TSOM's placement committee delivers 100%
Shruti Jain, Head of Placement Committee.
By Anmol Singh Sethi
It isBennett University ’s motto to move with the times, but the Placement Committee of Times School of Media (TSOM ) prepares students to get ahead of the times.
Theplacement committee of TSOM couldn’t have had a better first year. They secured placements for all their students. To reach a 100 per cent placement within the first three months of operations showed how well run, Ms Shruti Jain’s team was.
The Placement Committee is a student-run board that gets the students of their batch, internship placements. “This is an institutionalised process across the world. All top-notch MBA institutes do this for themselves,” Jain who heads the committee, said in an interview. “Doing it for an undergraduate programme was our unique thought process and pulling it off was a great success,” she added.
Getting students their placements may seem like the main aim of the committee, but Jain tells us that there is much more to it than that. The companies these days, don’t have the time to train and groom talent. Keeping that in view, she wanted to ensure the proper grooming of students so that no talent went unemployed.
The Placom Board not only helped the students in revving up their CVs and conducting mock interviews, but also held training programmes, industry workshops, CEO masterclasses and alumni coach series to ensure that the Times School of Media (TSOM) students were prepared when their big day of placement came calling.
The TSOM soon be introducing a new course under Jain's supervision for Semester four and five which will help students better equip themselves for their sixth semester, where they will be heading out for internships.
“It is a multi-dimensional and multi-pronged effort where the entire department has to work together,” Jain said. The curriculum development team, the teachers and the students, all have to be in sync for the Placement Committee to succeed, she added.
She also said that the committee not only aims to produce top professionals, but also to make great leaders and those that can inspire people around them. She believes that Bennett University has the right raw material to make great leaders. “You give us sand and we'll turn it into marble,” Jain said, adding that it will be their job and responsibility to polish these uncut diamonds.
“We have performed far better than expectation because we went out of our way and took it as our passion. It was a mission for us, ki ham kisi bacche ko peeche nahi rehne dengey,” she said.
The former leader of the placement committee landed the first ever corporate communications job at Jindal Stainless. “We made sure that our students landed relevant jobs,” she claimed. “Because of our efforts, an MBA student got into Nestle.” This was an exception as the placement committee of TSOM only gives placements to students from their school. Nestle required someone with a marketing background and so the committee went looking for a gem in the MBA programme and they found one.
This effort of the committee to help a student from another stream land a very good job showed boundary less behaviour. Britannia, Nestle, Jindal Stainless, McCann, Ogilvy are some of the big companies where the placement committee were able to spread their magic.
Success for Jain will not be measured by the jobs these students are able to land but by the change of attitude among students. “Our expectation is that there will be more people wanting to get groomed on their own rather than us having to push them to be groomed,” she said.
“Straight from the heart,” is Jain had to say when asked about how she’d describe the work of the committee. “Whatever the work that has been done by the Placement Board in the first semester, comes straight from the heart, it’s pure passion, it’s pure purpose and it’s our pure intent to do good,” she added.
The placement committee of TSOM not only pleasantly surprised the students with their 100 per cent placement but also themselves with this incredible feat. They will be hoping to replicate such numbers in the upcoming years but more than that, they’ll be hoping to instill the right qualities and attitude in the students.
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The Placement Committee is a student-run board that gets the students of their batch, internship placements. “This is an institutionalised process across the world. All top-notch MBA institutes do this for themselves,” Jain who heads the committee, said in an interview. “Doing it for an undergraduate programme was our unique thought process and pulling it off was a great success,” she added.
Getting students their placements may seem like the main aim of the committee, but Jain tells us that there is much more to it than that. The companies these days, don’t have the time to train and groom talent. Keeping that in view, she wanted to ensure the proper grooming of students so that no talent went unemployed.
The Placom Board not only helped the students in revving up their CVs and conducting mock interviews, but also held training programmes, industry workshops, CEO masterclasses and alumni coach series to ensure that the Times School of Media (TSOM) students were prepared when their big day of placement came calling.
The TSOM soon be introducing a new course under Jain's supervision for Semester four and five which will help students better equip themselves for their sixth semester, where they will be heading out for internships.
“It is a multi-dimensional and multi-pronged effort where the entire department has to work together,” Jain said. The curriculum development team, the teachers and the students, all have to be in sync for the Placement Committee to succeed, she added.
She also said that the committee not only aims to produce top professionals, but also to make great leaders and those that can inspire people around them. She believes that Bennett University has the right raw material to make great leaders. “You give us sand and we'll turn it into marble,” Jain said, adding that it will be their job and responsibility to polish these uncut diamonds.
“We have performed far better than expectation because we went out of our way and took it as our passion. It was a mission for us, ki ham kisi bacche ko peeche nahi rehne dengey,” she said.
The former leader of the placement committee landed the first ever corporate communications job at Jindal Stainless. “We made sure that our students landed relevant jobs,” she claimed. “Because of our efforts, an MBA student got into Nestle.” This was an exception as the placement committee of TSOM only gives placements to students from their school. Nestle required someone with a marketing background and so the committee went looking for a gem in the MBA programme and they found one.
This effort of the committee to help a student from another stream land a very good job showed boundary less behaviour. Britannia, Nestle, Jindal Stainless, McCann, Ogilvy are some of the big companies where the placement committee were able to spread their magic.
Success for Jain will not be measured by the jobs these students are able to land but by the change of attitude among students. “Our expectation is that there will be more people wanting to get groomed on their own rather than us having to push them to be groomed,” she said.
“Straight from the heart,” is Jain had to say when asked about how she’d describe the work of the committee. “Whatever the work that has been done by the Placement Board in the first semester, comes straight from the heart, it’s pure passion, it’s pure purpose and it’s our pure intent to do good,” she added.
The placement committee of TSOM not only pleasantly surprised the students with their 100 per cent placement but also themselves with this incredible feat. They will be hoping to replicate such numbers in the upcoming years but more than that, they’ll be hoping to instill the right qualities and attitude in the students.
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