There was a Corporate Voice programme organized in our campus on 13th October 2014. The guest speaker of this program was Mr.Guna Pandian ,General Manager, Keilyos Software, France .
He addressed all the final year students on the topic "Beyond job". He began his speech by giving the definition for Success. He insist the students that “Success is a journey and not the goal”. He stressed on the point that “Failure is the stepping stone for Success”. Everyone has failure in their life. We should always learn something from the failure. Then he gave tips for the students to begin their own company. He continued his speech with creativity and Innovation. “Create new things which is acceptable and affordable”, says Mr.Guna Pandian. He explained the students about the new and advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big data and Nanotechnology. He also shared his experience to the students. The session was interactive and useful to the students.
We have organized 16th Corporate Voice Program on 10th October 2014 in Ramanujam hall. The guest speaker of this program was Mr.Omprakash Manivannan, Managing Director and CEO, Valzen Solutions pvt ltd. The topic with which he shared with the students is about " Internet of Things ". He talked about the Pros and Cons of the usage of internet. He addressed all the department students as the Usage of Internet is essential for all domains. Every devices which we use in our daily life will be connected to the internet in the future , says Mr.Omprakash.
He also stressed upon the risk to our life in usage of Internet. Hacking is one of the major threat of Internet. Internet can create a great change in our society in future but it should be used securely. Internet is very necessary but we have to learn how to use it and avoid all the dangers of usage. The advantages of the Internet far outweigh the disadvantages, and millions of people each day benefit from using the Internet. He concludes his speech by saying that there is a huge opportunity for all the students if they have good knowledge in usage of Internet.
This is to inform that the following students of our college have qualified to the next round for IET Advantage Job Fair to take the Technical Talent Test on October 10, 2014 at SRM University Campus, Chennai. at Chennai between October 10-11, 2014 after selected from AMCAT Test held on 27-9-14 at VICKRAMCE.
A Guest Lecture by Yi was organized in our campus for the benefit of First Year and Second year students of all departments on October 7th 2014. The guest speaker of this program was Ms. Isabella Plambeck Creativity and Innovation guide, Creaffective, Germany. She began her talk explaining the definition of Innovation as inventing new things which does not exist now. She motivated the students to develop their innovative skills . Initially she threw out three questions to the students which kindled their spirit of thinking.
Then she explained about the three layers of innovation as Product, Process and Business. She covered the topics on Elements of Innovation as People and Culture, Keywords of Innovators, Convergent and Divergent thinking. She also stressed upon the importance of Leadership and positive thinking. Ms. Isabela gave practical exercise for the students which was very new. She projected some images on the screen and asked the students on what comes first in their mind by seeing those images. The students gave different answers from which she made a point that each has different thoughts. She came out with real time examples and finally she gave the answers for the questions asked by her initially. The session was found very interactive by all.
Competencies are the measurable or observable knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (KSABs) critical to successful job performance.
The placement season is reckoning us to grab the opportunities with prepared mind. Nowadays, many companies conduct behavioural interviewing to cull out the apt candidates for a specific job. They have a predetermined set of skill sets required for a particular position. The skill sets may include decision making and problem solving, leadership, motivation, interpersonal skills, communication, planning and organization, team building, critical thinking and the ability to influence others.
Just as the company spends time and money to identify the correct fit, the job seekers must also do their homework. He should do the groundwork by pondering on
** What are the necessary skills to do this job?
**What makes the candidate successful?
** What would make the candidate unsuccessful candidate?
** Why have people left the job previously?
** What is the most difficult part of this job?
Once you have landed in the interview, remember to be detailed and specific. Be prepared with three stories that illustrate your past performance. The interviewer will be working on the premise that the “past performance under similar setting is the best predictor of future performance.”
The best way is to use the three step STAR process.
►Situation or Task
►Action
►Result or outcome
Frame your accomplishments and experience positively. Limit tangential ramblings. Rephrase the question asked to clarify and answer appropriately. Practice your behavioural stories using real life examples. By practice, you will be able to recall with confidence your past accomplishments. Dig your term paper, project report and similar experience and think hard of the difficulties encountered and the steps taken to successfully complete it.
Following is a list of typical behavior-based questions, courtesy of Lombardi and The Ultimate Job Search Kit by Damir Joseph Stimac. Competencies sought by the interviewer are listed in parentheses:
1. Describe a situation in which you had to use reference materials to write a research paper. What was the topic? What journals did you read? (research/written communication)
2. Give me a specific example of a time when a co-worker or classmate criticized your work in front of others. How did you respond? How has that event shaped the way you communicate with others? (oral communication. )
3. Give me a specific example of a time when you sold your supervisor or professor on an idea or concept. How did you proceed? What was the result? (assertiveness)
4. Describe the system you use for keeping track of multiple projects. How do you track your progress so that you can meet deadlines? How do you stay focused? (commitment to task)
5. Tell me about a time when you came up with an innovative solution to a challenge your company or class was facing. What was the challenge? What role did others play? (creativity and imagination)
6. Describe a specific problem you solved for your employer or professor. How did you approach the problem? What role did others play? What was the outcome? (decision making)
7. Describe a time when you got co-workers or classmates who dislike each other to work together. How did you accomplish this? What was the outcome? (teamwork)
8. Tell me about a time when you failed to meet a deadline. What things did you fail to do? What were the repercussions? What did you learn? (time management)
9. Describe a time when you put your needs aside to help a co-worker or classmate understand a task. How did you assist them? What was the result? (flexibility)
10. Describe two specific goals you set for yourself and how successful you were in meeting them. What factors led to your success in meeting your goals? (goal setting)
Do the ground work and remember that "chance favors a prepared mind".
Mr. Kalyana Sundaram, CEO, Great Innovus addressed the final year and third year CSE and ECE students on the 13th Corporate Voice on 13Aug. '14.
Mr. Sundaram wasn't a new face to us. Indeed, he was our first speaker of the Corporate season. With so much of interest and enthusiasm to meet the students, Sundaram came back to visit us. This time his theme was to "Motivate Students to Emerge as Entrepreneurs."
The address began with traditional touch on preparing oneself for the interview: like the way to prepare resume, to groom well, to have practices for the commonly asked questions etc. After these talks, his attention turned towards entrepreneurship. "You can call yourself rich when you feel that you have earned a penny under your own leadership. This happens only when you emerge as a successful entrepreneur," says Sundaram.
To be an entrepreneur:
One needn't have to be just creative. One needn't have to be just knowledgeable; but one has to be daring to face anything that comes his/her way. Sundaram screened some of the top renowned entrepreneurs both in India and across the globe and kindled the interest in students to aim for one such.
Post his address, students shot their questions to the speaker on his method of selecting candidates for his company and other details regarding recruitments.
There was a Corporate Voice organized in our campus for the benefit of Final Year Students of Mech, & EEE on 6th sep 2014. The 14th Corporate Voice had Mr. Vikram Vijay, Manager Operations, Infinite Computer Solutions India Ltd., Bengaluru voicing students on the corporate needs.
Mr. Vijay addressed EEE, and Mechanical Engineering students on few key points that is to be kept in mind while appearing for an interview. Drafting Resume is the most vital preparatory part of a candidate for interview. In doing so, one's Career Objective has to be precisely defined since it sets the entire picture of the candidate's work ability and his commitment towards his work place. Sharing or copying Career Objective with friends is the cheapest way of projecting oneself, says Vijay.
One has to be clearly aware of each and every minute detail that is stated in the resume. Never should you write any which hasn't been carried out personally by you. Supplying relevant information with apt instances is noteworthy.
KSA's: Knowledge, Skill, Attitude, Accomplishments will be tested in an interview. Hence clear preparation KSA's is mandatory.
Practice has no substitution. It could be carried out either in front of a mirror, recorded in a mobile, or even performed amongst friends. Even a dress rehearsal would be highly appreciated.
"Proper Prior Practice Prevents Poor Performance!"
TheIET-VICKRAMCE Chapterof our college organised the lecture via Skype for IET student members on 23rd August 2014 in Ramanujam Conference Hall at 11:00 am to 12:00 Noon. The IET student members and staff participated.
Speaker Name: Mr. Shankar Revadala - Communication Design Engineer, REP-RCS Atkins Global
When the young journalist Napoleon Hill interviewed the industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1908, Carnegie liked Hill so much that he decided he would share all of the strategies that turned him from a penniless immigrant into the richest man in the world.
From that point forward, Hill dedicated his career to understanding the work ethics of highly successful people like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, collecting them into his own philosophy and then packaging it into articles, books, and lectures for regular people wanting to achieve more in life. His 1937 book "Think and Grow Rich" is one of the bestselling books of all time.
Before he began writing books, Hill ran two magazines with articles that provided the foundation for his most famous work. In the inaugural April 1921 issue of Napoleon Hill's Magazine, Hill wrote about "The Magic Ladder to Success," an essay based on a speech he gave on a tour of the US and would later adapt into a full-length book in 1930. We found it in "Napoleon Hill's First Editions: From the Napoleon Hill Archives."
After spending 12 years analyzing 'more than 12,000 men and women,' both successful entrepreneurs and ordinary people, Hill determined 16 elements of exceptional leaders that anyone can practice:
1. They have a definite aim in life.
Hill likens having just a vague aim to succeed to being a ship without a rudder. "Bear in mind that both your definite aim and your plan for attaining it may be modified form time to time... The important thing for you to do now is to learn the significance of working always with a definite aim in view, and always with a definite plan," Hill writes.
2. They are self-confident.
To be capable of setting ambitious goals, you need to believe you can follow the plans to achieve them. And when you believe in yourself, others tend to believe in you as well.
3. They show initiative.
The only way to rise up the corporate hierarchy or to develop your own business is to to look for other things to accomplish once you've fulfilled your regular duties.
4. They are imaginative.
A lack of the driving force of initiative and the creative power of imagination is "the main reason why 95% of the adult people of the world have no definite aim in life, which, in turn, is also the reason why this same 95% constitute the followers in life," Hill says.
5. They are active.
You may have earned multiple degrees from elite universities and have read history's most important books, but none of it means anything if you don't turn knowledge into action.
6. They are enthusiastic.
Do what you love, Hill says, or else you will lack the energy to become truly successful.
7. They practice self-control.
Hill says that he did not start to become successful until he learned that he was working against himself whenever he gave into anger or arrogance. "No person ever became a great leader of others until he first learned to lead himself, through self-control," he writes.
8. They go beyond what's required of them.
The most successful people outperform their competition, and when they make it to the top, they compete with themselves.
9. They are incredibly likable.
When you are charismatic and foster relationships with others, you build a network of people who are willing to help you without your asking.
10. They know how to separate truth from bias.
Because their actions have ramifications for other people, leaders understand that they cannot take what they hear or read at face value, and learn how to pluck truth from others' worldviews.
11. They are focused.
Successful people are able to concentrate their energy and skills toward specific goals without becoming distracted by irrelevant issues.
12. They are persistent.
Those who are able to achieve success are not stopped by the inevitable nonstop challenges and setbacks that are in their path to attaining their goals.
13. They are resilient.
"When you begin to realize that failure is a necessary part of one's education, you will no longer look upon it with fear, and lo! the first thing you know, there will be no more failures!" Hill writes. "No person ever arose from the knockout blow of defeat without being a stronger and wiser human being in one respect or another."
14. They are sympathetic.
In "Think and Grow Rich," Hill writes that it's not a coincidence that history is filled with tyrants and dictators being overthrown. The most successful leaders work in harmony with their team, not in dominion over them.
15. They work hard.
Hill says that this sounds simple enough, but it's important to remember that even if you achieve your greatest goal, you need to continue pushing yourself or risk losing everything you worked for.
16. They are empathetic.
Hill's favorite philosophical maxim is The Golden Rule, which states, "Treat others the way you would like to be treated." He uses it as the final rung of the ladder to true success. Hill writes:
The Golden Rule acts as a barrier to all of man's tendencies toward the destructive use of power that comes from developing the other qualities outlined in this ladder. It is the thing that antidotes the harm man could do without knowledge and power; the thing that guides man to the intelligent, constructive use of those qualities he develops from the use of the rungs of this ladder.
The IET Chapter of Vikram Engineering college getting 100 New members for the last academic year. It was well appreciated by the IET (YP) Chennai Network and it announces Er. D.A.Rajan Award for Active Promotions in IET.
