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Pre-placement training sessions are conducted to equip students with necessary skills to help them excel in their chosen fields. The training kickstarts a student’s career by acting as a stepping stone and paves the path for a student’s bright future. The challenges of employment are huge and majority of students are usually not prepared to handle the demands and stresses of employment. Students are expected to be ready with several skill sets and qualities that will help them adapt to the situations as early as possible. Hence, pre-placement training helps in guiding students to get prepared for placements.
The training sessions were conducted by ProEdge, Training & Talent Management Solutions company for the VI Sem BBA students from 7th Jan’19-25th Jan’19 during the college hours in room G-07B.The trainers were Ms Ankita Bhatia, Shree Kumkum and Mr Renjit Mathew.
Ms Ankita Bhatia is a Soft Skill Trainer/ Voice Coach/ Communication & Language Facilitator. She is an integrity- driven and dynamic professional with 8 years of expertise and success at different levels of training organizations. She is passionate about leading and improving processes and people. She is currently working with IBM India Pvt Ltd as Lead Language Trainer for Communication Vertical/ New Hire Trainer/ Floor Coach/ Voice and Accent Recruitment Panel. Her areas of experience are in voice accent, language training, leadership development, relationship management, campus to corporate trainings. She has a bachelor’s in English.
Ms Sree Kumkum wants to establish and develop her career in an organization which provides constant encouragement; wherein, her talent and skills can be utilized for her personal growth and she in turn will strive to work for the growth of the organization. She is currently working at GETechnologies as Process Lead in Finance and Accounts. Her academic qualifications include a BBA degree from BU and MBA degree from VTU.
Ms R. Vidya has a M.Sc. in Psychology and 8 years of experience as a freelance aptitude trainer. She has prepared graduate and under graduate students for various aptitude tests to good scores in higher academic and professional exams including separate weekend sessions as in-house training. Her objective is to obtain a challenging teaching position as an Aptitude Trainer utilizing creativity and a genuine desire to educate. Her area of expertise lies in strong knowledge of general math, logical reasoning, analytical skills and quantitative techniques.
Mr Renjit Mathew is a Training & Development | Learning | Coaching & Mentoring |HR| Organization Development Professional. As a Training & Development professional, his role is to support business in meeting its strategic goals through various initiatives that foster learning, training and development thereby making organizations “A great place to work”. His academic qualification includes an MBA in HR & Marketing from Bharatiar University. He has 18 years of experience in Training & Development experience with exposure in Corporates like EduBridge, Bodhih, Onicra, MetLife, etc. His skills lie in Training & Facilitation. He has won number of awards and achievements.
On 7th Jan’19, Ms Ankita commenced the session with a brief introduction on soft skills. As an ice breaker, she had a JAM session of vocabulary. She gave topics to each student, gave two minutes to prepare and further five minutes for presentation. At the end of the morning session she gave her feedback and suggestions on the way one can improve communication and presentations skills. In the noon session, students were taught grammar. She started off with parts of speech and covered verbs and correct usage of modals. A mime activity was conducted on verbs; wherein the class was divided into two groups and each group had to enact a given verb. The next activity was a memory game on verbs. The group sat in circle and had to say a verb. Then they had to recall the word list one by one which was a working memory test for verbal span. It was fun and quite useful.
The next day’s morning session was on nouns, gerunds and pronouns. A task which explained the difference between different types of nouns and pronouns was given. Ms Ankita gave tips on rapport building- how to build an instant rapport with a stranger. A pair activity followed. Each pair was given a topic that they had to enact. The noon session was on reading skills. She discussed the types of tones an author uses, the main idea and supporting idea, types of questions in reading comprehension, and the way to crack reading comprehension easily. Next, she gave five reading comprehension exercises to test reading and comprehension skills.
The next session focussed on prepositions and the kinds. She told the students the right usage of some prepositions that are commonly misused. Ms Ankita trained the students on presentation skills. She shared tips and tricks and explained the burger concept, Yam, picture concept etc. She discussed the 9 P’s to overcome fear and to improve public speaking. She ended the morning session by teaching alarm concept. In the noon session, students were taught articles and its uses. It was followed by résumé writing. She gave a step by step guide to write a résumé. All the students had to write their résumé. She corrected all of them and stated the ways one can improve.
A session with a difference!
Ms Sree Kumkum, the trainer gave an introduction on how sales can get linked to accounts. She taught Order to Cash (O2C) cycle, cash credit transaction and cycle of accounts. She also introduced pillars of accounting and later explained each one of them. In the noon session, students were given training on BFSI- Banking, financial services and insurance. Students were briefed on meaning of banks, parts of bank capital, types of financial investments, pros and cons of investing followed by brief narration on stock market and different types of stocks. The session ended with a brief on insurance.
Ms Vidya Ramachandran conducted the next round of sessions. They were aptitude classes in which students were taught HCF, LCM, BODMAS, divisibility rule, cyclicity, perfect cubes, blood relation etc. The objective of such a session was to help students sail through aptitude test. They were exciting sessions that lasted for four days.
Mr Renjit Mathew conducted sales planning /marketing sessions for two days. To make students understand that they were all one, he conducted an activity with a wool ball. The students had to hold the thread and introduce themselves. Each one of the students had to set rules that they need to follow. He shared various concepts that he linked to each one lives. Students learned life’s’ lessons. Lot many activities were conducted during the two days. Many stories were told by the trainer. The students were totally bowled over by the practicality of the session! In fact, they felt of all the sessions the last two days were the best and wished they have many more such wonderful sessions.
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