MDP on “Pathway to Future Excellence” for MBAs

A Management Development Programme for the MBAs was organized by the Dept. of Business Administration focussing on three main domains in MBA – Finance, Marketing & HR. This programme was organized to assist the first year MBA students in choosing their specialisation to be pursued in their final year. The programme included Experts from industries & the Sahyadri Alumni sharing their experience and giving inputs in helping students to choose their specialization from HR, Marketing & Finance.

During the Day One of the programme, the morning session was on Finance Specialization and the resource persons - Mr. Pradeep Suresh, Director-E&Y; Asif Chowgule, Asst. Manager-E&Y; Mr. Murlidhar Bhat, Canara Bank Manager, Adyar Branch & the Alumnus of Sahyadri who is now a teaching faculty at Sahyadri MBA – Prof. Chandrakanth Shettigar addressed the students on the various sectors which offer career in Finance, the reality of Finance as a job, the additional competencies to be developed to be placed in a highly demanded Finance profile and also about the salary package that can be expected. Several queries related to the challenges in pursuing career in Finance were also answered.
Afternoon Session was on Marketing Specialization and the resource persons – Mr. Darshan Jain, Managing Partner, Ace Promoters & Developers; Mr. Darryl Correa, Manager Sales, Manipal Technologies & Mr. Musheer Rizwi, Proprietor, Nilgiris Super Market (Alumnus) addressed the students on the importance of Marketing in career and life, requirements to pursue Marketing in terms of Skills, Knowledge and Attitude, the challenges and means to overcome it and also how Marketing helps to be an Entrepreneur.

MBAs attend the Graduate Summer School (GSS) 2018 at IIM Ahmedabad

IIM Ahmedabad had organized a One-Week Graduate Summer School (GSS) 2018 to encourage students in learning and networking. Varun K and Kshama Hegde from the Second year MBA – Finance attended the Summer School. This programme was structured to empower young minds with various management sessions which were mainly taken by the FPM community students of IIMA with a few sessions administered by esteemed faculty members too. Participants even had a session facilitated by the guest faculty from Harvard Business School. The sessions were planned with assignments, and pre-reads for the next day. Students had a great exposure into the tradition of IIMA, be it the classroom whereabouts or the campus infrastructure. Participants were also given opportunity to explore their business plan on the last day of the programme.
On successful completion of the programme, all the participants were awarded with the certificate which was certified by IIMA & CIIE.

Alumnus interacts with Civil Engineering Students

Mr. Chinmay Bharan, an alumnus from the Department of Civil Engineering and currently working in Gardencity Reality Private Limited, Bengaluru interacted with the students of Civil Engineering. He shared his experience and advised the students to groom themselves to meet the needs of the industries. He emphasized students to harness soft skills which are pertinent to deal with work. He recalled his days as a student at Sahyadri and gave inputs on how involving in the college activity has helped him in his professional career. He also encouraged students to take up the internships to get exposed to real time construction works which in turn helps them in better placement.

Campus Recruitment Drive - Cubiccode Digital Media LLP

Cubiccode Digital Media LLP conducted the Campus Recruitment Drive for the Engineering students of 2018 outgoing batch at our Campus. Mr. Sarvesh, Business Head, accompanied by Mr. Pramod Khari from the recruitment team were at the campus to facilitate the entire process. A total of 77 students attended the drive. The results are awaited.

Three Sahyadrians recruited by AllCargo Logistics Ltd.

Akshay Samanth & Rachel Sequeira from the Department of Civil Engineering & Deelan Felix Concessao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering have been selected for the position of Graduate Engineer Trainee by Allcargo Logistics Ltd. in the recently held Campus Recruitment drive for the 2018 outgoing batch.

Two Sahyadrians recruited by Midco Limited

Basappa Bhimappa Nillalli & Amin Rakshith Ganesh from the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering have been selected for the position of Field Service Engineer by Midco Limited in the recently held Campus Recruitment drive for the 2018 outgoing batch.

First Year Engineering Student pledged to donate all her Organs on the occasion of her Birthday

Ms. Basavarajeshwari Ambi of First Year Engineering has pledged to donate all her organs. She has registered herself as a donor with the Government Nodel Organ donation Agency Jeevasarthakathe under the supervision and Guidance of Mr. Ankith S Kumar, Student Counsellor as a mark of celebrating Life on the occasion of her Birthday. Sahyadri is proud of her heroic gesture and applauds her decision.

Quote for the day

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill