieved now and even my friend.

"Life without masala is never good to taste" LESSON OF THE DAY 

ABOUT MHRM AND IIT KGP

It would be a matter of fun and foolishness if i explain something about IIT KGP  . The largest of all the IITs in India,which received 200+ crore fund this yr 2011 & with Asia's largest library ...this vedio better explains you wat is IIT KGP 


About IIT Kgp ...click here


And now coming to MHRM  course let me start with the video presentation which was presented to us by the seniors during our GD/PI . here is the link 


VIDEO PRESENTATION ON MHRM...click here


And most of the aspirants think that MHRM is a new course with only 2 batches .But the fact is that it is pretty old course in par with XLRI,SCMHRD,MHROD.....,.,.,..Started in the year 1982 as M.Tech in HR was well established right from the inception and being a govt branded institute attracted all the PSU s with packages varying from 6.5-8.5 L per annum.But according to the changing trends in the market, the department of humanities which actually handles this course added new subjects in to the course and shifted gears from GATE to JMET  and named the course as MHRM -Master of Human Resource Management .

The result of changing the name of the course immediately reflected in attracting many private consultancies for summer interns .So my dear aspirants and friends this is not a new course ,it is 28 yr old course .


And the website for the MHRM course and Department of HSS is 


http://www.hss.iitkgp.ernet.in/

Case Study & GD

I would like to share the case study which was posed to us during the MHRM interview


CASE:


A small firm ...basically a software firm which started in 2005 with 30 employees had some rules as a company policy.only candidates with one yr experience were taken in to the company .in 2011 the company grew to 700 employees and in the company review it is known that some of the candidates are with fake profiles and fake experiences.some company fired such people and in deep survey it is known that almost 70 % people are with fake experiences.some company thought of changing its policy ...


Now u being a HR manager
1.wat will u do against these fake profiles ?
2.will u alter/change the company policy ?


Now as discussed in the earlier blog we were given 2 min to think of ourselves and then 10 min discussion started .it is a group of 10 people .with 3 freshers and 7 work ex people. As usual i stick to my GD tricks and i didnt started it and 2 fought for the start and it went on .not a fish market at all . i entered as number 3 and shooted out 3-4 new points through which the discussion carried on
 after the discussion every individual was given 1 min to conclude and 1.5 min to write the conclusions


the conclusions we arrived at are


*Do not change the company policy else go for the alteration that instead of 1 yr experience go for candidates with certified courses

*Take the assistance of NSR and NAASCOM for the background check of candidates


*Take the assistance ant tie up with job portals like FRESHERSWORLD.COM which can provide freshers bcoz going for campus placements to a small company is cost incurred process


*Grill the candidates in interviews


*Black list the companies which provide fake experiences


and thus ended the case study and GD
I had a good value added points like job portal assistance and grill through interviews.
A very good case and followed by the interview .Do not forget that Interview panel are the judges to the GD is well .So ur GD reflects your interview.

MY GD/PI - MHRM IIT Kgp

First document verification which happens for 40min - 1 hour

 then 

follows the MHRM presentation ........followed by queries and answers to the questions posed by us the faculty who were interview personnel and student co-ordinators

THEN COMES THE GD ...ITS BASICALLY A CASE STUDY....5 MIN TO STUDY THE CASE ....10 MIN TO DISCUSS ABT THE CASE ........AND ONE MIN EACH TO WIND UP INDIVIDUALLY AND 1.5 MIN TO WRITE UR SOLUTION TO THE CASE

THEN FOLLOWS THE PERSONAL INTERVIEW WHICH IS A PURE HR ...NO TECHY QUESTIONS ...UR PERFORMANCE IN GD REFLECTS UR TIME AND THE INTERVIEW GOES ....

‎1-me
2-panel

1.good morning sir
2.take ur seat
1.thank u sir

2.ok vamsi tell me abt ur self
1.i said abt me and my grads and acads and i started my achievements followed by my qualities and projected my self as leader and social concerned person...

2.tell me why a mechanical engg good as a hr manager
1.i told i can be good in psu s to identify suitable people specially core people

2.tell me abt ur social service programmes
1.told abt all mine (i have plenty )

2.wat other institutes u applied
1.mentioned all the hr programmes colleges and made them sure i am hr guy

2.asked a question on financial regulatory of india
1.no sir i do not know i do not anything abt finance and marketing i am only hr guy

2.ok then tell me wat other responsibilities of hr other than recruiting
1.assessment
industrial relations and laws
labour laws and legal problems
organisation development
consulting

2.good man now i believe u r hr guy
wat is ur long term goal
1.a PhD in psychology and go for teaching stream along with consulting

2.tell me 2 things in this world which u do not understand and believe
1.gals and money (i told immediately)
2.laughed a lot and said we are happy to see a fresher with this josh meet u soon man all the best

and in between had some questions on my state politics too ...

About Me - Myself

 Hello Every one this is Krishna Vamsi A.
I am from Andhra- South India


A little Intro about me .


I am from Mechanical Engineering with 76% from G.Pulla Reddy Engg College ,Kurnool,Andhra (25 yrs of history)....Placed in Accenture in my campus .Wrote My CAT 2010 for the first time and secured 92.79 and calls from B-Schools ---NITIE Mumbai,Tapmi Manipal,IIFM Bhopal,NIT-T,XIMB-RM,XIME Blore ,IBS Hyd ...and also IIT Kgp MHRM


my first interview was IBS Hyd ..did not attend
second comes XIMB-RM ...did not attend as it clashed with my Accenture Initial Training
then comes MHRM IIT Kgp...attended did well
next NITIE did it also well


I can say confidence and some may name it over confidence but with the way i did the IIT Kgp and NITIE interviews i thought i did both of them well ...why should i attend any other calls ...and i did the same ...I did nt attend any other calls ...


waitied for the results
NITIE came ...and i am in


this is till date
now waiting for MHRM IIT Kgp Results


and for any MBA aspirant after IIM s NITIE is a dream as it is one of the top 5 B-schools in INDIA  ...i got it through so dream full filled ...now how about my passion


1.Forest Management
2.HR


Any other must have gone to NITIE
bcoz
#top 5 B-Schools in INDIA
#SALARY PACKAGES WITH MINIMUM 10 L
#Vibrant Mumbai life


But i decided to leave it
bcoz dreams can be fullfilled one day or other
but PASSION is wat drives us
so now waiting for the IIT KGP MHRM
results