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ALUMNI SESSION

Last weekend started with an inspiring session given by our alumnus, Mr. Amit Shah who is the Executive Vice President and Country head -Corporate Branding, Marketing, Marketing and Strategic Communications at Yes Bank. The session gave us a clear idea as to what all we need to do in next two years as a management student to come out with flying colours.
The session started with Mr. Amit Shah telling us that as students we have certain issues that are under our control, like our studies and those that are not under our control, like the economic scenario etc. He added that most of our background is similar since we are all engineers and most of us have same kind of work experience. It is what we do in next two years that makes a difference. Typically there are three main aspects that we need to develop as a management student. They are Knowledge and skills, Competencies and delivery. He stressed that though knowledge and skills are very important it is the competencies like leadership skills that we posses, makes us stand apart. He explained that there may be a gap between the competencies that we have and the competencies that are required for our aspirations to come true. In order to bridge that gap, what do we do? And how do we bridge the gap? Firstly we need to evaluate our competency level by undergoing various competency tests. Secondly we need to bridge that distance by taking part in various activities that we will come across in next two years at NITIE.

Towards the end he gave a very interesting example that at the beginning of these two years we are all pawns in a chess board with almost same qualification and same kind of work experience. But at the end of the course the same pawn can go across the board and become a Queen.On the whole, it turned out to be a very inspiring and an informative session to us.