The key recruitment trends in SBS are Retails, BIG Data, FMCG, BFSI - Says, Dr. Neha Sharma

Dr. Neha Sharma, Director of Shanti Busines School, Ahemdabad is a senior Academic leader, with more than 25 Years of experience incorporates and academics. She has been engaged in teaching, research, training, consultancy, research guidance, and Academic Management. She is a certified trainer for “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and “SPIN Model of Sales management” and conducted training programs extensively across India.  She has several research papers published in reputed journals to her credit.

In this Take 5-Series with Shiksha, she talks about the unique aspects of studying at Shanti Business School, the kind of projects, internships and placement opportunities that students have, the best programs to study and how to take admission to these.

Q. What are the three things that Shanti Business School is doing that will enable it to differentiate itself from other b-schools?

The three things that makes Shanti Business School better than the others are:

a) International MOUs for student’s exposure by internships.

b) One - to - One Mentorship model to customize the training and mentoring pedagogy based on individual need and requirement.

c) MOUs with reputed institutes such MICA and EDI at the local level for various developmental workshops to enhance student’s learning experience

Q. What are the top three initiatives undertaken by Shanti Business School that are helping your students become more industry ready?

The top three initiatives undertaken by SBS that are helping our students become industry ready ready:

(a) The number of Guest Sessions and industrial visits are helping the students to learn about current trends of the industry.

(b)Students have opted with more number of certification modules conducted by industry Academia functional entities to ensure students understanding about current practices of the industry.

(c)Number of practical case-based presentations and an extensive 12 weeks of internships helps our students to develop their analytical and managerial skills.

Q. What are the key attributes that a student should have in order to qualify for your institution and get top grades in your institution?

The key attributes that a student should have are:

In order to qualify for SBS

• Basic Attitude
• Good Communication
• Good in academic
• Positive intent of doing this course

In order to get top grades in SBS

• Regular Attendance
• Participative attitude
• Never give up positive energy
• Pre-adoptive approach

Q. Which MBA/PGDM – Specializations which according you are your best? What is it that helps your institution differentiate itself for this programme?

PGDM – Decision Science, where decision science is a course of next-generation which is going to rule the world for a new few decades. This is a combination of Data Analytics and Decision Science.  Where AI is going to be the key modulator to give a seismic shift in skills required from human-driven operations to data-driven decisions making skills.

Q. What are you doing to improve/drive better campus placements for your current students and alumni? What kind of jobs routinely come to campus? What would you say are the key recruitment trends for your college (observed over the past five years)?

We have a one-year rigorous training program for our students and we cover four specific areas of training in sync with the placement process.

1. Aptitude Test Preparation(DI, LR, QT, and English)
2. Group Discussion
3. Mock Interview
4. Presentation Skills
5. Role Plays
6. Personality Development Workshop

We get all kinds of openings from all kind of domains and sectors, e.g., Financial Analytics, Derivative Analytics, Retail Operations, Marketing, Business Analysis, Sales, HR Generalist, HRIS, Operation analyst, MIS Specialist, CRM Modelling, etc.