Now its time to pen few thoughts when all our pyaari juniors are busy in their winter internships for the aspiring MBA students and providing a few light on whether MHRM is a choice to them or not !!!
Recently a post popped up in MBA News section of Pagalguy ... thought adding those points and moving forward would be a better insight for students/aspirers for the course
How do you choose a b-school when the top 10 choices seem out of reach !!!
Before going to the justification or explanation to each and every point first i would like to pen few points about the title !!! Definitely we are not either in top 10 or top 100 range of b-schools in India ... Because we neither sponsor the rankings nor publicize like the other b-schools do !!! Dont blame us blame the govt regulations and rules for the same !! afteral its an sarkari institute .... Also to be precise we are not those regular MBA programs, we are a specialized Masters course in Human Resource Management offered by the department of HSS in association with business and law school of IIT Kharagpur. Definitely we are one among the top 5 schools which offer HR programs
So going forward
1. A b-school is as good (or bad) as its faculty
No need to boast on the same !! we are IITs and faculty is our trademark ... Our core faculty includes Damodar Suar, KBL srivastava, RK pradan, Chhanda Chakraborty etc., the list goes on ... More detailed can be found in the following link
Google them and find results for yourself !!!
2. I learn as much (if not more) from my peers and seniors as I do from the professors
The beauty of having a small batch .... is always a plus and Alumni mentorship program always keep in touch with you other than the tremendous support by the seniors who guide you as mentors through respective committees. That is how i learned and that is how my juniors are learning ... and yes it is a viscious circle !!! over here not only the funda of academics but abt the profs and way to behave and way to enjoy and explore the campus and thoda sa gyaan with jyaada sa bhakar !!! part and parcel of life :)
3. An MBA does not entitle me to a job; I need to be trained well for the industry
If we accept that b-schools are preparing you largely for corporate careers ahead, their pedagogy has to align itself to serve this objective. There are three parts to this – the curriculum content, the delivery methodology and the assessment methods.
As said by the pagal guy yes we not only train you for industry but we lead you through examples and live case studies... !!! proximity of reaching various manufacturing plants of Jemshedpur and Kolkata where HR is defined it became a routine to have the idustry specialists and leaders for the guest lectures, case studies and added to it ( thanks to the international links of profs ) the video conferences with people from the global companies like PepsiCo, Atlas Copco, H&M etc.,
4. This is probably my last chance to ‘live a campus life’
Once an IITian is an IITian always !!!
This is not just a statement but a fact and to cross check ask any IITian ... he/she would be more happy to share the life over here !!! I can write a blog on this but will just add few lines once quoted by my classmate
Day in Life of a IITian
*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.
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.
5 The deeper my interface with the industry, the better my readiness for it
As mentioned earlier guest lectures are part of the curriculum ... To name a few HCL Head Internal Communications, Atlas Copco Sustainable business department, H&M CSR Head Asia Pacific, JSPL HR Head, Tata Motors Corporate HR Head, Hutchisson Head Recruitment, Deloittee Head HR East and the list goes on !!!
Other than this the beauty of studying here over here is the opportunity to intern in winter other than the regular summers and live projects. I personally did with pepsiCo and my juniors are with tetrapak, Samsung, Continental to name a few !!!
6. I need a good start to my career – a sturdy launching pad
Regarding placements --- Hmmm being an course offered by IIT we are not ready to twist our packages so last year it ended with 8.95 LPA as average with companies like PwC, Gallup etc., !!! For more details
But we would like to make clear dont come to MHRM assuming IIT Kgp placements because Facebook and microsoft do come to IIT but for engineering graduates not for HRs ... So to be very precise we have a dedicated 5 member team in seniors and 5 more in juniors. ofcourse we do come under central IIT for placements and 4-5 companies consider us but we are allowed to interact with the company personnel of B.tech placements which improves the placement scenario every year
2011-13 batch placements are going on and our placecom would come forward with a detailed report soon !!! As of now companies visited are Gallup, Jaipur Rugs Group, Saltodeefee, Tata Technologies etc.,
7. There is a lot of noise in the market – most of it irrelevant
I have a few favourites here – the size and number of advertisements, the offer of free laptops, tie-ups with foreign universities you haven’t heard of, guarantee of 100% placements (it is illogical to believe that an educational institute can guarantee anyone a job – the jobs are offered by the industry)
As quoted by PG ... Yes no course do provide a guarantee of placement ( forget about the admission coordinators who market the course ... its our job) atleast not in IIT but what we can say is you would be given enough number of chances to get the opportunity for the same. If you are unsuccessful even after 11-13 chances of sitting in interviews to companies even II*****MMMMM cant help you !!!
8. The best source of information is the customer – the past and current students of the school
Yes you can reach any one of the alumni or Present students !!! its never in our history to misguide the aspirers but only to guide you !!! they are instances where we ourselves told aspirers to choose a "XXXX" B-school than the MHRM according to the situations !!!
So that brings me to the end of the column but feel free to reach us back !!! And this is How i Mapped MHRM to the question how to choose a B-School when top 10 are out of my choice !!! You can do a similar analysis for the respective B School choice of yours !!! Wishing you all the ebst for the GD-PI sessions ahead
Krishna Vamsi
MHRM IIT Kharagpur
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Krishna Vamsi
MHRM IIT Kharagpur
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