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. 

How do you choose a b-school when the top 10 choices seem out of reach !!!

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 

http://www.hss.iitkgp.ernet.in/indexs.php?id=Faculty%20Members​

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.

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 

http://www.hss.iitkgp.ernet.in/controlpanel/uploads/10001_Final%20Placement%20Report.PDF​

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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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