Session by NITIE's illustrious alumni Mr. Amit Shah

Objective: The Objective of this Blog is to share my experiences from an interactive session with AMIT SHAH(Executive VP & Country Head, Corporate Branding, Marketing and Strategic Communication at YES Bank)

I would like to thank Dr. Prasad a.k.a Dr. Mandi for organising the inspirational address by our illustrious alumni.

The session began with an introductory note, soon after which Mr. Amit asked us about our expectations from the session. Students shared their expectations about various issues pertaining to a typical B-School life. 

Mr. Shah divided the queries into two clusters, 'The issues which are in one's control' and 'Issues which are not in one's control', lets have a look at them:

He emphasised that one should concentrate their energy and efforts in the first area wherein the 'issues are in one's control' as one can work on those to improve the final outcome. However, concentrating on issues under second heading, which are not under one's control, leads to more frustrations as these factors are driven by external affects. 

Mr Amit also elaborated on how everyone in our batch is equally competant, we all cleared CAT with almost similar percentiles, but the situation at summer or final placement is diiferent. He explained the situation by giving a quote "You don't pick a potato by choice, its more by chance". Hence, in a cluster of equally competant people, its heavily a matter of chance that some people get better placements than others.

To break this barrier, one has to stand out of the crowd, its an ongoing WAR FOR TALENT and one needs to consistently perform well to achieve the best of the lot.

However, one needs to understand that everything doesn't goes as per the plan. So, he/she needs to hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. there should always be a plan 'B'. A person should be able to survive the jitters which comes along and should perform with the best of his/her ability.

To prepare for the best, one should realise that there are ample amount of opportunities which are available for everyone, so make the best use of the two years of this course and come out with flying colours. Mr. Amit shah shared some simple tips:

• Do Different things: One can only stand out of the crowd if he/she does different things. For a B-school life, one should clear different certifications like Six sigma, CFA, PMP, ITIL etc which realte to one's domain.
• Be Consistent: One should be consistent in whatever one does, only a consistent effort can guarentee a way to success.

So is there any predefined secret to success? Might be, might not be, its all a sum of different parts. to be successfull one needs to have:

• Competencies: Behavioural traits, eg. people leadership and entreprenuership
• Knowledge and skills: having varied knowledge in different areas.
• Delivery:Ability to hit and exceed set targets: meeting revenue goals, client service objectives.

But to achieve success, all these parts have to be interlinked by "Aspiration", without aspiration to succeed, one cannot achieve his/her goal. To sum up:

 

 

 Sharing his experience of studying at NITIE, Mr. Amit shah said that all the three factors of "Competencies", "Knowledge and skills" and "Delivery" are available at NITIE. he described it in the below mentioned way:

 

 Clearing the doubts of students regarding the job profile which they will get in future, Mr. Amit shah mentioned that there are two types of jobs in the industry: "Revenue Generating" and "Supporting", each one of us have to be a part of one of these job roles in one or other time of our career.

 

 Moving on, he emphasised on the need to evaluate one self regularly, he categorised the evaluation criteria into four dimensions, 'Thought', 'Influence', 'Adaptability', 'Delivery'. Every job role requires a mix of these factors and one should aspire to aquire them accordingly.

Finally, he concluded the session by giving a quote "Just play to a plan, a philosophy and to your strengths"