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Varun Khanna, Jaipuria Noida 2009 Batch – “During placements, it all boiled down to the kind of support I received from my family; and faculty, peers and mentors at Jaipuria Noida.”

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When Varun Khanna entered Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida in 2007, the world seemed at his feet. The global economy was surging ahead and India was leading the charge. It all changed with the 2008 Lehmann Brothers-led sub-prime crisis, and the global economy went into recession. Like Varun Khanna, B-school students were filled with a sense of dread about placements. Surprisingly, despite the recession, Jaipuria Noida’s placement programme began with a bang in November 2008. Varun was targeting the Analytics/ Research and Banking sectors. To his immense relief, his target companies like Grail, Essar and Deutsche Bank began making the rounds of the Jaipuria Noida campus towards the beginning of January 2009.
“After completion of quantitative aptitude test, group discussion and two rounds of personal interviews with the Vice-President Sales and HR, I cracked my first job on-campus with Deutsche Bank. The role that was being offered to me was that of an executive responsible for corporate tie-ups in a priority vertical of Deutsche Bank. I could hardly believe my luck!”
With the placement offer from Deutsche Bank, Varun’s confidence soared to a new high. At the end of his first year at Jaipuria Noida, Varun had interned with the Premier Banking Division of the global banking giant, HSBC. It was a two-month internship where he had worked on a premier vertical of HSBC’s Greater Kailash Branch in New Delhi. He had gained some insights into the working of Banks and the kind of profile that he wanted. With the Deutsche Bank offer in his pocked, Varun was able to successfully leverage his position and skills to land his dream job with the HDFC Ltd.
“I chose HDFC Ltd. over Deutsche Bank as the role offered to me at HDFC was in the field of Financial Analytics/ Research. It was the profile I wanted. It’s been more than two-and-a-half-years now and I’m now an Assistant Manager, working as a credit appraiser with HDFC. My role is that of a loan underwriter and I recommend/ approve mortgage loans based on the repayment capacity of the client. HDFC, being the largest mortgage lender in the country, has its clientele spread across India, with international offices in the Middle-East, UK and Singapore catering to our NRI clientele.”
Varun’s typical day at work includes accepting loan applications from different sales channels that source business for HDFC, and perusing, recommending and dispatching them to the central sanctioning hub. He handles 15 such people who source business for HDFC, and is also responsible for their product training, and keeping them informed of latest developments in terms of policies. The other part of his job is interacting with potential clients, understanding their capital requirements and providing them with optimal solutions. Such clients are usually HNIs or High Net Individuals. He is also responsible for developing new channels for sourcing business and exploring corporate ties with selective companies. Varun feels that his role is very holistic in nature and gives him immense exposure to all facets of banking.
“It all actually boiled down to the kind of support I received from my family; and faculty, peers and mentors at Jaipuria Noida. It’s time to reap the rewards of consistent hard work and perseverance during those two years at Jaipuria Noida. Personally, I feel very lucky to have been groomed by such a fantastic set of professors who always showed me the right path. I feel that the extra sessions at Jaipuria Noida for personality development, group discussions and personal interview sessions served us really well.”
When you have your dream job, work becomes play. That is exactly what has happened with Varun. The good news is that his work has found widespread recognition in his department at HDFC. He has recently been offered the role of Branch Head in one of HDFC’s branches in the Middle East. He is looking forward keenly to this tenure.
“My two years at Jaipuria Noida were the best years of my life. There was immense value addition to me in these years. Jaipuria Noida is unforgettable.”
When it comes to advice to his juniors at Jaipuria Institute of Management Noida, Varun chooses the words of Chetan Bhagat. ‘It’s ok to bunk a few classes, score low during exams, goof up in a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, etc., as we are all human beings, not programmed devices.
“So don’t be serious,” Varun concludes, “be sincere”.

Jaipuria Noida STUDENT Speaks

Student credits Jaipuria Noida and internship for getting her on right career path

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Post date September 21, 2012

Harshita Shukla, a student of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida credits her institute for the “go-getter” attitude she has acquired. As for deciding her career path, she has her internship to thank for that.

A native of Lucknow, Harshita received her Bachelor of Business Administration from National PG College in the same city, before choosing Jaipuria Noida for her post-graduate work. “I chose Jaipuria Institute of Management because the exposure that we get here is incredible,” said Shukla. She also said that the institute came highly recommended by her mentor “for the exceptional faculty that we have here and the experiential environment of education that is provided.”

It proved to be the right choice for her.

“My first year was full of learning and fun,” she said, pointing out that she secured the first rank in all three semesters “with the help of my faculty members and peers” and also won various debating competitions. “Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida provided me with the opportunity to carry on my passion for writing and I became student editor of Verbajim, our college magazine.”

Shukla has high praise for the Jaipuria Noida faculty, citing in particular Dr. Prabhat Pankaj, who helped her decide on her specialisation – finance. Her thanks also go out to Professor Poonam Sharma. As she puts it, “They guided me in every sphere and helped me make many crucial decisions, like choosing electives, etc.”

But it was her summer internship that narrowed down the field of career choices open to her. “The internship gave me a platform to understand the real corporate world,” she said. “It not only helped me in getting a broader perspective on the corporate world, but helped me to decide the job profile I would love to work in – the area of research.”

“Jaipuria gave me a focus toward my goals and aspirations,” said Shukla.

“There was a hazy picture of what I wanted to achieve in life, but Jaipuria cleared all my doubts and gave me confidence to realise my dreams.”

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“Learning to be ‘Change Compliant’ in times of downturn” says Mr. N.N.Akhouri, Former Senior VP, Hero Honda Motors

The HR Conclave held at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida on the 25th of August 2012 saw participation from eminent leaders from the HR landscape of India. Of the 10 panelists who represented their industry in the discussion on the ‘HR Practices and Challenges During Downturn’, the one who spoke for the Automobile Industry was Mr. Narendra Nath Akhouri, who was the Senior VP, HR Management, Hero Honda Motors Ltd. during the global economic meltdown of 2008. Mr. Akhouri, a product of XLRI Jamshedpur, has had a career of more than 35 years in the HR domain, finally retiring a couple of years ago as the Group HR Head at Worlds Window Group.

Campus journalist at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida, Geetika Goyal found the opportunity to quiz Mr. Rathore on how the HR domain has evolved over the years, and what the expectations of industry are from future HR managers of Jaipuria Noida.

Geetika– I think your presentation on ‘HR Perspective on the Recession’ was quite an eye-opener. We also enjoyed the way you created a mathematical connection between Technical Solution, Acceptance and Overall Effectiveness. What is it that attracts you most about the HR profession?

Mr. Akhouri – It’s the sheer energy that is involved in interacting with diverse kinds of people and the different reasons that

make them click. The interesting part is that when you are interacting with people, you are never alone. It also includes recruiting from a campus like Jaipuria Institute of Management.

Geetika– Traditionally, there has been a perception that HR is a domain mainly opted for by women. Does this belief still hold good? Is this a myth?

Mr. Akhouri – To an extent it was true until a decade or so ago. Even today, an outsider might hold this view, but when you deal internally within companies, you realise that the situation is not so. Men seem to be ruling the roost when it comes to HR. The general opinion seems to be undergoing a change, though. Alternatively, a lot of women are rising to the posts of CEOs, as well as moving into Operations – something quite uncommon till a few years ago. I personally believe that the overall headcount of women in multinational companies is still far from being at par with men.

Geetika – What do you think should be the main focus of future managers from Jaipuria Noida who would like to choose a career in HR management?

Mr. Akhouri – The biggest change that you should make in yourselves is ‘be open to change’; be encouraged to face what the future has in store for you. Be in a ‘soaking’ mode. Ask questions; because asking questions is humility, but having pre-conceived answers is arrogance. Learn from nature; learn from your failure. Don’t be afraid of challenges; face them as they come. It is what we’ve all understood from the global meltdown.

Geetika – That is a lot of food for thought for us at Jaipuria Noida, Sir. I guess the only thing constant is change and as HR practitioners, we’ll have to be ready for it. We’ll have to look for those who are change-compliant, as well. Thank you so much for your insights.

Jaipuria Jaipur STUDENT Speaks

Foundation Day Celebrated at Jaipuria Jaipur

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Post date September 21, 2012

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur celebrated the sixth Foundation Day. This special day was remembered with fondness and celebrated with a small function. This year, the celebration was extra special since it was just a day after the first annual Inter-college Sports Meet organised by Jaipuria Jaipur.

The PGDM students presented a skit on the occasion, showcasing the standard of education offered by the institution. There was also a dance performance by the students. The faculty, staff and the students enjoyed both the performances and the feeling of togetherness that the celebration brought.

Thereafter, the faculty of Jaipuria Jaipur shared their own experiences at the institute. Mr. Hemant (PS to Director) said, “Bricks make a building but hard work makes a building an institution.”

A more poetic Mr. Devesh who is the account officer, expressed himself with the words “phoolon ki har kali khushboo de aapko, suraj ki har kiran roshni de aapko, hum toh kuch dene ke kaabil nahi, dene wala har khushi de aapko.”

Rakesh simply congratulated everyone and then Dr. Swati Soni (Assistant Professor) shared her experiences about the days when “we all were a big family with a visionary leader”. Prof. S.P. Garg shared his feeling of pride at being associated with one of the most visionary groups in the field of management education.

The event closed with everyone eating together and sharing their experiences at the institute. After a day of such warmth and camaraderie, the students expressed a desire to celebrate the day more meaningfully each year.

FACULTY Speaks Jaipuria Lucknow

A teacher needs to work harder than his students in order to add meaning and value to his classes

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Post date September 20, 2012

Dr. Vir Ved Ratna, an Associate Professor in Marketing at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow believes that ‘Involvement’ is the key to teaching successfully. With a rich teaching experience of 14 years, the lesson of ‘Involvement’ is one of the first things that he learnt during his early days as a teacher at Pokhara University, Nepal.

“Pokhara University, Nepal was raised in 1997. So when I joined the place, I was given courses to teach which did not exactly fall within my realm of comfort. The reason was that the university was in its infancy and teachers for those particular courses were not to be found there. I took it as a challenge and worked hard on developing the courses. Perhaps I worked even harder than my students. So when all my students passed their exams with flying colours, it came as a big surprise to most of us. I learnt a really valuable lesson at Pokhara University – that a teacher needs to work harder than his students in order to add meaning and value to his classes. I’ve always carried the message with me, right through to my current tenure in Jaipuria Lucknow.”

Dr. Ratna feels privileged to have facilitated the career ambitions of so many students. When he comes across his students who have risen up the corporate ladder and are doing well in life, he feels immensely satisfied. “It never ceases to amaze me that my students feel that I’ve contributed to their success. It is a remarkable experience for me as a teacher.”

Dr. Ratna teaches Strategic Management and Marketing Communications at Jaipuria Lucknow.

“Personally, my favourite subject is Marketing Communications. Discussions on how companies use innovative methods to communicate with their target customers are exciting. I derive pleasure in relating Marketing Communications to other fundamental dimensions of Marketing, especially Consumer Behavior.”

The general opinion among students of Jaipuria Lucknow is that Dr. Ratna’s unique method of relating conceptual learning of marketing to something that is applied in life makes it very easy to understand things. They are deeply impressed by Dr. Ratna’s understanding of the Internet and social media, and their application in the area of Marketing Communications.

“My experience at Jaipuria Lucknow has been both rewarding and challenging. The autonomy of owning a course and delivering it has been extremely rewarding; it’s been a learning experience in itself. As a teacher one has to continuously juggle to find better ways of value addition.”

Currently, Dr. Ratna is a part of the MDP as well as the Placement Cell of Jaipuria Lucknow. Despite his busy schedule, he never lets go of an opportunity to read up randomly on new Marketing literature of all kinds.

FACULTY Speaks Jaipuria Indore

Teaching is a passion for Prof. Kushwaha of Jaipuria Indore

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Teaching is a passion for Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore’s Assistant Professor, Pooja S. Kushwaha.

“I have selected this career not by chance – I love teaching,” she says, and that love of teaching translates into active classroom sessions. “My teaching philosophy emphasises active student participation in learning through the support and development of significant and innovative thinking skills. Students are encouraged to be actively involved in my class, discussing concepts, exercises and problems. It is essential, especially in IT, for students to construct their own knowledge and build upon prior information by actively questioning previous knowledge and developing new concepts.”

Prof. Kushwaha says, “To accomplish classroom participation from students in my class, I utilise a variety of teaching strategies to facilitate learning for different types of students. I introduce more real-life applications that increase the students’ interest and specifically address why the material is relevant.”

She carries her passion for teaching beyond the classroom walls, organising many student seminars on various IT-related topics like working efficiently on MS Excel, role of database management software for business and SAS.

“These seminars helped a number of students at the time of final and summer placements,” she said. “These basic IT skills make them more employable.”

Above and beyond her classroom duties, Prof. Kushwaha works for Jaipuria Institute of Management’s admissions department and carries out institutional collaboration for different MBA examination bodies such as CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, and CMAT. She also serves as the Information Technology Area Chair and takes care of the girls’ hostel and mess.

She has behind her nine years of teaching experience in academics and research in the area of business intelligence, knowledge management, database management systems and enterprise resource planning.

Prof. Kushwaha is also a published author, with a number of magazine articles, web articles and research papers published and presented in various national and international conferences to her credit.

Even her spare time is devoted to her career. “I love to Google search on different topics related to the latest happenings in information technology,” she says. “I love reading books and I am also devoting my time to research.”

As for her experience at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore, she says the institute’s polices are very favorable to employees. “As a faculty member, Jaipuria gives me lots of opportunities to grow as an academician as well as a researcher. I am very thankful to Jaipuria.”

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“Industry Interface through Chisel allows students to put their classroom learning to the test with practical experience.”

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Post date September 19, 2012

Jaipuria Institute of Management enthusiastically motivates its students to engage in activities that give them a strong grounding for their skills and knowledge that can be applied to their respective corporate life in the future. For those students who participated in the Young Enterprise Mentorship Program (Chisel) Programme believed it to be an “excellent learning experience”.

Under the Chisel program, students interact directly with industry, working on live projects for about 15 days per trimester along with peer, industry and faculty mentors.

This direct hands-on experience in industry allows students to put their classroom learning to the test with practical experience, helping turn them into management professionals.

Pooja Tripathi said her time spent at Phinnacle Investment helped her a lot “in terms of communicating professionally and expressing yourself in a confident manner. I experienced the practical corporate scenario and work- life balance in which I had to manage my academics with my project under Chisel.”

Doing his Young Enterprise Mentorship project at Splash India, a human relations consulting firm was “a very practical and learning-based experience,” said NishchayJamwale.

“The most important thing which I learned during the complete course is that it is very important for any organization to have all the processes in place and they should be transparently shared with the employees.”

Assigned a company to work with Jamwale said: “I was involved in conducting motivational workshops for the employees and introducing the concept of fun at work.

“I conducted a lot of games and activities at the work place,” he said. “This got a very positive response from all the employees. I also conducted a small survey on employee satisfaction within the company.”

As for his mentor at Splash India, Ruchi Bhasin, he found her to be helpful, supportive and “a very dynamic personality with a vast experience in the industry. The vision she has about the company and employees is amazing.”

If there were one thing he would change about the YEMP program it would be the name. “I would change the name of the program to Young Entrepreneurship Training Program,” said Jamwale, “because the perception and expectations from the company become very high when they listen to the name mentorship.”

Seemanchal Dagra’s industry interface experience took him to Packaging Bazaar, a company dealing with industrial, commercial and household packaging needs.

From his mentor at the company, Subhash Chaturvedi, an entrepreneur in the Indore area, he says he learned a lot about entrepreneurship.

“Working with this company,” said Dagra, “I learned a lot – like public relations, being alert always about the field of business, being always creative and trying to fulfil the objective of the company.”

YEMP Chisel initiative has given the Jaipuria Indore students a foundation to understand and analyse the corporate life

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“Industry Interface through Chisel allows students to put their classroom learning to the test with practical experience.”

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Post date September 19, 2012

Under the Chisel program, students interact directly with industry, working on live projects for about 15 days per trimester along with peer, industry and faculty mentors.

This direct hands-on experience in industry allows students to put their classroom learning to the test with practical experience, helping turn them into management professionals.

Doing his Young Enterprise Mentorship project at Splash India, a human relations consulting firm was “a very practical and learning-based experience,” said NishchayJamwale.

Assigned a company to work with Jamwale said: “I was involved in conducting motivational workshops for the employees and introducing the concept of fun at work.

Seemanchal Dagra’s industry interface experience took him to Packaging Bazaar, a company dealing with industrial, commercial and household packaging needs.

From his mentor at the company, Subhash Chaturvedi, an entrepreneur in the Indore area, he says he learned a lot about entrepreneurship.

YEMP Chisel initiative has given the Jaipuria Indore students a foundation to understand and analyse the corporate life

Jaipuria Jaipur STUDENT Speaks

“Jaipuria is a platform for world class education & training” says Yateesh Wahaal

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Post date September 19, 2012

Yateesh Wahaal, who belongs to the second batch of Jaipuria Noida, is a man with several achievements under his belt. . An electronics and communication engineer by profession, he holds an MBA with a specialisation in Finance and Marketing. Jaipuria Noida introduced the PGDM programme after the batch of 2005-2007 graduated. He has also authored academic papers and is visiting faculty in a management school too. He is also a part of the IMT admissions committee and participates in the screening process and corporate interaction. He has always been close to academics and has done several other skill-building courses in India and abroad.

Currently, he is a Director at Pegasus International Advisory Limited, but reaching this top slot was not simple or straightforward. Pegasus is the culmination of a long journey that began with HDFC through his campus placement. From management trainee he soon jumped to the position of executive assistant to MD with Haier Appliances India Pvt. Ltd. This was a huge learning experience for him, especially in terms of the Chinese way of working. This job also gave him the opportunity to sit in on all core meetings, helping him understand strategy and research closely. His academic orientation and the papers he had written supported him in acquiring and then delivering on this job. He was able to bring significant insights to all situations being considered at the C-level and he made some important contributions. He moved on to work with MNCs and also did a stint in Oman.

Talking about his course at Jaipuria, he says, “I had just completed my engineering and was going to join Satyam. I had appeared for CAT but my bags were packed for Hyderabad. I was in Lucknow and my mother was with Dainik Jagran at the time. The college was new and she just walked in to have a look, was impressed and called me. I liked it too and filled up the forms. When I got through, I decided to join!” Yateesh calls it a stroke of luck and thanks his family for the support they provided.

According to Yateesh, Jaipuria provides the right platform to a student, a springboard to launch him into the working world. It’s not served on a platter and the student has to work hard and go that extra mile to make a mark in the industry. As Yateesh puts it, “If you have fire within, you will make it!”

He has now been recruiting students himself. His opinion is that it’s difficult to judge a student in the ten minutes of an interview. The written tests, group discussions and everything else adds up, but what also plays an important role is the faculty reference of a student. His advice to students is, “Networking with faculty is important, and then comes your personal conduct. The way you enter a room, take a seat, talk – everything matters! Language and communication are also deciding traits and you should work on them.” Yateesh thinks Jaipuria offers a fantastic platform and students should leverage it. It has the infrastructure and faculty to enable world-class education and training. He strongly recommends planning the future and working towards it.

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Visit to Zydus Wellness Ltd. – Synthesizing Theory with Practical Approach

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Post date September 13, 2012

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur organized an Industry Visit at Zydus Wellness Ltd. on September 13, 2012 for the PGDM 2011 – 13 students of “sales management” course. Dr Narendra Sharma, Assistant Professor-Marketing led the team. On this occasion, they all got an opportunity to interact with Shri Path Sharma, Regional Sales Manager who came from regional office- Ahmedabad. He explained them the concepts of sales organization, sales territory, crisis management, and visibility at retailer’s point, mark up and mark down pricing process etc. During the visit, they all came to know about demonstration of wet and dry sampling, C& F distribution, market routing, and primary vs secondary sales process, functioning of C & F, Hub and Spoke model among other issues. The other managers of the company detailed all the students about warehousing, packaging, coding, invoicing and payment cycle etc. Students told that this industry visit has helped them in getting pragmatic approach of the sales management thus it would be of great use in getting and performing a sales job in more efficient manner.

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