Orientation 2018 (MBA)

Orientation 2018 (MCA)

IIIM, commenced its new academic session for the first year students of MBA and MCA on 7^th August with a weeklong orientation program - “Parichay-2018” an initiative to familiarizes the students with the present and future trends in management and make them acquainted with the culture of the Institute.

The week long orientation started with a melodious Saraswati Vandana, invoking almighty’s blessings followed by lighting of lamp by Dr. Ashok Gupta, Director, IIIM.

Dr. Gupta extended a warm welcome to the new batch of students. He informed the students about the vision and mission of the Institute. He highlighted practice oriented learning and contemporary industry-focused curriculum, driven by strong corporate interface that the Institute offers to its students in order for high academic excellence and future readiness. He expressed delight over the success the brand IIIM has achieved since inception.

A brief presentation by the senior batch about the repute, awards and the recognitions earned, by IIIM and the events of last year, was made to the newbies.

Dr. Manju Nair, Principal, IIIM in her session motivated students to dream big in life and then chart their plan for success and be passionate about whatever they do. She briefed the students about the curriculum offered, rules and regulations of the institute.

In the one week long orientation program for MBA students from 7^th August -16^th August, the budding managers were addressed by influential leaders from different domains of the corporate world. The resource persons for the orientation programme were:

S.no	Name of Speaker	Organisation	Designation	Topics
1	Swami Vijay Sarthi Das	Youth Mentor	Akshaya Patra	Spirituality & Time Management
2	Ms. Kirti Sharma	JustDial	Senior HR	Scope of HR
3	Mr. Ashutosh Nandwana	Pravah Jaipur Initiatives	Coordinator	Social Entrepreneurship: Role of youth
4	Mr. Mukesh Soni	Capital Float	Regional Sales Head North India	Corporate Success Mantra
5	Pratap Singh	eBizneeds	Marketing & Sales Head	Self Awareness-Path for success in Work and Life
6	Mr. Sudeep Sharama	IIGM	Branch Manager	Career in Sales & Management
7	Nipun Wadhwa	Qdegrees Services	Head - Human Resources	Understanding Power of Sub-Conscious Mind
8	Mr. Vijay Sethi	Avas Financiers Ltd.	Head – HR	Work – Life Balance
9	Prof. Ramesh Arora	Jaipur Management Development Academy	Founder	Personality Identification Test
10	Hitesh Ramchandani	Betterthannormal	Founder Betterthannormal, Author, Speaker, Coach	Confidence Building, Understanding power of Sub-conscious mind, Art of talking to yourself
11	Mr. Nitin Srivastava	Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services	Manager - HR	Scope of Artificial Intelligence in HR
12	Imaya Valen	Genpact	HOD - Learning & Development	Mindful Leadership
13	Mr. Vikramjeet Singh	INAS Social Consultancy	Director	Team Building & Body language
14	Upinder Wadhera	HDFC Life	Manager HR	The Power of Self-Awareness
15	Mr. Panchanan Adhikari	Yukti Enterprises	Founder	Entrepreneurial Challenges
16	Manish Kumar	CAD DESK	Manager-Digital Marketing	Digital Marketing
17	Ms. Aditi Gupta	Bosch	Deputy Manager – HR	Corporate Expectations

The week -long comprehensive induction and orientation programmes aimed to go beyond familiarizing students with the campus and other fellow students, and in fact to acclimatize them with what an MBA programme is all about. Some of the key aspects that were covered in it include: Know your campus & the facilities; Know yourself ; understand IIIM; personality development; communication skills; team working; collaborative learning; soft skills; values and ethics of a Responsible Manager, etc. New Students were acquainted with the activities conducted under the NSS and E-Igniters cells. They were also made aware of the student clubs White Knight- The Finance Club Humangers - The HR Club and Gensis - The Marketing club. During the Orientation Programme a test was organized to assess the aptitude of each student. The institute also constituted panels of interviewers to conduct skill mapping of the students through personal interviews. The endeavour was to identify the gap between competencies required for an MBA graduate and those possessed by the students.

During Orientation Programme a quiz was organized based upon a corporate presentation. The quiz was designed with an objective to provide a common platform for the would be managers to exchange ideas and update their knowledge about the emerging trends and concepts in Management.