Dept. of Business Administration organises An Alumni Symposium titled “ThinkTank Meet on the Post Covid Era - The New Normal”
01-Aug-2020
An Alumni Symposium titled “ThinkTank Meet on the Post Covid Era- The New Normal” was organised by the Dept. of Business Administration.
Dr. Rajesha S, Principal expressed his pleasure of hosting ThinkTank Meet and encouraged the dept. to organise more of such valuable sessions. Dr. Vishal Samartha, Director, Dept. of Business Administration, expressed her deep happiness to her students achieving success at every path of their career.
Think Tank included 7 eminent speakers and Alumni of the MBA dept.
Mr. Nishar Hussain
Think Tank Meet on the Post Covid Era- New Normal paved a way for Mr. Nishar Hussain to recollect his memories of Sahyadri. He said the world faced recession in 2000s and came up with many solutions. Temporarily, it is true that we are facing many problems but it will not stay for a long period of time. He said we need to update with the current technology to achieve success in career.
Mr. Shabarish S. Rao
Mr. Shabarish S. Rao, Area Retail Manager, Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Ltd., gave an insight into how as students we must Survive, Review and Drive ourselves through this pandemic. Stay healthy, decide which industry to work on and upgrade yourselves, he urged. There is no second chance in today’s world, he warned. Individuals should be flexible without having any location constraints and must be able to adapt to changes. He concluded his talk by saying, “Let’s not lose hope!”
Dr. Anandsa Habib
Dr. Anandsa Habib, Audit Officer, Karnataka State Audit and Accounts Department, Vijayapur gave insight into how this COVID era affected the government sector. The revenue of the government has reduced, which will hamper the development. Government has come up with Mudra Yojana and unsecured loans to MSME. As MSMEs are affected, the challenge for government is to bring things back on track. He also said that the government has reduced the intake at the moment, but in near future there will be many recruitments coming up. He concluded his talk by saying, “Let’s not lose hope!”
Mr. Roystan Wilson D’Souza
Mr. Roystan Wilson Dsouza stressed on how one can be productive in this Lockdown period and insisted that students make use of the time to learn new skills and have a strong hold on Power Point, Excel, CV & prepare for mock interviews and also develop good network with good people.
Mr. Avinash Beermale
Mr. Avinash Beermale, Search Analyst – Digital Marketing, HP Inc., Bangalore, encouraged students to look at the positive side of the post COVID environment, where everyone is starting from Ground Zero. He also acknowledged the push given by COVID-19 on the Digital Marketing field by opening up new possibilities where the world is moving towards online and Digital Marketing being the next big thing.
Mr. Dhillon Dixon D’Souza
Mr. Dhillon Dixon D’Souza, Sales and Marketing Manager, Mobis Parts, Middle East, Dubai gave statistical insights about the effect of Covid-19 on the 5 majorly impacted industries viz. Aviation, Transport, Travel and Tourism, Food and Hospitality and Automobile.
Mr. Dhillon advised the crowd not to think of a crisis where jobs do not exist, but instead focus on developing communication, presentation, technical and digital media skills and insisted on attending computer training. He further suggested taking check points from the mentors on improvement and then work on those points. He concluded saying Covid-19 might slow down the Job Market but if a person is skilled nothing can impact his/her existence in the corporate.
Mr. Adithya Kollaje
During the concluding part of the session, Mr. Adithya Kollaje, Recruitment Specialist, Juniper Networks, Bengaluru spoke. He cleared a main doubt most of the students are facing presently which is how the intermediate semester students getting promoted, is going to impact their recruitment. The speaker clearly insisted that the students work on skill development to tackle this problem and also shared his experience in the field of recruitment. Numerous insights on the opportunities in the post COVID era were specified by the speaker which will make every student industry-ready.
