Hasta La Vista - ING now Kotak

Its been a while since I really put in my thoughts after I entered in to my career with ING. Needless to say that is how ING completely engaged me in the role.

Judging the decision - early days 

With three choices in hand, I have chosen ING and the early days are more of testing the pace of the organization and role. Campus hiring was always my dream and my real reason behind taking up HR. The decision went my way. I enjoyed my first role , did it with lots of passion, continuous support from manager and super manager. Endless recognition, seamless cooperation from regional hr partners, successful introduction of combined interview process model, what not every thing was a perfect story. But if everything is so perfect then wat is good for ???

The manager transition 

God will make sure you remember him in regular intervals. Same is the case with me. 6 months and there happened transition, a sudden news, so well jelled with the manager , had a little scare reporting to head of TA. But to everyone's surprise, the bonding was so beautiful and simple and clear , with more responsibilities , more freedom, more control that completely shaped my career 

All exciting projects

New manager and more freedom , just the right time, introduced my dream project " hunt for the lions - campus branding event " , that attracted more than 8000 registrations across 90+ MBA schools pan India , with the branding running on social media. Marketing team at ING was so wonderful that entire project planned and executed in less than 30 days. Also awarded by people matters , first of a kind initiative in BFSI domain India. Campus went as planned , planned for a large scale internship program , project revamping of careers page , part of the team that implemented TALEO for the bank .. All set and came the second jolt ... 

ING Vysya Bank is now Kotak 

With so smooth run there comes the super announcement , kotak buys ING , WAH can't be a better time. Suddenly the energy dropped , joined ING to spend at least 5 - 7 yrs but this was undigestable announcement , to me and most of the people. All projects stalled, was completely free with no work. Then started the idea of shifting the job 

Desperation for the new job 

As the saying says there comes the time when it comes, keep running. Drecruiter's, prip for a while 

Flipkart - Campus role - rejected 

Cognizant - HR Partnering - rejected 

ARM - Recruitment - rejected 

Azim premzi - campus role - not attended 

Then comes the interview 

Commonfloor - campus role - selected . 

As soon as I received the offer, initiated the resignation 

The long 3 month notice period 

Banking has its own advantages and disadvantages. 3 long months of notice is a pain. Tried to negotiate, but failed miserably. With more team members initiating the resignation , ended up in serving the complete notice period. 

Magical last month 

Waiting has its own advantages, there comes the boon in disguise. I will always thank my manager who involved me in taleo project and who declined me the early relieving. With not so comfortness to shift to a start up and mounting pressure from colleagues, friends and family abt how bad can the startup be, decided to apply for deloitte. Super friendly recruiters and prior experience in taleo , just landed me in the right job, HCM FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT WORKDAY PRACTICE . Took it up with no second thought. Felt little guilt to say no to common floor, but career is important than the guilt. With Gallup interview in process doesn't know how will be June but this is the magical and happening last month.

There comes the end of 1 yr 7 month 10 days journey at ING, Who tried to retain me to the last possible extent. Will never ever forget the stint at ING and super colleagues and special boss. 

Winter Internship @ PepsiCo

Hello Folks,

                                A very awesome summer Internship experience over here at Bangalore but i know as promised earlier this post would be dedicated to my Winter Internship experience at PepsiCo. The name PepsiCo itself excites right..!!! Why not the brand that drives entire world not only India crazy. Yes I am in there when Shewag had a wonderful 200 in one day cricket and when India stumbled at Aussiez pitches. I am there in a place where the temperature went down to 0.8` C for a south Indian guy who thinks 24 is the coldest temperature ever. The true fact is that i hate all PepsiCo products but ended in drinking one or other in the office of 45 days internship ( Its Free folks except Tropicana including Lays ). 

Invitation for the PepsiCo Day

                                 First before the off shots let me get in to the point how i grabbed the internship at the FMCG biggie of the world. Its an interesting story. Krishna whose only asset or positive is networking was rejected in the placement committee selections. Surprized not only me but also my fellow friends (few). Its ok every has thier own selection criteria as the senior placecom had. And days went by with internal politics in the class to its peak but the fire that has litten on my ass for my rejection in placecom made me shift the networking time from facebook to LinkedIn - The professional Networking site. With basic foundation course from my ex-manager Mr.Manu Sri Kumar the real Alchemist of my life i started building my profile and adding people. With strong determination of restriction to members as only HRs in my profile it grew day by day. Had my own strategy of asking the profile connections to be my mentors for the Masters course and moved the tools of tactics to regular interaction on a weekly basis with various discussions on case studies , Burning HR issues, Real time problems. This not only resulted in knowledge sharing but also my Winter Internship Opportunity making use of the 30 day holiday period between semesters. Resulted in query posting the opportunity of an Internship for a duration of 45 days with my profiles finally landed me with four opportunities . . Bharati Cements, Apollo Hospitals, teleDNA and the Mighty PepsiCo. Thanks to LinkedIn. 

 Wanna Have a look at my LinkedIn Profile here it goes : Krishna Vamsi - LinkedIn

                                  Starting my journey for the first time in my life to the northern part of country landed in the Capital City of Nation New Delhi with a wonderful travelling experience in Rajdhani( Of course if travelling to Delhi is first time its obvious that travelling in Rajdhani is also for the first time). Had a beautiful welcome from one of my PagalGuy friend Annu Pandey and helped me to enter the most prestigious and modern Cheez of Delhi - The Metro. Guess wat I am here staying with my the old same manager " Manu Sri Kumar" who was shifted to Career Builder - India as Marketing Manager to New Delhi location. Excitement to the peaks entered the office of PepsiCo on the first day with warm welcome of Katrina ( Model for Slice) posters every where inside the office. I thought it was the motivation factor for PepsiCo employees to work hard harder and hardest. Greeted with a smile by my manager "Vidhu Arora" entered in to the HR floor of PepsiCo India. To my surprise it was so cool ... Not the AC idiots .. the way it looked completely filled by posters, hangouts, fruits, Pepsi machines, people chilling out.

PepsiCo India Corporate Office - HR - Gurgaon

                                             Had an initial discussion with my mentor and given task of understanding the Intranet of PepsiCo. Surprized her by completing it fast with suggestable changes that can make it look better really impressed her ( Over Performance yeah yeah ..!!!). She said this would be one of your project other than handling the Performance development review handling of entire India. It shocked me when i came to know that i would be single point of contact for all the regional HRs regarding the PDR. The entire PDR(Performance Development Review) was handled in the form of a contest of KBC with Shrimati Tik Tiki and Padhao with entire India Plant locations and Business units being divided in to Teams. There were stages and deadlines and contests for each and every level of PDR. I was asked to take the feedback from all HRs which as usual excited me with here and there tasks of Internal Communication which i used to complete in jet speed and my Vidhu got accustomed to my speed and used to send me for movies in case she finds me sitting quite. Forgot to mention PVR is just a metro away from PepsiCo office. As days pass on i got the complete control on PepsiCo Org Structure, the PDR evaluation module, Made friends with all India HRs of PepsiCo ( Some even used to discuss movie reviews, Breakfast varieties and Cricket Scores). On the other hand the Revamping of Intranet work also went on parallely. But some way or other i always tried to interact with the talent Acquisition Team where my heart lies in though I am working with Organisation Capability Team. Finally Vidhu told "by the end of Internship i will make u like the OC team and domain" and yes she was successful in same. She made me love the Organisation capability domain and the team. And the Winter Internship came to an end with successful completion of PDR contest and also revamping of Intranet ( Which is implemented ). The last day was the word with Suchithra the head of OC team who started asking me the question - " Tell me now which is the best OC or TA. i replied TA is always best but OC is also good" She had a small smile on her face and offered me a Summer Internship and PPI ( In case if i cannot come for summers) and gave tips of HR manager and his first job and ofcourse a small bouquet of flowers with a certificate of Internship Completion and also the stipend. 

The HR Team Of PepsiCo India

                                          Besides the Internship had the awesome Delhi food specially the "Chola Batura" which was almost my food for more than 26 days in 45 day stay, watched numerous movies atleast 2 in a week, Spectacular Delhi People, Specially the hot --- real hot girls of Delhi .. I should mention here one interesting fact ... If the average .. sorry below average girls in the class pose with attitude then wat should these girls do. But these girls were sweet by heart. Had few friends and 15 days of having the mighty " Royal Enfield" made me roam Gurgaon like a Prince. Before winding up couldnt resist to mention this .. The so called Placecom that is formed by seniors excelled in its inefficiency despite of the efforts of  few of them( One being my room mate - Hard working dead cell) they could turn out with zero Summer Internships by the time i returned back to campus from my Winter Internship on Jan 15, 2012. Thats it for now folks . Hope i haven't Bored. 

Sneak Peak : Next time its all about the Politics/ Dirty games/Marriageable Ages and my shift of committees from Media PR to Placecom ... Stay tuned... !!!!

Fests are Integral part of IITs Life ..!!!

Hi Fellas !!!

Its long very long since i put down my time to write a blog ... Admissions ... Placements ... Bahuth Busy ho gaya mein .... Hope the before line doesn't have any grammatical Hindi mistakes. Ok lets come to the point of discussion ... Fests... yes they are quite common and so frequent that one week or other with one department or other comes up with a fest... Most noted ones are 

• Spring Fest - Asia's Largest Cultural fest
• Kshitij - Asia's Largest Technical Fest
• Saamanjasya - A business fest with Social Cause
• Anoogoonj - The HR Fest 
• Samudramanthan... the list goes on and on and on ... Each and every department celebrates its own fest. Boss do not forget this is the "Grand Old Daddy of IITs"

But one thing always wonders me why do these small kids(B.Techs) always tag this Asia's or World's Largest tag to every fest. But i couldn't stop myself writing this .. the way these kids co ordinate and organise ... Awesome is a small word. And here goes Spring fest... Chill Winter... Hot Gals... Non stop music... Celebrities...this time Vishal And Shekar... Rock bands ... Black and Band Competition ...Non stop dance ... hell lot of events.. food courts... 4 days of full Masti ... 

Next comes Kshitij .. this is a technical fest which happens just after one week of spring fest... This consists of eminent speakers and this time a fabulous Laser show and Dirt Biking(Cancelled at last moment) were organized with hundreds of students all over country filling the campus again for 4 days.

Saamanjasya .. this is VGSOMs fest but i was the media head over there. Fun part is going to kolkata for sponsorships and in particular to FM channels, News Papers, Facebook Handling, Taking interviews of guests.. Made some good friends with HRs who came as guests... Also MHRM organised Samvit quiz event .. Ofcourse I am the one handling it with help from Seniors(MHRM)... Point to be noted .. MHRM gals gave hand in between who are supposed to co ordinate with me ... The funniest thing is though they knew they did nothing not even coming to the fest they give gyaan all the time ... Unbearable god... Ok K K ... And the notable event is the sale and display of hand made products right from jewelry to show case items ... A fun filled and fantabulous experience of 45 days ... 

Of course 2010-11 MHRM Initiative of Anoogoonj - The HR fest ... Our department fest with case studies, Quizes.. Guest lectures... Dinners.. Stage Shows(Spectacular classical performance) immediately after 1 week of Saamanjasya... I am appointed i would say compelled to do the hospitality team ... Guess what ... Gals who gave hand in Saamanjasya are working here ... Hmm smiles again ... THe so called "Marriagebles are like small kids ... Name it "Department Love "... it went well me running here and there all the time to receive guests and outstation participants... Again got some new friends and ofcourse HR friends too... !!!

With all the above and added with department fests ... waiting for next academic year to bang in to experience the same .. taking off now ... And sneak peak of next post would be "My Winter Internship at PepsiCo... Stay Tuned"

Celebrations & MHRM made my video making skills boom up ...!!!

I never knew I am good at video making until and unless my videos took the eye out of my fellow students . Funny part is that some waited for a new video where as some literally started fighting with me to stop making videos... Must be jealous ... well well well before going in to detail i would like to pay my courtesy to the inspirer Mr.Manu Sri Kumar my Management Guru who introduced me to this Video making. 


The spirited mind didn't kept quiet , used its creativity while presenting the chance to win the Best leader award for Campus Ambassador Initiative which replaced a boring presentation with an interesting video. I should mention one of my junior help Sirisha Reddy who helped to carve the video in to a final shape. Here it goes my first ever video making which earned me the Best leader in Nation 2010-11.

Later on this moved to making of Dance videos and fun overloaded i should say. here goes one among them  

and as soon as Joined MHRM the first chance was to make a wish to all my batch mates who were ready to face the first ever mid semester exams. And examz starting tomorrow and accustomed with 3 hour study i felt bored and made a video to inspire them though the real part is that it wasted my time and my friends too. But some how or other people liked it . Here it goes ...!!!

Then comes the chance to make a Video for Teachers Day celebrations which i remember was stopped when I'm 6 th class. People praised it but dont know how far it is good. Here it goes

And birthdays the best part in IITians life .. We here celebrate Birthdays In our own style and it has pre designed process though 

Here is the MHRian way of celebrating the Birthdays ...!

            

The agenda follows this way 

11.30 PM - GPL  starts 
11.55 PM - Reaching the cake cutting venue 
12.00 AM - Cake 
12 - 1 AM - decorating the face of birthday guy with cake + cream + eggs + cooldrink + GPL
7.00 PM - Party starts 

then ** Sensor **  dont ask me wat party & where ...!

To know more about the Birthday here is a short video of the happening 

And we haven't.... literally speaking I haven't left the Internship too and we celebrated in our own way. Have a glimpse and you wish never to celebrate an Internship 

Every Dog has its own day and here comes the revenge from my friends ... Laga laga GPL with believe me 2 full bottles of coke( Coco cola) drowned on me ... Though i secured Winter Internship at PepsiCo... I am already scared and decided not to share about my Summer Internship to any one . The worst part is that with pain after GPL i made my own video .... Here it goes again ...

Hope i have bored with all my videos will catch up next time with fest fever at the Grand Old Daddys of IITs...
Bye Folks  

Freshers Party and committee Selection

Now comes the Freshers day 

It started with the hours of time dedicated to make up ourselves specially the girls ... and it started at 8 pm and ended at 1 am.

It revealed the real faces of the seniors and juniors 

The following are the events that took place in the Freshers party 

• Paper couple dance 
• D.J remix and dancing with hearts and souls
• Dances for the latest songs with different themes like bhojpuri spiderman , rhymes
• Then a Ramp walk which was a curtain raiser for the models inside us 
• Skits where girls played the boy role and vice verse 
• Special Dance performance by the seniors 
• MR. And Miss Fresher
• Askal Whiskal Kiskal Drinking competition between juniors and seniors 

Loads of fun which words cannot explain joined with delicious food and b**z* 


The fun thing is juniors have to pair up with seniors to enter the freshers party . Some used Brains and some used CCD  and some created ways creatively which reduced the tonnes of gap between both the batches.


And after all the fun here comes the student Committee Selections 


The various committees present in MHRM are 

Placecom - which takes care of placements right from resumes to internships and final placements 

Acadcom - which takes care of guest lectures, books , extra material resources 

Adcom - Which takes care of the admissions 

Media & PR - which takes care of the pagalguy, promotion and website and interaction with outside world right from news paper to future aspirants 

Cultcom - which takes care of the cultural activities and KHROM club and PEOPLE TREE newsletter


P.S: 2-3 guys haven't showed interested in committees and 2-3 guys backed out of committees after getting selected ... Reasons are crazy .. Some are disgusted with selection method and some are disappointed with poor selection and some more are vexed up with moron senior domination. Everything happens afterall we are humans...!!!


Now itz time to explore the IIT KGP societies and committees 

The list is endless but still would like to write a few 

• AIESEC worlds largest student community 
• Telugu , English ,Hindi , Bengali Dramatics society 
• Music society 
• Debating Society 
• Technology Dance Society 
• Vivekananda Social Service Community 
• CRY child rights 

Name a community you will find one here.

Except the Bengali Dramatics Society everything mentioned above has a representative from MHRM ... Kudos we are enthusiastic people . Cannot spend life sitting in rooms and Facebooking all the time but to explore the opportunities to come in par with BTECHians Dominated IITs .. We are here to make our impressions

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.