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Satyajit Acharya

I am Satyajit Acharya

Registration No. TM 09-8240

BITM Dual "C" Telecom

Batch 2009-11

My Campus Placement Experience

To start with I have loads and loads of things to write about, but as directed

won't be very sketchy about it. I will try my best to filter down the specific

points that can be used by my juniors for their successful campus placement

processes.

1. The sentiments

The two most important thing by which I lived throughout the campus

placement season was positive attitude and spirit to learn from lost chance.

These were the two things that did wonders for me; it helped me not to panic

and gave me strength to perform at right moment.

Secondly it is very important to decide what is it that one wants?

I will advise my dear juniors first be crystal clear of which sector you want to go

and what work you want to do. Running in a herd will confuse you more. Be

absolutely specific!!!

For this you need to start doing homework from the start of third semester. You

need to sit and boil down sectors that are there in your domain, companies that

are there in that sector and finally which sector you see yourself progress more.

Once this is done believe me life is easier.

Read a lot especially not only the economic times, read everything. Economics

Times is important but it doesn't give you lot of creative edge. For

abstract/general topics which are 35% of the GD's you need to read lots of

editorials of good newspapers and novels. Daily events happening and editorials

give you the content to talk. Finding content is the most important part to crack

GD's.

2. The Experience that you cherish

Life started in SBS with the SBS-Hostel and I am sure one who has stayed in it

for a year will acknowledge the fact that it was one of the best times spent

during MBA.

\The 9.30 bell, silent hours, rush to the room and run out to grab basketball. All

was so scheduled and so much in place that we got time for everything.


The cluster system I would say is a state of art strategy and all credit goes to

our beloved Dean Bala Sir for this. It gives you such an immense exposure

initially that you can feel that your thought process is changing with 12 different

inputs and opinions.

Continuous programmes like events, cultural, HR meets were a life changing

experience as well.

One thing that I will never forget being in SBS is BELONGING to the BITM CRT

for the complete tenure of two placement season (Our senior's placement and

our placement).

Here I got opportunities that being a normal student I can only dream of. Be it

organising, planning, preparing or execution we were given the top priority in

each and every thing.

From NHRD meet to HR meet, from Students Council to Governing Body Meet

everywhere it was us. Plus working in CRT surely helped in one thing in a big

way – Ability to stretch ourselves to the extreme when it was necessary. It was

the best experience to be a part of the CRT team in BITM.

3. Company Processes

Since I was already a part of the CRT company processes were not new to me

when it was time for my placements. In first years my CRT seniors use to guide

me on how to present when a company comes to campus. It was since those

days I started learning about Company Processes a year ahead than my batch

mates.

Once we got used to it, we use to take care of all arrangements and were

closest to our seniors and their experiences out of a GD room or a PI room.

One thing is very important: The way you present yourself, be it from the way

you keep a glass on table to the colours you use in your presentation if

everything is taken care of then nothing can go wrong.

a.) GD Topic This can be divided into 3 main categories:

1. Abstract topics

2. Current Topics

3. Social and Economic Topics

As already stated earlier reading is the key to success in GD's and also what you

read. Just don't stick to Economic Times try to read variety it will give you

content.


And one most important thing which defeats every other thing in GD is wear a

Gentle Smile always on your face, be subtle with it and half the battle is won.

b.) Interview Questions & answers

You must have heard of the term called “Driving Interviews”. Personally asking

never do it unless you have a sound experience in the field in which the

company functions.

Always be simple, sober and truthful. Answer what you know expect what you

don't know. Nobody expects a soul to know each and everything in life.

Be prepared with the information that is available on company website. Few

things that are very important:

a. Services or fields the company is into

b. Past history and Revenue figures

c. Products and Partners

All the above is available on company's website, be sure on these three topics

you will always find a chance to impress in your interviews.

c.) The offer letter

I have seen people panicking about offer letters. Please don't do that.

If your company is good one and it has promised you a job it will surely give

you the offer letter, just be patient with it. You need to understand that a

person who is taking out time from his corporate schedule doesn't come to do

time-pass 99.99% of the times. Just remain calm enjoy your placement, all will

be good.

Biding Adieu

That was a brief description about my total tenure of two years in SBS. Every

day was a learning experience for me from day one to the last day. Want to

relive every moment again and again and again.

Last but not the least will like to thank my Alma mater for giving me an

opportunity for dual placements and providing me a life changing experience.


Saurabh Singhvi

I am Saurabh Singhvi

TM-09 8159

From Dual B (marketing & telecom)

From BITM batch 2009-2011

Passed out on 16 April 2011

My specialization is in Marketing.

Everyone has some different capability & approach of tackling with situations. In

today's era, what one needs is proper direction & focus towards that which we

have got through Bala Sir's rigorous planning & efforts. As we had already

learnt all those things during college time, we are now capable of handling all

the situations with ease.

I was one amongst some 100+ people who sat for XYZ LTD

Their eligibility criterion was 60% throughout our academic record, due to which

all could not sit for this company. There was criterion like “engineers only”.

During the ppt the company told us clearly about the profile (Sales

Executive)and compensation to be offered (3 lacs + incentives). POP was

MUMBAI.

After the ppt all the eligible students from all the 4 colleges were divided into

the groups for GD. Each group had 12 students.

Round 1: GROUP-DISCUSSION

In GDs it doesn't matter, which stance you are taking. The things which matter

are how well you are listen (That will only happen when you enter into the

discussion at right time* with a different point of view) & how crisply you put

your point (As soon as it get stretched, you find everybody fighting & screaming

& you are no longer being listen).

*The Right Time: There is always a time when almost everybody in the group

gets silent. It's a fraction of second &mind it, you just need to grab that

moment.

In interview there is no right answer of such questions (Excluding Factual

questions). Every answer is right if you can defend it & it is accepted by the

panelists.

Its very important to be confident in whatever you say, develop good

communication skills and last but not the least deliver your knowledge honestly,

don't give up trying ,there is a company for everybody ,just believe GOD and

yourself.

Pointers were: Communication skills

Knowledge about the topic

Good explanation skills

Body language


My topic was: Colour -Televisions

In the GD, I was neither the initiator but I did made 3 to 4 enteries,which is

very important to make an impact on judges. They told me to conclude the GD

which I did very precisely and touched upon all the important points.

other factors that affects are:

1. make eye contact with everyone in the group.

2. Never interupt others while they are making a point.

3. Do not get over aggressive.

4. Be a good listener.

5. Be precise

6. If possible support your point with data or relevant example.

7. clarity and tone of voice

The results of the GD were declared 5 minutes after the group came out of the

room.

To my delight, my name was shortlisted.

Round 2: Personal Interview.

It started with my self-introduction:

I included:

1. who I am.

2. Where I am from.

3. Family members

4. what they do professionally.

5. myhobbie's and what interests me.

Then panel consentrated on my specialization:

* Why marketing ?

* My answer: Marketing gives a dynamic persona,its very lively and forms an

indispensable part of any organization.As most organizations are customer

centric ,so I feel that marketing happens to be the most important function.

How flexible was I with the job hours and location?

* My answer: I said I was ready to be relocated in any part of the country and

ready to work 24/7.

* What do you know about our company?

* My answer: I was asked to speak on what all I know about this company till

the time they would ask me to stop .That was a good 5 minutes talk about the

company.I had already done a bit of homework on its website and told

everything I knew.

* What did you do in your summer project?

* My answer: I did research for ABC LTD and promotion of their product within


OFFICE BUILDING SEGMENT.

We also submiited a report on how to increase sales and the barriers that are

present in the market.

* Why should we hire you?If your friend is equally competent like you then on

what backgrounds should we differentiate you?

* I told them about my qualities like determination,commitment towards my

work,zeal to excel and passion towards growth.I said that if my friend has the

same capabilities to excel then they should look over the need of the student

like if Im studying on loan and I have more responsibilities over me,so I deserve

better chance than other.

* Why our company?

* My answer: I said that it's a big brand to work with,which will not only give

me a excellent start but a great future.I look forward to be an integral part of

this esteemed organization.

They asked to do SWOT of ours and fortunately I had done my SWOT during

the classes. They asked many other things like financial integrity, Social integrity

etc.

Anyways, at around 3 PM, I came out of the interview room and behind me the

interviewers. They selected 8 students out of 21. I went to the flat with the

anger because, after a process of more than 20 hrs, they were not able to

announce the final results.

Finally I got a call after 12 days from PAT that I am placed.

my dear juniors I would like to say that do not lose your hope and do not get

de-motivated. Have patience and work on your weak areas and be confident of

your strengths. Every stage is a learning stage. Everyone in Balaji Society will

be placed because Bala Sir and Our Placement Team will leave no stones

unturned. Believe in your ability; do not go for companies just based on

package. Study well about the company for which you are applying and please

update yourself of the business environment and current affairs.

Last but not the least, I am very grateful to Bala Sir for encouraging us at each

stage by saying that “PROBLEMS ARE OPPORTUNITIES “.

I wish all my friends all the very best

Regards

SaurabhSinghvi

BITM , PUNE


Savita Singh

Hi,

This is Savita Singh

Registration Number: TM-09-8289

Division: Dual D, BITM.

Academic year: 2009-2011

My specialization is Telecom & IT

I am placed in Company A, Working as a Presales Analyst.

Starting with my Campus Placement experience, I appeared for approximately

4-5(I do not remember the exact number) companies for Telecom before

coming here. Package was not much great. That time I chose this company

because of my interest in OSS/BSS domain.

My interview was conducted over phone. There were two rounds of Technical

interview followed by HR round. There were 12 Student Managers for this

round.

First interview was taken by the AVP Presales and Sales manager-SEA. This was

conducted on first week of December, 2010. This was pure Technical round plus

some basic questions to judge the stability of the candidate. They asked many

questions such as:

1) Difference between CDMA & GSM.

2) GPRS Architecture.

3) About WiMAX (including fullform,range,protocolsetc)

4) About Wi-Fi (including fullform,range,protocolsetc)

5) 2G, 3G, 4G network.

6) NGOSS/NGN

7) IMS

8) Which topic/technology u have recently read(My answer was MPLS,then they

start shooting MPLS related question)

9) Etc.

This interview last for 30 minutes. I did not answer one or two questions.5 get

shortlisted.

Pl Note: Below are some suggestions for my juniors.

1) Be confident about what you are saying.If you don't know simply say that

this thing you don't know. People appreciate one who knows about oneself and

who is sure about what he/she knows and what he/she does not know.

2) Be ready with one topic that you know everything about. This works as

medicine to all your miseries.

3) Gain some 2G,2.5G,2.75G,3G,HSPDA,LTE,WiMAX,Wi-Fi,network's basic

topology knowledge if you are appearing for an OSS/BSS or System Integrator

Company.


4) A new technology Wi-Fi Offload is a very famous term now a days in Telecom

Industry. So read about this.

5) They were judging basic knowledge of telecom not very much detail. So need

not to worry.

6) Be calm, focused and relaxed for the whole selection process. The candidates

should be well versed with the current issues of the world and also their field of

Interest. They should not be over confident or boast about themselves. This can

leave a bad impression on the Interview Panels.

Second interview was taken by the Sales manager-SEA and HR. This was

conducted in 3rd week of December, 2010. This was Technical round .On top of

it they asked some basic questions. They asked many questions such as:

1) What is BSS/OSS.

2) GSM Architecture.

3) What is next generation network.

4) eTOM model

5) Some more technology related question which I don't remember now.

6) Some basic questions related to my CV such as hobbies, family background,

what did you do after your Engineering when your joining get delayed etc.

7) Tell me about your Summer Internship Project?

8) What you have learnt in your MTNL training?What technologies they taught

you.Give a brief about your key learnings during your MTNL training.

This interview again last for about 30 minutes.2 gets shortlisted.

Third interview was pure HR round and very formal one. This was conducted in

3rd week of December itself,2010. They asked some basic questions.

o Introduce yourself

o Why do you want to join our company?

o What is your short term goal.

o What is your long term goal.

o Have you ever been to this location.(They were looking for candidates for

Ahmedabad office).

o As I mentioned Playing Cricket as my Hobby, HR started shooting many

questions related to Cricket, Sachin, Dravid etc.

Then salary part. They describe the salary structure that this will be your fixed

part and this much will be your variable part. Also, described about working

hours and working days in a week.

No elimination after this round.


They gave us early joining on 3rd January as Project Trainee(4 months).This

four month was counted as my probation period. And after our exams I was

given designation of Presales Analyst.

I believe that package was not very much great. But the learning and the

confidence in terms of OSS/BSS I have earned is much more than anything else.

We usually die to get placed in a big company but the fact is if we really want to

grow we should start from a small or medium size company. Learning and

growth opportunities lie in small or mid size companies too.

Juniors, If you want a long term growth join a small or medium size company.

There is a huge amount of learning lies in such companies. Best of Luck.

I thank Bala Sir for giving me an opportunity to share my placement experience.

This was the wonderful experience that I had in Sri Balaji Society. Dawn was

with curiousities and apprehensions, day was full of surprises and fun, and night

with a tear on a pillow, that is to sum up the two years of SBS.

From traditional day to convocation day, from Mahabharata series to HR meet,

from Dilipbhaukitapri to SBS mess, all the moments that I spent in SBS has a

given me an immense pleasure and added life time memories to my life. I

enjoyed each and every moment, every festival, DJ parties …… We at our

college are groomed and conditioned to be future Corporate Leaders. All the

skill sets are either imbibed in us through the education system followed by our

college or through circumstances around us.

While writing this I completely went into into flashback. This was a pretty good

experience. But due to this early joining I missed some good moments. I missed

watching first smile on the faces of my other good friends when they get

placed, I was not there with my best friend when He needs me the most during

this tensed placement season. Anyways that is it from my side. I guess , I am

done with the 1000 words . Will always miss those beautiful days of SBS.

I wish all my friends all the very best and Proud to be a Balajian.

Cheers,

Savita Singh

TM-09-8289.

Telecom & IT (Dual D)


Seema Dhaniya

I am Seema Dhaniya

Roll no -TM09-8160

Class - BITM (Dual-D)

Specialization- Telecom & IT

Batch-2009-2011


Campus Placements, undoubtedly the most important reason amongst all other

reasons for joining this institute, this society.

SBS helped us in many ways in preparing ourselves for the Campus Placement

Season by conducting GD practice sessions in Auditorium under the Guidance of

experienced faculty and Industry Experts from around the country. It broadened

our mind set, helped us knowing the rules of the game and at the same time

filled us with the confidence.

More than anything I guess what the placement process teaches you that Life is

not fair & that sometimes luck matters more than ability but never leave all the

things on your luck & don't leave your preparations till the last second of your

coming opportunity & never think in life “You can't do it.

The placement season almost reached at the end & those who had not placed

they were much tensed & the worst experience but for me experiencing it was a

totally different experience. The difference was much more than I had imagined

it to be.

To be fair, I think I was well prepared for the placement process. I had decided

that I wanted to get a technical job & so wouldn't apply to the sales job profile

offered by the companies. Being in Telecom (PGDM) & ECE (B.Tech) helped me

to take that decision.

After not able to crack some companies, it was very frustrating but soon I

began to realize that learning from own mistakes &self confidence are the two

pillars that I would recommend to anyone. It helped me gain such valuable

experience. I saw my confidence growing as well as improvements in my

communication skills.There was a decent lag between the first and the second

company. It gave us the chance to re evaluate ourselves. Personally speaking,

this was the time when i found my feet. I began evaluating myself. From Sector

to Profile, from Company to package, i started analyzing things. Its very

important to introspect when you are confused. Once you understand yourself

well, you know it, want you want. I am amongst those lot of people who have a


fear for public speaking and i was a little tentative about the PIs too. The reason

why i am discussing this is the fact that some of you reading this might also

have the same fear, and believe me friends, its just a fear. The more you will try

to be in your comfort zone ,the lesser you will come out of your fear. The best

way to combat fear is... FACE it.

Overall experience of my company process was very exciting. The first round

was Aptitude Test there was 20 questions from different section. From the

Aptitude round approximate 20 students out of 80 were able to make it to next

round of technical interview.

Before the technical interview I was bit nervous but once I entered into the

room, I gave the confident smile to my interviewer and able to create a lighter

mood in the room by our discussion. He asked me to “Introduce Yourself”. After

introduction he asked me some technical questions. Some questions to the best

of my memory I am able to remember are:-

a) SS7 network

b) Call flow

c) Etom model

d) Business Process of a company(I explained here the Value Chain Model)

I had answered some of the questions & relate some questions with what I

know. I would recommend try to keep interview in your hands and give closed

ended answers so that a little room left for the interviewer.

Post the technical interview situation was really tense and no one was sure how

many will be able to make up for the next round but five of us were selected for

HR interview. I was very happy & nervous for the next round as I don't want to

lose battle after being so close.

It was always going to be tough for me in HR PI. But as mentioned, that day ,i

was in a different frame of mind. I didnot let any negative thought come to me

for the whole day. Friends, for positives to happen, you'v got to think positively.

I always thought them to be copy-book statements, but now i believe these

things as they paid off for me.

In the HR interview, the following questions I can remember:-

a) Introduce Yourself

b) Questions related to my internship experience.

c) My Strength :- 1) My Politeness

2) My Persuasiveness

3) I take my personal responsibility what I do.

d) Weakness: - My friend told me that my message typing speed is slow.

e) Are you comfortable to work outside India?


Yes, that will be a great opportunity for me to roam around the world.

Then He told but it's very difficult to stay other countries, they have different

culture, eating habits & living standard etc.

I replied “but they are also Human Being like us” & “Every difficulty is an

Opportunity”. Then they finally asked me if i had some querries. The PI went

along very smoothly . They finally thanked me with a smile and told me that

they are done.

After waiting for 2 Long hrs, the Panel finally came out with the results. I was

so damn happy to hear my name. It was an emotional moment as it gave me a

sense of achieving something in Life, something my parents would alwaz be

proud of !!!

Finally, I would like to thank our Beloved Bala Sir, All faculty members and

Supporting Staff. My thanks to Mrs. Dimple Saini ma'am and BITM PAT team

who toiled really hard for us.

When I got the offer letter it was the most memorable day of my life, my first

company, even the dream company for others & the dream comes true for me.

I kissed the offer letter & thanked to God.

Thanks to my Parents, my Friends, my well wishers& the whole SBS

family................................... :)

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;

For out in the world we find

Success begins for the fellow's will;

It's all in the state of mind.

RISE & SHINE

Thanks & regards

Seema Dhaniya


Shailja Brijwal

I am Shailja Brijwal

Registration No:-TM 09 8049

Dual A, BITM

Marketing

2009-11

To start with I would like to thank my stars to have me land at BITM . It's a

wonderful place to be, to learn, to grow, to mature. Kudos to Bala sir for having

built such a huge society, such institutes with great infrastructure, awesome

faculty, running so successfully. Wouldn't want to jinx Thanks for those

wonderful workshops arranged, Bam presentations and of course our daily dose

of Mahabharata. Quoting Bryan Adams “ Those were the best days of my life”

After graduating in Biotechnology I wanted to pursue MSc in biotechnology

however after considering the fact that an MSc in Biotechnology will give me

more hands-on experience but will teach me little of the business world. I

thought of pursuing MBA in Biotechnology. But because it was a relatively new

type of program in India I did not have enough options. Moreover all the big

talk about so called upcoming Biotech Boom and its scope in India had faded

with time so here I was a graduate in Biotechnology trying to figure out what I

could do further and that is how I ended up dropping biotech from MBA-Biotech

to just MBA. Landed here at Balaji and never looked back. As mentioned earlier,

the best thing about BITM after Bala Sir of course is the faculty that visits our

college more often than one could think. The best faculty from all over India

visits BITM (infact all four institutes) and the knowledge sharing is immense.

They shared their corporate experiences and taught a lot to each one of us. A

big thanks to all the professors.

Lastly I would like to appreciate the commendable efforts of our Placement

Team who worked very hard and made our campus placement such a huge

success. I am very glad to mention that over 250 companies visited our campus

during our placement season. Kudos to all four PAT!!!

As the Placement season approached only three basic criteria revolved in my

head most of that time- Brand, Profile and Salary Package. I had no preference

for any specific industry. It could be FMCG, Telecom VAS, Retail, or others as

long as I was getting a satisfactory Brand, Profile and Package.

Sat for a few and still could not get through GD round. I wondered what exactly

did I do wrong because there was no feed back shared. Anxiety reached

another level with every passing day and without actually knowing it I had


started to compromise on the three basic criteria that I had in mind. I started to

believe that one cannot get all three, somewhere down the line we do have to

compromise/trade off. So I sat for this Company 1.

Process-

Round 1- GD

GD Topic- Why are Indian sportsmen good only in India?

We were around 10 in a batch. I did not start the discussion. Even though I had

a few relevant points in mind I preferred to jot those down and arrange them

well. I was wrong. One must not wait. What happened was by the time I was

ready a few of my relevant points were discussed by others however I somehow

managed to give out some other points which probably left an impact on the

assessors and so I was called for the next GD round.

Round 2- Mega GD

All the 35 short-listed from the previous round were made to sit together and

were asked to give out one word that would represent our personality. Then we

had a Mega GD round & our GD topic was- Can Indians do without “Jugaad”.

This time I did not repeat my mistake. I put forward my point as I thought of it.

Since we were 35 all together and with a majority of girls GD had started to

sound like a fish market. There again I took a stand and tried to play a

moderator which was later appreciated by the assessors. They told me that they

saw me as an out going, go getter and an aggressive sales person.

Round 3- Personal Interview

My interview started very normally. I had The MD & CEO of the company sitting

right across the table. It was my day that day and I was all confident. They

asked me a few general questions like-

Family Background

My hobbies & Interest

My Qualification

What do I think my profile in this company would demand?

Would I like to meet people and party late?

Result- I was selected

It was a new company, no brand, an okay profile but better package for a

fresher. Joined it in June. By June end we got a great news. We were being

sacked because the company could no more pay our salary due to financial

crisis. Suddenly we were back to square one. We were about 11 placed in this

company. All of us came back to meet Bala Sir for guidance. Bala sir was as

ever very supportive and encouraging. Sat for the next company at campus. But

this time it was a good brand, good profile but yet again compromised on

salary.


First Round- Telephonic Round (General communication skill check)

Second Round- Personal Interview with the VP International Head. Questions

asked were-

Family Background

My hobbies & Interest

My Qualification

What do you think about Mumbai life

Can you adjust here

What is marketing?

Difference between Marketing & Sales?

Why Sales?

How to close a deal?

How will you handle pressure if a client shouts on you?

Like I was given a product X, and they asked me how I will market that product.

What strategies I will use.

Also the company asked me that I have to stay completely on the field. If I am

ready for that or not.

Third Round- Personal Interview with VP Domestic Head (Intro, Aim in Life and

Some management/marketing Fundamentals)

Result- I was finally selected. However this time the result was declared about

two months later but trust me the wait was worth it

Lessons Learnt-

First- Placement will happen when it is your day. You just need to be patient for

that day to come. After 5 companies I lost patience and landed in an unreliable,

new company which ditched me within a month. Don't jeopardize your future by

being hasty.

Second- Never under-estimate your potential. Never compromise when it comes

to selecting companies.

Third- Go for a company that is well established. Go for the brand. Learning is

best with learned professionals in a professional corporate environment and not

with confused new comers in a new company. First gain some rich experience

with professionals and then try new things in career.


Ms. Shailja Samant

I am Ms. Shailja Samant

Registration Number: TM 09-8162.

From Dual B Division of BITM.

Academic year 2009-2011.

My Specialization is Marketing with Telecom.

“To understand the needs of the customer and create a product that would

satisfy the needs of the customer”-If I were to describe my college-“SBS” in a

line I think nothing better would describe it than these lines. As we look around

today at our ecosystem as such the only element missing is someone to

manage it People talk about words like the meltdown, the economic crisis it is

only because of the mismanagement and the only savior is having a specialized

force that would only focus on streamlining the resources.

There is no better place to understand the integrities of this art of management

but 'SBS' where 10 years ago a young entrepreneur, decided to give back to the

society in a way that would have a long lasting impact. Like any novice not

knowing what a b-school would have in store for her I headed towards an

unforeseen journey-I am ShailjaSamant, Student Manager, Sri Balaji Institute of

Telecom and Management.

With Dreams come aspirations. And with aspiration comes Success. There were

a lot of aspirations as our placement season started when we saw our college

email id with the announcement of the First company in campus. We all knew

that the moment we were waiting for you had finally arrived. It dawned on us

that MBA life in the 2nd year was not going to be easy. It required a lot of

preparation, awareness, alert and most important of them all, positive attitude.

My placement process in SBS involved a very long wait. But as always the wait

is always sweet for what it is worth. I sat for many companies (10 in all) before

getting selected in my company. It was a long wait, which tested my patience,

persistence, attitude and ultimately luck. Every time a colleague gets placed the

reaction is two-fold. Happy for your friend with whom you shared your seat.

And anxious about yourself as to when that feeling would come to us.

Process:

Most of the companies had a standard process of selection. It involved the main

rounds of CV short listing, GD, Aptitude and Personal Interview.

I think, for any candidate to appear at any interview. Preparation is of utmost

importance along with the right mind frame. Knowing about the company, the

job profile and requirements of the competencies for the profile helps in getting


prepared. Browsing through the company website, knowing their latest press

releases, their management structure and goals, mission and philosophy, helps

you align your interest with that of the company. I do not think, every job is

meant for everyone. Just like a person might want to get selected in every

company, what is more important is to think from the recruiter point of view.

Are the goals of the candidate in sync with the goals of the company, will be the

company be benefitted, will the candidate will be a good fit for the role, are

some of the questions one should be aware of.

It took me months to understand and master the technique of recognizing the

right role and being able to appear for the company where I finally got selected.

After 4 months of rejections of not being able to crack my recruitment process

in the above mentioned companies, time was running out. A feeling of

desperation along with frustration sets in. But despite all those negative

feelings, it is very important to stay focused and not deviate with your aim in

life. It was 15th February, when I received the process intimation for “The

Company”. Like any other company process, we accepted the process and sent

our confirmation. Though it was another day, little did I know that this day, this

process and this company would be first step towards building my corporate

career.

The Preparation:

I prepared for the process by going thru their company website. Knowing their

mission and vision statements, learning about the various functions and

processes they have. The Client base they cater to. Assimilating this vast

information was tough, but it does help to be acquainted with the company

before you go for the process. I tried to prepare a few questions which I might

be able to ask the HR. Finally like all the other times. I made myself mentally

strong and hoped this would be my last attempt to get placed.

The “The Company” Process:

We had a presentation By the company, where they spoke at length about the

company and the kind of profile they are looking to offer. They had profiles like

forex, Insurance, Corporate travel and Individual travel. Being a travel and

tourism company, they required marketing graduates to take care of the

marketing and also operational wings of these departments. The position they

were offering was that of a Management Trainee. They also announced the

selection process. There was a round of GD followed by aptitude test and

Personal Interview.

GD Round:

The group included 10 students and there were 2 moderators. I assumed

emphasis would be given on both the content and your body language.

The topic given to us was,


“The Dragon-What is symbolizes”

Although the topic was Abstract, Many students linked it to economics and

Country demographics. Slowly the abstract content came up.

I spoke a couple of times and said some points like,

1) How it symbolizes Power, Strength and good luck.

2) Certain traits of an individual like, evil, fear and aggressiveness, etc.

3) I also spoke of the traditional aspect it is with respect to the Republic of

China.

Points to remember:

Do not try to be too aggressive, at the same time, make sure you are

able to speak at least 2-3 times.

Look at each student when speaking.

Acknowledge others point of view and use power words like, excellent

perception, I strongly agree, etc.

Be ready with a summary, if asked. And make sure to cover all the

points without being judgmental or prejudiced towards the topic.

The size of the group was 10-12.

Aptitude Test:

The aptitude test was a basic test, the structure of which included sections in

mathematics, Reasoning, General Awareness and Language. The questions

where of medium difficulty and they announced the results immediately. This

was the time, when I realized reading those newspaper and economic tests

does come in useful.

PI Round:

The round of Interview was with the Head HR and was a more comprehensive

interview. Some of the questions they asked where as follows:

1) Introduce yourself:

Ans) Preparing for this question always helps. It is good to be confident in the

first question at the same time knowing what to speak in that short time to

present yourself to the interviewer. I had a structured introduction which

included my Location, family, educational Background, Strengths, Hobbies,

Interests and Motto.

2) What are your weaknesses:

Ans) I answered by admitting, we all have weaknesses. It is not a question of

denying the those weaknesses. Rather it is important to acknowledge them and

work towards it. I told them about my weakness and how I am working towards

improving on it.


3) Why “The Company” and what do you know about the Company?

Ans) I answered by telling why I was interested in the company. Its presence

across the world and it being one of the oldest travel and Tourism Company

operational today. Another fact that fascinated me was that though it was a

travel company, it had ample opportunities for a marketing student and there

were many function in which we could have attempted to begin a career with. I

also spoke of the functions “The Company” had recollecting from their

presentation and the various function in the company.

4) Tell me something about your Family.

Ans) I answered by telling about my Father, Mother and Brother. Their

Profession, where they stay. There were further questions asked about my

Father posting in the Air force.

5) Why should we select you over the other Candidate?

Ans) I answered this by saying, “Every candidate is here because they have

something good in them. I would like to be selected on my own merits rather

than in comparison with other candidates.”

6) Further to which they asked me, what merits do you have that we

should select you?

Ans) I replied by talking of my strengths in detail. I spoke of traits such as

confidence, Positive attitude, Leadership skills, etc. In my preparation I had

remembered instances in my life, where I exhibited such skills and trait.

7) Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line?

Ans) I said, I would like to see myself having a middle level, decision making

managerial role in your organization. I would like to have more responsibilities

and authority to do justice to my role.

8) Finally they asked if I had any questions for them.

Ans. I asked them about their marketing strategy in India and how they think

advertising and creating brand awareness plays an important role in their

success.

Finally the results were declared and it was a moment of exhilaration when one

among those names happened to mine. It was a moment I have been waiting

for since I joined a post graduate course and after many attempts and failures I

could finally call myself employed. They offered us a Management Trainee role.

The wait was over.


Sharad Jain

I am Mr. Sharad Jain

Registration number 11-1014, Roll No. TM109340,

From TELECOM - A, BITM

Batch: 2010-12.

I got placed in my First Company.

I sat for the Campus Placement first time on 16th November, 2011. I waited for

the same Company for a long time. There were around 65 students whom

Company shortlisted from BITM. Company conducted 2 round of Interviews as

the Selection Process and for some students number was 3 also. The first round

was somewhat technical and second round was of HR Interview. I think those

who cleared the first round , maximum of them cleared second round too.

There were 6 panels for conducting Interviews and I was the last one in my

Panel. I went inside the room along with my Project Report and CV. I was

feeling tired as my turn came at around 4 p.m. but I was full of enthusiasm and

determined to crack the Interview.

My first Interview lasted for around 1 hour starting from the Question

1. Why our Company?

A. It is my dream company and I waited for the same for 1 year as I also

did not sit for the 2 earlier companies that came recently and that too they

were also big brands. You Products and Services are much admired one by the

world, who can miss the opportunity to join your company sir. I know my

seniors in your Company and they told me that Employee satisfaction is much

high in your company. You allow doing various Certifications during your

Training period that is another Value Addition.

2. Tell me about yourself.

A. I briefly introduced myself, family, my academics background, hobbies,

etc.

3. Tell something about Placements work you do in CRT?

4. Do you have a student Council?

A. I said 'no'. Then he asked about the reason. I explained.

5. If there would have been a Student Council, then where do you see

yourself in the Council & why?

6. Where did you do your Intern and describe the topic briefly.

7. What does it mean “Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the

requirement for the PGDM (Telecom) course of BITM “as written on the Project

Report? Explained

8. Then they asked around 5 questions from my Project Report on M-

Commerce and I was able to answer all of them. 2 times they asked about the

justification of my 'Project Title' according to my whole Report.


9. Tell me about your 2 weaknesses and how did you overcome them.

10. Describe the Job Description we shared with you, i.e. the work you are

going to do with us.

-I already read & understood the work role in detail before coming and I

explaine the same to them. The Job Role was of Consulting. They got

somewhat impressed from the same.

Then they started with the Technical Questions:

1. Tell me something about the Telecom Industry.

A. I explained and gave them the data about the subscriber Base,

teledensity, downfall of Minutes of Usage from a peak of 465 minutes in 2007 to

369 minutes at the end of 2010, a decline of more than 20% per connection per

month etc..profit margins of operators have come down, NTP 2011.

2. What do you understand by OSS and BSS in simple Language?

3. Have you seen any BSS/OSS Software? I said 'No'

4. What do you know about COTS Software? Have you seen any COTS

Software Product

A. I knew the full form as Commercial-off-the-shelf software products that

are readily available for purchase in commercial Market. I did not know about

any Example.

5. What is NGOSS?

A. I replied with the Full form as 'New Generation Operations Systems and

Software. It is the Business Solution Framework for next generation OSS/BSS.

But I was not able to explain in detail which they asked for.

6. Any Business Process Framework you know?

A. I explained about eTOM Framework and especially in detail about the

Horizontal Layers which they asked but I was not able to explain them

practically.

7. What is CDR in Billing?

A. CDRs are Call Detail Records which have the full detail of a single Call

along with the Unique ID. I explained all its attributes like called party,calling

party, date & time of call etc.

8. Explain the whole Process of Billing including Usage of Mediation?

9. If I am a customer and you are a company, I have come to you to buy a

SIM Card, what are the processes you are going to perform for making me a

valid customer other than form filling?

- I explained but my answer was not much satisfactory. He wanted me to

explain in detail about HLR registration etc.

Last question was : Explain your Learning Curve and prove it.

I said it went down somewhere during my graduation but now it is going up


slowly and it will continue to rise. It can be proved by seeing the differences

b/w my 10th ,12th ,UG and PG %.

At last, they stood and said 'it was nice meeting you' but still it was a confusing

statement for me whether they have selected me or rejected.

Finally, I was called for HR Interview and asked for preferred location and

welcomed as an 'Associate Consultant.' That moment was so exciting and

unbelievable and I was so happy that I wanted to only laugh. I gave this

Placement as a Gift to my parents on their 25th Marriage Anniversary.

Thank You All.. :-)

Name: - Shashank Shah

Registration Number.: -TM-09-8242

Division:- C from BITM

Academic year: -2009-11

I am sharing my campus placement experience with you.

The company came in the month of March '11, we were very few students left,

as many of my friends were already placed in the companies. We were “many”

in November, when the placements started and now were “very few” in the

month of March. But strength & believe were high, just because of the positive

thoughts of Bala sir & our PAT team.

We were intimated a day prior to the company arrival, so that we can go

through its website. We were all sitting on the third floor of BITM building,

when the “fantastic four” came. There were four moderators in the panel. They

briefed us about the company, explained the job profile, answered many of our

questions.

The process consisted of :

1. GD

2. Presentation

3. Personel interview

We were separated in the group of 10 students for the GD round.

The topic given to my group was “BUDGET 2011”, as it was very hot topic at

that time. We were all very much aware of the topic( because Bala sir showed

us the live telecast of the Budget in the Auditorium & after tis completion , we

use to have a detailed discussion with him, this helped us a lot in grasping the

key points of the Budget). We had a healthy discussion in the placement

process and the moderators were looking quite impressed by our performance,

when we were just getting up to leave the hall, one of the moderator said, “

Shashank Shah


now the second topic of your discussion is BETTING SHOULD BE LEGALISED OR

NOT”, we were all shocked as none of the earlier groups had two discussions.

So we started the discussion again, many of us were boys and we had good

knowledge regarding cricket, so we all jumped into the discussion but also

maintained the dignity, it ended well. We were also cross questioned regarding

our comments in the GD, and were asked to justify them more. After the results

only two students from my group were selected.

Total four students from the first round of GD was selected and we were asked

to prepare a presentation on some topic and we have to present it in their office

in Mumbai the day after our GD. The topics given to us were :

1. IPTV and its future.

2. Hospitality and its scope.

My topic was “ Future of Broadband(internet)”.

The day after our GD we took a cab and left for the process to Mumbai in early

morning. We reached their office before the time mentioned, preparations were

already done by them. We were asked to wait in the conference hall, after some

time the moderators who came for the interview to our campus came to greet

us. We talked about some general things for some time. After that we were

asked to prepare for the presentations. Every one of us were excited for the

presentations round as we use to give presentations almost twice a week in our

classes, so the confidence level was at peak. Turn by turn we gave the

presentations. Around 8 members were present from the company side to judge

us. We were again questioned after our presentations. The questions include

the technicalities regarding the topic, its present scenario and its scope in

coming future according to us. All of us gave their best in the presentation

round. All of us got selected for the next round.

In the personel interview round we were asked many questions so as to test our

attitude, personality, behavior, analytical skills etc , the following are the topics

on which we were asked to write our comments :

1. Short term goals.

2. Long term goals.

3. The first thought which comes in our mind when we wake up.

4. Strengths.

5. Weakness.

6. Key factors in growth of our career life.

We have to write the above questions on a piece of paper and later we

discussed them in our interviews. They completely grilled us, asking about our

comments on each of the topics. They wanted to check our thought process

after every comment. After a hard 10 minutes wait, they declared that three of

us are selected. I was very happy regarding my selection, as it came after a

long wait, hard work, & continuous improvements on my mistakes.

It is understood how important it is to be spontaneous and intense when you

reply; because that 10-15 minutes encounter will fetch you the stairs to climb


your dream cloud. However individual have their personal identity and If

someone is unable to get into some specific round, it is not that he/she is not

good enough, it is just that the compatibility factor doesn't get a perfect match

between the job and the seeker.

My suggestion

One should have sound knowledge about the company and market dynamics.

He/she should have knowledge of area he/she has specialised into;

your internship and gaining the most of it in order to boost your practical

knowledge;

A person should have an attitude of learning;

So, Would just like to say my juniors that subject knowledge is a very important

part… &plz do listen to faculty seriously &plz be attentive in classes as you

never know what will click where… Wishing them lots of best wishes & a great

future ahead.

One more thing, do not lose hope at any point of time at any situation of your

life. Remember, a person becomes successful, if he believes in, whatever he is

doing.

Friends, I would like to share one more thing with all of you, I also use to read

a book called THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne. Initially you would find it a little

boring but when you would start realizing and following the things written in

that book, you would feel its importance. The book tries to explain the power of

our thoughts, and how we can get whatever we want, by just focusing our

thoughts on that thing. A movie is also made on this concept by the same

name. I personally prefer movie over the book.

So friends, this was my placement experience, I hope you got some meaningful

insights from this.

My heartiest wishes to all my juniors for their future.

Regards,

Shashank Shah,

TM-09-8242


Shefali Vats

Hi

I am Shefali Vats

Registration Number is TM-09-8050

Class Division is Dual A BITM,

Specialization is in Marketing & Finance,

Academic Year 2009-2011,

Placed on 15th December, 2011.

Dear friends,

Before I share my campus placement experience, I must give my heartiest

thanks to Bala Sir and the entire Placement Team which made my life easier by

their constant guidance and support.

1st Company Experience.........

XYZ is the first company which visits the campus in the month of September.

Experience with XYZ was good.

In the first round......... they conducted Group Discussion wherein groups of 6

to 8 students were made and the topic was “Theoretical Knowledge or Practical

Experience”. Altogether from BITM 120 students of marketing appeared for the

GD round. Out of 120 the HR picked up just 5 students which were two less a

number.

Five students including myself appeared for the second round which was a

general aptitude test. I was the lucky one among these 5 students; I got to see

various faces from all the friends around me.

Aptitude Test was conducted to have a better understanding of the candidate

and his/her response to multiple situations. It more or less gives a complete

picture of the candidate thereby helping the HR Team to match the

characteristics of the candidate with their requirement.

Post the Aptitude Test, we also got an opportunity to interact with the HR panel.

I was being asked very general questions like Why should we select you, Where

do you see yourself after 5 years down the line..

I could clear the HR round and finally i won half the game.IT WAS MY DAY .

I didn't know that it's not easy as it looks like. Finally the D day came and we

were a group of 28 students who sat for the final round with the Head of the

Organization.


That wasn't my day and I was among those 6 students who were not selected

and came back. I learnt many things from this experience. I was disheartened

though but my family and friends were a great support.

Second Company Experience..................

Then I appeared for another company.

The First Round........ This round was Group Discussion wherein a topic related

to sports was given, so I didn't take the initiative to start as 'sports' is not my

cup of tea, but I had the confidence to speak about any topic thrown at me. So

I got through the first round of Gd.

The Second Round.........

It was with the HR. It was a FMCG company . I could not clear the HR round

and was out from this round.

After appearing for 2-3 companies, clearing few rounds and sometimes not even

one made me feel a little low and then I appeared for a couple of more

companies where in I failed to clear the Gd round which to an extent had

lowered my self-confidence and I couldn't see anything positive happening

around.

Finally my lucky day came. I was so skeptical about giving my CV for ABC Co

because I got many suggestions about the profile and package. But I always

knew that it's a most respectable Brand and it's my first job , so I should be

more keen about the Brand and its value in market.

It's very true that when it's your lucky day things just fall in place for you

effortlessly, it so happens that we tend to give our best shot in the companies

we get selected and probably that's the reason we are selected.

Last Company Experience......

My Selection day........

First Round............it had to be group discussion which is also elimination

round. Groups of 10 to 12 students were made. Topic was related to Hobbies

and their importance in our life.

Second Round........It was HR round and everything happened very smoothly.

Q1. Why they should select me?


Ans.I said am an engineer with MBA degree and since it's a telecommunication

company , I told them that my engineering know ledged will be used.

Q2. Why this company (ABC.)?

Ans. This question is to be well prepared beforehand leaving no scope for

ambiguity.

Q3. If I had to work in shift?

Ans. I told them that it's my first job, for me my work is more important as of

now rather than shift timings, offs, travel etc.

After the Final Interview Round

We were around 20 students selected and i was among them.

The Offer Letter was given after keeping us wait for a day as they were

scrutinizing our CV's. Everything happened so fast that I was being asked to join

after 5 days only. I was sad initially as I will be missing few last days of college

life but on the other hand I thought about the experience i will gain before my

other friends and obviously about the bank Balance.

Placement season is a lifetime experience and we go through all emotions like

competition with our best of friends, celebrations of selection for the first job,

nervous breakdown before interview and before the result is announced, happy

for friends selected and placed and sad for not getting selected in one more

company, pressure of days passing by when practically you know the entire

season is left and finally the feeling of accomplishment and empowerment with

a heavy package in hand and a dream that here we enter the corporate world

with those black suits and heavy pay packages to rock the world.........

Now I am in Pune and working for ABC Ltd as a Customer Relationship Trainee

and our customers include all the big companies like Google, Bank of America,

NTT and many more. I have even completed 15 months now in the corporate

world and am happy.

Keep few things in mind, prioritize your preference, viz., Sector, brand, profile,

package, place of posting. Placement is very easy to get but what you want is

difficult to identify when you are in college. So walk ahead of your group, enjoy

this time to the fullest.


Shikha Dixit

Hello everyone,

My name is Shikha Dixit,

Roll no. TM09-8014

BITM Dual A

Marketing & Finance

2009-11

Presently I am working in Company XYZ as a Sales Executive. And now I want

to share my campus placement experience with you all. Around 150-170

companies visited our campus. And i got placed on 20th April. The experience I

gained from it gave me so many lessons which helped me for my future career

perspective as well. During the placement season I got to know too many

things about The Corporate world. I got to know about my knowledge, practical

approach towards corporate world. Initially the college made me ready for the

corporate world and afterwards also provided me with a platform by calling so

much companies to our campus. And now I am implementing all the ethics and

learning I gained from the college in my work. The major reason of joining SBS

was to fulfill my dream of having a good corporate career and I am thankful to

all the faculties who made me learn how to build a career in marketing and Bala

sir along with our placement department who gave us such a big access to sit in

so many companies by calling them into the campus.

I still remember the day when Bala Sir called the whole 2009-11 Marketing

batch in auditorium and he declared the date when the first company will be

visiting our campus on 21st September. From that day I started preparing to get

through in that company only .That day made all of us to realize our dreams

and to start preparing for achieving those dreams.

First round for most of the companies was the group discussion round. I could

not get through the first GD which I gave for the first company which visited my

campus. Though it was painful but it was not the time to get disheartened

because there were so many good companies lined up to visit our campus. So I

started preparing for GD and not to leave any stone unturned. Then gradually

understood the importance of Group Discussion with experience. I got to know

that to get through any GD, the most important part is to speak relevant and

thoughtful. Whatever you say must add new subject to the GD. Through this I

cleared GD round of so many good companies, but ironically cudn't get through

the last rounds. It is very useful for every round of placement to know your

weakness and to overcome them. I was a bit choosy about the companies

because I wanted to go for typical marketing job profile or the profile which

suites me the most. I also had a good academic background so I got shortlisted


for most of the good companies, but didn't get through all the rounds in those

companies.

It was also a learning period and gave all of us a lifetime experience. We got to

learn about too many companies and their business. It increased our level of

knowledge and took it to a different level.It was also the time to learn from

defeats and to take the rejections in a positive sense. I still remember from

sitting in any company's process, I used to boost up myself that also made me

realize about my strengths. Then gradually time passed and some people got

selected and some were left to join the job. And 3rd semester exams also

started. It was very difficult time to manage both the study and the placement.

But still the companies were visiting our campus with a good pace. I got

through the GD of various companies but unfortunately from HR round I wasn't

through. But I always believed that some thing good is waiting. Sometimes I

used to get depressed but I always remember the words of BALA Sir “Problems

are Opportunities”. After January it was made compulsory to sit in each and

every company's process. Tension was there because few of us were left for the

selection. I was worried because very few companies were left. It was the worst

time for all of us who were left for selection. But a million thanks to BALA Sir, He

helped all of us. Till June companies visited the campus and he inspired us a lot.

He always said you all are the last bullet and you all will soon get a good job

and I believed in his words. There were very few companies who visited the

campus in the month of march because it was the end of financial year. I finally

got selected in April, the company visited our campus. And the first round was

GD like all the other companies .There were around 12 people in my group and

the topic was general. It was "differences between boys and girls". Around 5 of

us cleared it and the next round was HR round. I cleared it as well. Most of the

questions asked in it were associated with the analysis of our confidence level.

After that there were two more interviews which were typically based on sales

and marketing techniques. The questions asked in the interview were:

1. Why this company?

2. What do you know about this company?

3. Knowledge about company's competitors?

4. What is difference between sales and marketing?

5. Where do you want to see yourself after 2 years down the line?

6. Justify yourself as a brand.

Apart from this the questions asked in HR round were:

1. Tell me about yourself?

2. Why sales/marketing?


3. What are your strengths and weakness?

4. Give me one reason to select you.

5. What are your career objectives?

6. Why MBA?

7. Are you suitable for this company?

And finally after getting through these rounds they said that they will announce

the result after one week. During that one week I kept on giving the process of

other companies. we were also having fourth semester exams at that time. And

then I got to know that I got selected in that company. It was a time to enjoy.

Finally I got the job after a long time. I made my way to the corporate world.

I joined the company on 26th April immediately after the exams and till then I

have been working there and gaining good experience there to make out my

way to the long term corporate career.

I would also like to share some GD topics which were very common and were

asked in so many companies:

1. Reservation in India, its good or bad.

2. Indian economy.

3. Indian culture vs western culture.

4. 2G Scam.

5. India 2020

6. Cricket vs Football.

7. Private banks and their retail strategy.

8. Enterpreneurship

9. MBA, is it beneficial or not?

10. Indian education system.

At last i would like to thank my family, friends and faculties,because due to their

support i could manage to achieve all this.

Best wishes to all !!!!

Thanks & Regards

Shikha Dixit,


Shilpa Gubrele

Hello,

I am Shilpa Gubrele

Registration Number: TM-09-8243

Division: Dual C, BITM.


My specialization was Telecom & IT.

I was placed in Company A, leading OSS-BSS Vendor and now working as a

Presales Analyst.

My Campus Placement Experience:

This company was my 8th company for which I attended the placement

process. I chose this company because of my interest in OSS/BSS domain.

The process followed by the company was: There were total 3 rounds of

telephonic interviews.2 technical and 1 HR. All the rounds were basically

technical in nature. By technical I mean, they were more focused upon the field

they are in i.e. Telecom Data GSM, 3G, GPRS, LTE, WIMAX etc.

There were 12 Student Managers for this round. First interview was taken by

the AVP Presales and Sales manager. This was conducted on first week of

December, 2010. This was pure Technical round plus some basic questions to

judge the stability of the candidate. They asked many questions such as:

Difference between CDMA & GSM.

GPRS Architecture.

About WiMAX (including fullform,range,protocolsetc)

Which technology will last longer- WiMAX/LTE

ETOM/TAM

SID

Where Mediation will be considered-In OSS or BSS

Billing Process

About Wi-Fi (including fullform,range,protocolsetc)

2G, 3G, 4G network.

NGOSS/NGN

IMS

Which topic/technology u have recently read (My answer was MPLS, then they

start shooting MPLS related question) Etc.

They have asked questions related to OSS/BSS, Etom, SID, NGOSS, Telecom

Networks, Call flows in them, Difference between them, what will be the future

of telecom, which technology will survive. They have also given some Telecom

cases.

Second interview was taken by the Sales manager and HR. This was conducted


in 3rd week of December, 2010. This was Technical round .On top of it they

asked some basic questions. They asked many questions such as:

1) What is BSS/OSS.

2) GSM Architecture.

3) What is next generation network.

4) eTOM model

5) Some more technology related question which I don't remember now.

6) Some basic questions related to my CV such as hobbies, family background,

what did you do after your Engineering when your joining get delayed etc.

7) Tell me about your Summer Internship Project?

8) What you have learnt in your MTNL training? What technologies they taught

you. Give a brief about your key learning's during your MTNL training.

This interview again last for about 30 minutes.2 gets shortlisted.

This interview was of about 30 minutes.

HR round was taken by a lady. It was a tuff Interview. She interviewed me for

45 mins with questions like:

Tell me about yourself

What is your strength/weakness?

How you overcome weaknesses

Career goal

Interests

Projects

Why this company

Why do you want to join our company?

What is your short term goal

What is your long term goal

Have you ever been to this location

Then the salary part. They describe the salary structure that this will be your

fixed part and this much will be your variable part. Also, described about

working hours and working days in a week.

No elimination after this round.

I answered all the questions and got selected for this company.

They gave us early joining on 3rd January as Project Trainee (4 months).This

four month was counted as my probation period. And after our exams I was

given designation of Presales Analyst.

My words for my juniors:

There is always a confusion to prioritize among three things: Company,

Package, and Profile. I suggest from my experience to look for profile first, then


company and then the package. Sometimes, you can get all the three things in a

single placement offer, but most of the times we have to choose/prioritize among

these things. The initial years are for learning. Package can be increased at the

later stage of career. You will only be happy in your work life when you enjoy

doing what you are getting paid for even if it's less as compared to your peers.

I was doing MBA in Telecom but at the same time I was interested in Technical

background. I was confused at that time between my interest (ietechnical's) and

Management jobs...I end up with both the things on my side in this profile. Right

now I am into Presales pursuing both Technical + Management job

responsibilities. I have to deal with clients and to explain them the technical

OSS/BSS solution that I designed for their proposal. So, I just wanted to suggest,

you have to figure out what you are good at and what type of profile you want to

be at. This was the strongest thing with me that I was very much clear about

what I wanted.

Today, I see my batch mates unhappy with their jobs when it has been just 7-8

months. I know many who are looking for a switch. I don't intend to leave my job

and I am very much satisfied with my job. Set your priorities right and decide

where you want to be. Leave no stones unturned to reach where you want to be

and always remember there is someone who is there to guide you throughout

your way. And one thing for sure, When THE DAY (Your Placement day) will

come, everything will be on your side only.

Do read a lot about the trends in Telecom Industries, the new technologies

coming up, What is the impact of all the changes on telecom industry etc.

Be confident about what you are saying. If you don't know simply say that this

thing you don't know. People appreciate one who knows about oneself and who

is sure about what he/she knows and what he/she does not know.

Be ready with one topic that you know everything about. This works as medicine

to all your miseries.

Gain some 2G,2.5G,2.75G,3G,HSPDA,LTE,WiMAX,Wi-Fi,network's basic topology

knowledge if you are appearing for an OSS/BSS or System Integrator Company.

They were judging basic knowledge of telecom not very much detail. So need

not to worry.

Be calm, focused and relaxed for the whole selection process. The candidates

should be well versed with the current issues of the world and also their field of

Interest. They should not be over confident or boast about themselves. This can

leave a bad impression on the Interview Panels.

I wish all my friends all the very best and Proud to be a Balajian.

Thanks to Dear Bala Sir, Vignesh Sir and all my mentors. It was a great pursuing

MBA from such a great institute with diverse exposures.

With Best Regards,

ShilpaGubrele


Shilpa Khawas

I am Shilpa Khawas

Registration Number: TM 098244

Class BITM Division C

BITM from the academic year 2009 passed out on 2011

My specialization is in telecom &IT .

I am finally placed in XXXXXX.

The Process consists of following rounds –

1. Shortlisting of CVs based on Engineering Branch.

2. Group Discussion

3. Personal Interview

About my experience, call it the easy way or the hard one it was all about the

GD part in my case. I can say I am not very good in GD and today also I can't

say I know the rules to succeed in a GD. It's simple when it comes to your GD

being a decision maker for your career that shall be for your whole life, no rules

and practices matter. Placements are the most important chapter in one's

academics. And Balaji provided us great placement opportunities and gave us

the right platform, but in the end its your own effort and I would say luck! In all

I appeared for four group discussions starting with XXXX,XXXX,XXXX,XXXX. Out

of which I cleared three and appeared for three PI's. Initially I my selection for

GD's were based on shortlisting so I decided to just give my best,without

worrying about where do I want to go and which field. But one thing was very

clear in my mind that I would go for Sales profile only if I didn't have other

option.

I had the longest wait though because I was placed in the month of March. It

did require a lot of patience.

I appeared for a lot of companies processes including the written tests and

GD's. And as far as my experience says – in the end it all depends on the

observer. If the observer sees the quality he seeks in you he would select you

whether you say anything or not. But of course you can guess it from the

profile- and your interests which matter. For a sales profile they obviously look

for good communication along with your will to be heard among the group of

others who feel the same.

The first company which had shortlisted few names was- a big name in the

industry of telecom. GD topic was a technical one- I didn't make it.

GD topic was “Whether Wimax technology is better or 3G?”

Then came a startup tower company, my GD topic was –“whether women CEO's

are better than male CEO's”.


The most important thing is know the company for which you are appearing

and if there is a written test please go through previous papers available online.

Then another telecom giant-I didn't have to go through the GD. I was directly

called for PI – I knew I would make it but I backed out from the PI because

they asked for a bond for which I was not comfortable about. The PI was a

general one regarding questions related to the profile they were offering, it

helps if you have worked on that profile during your internship.

The second biggest company -an MNC- my second biggest disappointment as it

was the first GD I had cleared. The GD topic was- “ Why Independence Day

celebrations are important?”

The technical and then the HR round. I wasn't selected.

Finally the big one XXXX. There were 40 contenders for which also the ones

placed were also allowed. It was the most competitive process where I

imagined the minimal chances.

There were 3 groups of 12 each. The topic was “Amitabh vs Shahrukh”. I

cleared the GD for the second time.

And the PI's started. My name was in the last few . I walked in and I sat down

with loads of apprehensiveness. The general VAS industry related questions and

I was offered the job but with a different profile to which I agreed. And I was

told to think about it. When everyone was through I realized they hadn't called

me for the second time. In the end I was called in the second room for my final

PI. Questions related to the profile (Pre-Sales), the reason for my interest in the

particular profile, my knowledge related to the telecom industry& my inclination

to travel. Few PI questions are as below:

1. Tell me about urself?

2. Why did you opt for telecom ?

3. What do you know about VAS?

4. What are your interests?

5. Questions related to my curricular activities.

6. Questions related to my mobility regarding going to a new place.

7. My future plans that will affect my workability with them.

The interview panel had left for the day and we were left waiting with more

confusion. Then the placement duty team came up with a piece of paper of

which we knew contained our fate. The results were announced. And I had

made it.

So that was the day of my life- the beginning of my career.

The most important thing to be kept in mind during any placement process is to

be yourself and let the company decide if you fit with their requirements. And

patience is the most important virtue when one is dealing with placements. One

should be prepared to face any kind of results.

In short, the best preparation for any placement process in campus is to brush

up what you have done in past, read a bit about the company for which you are

appearing , and present yourself as you naturally are , to the company in the

best manner.


Each process is an experience in itself so take it as a part of your curriculum not

as a drawback.

As said by our beloved Bala sir “Problems are Opportunities.”

I wish all the very best to all the juniors. Hope all of them get the best jobs. Do

not get worried if you are not lucky as others to get through in one go as fruit

of patience is always sweet. Also don't forget:

To all my friends and aspiring Balaji student managers- Never Lose hope!

Lots of Wishes

Shilpa Khawas

Hi,

This is Shreyas Purohit

Reg No.TM09-8290.

From Balaji Institute of Telecom and Management.

Specialization- Telecom




My Placement experience has finally landed me to a TimeShare Company. .One

day the coordinator told us that there is a Company coming to the Campus for

the Process. She told us the name of the Company. It was the day when I

started seeing dreams of a successful Corporate Career. I was very curious to

know about the Company, Package and the Place of Posting, so called up my

friends and seniors i knew was into it to get the further details. But to my utter

surprise there were only few of us interested in it because of Package.

It's a feel of mixed emotions. We stand at a very crucial stage of our life.

Responsibilities, hectic schedule, competition, suggestions, advice and

nervousness keep on revolving around your mind. It's equal to a fight for your

life.

I cherish those moments taught me to be patient and calm. As without these

two your performance keeps on worsening. The best thing to do is to dominate

the pressure prevailing inside you and to work with deep patience. I cherish

Shreyas Purohit


those moments that taught me to be patient and calm. As without these two

your performance keeps on declining. The best thing to do is to dominate the

pressure prevailing inside you and put your 100% effort towards the path of

success.


Experience with XYZ was good.

In the first round......... Five students including myself appeared for the second

round which was a general aptitude test. I was the lucky one among these 5

students, I got to see various faces from all the friends around me.

2nd Round:

Aptitude Test was conducted to have a better understanding of the candidate

and his/her response to multiple situations. It more or less gives a complete

picture of the candidate thereby helping the HR Team to match the

characteristics of the candidate with their requirement.

3rd round-

To check people management skills he asked questions like “ If a person is not

working in your team and his bad performance is affecting complete team

performance , then what will you do as project manager”. I gave standard

answer- try to figure out the reason, if it is still lacking then give proper

trainings. He nodded his head. After joining company, I came to know expected

answer from my end was “To ESCLATE”.


Q1. Why they should select me?

Ans.I said am an engineer with MBA degree and since it s a telecommunication

company , I told them that my engineering knowledge will be used.



ambiguity.

Q3. If i had to work in shift?

Ans. I told them that its my first job, for me my work is more important as of

now rather than shift timings, offs, travel etc.

I could clear the HR round and finally i won half the game.IT WAS MY DAY .

I didn't know that its not easy as it looks like. Finally the D day came and we

were a group of 28 students who sat for the final round with the Head of the

Organization.

It was my lucky day came. I was so skeptical about giving my CV for ABC Co

because i got many suggestions about the profile and package. But I always

knew that its a most respectable Brand and its my first job , so i should be more

keen about the Brand and its value in market.






scrutinizing our CV's. Everything happened so fast that i was being asked to join

after 5 days only. I was sad initially as i will be missing few last days of college

life but on the other hand i thought about the experience i will gain before my

other friends and obviously about the bank Balance.

Honestly speaking, I had made no special preparation before sitting for the

process just briefly read the company website and brush up the basic concepts.

What I learnt from my placement experience is, No matter how much you know,

No matter what kind of candidate they are looking for, just be confident in

whatever your thoughts are. Ultimately right attitude is what all matters!!!

As Balasir truly say that, along with Bookish knowledge its equally important to

have the practical knowledge.








with those black suits and heavy pay packages to rock the world.........

Now I am in Pune and working for ABC Ltd as a Customer Relantionship Trainee

and our customers include all the big companies like Google,Bank of America,

NTT and many more.I have even completed 15 months now in the corporate

world and am happy.

Keep few things in mind, prioritize your preference, viz., Sector, brand, profile,

package, place of posting. Placement is very easy to get but what you want is

difficult to identify when you are in college. So walk ahead of your group, enjoy

this time to the fullest.

Best Luck!!!!!


Shridhar Jeloka

I am Shridhar Jeloka

TM09 – 8051, Dual A

Marketing & Finance (2009-2011)

One thing which got me through all the intense moments was our beloved Bala

Sir's words “Last man, Last bullet”. He always said “Problems are Opportunities”.

During my campus placement I went through a lot of emotions. Some moments

were joyful when I got through all the rounds and reached the final round,

some turned into disappointment, some also turned into anger and frustration.

It was all a mixed bag but, “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be

our doubts of today” it kept me going.

Each round, each process was a new learning. This enabled me to learn what

the corporate was looking for, what their selection criteria were and where we

were lacking.

All the companies which came in had their ideas about the kind of people they

were looking for, some wanted managers who were aggressive, some liked

quite ones, some who were flexible but it all narrowed down to one common

thing they all were looking for – smart work.

For me it was not about the brand name or the money part, but what I looked

in a company was the profile it offered as this the first step in career building.

Around 250 companies visited our campus and the companies which I sat for

were Company A, Company B, Company C, Company D, Company E and

Company F. All these companies did not select me but they all taught me my

shortcomings, where I need to put efforts to grow and also how to keep up the

spirits and perform when everything is not as you want it.

The group discussion topics which were given to me during the rounds of the

companies were - “Girls VS Boys” , “NarendraModi the man in charge” , “Is

India still a price sensitive market” and “India and China” .

During a GD one should remember it is very important to deliver quality not

quantity. If the GD turns into a chaos the interviewer looses interest in the

whole group. Yes, I agree we should try to initiate the GD but this should not be

at the cost of turning the whole GD into a fish market. The quality of the

content we bring in is judged not the quantity.


Some of the companies even opt for aptitude test. These test are generally to

test our Analytical Skills, General Knowledge and our Communication.

Now, comes the time to shine as an individual, the personal interview round.

Every time I stepped into the interview room I made sure I looked my best,

smiling, the look of confidence and greeting the panel.

The interview I had gone through made me realize that the panel sitting across

the table is looking for the confidence and the smartness in the manger. They

can ask any kind of question and put us in any situation but, we have to prove

our worth.

Some questions which were asked to me during my interview were –

Why our company ?

This question always made me nervous as they know the companies which

visited our campus but why did we choose to sit with them. This is generally the

ice breaking question.

In my interview process with Company C I was asked this very same question

the answer which I gave was loved and applauded by all. My answer was “firstly

it is at the stage were it has to grow big in India so if I join a young company

with a rich background then my career pathway can zoom to the top and the

second reason was that the company is based out Spain and I would love to go

to Madrid.”

Tell me something about yourself?

The answer to this question generally gives rises to new questions so, I tend to

highlight the points where I could show my strength. I always included my

academic background with the roles and responsibilities in the college and how

this experience can add value to their company.

The interviewing panel once also asked me to sell a biscuit to him kept infront

of him as a cold sales call.

I tried it, but the interviewer tried to be a tough customer who was not eager to

buy it there I had the opportunity to show my smart and witty side and thus, it

turned out to be a successful sales call.

Some other general questions were about the knowledge we had about the

company, our roles and responsibilities according to us with the company and

our area of interest.

It was 16th May 2011 when Company S came to our campus for recruitments. I

had not heard the name but after going through their website, I realized that

the company had a rich background and they had a big global footprint.


I was called in for the Group Discussion with the North region and the West

region head HR. The topic was “Amitabh Bacchan or Sharukh Khan”. We had a

good discussion on it and I got through that round. I was informed to meet the

director HR and the West region Head the next day at their Pune Branch Office.

I jumped with joy and started to prepare myself for the next big day. I went to

their website again and got down to the details.

It was 17th May 2011, I reached their office at 10:00 AM, feeling a bit nervous

and also having high hopes. I was called in for the interview and I entered with

confidence and smile, sat down their questions started :

Where is Company S based out of ?

“Germany”

You are guessing that ?

“ No sir , you can even make that out from the name of the company. ”

So why logistics your major is marketing why this company ?

“Looking at the market and the competition every industry is focusing on their

core competency, the other process are generally outsourced. As for Company

S, our competency is to make the world one marketplace we support the core

business of other firms by defining the word globalization and making the world

one platform. Transportation and logistics caters to a huge market and the

exposure which is provided is on the global platform.”

Are you ready to be posted anywhere throughout India ?

“Yes Sir, I would prefer Delhi or Pune but anywhere is also fine with me”

I was asked to wait outside for the final results.

I came out feeling nervous but confident about the interview. I sat back and

eagerly waited for the results.

The head HR asked me to come in at the end of all the interviews. I entered the

room once again. The HR said “ShridharJeloka Welcome to Company S,.

Congratulation you will be posted in Delhi.”

I jumped out of the room and finally I did it. The journey of my campus

placement came to an end on 17th May 2011.

I learnt a lot through this, I changed myself according to the situation, I was

more flexible, more confident and the biggest lesson which I learnt was that

“Winners don't quit that is why they always win.”

A proud alumini of Balaji Institute of Telecom & Management and the new

employee of Company S ready for the new journey.

The best which I could ask for this college gave me.

Thank You all

Best of luck to all !!!!!!!


Shruti Maheshwari

Hello,

I am Shruti Maheshwari

TM-09-8163

From Dual B (Marketing & Telecom),BITM

2009-2011

Passed out on 16 april 2011.

My specialization is in Marketing.

I am finally placed in XYZ LTD

Everyone has some different capability & approach of tackling with situations. In

today's era, what one needs is proper direction & focus towards that which we

have got through Bala Sir's rigorous planning & efforts. As we had already

learnt all those things during college time, we are now capable of handling all

the situations with ease.

I was one amongst some 100+ people who sat for XYZ LTD.

Their eligibility criterion was 65% throughout our academic record, due to which

all could not sit for this company. There was no other criterion like “engineers

only”.

During the ppt the company told us clearly about the profile (CRM

Executive)and compensation to be offered (3 lacs). They also committed to

increase the package after few months of joining. POP was Pune.

After the ppt all the eligible students from all the 4 colleges were divided into

the groups for GD. Each group had 12 students.

Round 1: GROUP-DISCUSSION




yourself.




Body language




Body language

My topic was: Innovation : boon or bane

In the GD, I was neither the initiator nor the concluder but I did made 3 to 4


enteries,which is very important to make an impact on judges.

other factors that affects are:

1. make eye contact with everyone in the group.

2. Never interupt others while they are making a point.

3. Do not get over aggressive.

4. Be a good listener.

5. Be precise

6. If possible support your point with data or relevant example.

7. clarity and tone of voice

The results of the GD were declared 5 minutes after the group came out of the

room.

To my delight, my name was shortlisted.

Round 2: Personal Interview.

It started with my self-introduction:

I included:

1. who I am.

2. Where I am from.

3. Family members

4. what they do professionally.

5. myhobbie's and what interests me.

Then panel consentrated on my specialization:

* Why marketing ?

* My answer: Marketing gives a dynamic persona,its very lively and forms an

indispensable part of any organization.As most organizations are customer

centric ,so I feel that marketing happens to be the most important function.

How flexible was I with the job hours and location?

* My answer: I said I was ready to be relocated in any part of the country and

ready to work 24/7.

* What do you know about our company?

* My answer: I was asked to speak on what all I know about this company till

the time they would ask me to stop .That was a good 5 minutes talk about the

company.I had already done a bit of homework on its website and told

everything I knew.

* What did you do in your summer project?

* My answer: I did research for ABC LTD and promotion of their products within

Public sectors and among architects and interior designer's.

We also submiited a report on how to increase sales and the barriers that are

present in the market.


* Why should we hire you?If your friend is equally competent like you then on

what backgrounds should we differentiate you?

* I told them about my qualities like determination,commitment towards my

work,zeal to excel and passion towards growth.I said that if my friend has the

same capabilities to excel then they should look over the need of the student

like if Im studying on loan and I have more responsibilities over me,so I deserve

better chance than other.

* Why our company?

My answer: I said that it's a big brand to work with,which will not only give me

a excellent start but a great future.I look forward to be an integral part of this

esteemed organization.

They asked to do SWOT of ours and fortunately I had done my SWOT during

the classes. They asked many other things like financial integrity, Social integrity

etc.

Anyways, at around 3 PM, I came out of the interview room and behind me the

interviewers. They selected 8 students out of 21. I went to the flat with the

anger because, after a process of more than 20 hrs, they were not able to

announce the final results.

MY SUGGESTION:

Dear student managers, it was a panel of 4judges and 2 of them separately

judged GDs.andPIs.The shortlisted candidates were interchanged during PIs.

For all those who aspire to get good placements please keep your selves

updated on the daily news, do lot of reading on all sorts of news political and

business news specially, know about your-self, strengths, and area of interest

and be sure of it.

Study the company website and also about their competitors it really helps.




yourself.

I would like to say that do not lose your hope and do not get de-motivated.

Have patience and work on your weak areas and be confident of your strengths.

Every stage is a learning stage. Everyone in Balaji Society will be placed

because Bala Sir and Our Placement Team will leave no stones unturned.

Believe in your ability; do not go for companies just based on package. Study

well about the company for which you are applying and please update yourself

of the business environment and current affairs.

Last but not the least, I am very grateful to Bala Sir for encouraging us at each

stage by saying that “PROBLEMS ARE OPPORTUNITIES “.

I wish all my friends all the very best

Regards

Shruti Maheshwari


Shubhangi Jain

I am Shubhangi Jain

Registration No.TM09-8245, BITM,

Specialization :PGDM(TELECOM MANAGEMENT)

Batch :-2009-2011

Currently working for a company in Ahmedabad, as a Business Consultant, SAP.

Previously was working with a Company in Ahmedabad which was the sixth

company in which I was eligible for the placement.

My case was a little different because I had backlog in a subject, so was not

eligible for the companies which were in the campus for the initial one month.

Therefore I had to wait for quite some time to be eligible. But where there is a

will there is a way.

Sri Balaji Society has taught us various things from knowledge, to patience , to

experience, to punctuality and the list is endless. “Its really very difficult to be

patient when people around you are getting placed one by one, and you are not

even eligible for the campus process”.The daily routine of the College which

seems to be a never ending process has really taught us various things, which is

really helping me in my corporate carrier as well. I must say patience will be

really fruitful one day.

Our Campus Placements began in middle of October Month 2010, which were

really brands for our College. And I was only able to attend the process in the

end of November. From there started the waiting game. That one month of

waiting was tough. I was really very excited for the process as it was my first

process to attend. They conducted an aptitude test, there were few quantitative

questions and few reasoning. I was not confident that I would be able to crack

it or not, still I waited for the result. The result was out. Names were being

announced of the selected candidates.

I was not one of them. A disappointing day.

Then after few days another company visited our campus. It was a Mumbai

based company. There was no aptitude test in that, a GD was conducted after

dividing 40 student in groups of 5. I was in the third group. We came to know

from the previous group that they are giving abstract topics. Our group entered

the room, GD started, I was really very quiet for the initial few minutes, I was

just waiting for the right time to start. And yes I got an opportunity to speak,

when our group got deviated from the topic. I interrupted and said we are not

at all discussing what are we supposed to discuss, and then kept my point of

view. And at the end they asked everybody to conclude. This time I was


confident that I will be selected. The result was out and yes I was selected. Out

of 40 5 students were selected in GD. After that we were asked to go to

Mumbai for an Interview. Then went to Mumbai for second round.

The interview was held there, a normal HR interview starting from introduce

yourself. Then few of the situational questions. I answered them confidently.

I have experienced that, be confident while answering questions of the

interviewer, be confident and speak even if you are not sure that you are right

or not. Result was awaited.

Then after a week, came to know from the placement cell that I was shortlisted

for a company which was a Pune based company. And there will be a direct

interview, only 7 students are shortlisted for the interview and we are supposed

to go to the company for interview.

Next day we went to the company, we were interviewed one by one. It was a

total technical interview.

Questions were like:-

Types of topology?

What is a router,switch?

Types of network?

Cloud computing?

I answered those questions, result was out after 5 days and was not selected.

Then after 2 days another company visited our campus, 50-55 students were

shortlisted for the process. After company presentation, a GD round was held ,

around seven groups were made of all students. Sometimes companies only

check your communication skills while the GD they don't look on the content,

the only check communication and fluency. In this GD process this was the

case, they were giving one minute to each person in the group to speak about

the topic.

And after GD they were asking each student whether they are comfortable with

shifts job or not.

If the candidate is comfortable then they proceeded with the next round that

was a personal interview. I was not comfortable with shift job, so I denied. So,

not selected for the next round.

These many rejections gave me strength, to compete for more. And give my

level best. Its not always your fault when you get rejected, sometimes you are


not suitable for the company and sometimes company is not suitable for you. In

a way must wait for the right time to come.

Then an another shortlisting was done. Got a call from the placement cell, that

you are being shortlisted for a Ahmedabad based telecom company. A direct

interview was held which was telephonic. The first round of interview was a

complete technical interview.

Questions were like:-

What do you know about the company?

What is OSS/BSS

What is AAA?

What is eTOM?

Difference between OSS and BSS?

Difference between sales and marketing?

The interview went for around 40 minutes.

After few days result was out and was not selected.

Then Finally “D DAY” arrived. It was a Ahmedabad based company,

Headquartered Ahmedabad, the company had various verticals ; hardware,

software, system integration, telecom. After so many rejections I had minimum

expectations. Though I went for the interview, it was a video conferencing. 7

students were shortlisted for the interview. Before interview we were asked to

mention location where one would wish to join. There were various locations all

across Gujarat.

I opted for Ahmedabad.

After four candidates, it was my turn. The interviewers were the AVP of the

company as well as the HR head of the company. The company was the first

company in India to provide Video Telephony Solution. Therefore, questions

were all related to that.

Questions were like:--

What do you understand by VOIP?

What is video streaming?

What is SIP?

What are FXO ports?

What do you know about the company?

Why Ahmedabad is your only choice?

Future of Video Telephony in India?

What is 3G?


Protocols used in 3G?

About the company project? Detailed description was asked.

The interview lasted for around 30-35 minutes. It was a complete technical

interview. It all went right. I answered almost all questions confidently.

After 7 days got a call from the placement cell to congratulate me for the

selection.

Two of us were finally selected.

We usually think of getting placed in a big company but the fact is if we really

want to grow we should start from a small or medium size company. Learning

and growth opportunities lie in small or mid size companies too.

POINTS TO BE NOTED –

1) During Company Presentation there are various facts and figures about the

company. Note them down, they are being asked sometimes just to check how

serious you are.

2) While aptitude test, attempt the section first in which you are confident.

3) In GD's speaking more does not always work. Content should be impressive.

4) For telecom managers, please brush up all your technical concepts, even

small concepts helps a lot sometimes.

5) For HR rounds pre prepare FAQ's like introduce yourself, Achievements, Why

should we hire you sort of questions.

6) Answer every question confidently , even if you are doubtful that you are

right or wrong.

Never disappoint yourself if others get placed and you does not. Just wait for

the right time to come.

All the best for all my juniors for their placements!!!

Thanks & Regards

Shubhangi Jain


Siddhartha Porwal

"The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward

others as well as ourselves."

MY Campus Placement Experience

Hello Everyone,

I am Siddhartha Porwal

Roll Number. TM 09 8164,

Class of Telecom & Marketing,

Division-B,

from BITM

Academic year 2009-11,

passed out on 25th April,2011.

My specialization is in Telecom & Marketing.

First of all, I would like to appreciate the commendable efforts of our college

and our peers in Placement Cell who worked hard and made our campus

placement season a huge success. I am very Glad to write here that over 200

companies visited our campus during our placement season and it was a treat

to see your friends getting placed one after another, not to mention the nice

startup packages they got.

The companies follow different processes to conduct their placement process.

The companies which I sat for were of IT, FMCG, Retail, Construction, Finance &

Market Research domains.

I did not get chance to sit for Company B which was the first company of our

college, because I could not meet the eligibility criteria. They required 70%

marks throughout your academic career which I had at every stage except for

my PGDM. So, its advisable to maintain 70% benchmark score at all times or

else you also might miss a chance like me. However I had no regrets as I had

faith in myself. Then I sat for few companies but I was very choosy. I didn't

want to go for sales as I wanted a Business Analyst or Research profile.

There were initially many companies which started pitching in and I chose to sit

for few of them. First company for which I sat was Company A. I had prepared

well for it but during the CV screening process, we came to know that the

Company was not willing to take Computer Engineers. That came as more of a

shock to me because I really wanted to get into this company and I had

prepared for it very hard. But I did not get disappointed. Then I did not sit for

the coming few companies because they were not meeting my aspirations of


career as well as pay package. After few more companies, one more

Consultancy company came for which I appeared. The initial process consisted

of an aptitude test which I cleared and after that we came to know that

company was also willing to take Group discussion and a Business Plan round

along with the Interview. It came as much of a surprise to me because I was

not mentally prepared for it. But however it was a do or die situation for me and

I had to perform well to get through. I performed well in all the rounds but one

wound which was the Business Plan round for which I had not prepared earlier.

Our GD coordinator gave us a Topic for which we had to make a Business Plan.

Then everyone had to present it. One out of all the plans was selected and then

we had a group discussion on whether the selected plan was ok to go or it

needed modifications. After all the rounds, we were eagerly waiting for the

results, but unfortunately the result was not so pleasing for me. Out of the

entire lot, only one student was selected and the rest of us returned back in

vain.

That was the frustrating of all when I had no clue as to what should I do. This

is the time my friends played a very important role and they didn't let me loose

me patience.

I sat for almost 21 companies they were from different domains. From these

companies processes I learned a lot and in the end I was lucky enough to have

the job with the profile which I always wanted.

For my Company , process started with CV selection and then Online test which

was a elimination round.

Only 2 of us were able to crack this round.

Then we were called by company in their Head Office-Pune, where other

candidates from different colleges were called.

Then the process started with 6 written tests- each for

1. Numerical ability,

2. Analytics,

3. Digital marketing knowledge,

4. Creativity,

5. Client servicing,

6. Marketing.

I got through all the written rounds.

Each written test was for half an hour which was followed by GD.

I got through GD and then in Interview in questions were like:

1) About your Internship

2) Why this profile

3) What would you do if you don't get meeting scheduled


4) Why Digital Marketing?

5) Why Start-up?

6) Scope of Digital Marketing in India.

Then there was the HR interview in which again they asked me about

1) Started the interview about yourself& family background.

2) Strength and weakness & how your strength helps you in achieving your

goals and how does knowing your weakness helps you.

3) Whether I would be comfortable working with startup – Lack of Resources,

more commitment & more work.

4) When I would get settle down.

5) Asked a lot of questions regarding the client servicing, like how would you

handle a situation where “n” number of clients are demanding different outputs

at the same time.

6) Asked about how do I see myself after 5 years down the same work line and

do I see any future with the startup companies.

ANALYTICAL INTERVIEW

1) I was given a certain situation where in my feedback was asked regarding

how would Interact and handle the situation.

2) They asked me few puzzles to check my analytical abilities and how I

approach my work.

3) The questions were based on check my logical abilities, which I passed with

flying colors.

4) They also gave me a business case which I had to solve in 15 mins and had

to make the business model for the same.

General questions.

Sorry, I don't remember much of the questions now.

Immediately after my last round was over, they said they will declare the result

after two days.

And after two days I got a call from PAT office that my name is there

All I would suggest is have faith on yourselves (never lose it), be clear about

your competencies and areas of improvement, and never get frustrated,

because one thing is for sure, NOBODY LEAVES THIS CAMPUS WITHOUT A JOB

IN HIS HAND.

Best Wishes & Regards

Siddhartha Porwal

BITM (2009-11 batch)

TM09-8164


Sirat Raza

Name-Sirat Raza

Rroll no 09-11-8165

Dual(B),BITM

“You could have sat for placements. Why you were waiting for me?” The

question put me into huge amusement. This was Bala Sir's innocent and

fatherly reaction when I went to him for signature of my one day leave

application because of which I was not allowed to sit for company placement

processes for almost a month. I couldn't say anything but a smile come to my

face while coming out of his office.

So, basically, my placement got started one months late as I was having 89.99

percent attendance. I was not having one day attendance because I had taken

leave as one of my friend was ill and I as per rule I was to get the attendance

to for taking care of her .I became eligible and the big marathon got started. I

was very tensed as many big companies went in that one month.

This phase of comes in every student's life as great experience, tensions,

excitement .We all go through this till the time we are placed But my story was

little different. But all this comes as a great learning and is very important to go

for the right choice, have patience

and go for the one which you desire. It's better to be unemployed than going

for a wrong choice

because if you don't love the work which you do then you cannot grow and

would ultimately leave

yourself in the road where you cannot turn back and have to continue doing the

same work which

you don't enjoy. I sat for few selected companies and went till last round but

unfortunately not got through. This was very frustrating. As surroundings were

getting sinking into our veins, pressure to get into your dream job was setting

high. Soaring in the edge of destiny was ultimate feeling to live. As days were

passing the anxiety and tension was increasing. Reading more and more

newspaper, going through others placed one's experience information and

accordingly preparing ourselves for the same and ultimately not knowing what

exactly an organization wants was obnoxious.

Beginning with the big brands, I sat for only selective fews. I was knowing

where I wanted to go and what I want from this campus placement. As said by

our one of the professor, your beginning should be with renowned BRAND and

money will automatically come to you after few years of experience. I was

following the same suite. I sat for those organizations (which was few left by

this time) which has good brand name in the market.

I sat for this Mumbai based Shipping and logistic company as I wanted to

explore this industry coz my Engineering degree was associated with this field


only. I cleared GD and personnel round of interview happened. The personnel

round of interview made very tensed. I could be clearly seen nervous and my

anxiety level went high.

INTERVIEW DETAILS:

1.Tell me something about yourself?

2.Reasons for shifting my education stream completely ? For more Information,

I am an Aeronautical Engineer and was doing PGDM in Marketing which was

completely different from each other. This was very obvious question that

people ask me and I had to answer them with full details. It is the toughest

question that still haunts me . Reason of telling this, is there are many students

who do PG as and when asked my parents or due to industry trend. For them it

is very necessary to answer these type of question according to current wit.

3.My short term goal?

4. Where I see myself 5 years down the line? Please do not say you can climb

over Mount Everest. Give reasonable answer.

5.If I have knowledge of my engineering degree.? I said yes absolutely.

He asked me if I would be comfortable working in their engineering department

as an Engineer and if I would, there would not be any use of my Marketing

degree. Since I was dreaming of going to that industry when I joined the

engineering degree , I was really nervous to answer him anything. I was really

puzzled. He understood my situation and asked me to consult my friends for

this thought. I consulted my friends who are working and those who are from

that industry. I consulted my family members too. They all give me very vague

responses. I was more confused. I went to the interviewer and Ultimately, I

requested to find any position which will utilize my engineering as well as PG

degree together. He said no and hence I had to loss this opportunity.

Still I regret for that decision. But After that I sat for organizations more often. I

started my preparations in more vigorously. Worked to correct my weaknesses

which was hampering me. More important I brushed more sharply to my

strengths coz that will ultimately save me at the end.Then, there was one

company in which I got through. The selection process involved with formal

screening of CV, group discussions and then personnel interview. I cleared all

the round. And I was asked to go to Chennai to fulfill other related formalities.

Everything was set and done for the D-Day. The tickets were produced by one

of the colleague of mine who was also to go with me. But, this time was God

cheated my patience. I could not board the train as there was some mis-

handling of the train ticket issues because of which I could not get the train

ticket . So the opportunity went just in front of me. This was against the rule-

book so I was barred for almost two months to sit for any further placement.

Most of the people thought I was placed that time. I took it as gift. May be that

After almost one and half months, I again was in the race. By this time the

frequency of companies visiting the campus was drying and our frustration level


was on the top. One fine day, we went to Mumbai for a reputed media

organization. The interview went more than good. After two rounds of

interviews, I was sitting in front of the CEO for the final round. My heart was

pounding like anything. That was first time I was so afraid of meeting with

anyone in my life. The CEO was sitting in front of me. He made me comfortable

by asking general questions regarding my family and friends. I answered him

politely. Then he geared up to next level of his grinding processes. He asked

why our organization? I replied then he asked about the questions which one

can answer if he/she is reading newspaper daily.

He asked:

My long term goal

My biggest enemy and why?(un-usual question)

India's telecom current status?

Telecom future?

3G and its future?

Role of telecom in rural India?

Role of rural India in shaping telecom future?

Since I am having great inclination towards all these topics and used to read

newspaper daily(all thanks to college), I satisfactorily answered all his

questions. He was quite impressed.

The interview ended in half an hour.

After few days result of this interview came and I was among those lucky

people who were in the list. Me and my friends were more than happy.

But , there was something else that was stored for me. Few days later, I was

told that my position was rejected. I was unable to understand the reason

behind it or may be I was knowing() . I tried my best to know what was

happening but in vain. By this time, my patience level gone dried and empty

handed, I moved to different city to begin my career afresh.

It was tough getting job outside the campus. Trust me for this. After few weeks

of struggle, I got into a small firm and started my hard work. I kept looking for

better opportunities by this time. I leant a lot working in a small firm as I was

having flexibility to work with different departments.

Right from the day of joining in 10th June, It was a learning experience all

together being in SBS. When entered into this gate, somewhere down the line,

life changed drastically. Learn a lot. It was hard to believe but true that people

with great powers has all right to destroy anyone's life for their ego and self-

satisfaction. This really is absurd and sad to believe from temple of education

where morning starts with Vedic chants.

Right now I am in a better position .Working even harder to shape up my

career. I am working with an organization who has presence worldwide. It is

one associated with one of the fortune 50 company of the world. Finally I got

the Brand and reason to smile. I have also started my own firm and working


day in and day out to make this venture successful in a city like Mumbai. Insa-

Allah things are shaping great and one day , I would love to go back to college

for happy reasons. Life is beyond the days of placements.

Moral of the story:

Knowledge pays. Learn Excel. It only saved my career.

Nobody can stop u if u r equipped with knowledge.

Have knowledge of your domain

Be patience

LEARN ADULATIONS and politics. It helps u everywhere. I paid heavily coz I

hadn't it in me.

Thanks.

Hi,

I am Smita Patra

Roll No-TM09-8052

BITM 2009-2011 batch

Class-Dual A

Specialization- Marketing & Finance.

MY CAMPUS PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE:

Campus recruitment is a bag of mixed experiences. The D-day starts with pre-

placement talk by the company executives - company's services, market

presence, growth component and work culture, it covers them all. This is

followed by a brief explanation of the skill sets required for employment and the

procedure the company will follow for the ensuing recruitment. The actual

recruitment procedure starts with an aptitude test comprising of questions

testing the candidate's knowledge on logical reasoning, quantitative applications

and verbal ability. As the course of aptitude test begins , frantic attempts to

finish the maximum problems and make a few last minute guesses are made.

Most of the aptitude test have 3 sections in general viz- verbal, non-verbal &

quantitative section.. About written test I can say preparation matters but the

main thing is speed and the time management. For group discussions

Groups of 8-10 candidates are formed into a leaderless group, and are given a

specific situation to analyze and discuss within a given time limit.

The group may be given a case study and asked to come out with a solution

for a problem.

Smita Patra


The group may be given a topic and asked to discuss on the same. Make sure

your voice is audible and you have good knowledge base on the topic. For

interviews the most important tip would be to be confident about yourself &

deliver the best you have on that day. As the time for the announcement of

results nears, waves of students start inundating the auditorium once again and

the results are announced. Then come the necessary instructions for the next

day's process of interviews. Outside the auditorium the emotions are mixed and

the vertical split in the crowd is there for all to see. A very interesting part of

this preparation is students gearing up to look their best. There are constant

opinions on what's looking good and what is not as students try out their formal

attire for the D-Day. The classic scene of everybody getting ready for the day,

literally transforms the hostel into a fashion show's backstage. After exchanging

“Best of Lucks” and lapping up last minute tips from equally anxious parents,

the herd heads for the auditorium looking like polished young executives. As the

interview results are announced there are some confident and some nervous

and shaky exits from the interview room. Following the formal announcement

the selected set of future employees are welcomed by the company. A set of

students have secured their future and another set have assessed their

mistakes. The latter will go on and apply for the next company, their efforts

being marked by greater dedication, confidence and experience, this is how our

college organizes campus placement year after year.

Coming to my campus experience, I still remember the 1st company came in

September end, and our dean announced the company arrival all of a sudden 2

days ahead. There was huge anxiety among students after hearing the

company arrival in our auditorium. I was one amongst the several people who

sat for the company placements. Unlike other students I tried my luck outside

college campus as well, this is when I got placed in company- A. I am extremely

delighted to share my experience with aspiring student managers and sincerely

thank our college PAT team who has taken responsibility to sincerely place each

individual of our college in good company. I was placed in mid of October 2010,

but due to delay in joining from the company side, was trying out my luck in

college campus as well. In total I sat for more than 30 company from college

campus. All these experiences gave me the enough confidence to get placed in

company- A. The processes….aptitude test, GD, PI conducted by our college

were really helpful to get placed in company- A. Now coming to selection

process….Eligibility criteria: 60%in graduation with no backlogs , No break in

academics from more than 2 year. Interview round: First I had a telephonic

round of interview which went very well. Results were announced within a

week, was really happy to hear my name. I entered my interview room greeted

my interviewee with a smile and was asked 2 have a seat. I Had 4 rounds of

rigorous HR Interviews…with some common questions…


1. Introduce yourself?, Myself: (about myself, my parents, my academics

record, hobbies).

2. Strengths & weakness? Myself: Explained

3. Academic projects?, Myself: Explained Make sure you answer this because

this is make or break question, be confident about knowledge of your project

well.

4. Why you want to join our company?, Myself: Answered.

5. Marketing models? & other core marketing subjects related questions?

Myself: Explained. Apart from above questions I was asked few general

questions like my interests and hobbies, followed by my academic background

and how has been my journey till now.

6. Will you be able to relocate to any place if you get selected? Myself: Yes

7. What salary are you expecting? Myself: As per company norms.

I was feeling nervous, but as I cleared 2-3 rounds was confident that will get

through this company. After half an hour the HR come out with final short listing

and after listening my name in the list I was delighted, I can't express my joy in

words. I was offered a package of 4 lacs per annum , location my hometown-

Bhubaneswar, with a profile of Market Research Analyst. I am happy to be a

part of such a prestigious company. If you believe in yourself and have faith,

you too can be part of good company. In the end I would like to give a piece of

advice to all –Know your areas of strength and have confidence in yourself.

Have patience, don't run behind packages and have a thorough research before

applying to any company because at the end of day you must justify the profile

given to you by the company.

Here's wishing ALL THE BEST to future aspirants……….

Thank You.

SMITA PATRA


Sneha Kumari

Name-Sneha Kumari

Roll No: TM-09-8177,

Specialization -Telecom &IT( PGDM-D)

College: BITM

BATCH: 2009-11

Sharing my placement experience-

Placements are the ultimate aim of each and every student doing MBA but I

think, I got to learn more than what I expected before I got placed and joined

ABC company, all thanks to Bala Sir to build such a great platform for us.

Degree is something which can be obtained by either fair means or unfair

means but Experience cannot be borrowed. When I landed first time in the

campus on 9th June 2009,I was really thrilled ,watching the buzz of new bunch

of students all around .But then gradually ,things started taking shape.

Workshops, Mahabharata session, I believe all those sessions count on

somewhere in our lives and I am sure all of us will never forget those few

months of grilling without holidays. Going through such grilling sessions now

helps me to keep myself intact & focused on work required in corporate.

Now, let me talk about my placement experience .I got placed in Feb.Nothing

comes easy in life and this definitely didn't come easy to me. I had to struggle

to reach Feb 2012,wheni got placed.

As the day started approaching for the very first company to land in SBS

campus, everyone was ready to show up and so was I. But I was equally scared

and excited since it was the first company and first experience for most of

us.But I couldn't sit for the 1st company as it Comp Enggwhere not allowed.

When I sat for A company ,I was rejected in GD only .The topic was very

general like India and China but as soon as the topic was opened to the

students ,everyone started fighting for a chance to speak. It was a nice

experience with mixed emotions ,lot of self analysis I was able to do for myself.

At the same time ,got to learn a lot about how to approach in GD. Moreover,

The experience I gained from it gave me so many lessons which helped me for

my future career perspective as well. During the placement season I got to

know too many things about The Corporate world. I got to know about my

knowledge, practical approach towards corporate world. Initially the college

made me ready for the corporate world and afterwards also provided me with a


platform by calling so much companies to our campus. And now I am

implementing all the ethics and learning I gained from the college in my work.

The most challenging job in front of me was to crack GD's. The topics were

equally related to politics ,general topics, India Vs China ,topics related to

education in india,technical topics,2G Scam, telecom industry driven topics.

Thanks to Bala Sir's continuous push to read more newspapers and discuss the

same because of which I was able to share my knowledge in GD's in other

company's processes. So I started preparing for GD and not to leave any stone

unturned. Then gradually understood the importance of Group Discussion with

experience. I got to know that to get through any GD, the most important part

is to speak relevant and thoughtful. Whatever you say must add new subject to

the GD. Througth this understanding,I was able to crack GD's in a few

companies but unfortunately I was not able to go till the last round of PI. It is

very useful for every round of placement to know your weakness and to

overcome them .And definately, I was getting to learn a lot from my failures.

Going through all the company processes was also a learning period and gave

all of us a lifetime experience. We got to learn about too many companies and

their business. It increased our level of knowledge and took it to a different

level.It was also the time to learn from defeats and to take the rejections in a

positive sense

This is the placement seasons friends and by the blessings of Balaji I was

placed and I wish to share my placement experience with you all. It was really a

good feeling to be placed after facing a number of GD, PI's and all. All you need

is to be believe in your-self and have patience.

The company in which I was Placed had the most 2 common processes:

1. GD

2. PI

GD topics were Telecom Driven-

Utility of VAS in next 5 Years.

Telecom network reaching village and farmers committing suicide.

Our GD Topic was – HOW TO ENCOURAGE FARMERS TO UTILISE THE VAS

BENEFITS, IN THEIR day TO DAY Life.

My answer to this was there are many ways by which we can make aware of

the VAS Utilities.


Firstly, we can have regional/rural heads like SHAKTI-AMMA, who are well

trained with VAS Utilities and applications so that they can demonstrate and

educate farmers, so that if there's any difficulty then the farmers have a person

to easily approach.

Secondly, pamphlet and banners can be made available; stating certain packs

such as Banking Services, Railway ticket enquiry, Doctor Helpline, News,

Devotional etc in the district Banks, Zila Schools, Hospitals, and Local Mandietc

where the farmers frequently and usually go.

Friends these were some of the points stated by me.

After I got through the GD, PI was the next.

There were few questions that I noticed were generally common for others and

me, such as-

Tell me about yourself-This should be a bit brief, as in 3 sentences summing up

clearly your name, home-town, educational bg, hobby(if you have definite

things to say eg. state level badminton champion).

Your positive and negative sides-Well friends you need to be smart while

answering this, as you need to portray your negative aspect in a very positive

manner.

The 2 months summer Training-what did you learned from it, how did you

applied your MBA skill in your summer internship?

Your place of preference (POP).

These were some of the few questions that were asked in the PI.

The panel decided to declare the result after taking all the PI's of all the 7

students who cleared the GD.And finally the results were declared and 3 of us,

including me were selected.

Offer letter was offered to us in the month of April, 1 month prior joining.

I wish you good luck for your placements and a very good career growth.

Warm Regards,

SnehaKumari


Sneha Sharma

I am Sneha Sharma

Registration Number. TM 09 8241,

Class of Telecom,

Division-C,

from BITM



My specialization is in TELECOM & IT.

When I joined MBA like everyone my dream was also to get placed in a good

company with a good package. Though I sacrificed a bit with the package but I

am placed with a top MNC of my field i.e. Finance. I am placed in Company A

I am finally placed in COMPANY-3, which was a Telecom multinational as a

Customer Relationship Management Executive.

I am sharing my campus experience here. So far i had a great experience

during placements as it really helped me to gain knowledge and regularly

update myself.

I have always been good in academics and scored very good percentage till 3rd

semester and i was really worried about my placement.

Company Process:

My company process had the following components

It was a 3 step process:

1. CV Shortlisting.

2. Group Discussion.

3. Personal Interview

Aptitude test followed by GD then a PI by HR followed by final interview with

the head of the company.

1. CV Shortlisting:

It was done on the basis of college placement criteria.

2. Group Discussion:

For GD I read many the current topics related to business world, politics (like 3G

scam, Adarsh Scam, CWG scam, Egypt revolution etc. Apart from these topics

the general topics of Telecom were also need to be brushed up thoroughly.

1. Sound knowledge of the given topics

2. Good communication skills

3. Very good convincing power

4. Ability to put your opinion on the topics


5. What are the opinions of other people in the group

6. Summary of the discussion in precise form

A through preparation for aptitude test is also very important.

3. Personal Interview:

For interviews i made notes on Technical Knowledge as well. A thorough

knowledge of all current telecom trends and Technical Knowledge is very

essential because interviewer can ask any technical question on Telecom

business as well as technicality behind it.

some of the times situational based question are also asked, so until one is not

thorough with basic, these situational based questions cannot be answered. I

am sharing few interview questions.

General questions:

1.Tell me about yourself your family

2.Your strengths and weakness

3.Your short term and long term goals

4.Why MBA ,why MBA in TELECOM

5. Who is your role model

6. Why did u choose this college

7. What do you know about our company

8. What is your preferred place of posting

9. What are your expectations in terms of compensation

10.Do you want to ask any thing to us or about our company

3. Personal Interview:

My interview was conducted by Head, GCSC and HR personnel.

Interview Q&A:

1. The first thing which they noticed was my resume and the very first

compliment I received during my PI was that it has many things to be talked

about, they interviewed on my hobbies & interests and they appreciated my

versatility.

2. What is CRM and if you have to describe a layman, how you will make one

understand the way this works?

3. How much important is the role of service management for revenue

generation?

4. How much comfortable you'll be to work on an operation's floor with certain

specific targets?

5. Where you see yourself If you work with our company for more than 5 years?

6. Why you are going for an operation domain when you belong to core

marketing field?

7. What are you perspective about our company as a telecom major?

8. What is the difference between service assurance and service management?

9. What is the one basic difference between Leader and Manager?


Telecom topics:

Current telecom trends.

future telecom growth.

New innovations and technologies.

Technical knowledge as well as business perspectives.etc.

Few suggestions:

I would like to give you all, which I learnt from my experience

1) Everyone will tell you to read newspaper, don't be a fool, don't read

everything, read only what you are supposed to read, you are interested in.

However, read that stuff thoroughly.

2) Develop interest on a particular sector or domain. Increase your knowledge

on that.

3) Know yourself well, there is no one who know you better than yourself. If

you don't want to go for a sales job stick to it. Do not choose a wrong career

option under pressure.

4) Prepare well for your interview questions and for the company you are

applying for.

5) Earn a job. Don't just clear the interview.

Easy Tips:

It is up to you how you present yourself and how you communicate. Act

professionally, and don't be very sophisticated but be modest at the same time!

Remember always to have direct eye contact. Usually they will face you while

talking but as for me my interviewer was busy looking at my resume but still

talk to him and answers, remember do not start or stop until you are asked to.

Remember that before coming for the interview you must sit and think about

yourself and prepare well for this question to avoid any pause or overhead

thinking! And remember he asked about you, so must be in track to talk only

about you. You can also mention your strengths and weakness but see that you

tell your weakness optimistically. The HR round is to see your communication

skills, doesn't matter how your accent is or pronunciations as far u wear a smile

and be presentable

A through knowledge of all major acts is very important because most of the

time interviewer grill you on that only.

Finally I got placed in the company of my preferred sector and and my

preferred location. Thank you Bala Sir, Vignesh sir all telecom faculties and all

the professors.

I will never forget this place and specially the tough schedule of college because

it is really helpful in corporate world.

God Bless You All. Best of Luck!!


Snigdha Shukla

I am Snigdha Shukla

(TM-09-8247).


Class of Telecom

My name is SnigdhaShukla (TM-09-8247). I got placed in AAA Systems Inc. Now

in XXX BBB.

Before describing about my placement in AAA, I would like to share few more

instances that happened to me.

Our 2 years with SBS was and will always be one of the most enjoying and

satisfying period, where I got to learn many new things, and also got some

extremely helpful and caring friends with the likes of TejeshVazarkar, Vijay

Raghav, Priya Sharma ,ArshadQadri, Ujjwal Narayan and almost the whole of

PGDM C of BITM. We had quarrels amongst us (among my friends) during

college days. I always thought of to get rid of college life and start the so called

'corporate life' and live happily. But I was wrong. Even at college if we had

quarrels we solved them in few hours or at max few days but in corporate there

is no such thing. Corporate life teaches you in its ways. You start to realize that

the friends whom you had fought with are still your friends but not in corporate

life. I got suspended twice once in 1st Semester and again in 3rd Sem; for 7

days each; It was the time when I got a lot of support from all my classmates ,

saying DON'T WORRY.

15 Jan 2012 made me realize that the life of College is the best of all times. The

friends who had fights at times were crying by meeting each other. Convocation

brought me more close to my friends than I was before.

Placement week/ or better the placement period is the toughest as far as

getting support from friends are concerned. Everybody is busy in themselves

trying to get the best package , trying to learn new things that only HE/SHE

should know . It makes many people tough and at the same time many gets

hurt when they see themselves not getting shortlisted.

Firstly I didn't apply to all companies. Wow!! You must be saying how dumb

that is. But we had three things in our mind which were – Brand of company,

Work Profile and most importantly salary which we looked upon before applying

any company. I never get an icon company which could give me these three

things. DDD was not giving good work but brand and salary were good, XXX the

same situation, qwe very good company but not from telecom background and

blah blahblah… we set our standard for company & work to such an extent that

we didn't want to apply to any other companies.


I was almost left all alone and had to shift in a PG but fought hard to get into

an IT company. I was in no mood to get a sales profile and so I kept on

rejecting all the offers or companies that came my way with such profiles. I

knew 1 day a company will come and take me which is having a good profile..

The most important think that mattered for me was a good profile. Sales and

Marketing was not at all acceptable and so although many people

/friends/faculties said that no other so called BIIG company is left and sit for

sales profile, I kept saying to myself .. “NO I'll make my own future.”

I don't blame anybody for me not getting selected in a very good company but I

can say one thing that those two suspensions had a great impact on my life

/placements as my overall percentage reduced by 5 % twice in the two

semesters. I knew that others who are getting a chance to give GD/PI for BIG

companies like Infosys or TATA are same as me and has the same knowledge.

But it was just that I was not given enough opportunities and which actually did

no good to me ..

AAA was a one Video Conference interview round where they asked many

questions Both HR as well as Technical. There wasn't any GD conducted.

Video Conference Interview

When I entered I thought even I can see them (the interviewers), so that I can

understand If they are convinced by my answers or not, but found that only

they can see me. They asked a lot of questions from the Telecom Field.

I can tell you one thing, Giving more and more interviews make you more

confident and technically more sound. Also I was staying with a girl from

Andhra who didn't knew Hindi, so somehow my English also got better.

I was very depressed and had very little hopes for this copany also but at the

same time I wanted to be confident; strong and determined.

They started with normal HR questions such as :

Tell me about youself

About my family

My hobbies

My educational background

Any certifications (I said I am ITIL certified with a hope that I would impress

them , but the reactions made me understand that ITIL is new to them)

After asking many normal questions they switched gears and started asking

some serious Technical questions.


The technical questions were mainly from the Telecom fields;

OSS

BSS

BTS

Revenue Assurance

Telecom Billing

They also asked few networking questions just to check if I was having a sound

knowledge of networking environment

Router/ BRouter/Switches; He asked few networking questions Difference

between them.

Cloud Computing

It was the Program Manager Mohit Jain taking the interview. He had a good

knowledge of Telecom. So he asked questions on varied subjects.

He liked my attitude of sticking on my point even after they tried me to change

the answer. I was very satisfied after giving the interview.

Finally I got selected in AAA Systems.

BITM is a place where I got many happiness in terms of my friends who cared

for me , who understood me. At the same time this BITM at times made me cry.

When everyone got shortlisted and I was all alone not getting selected , It was

only me who knew and who can understand how I felt.

Today I am associated with XXX BBB . My dream of getting into an IT company

with a Project Management Profile has finally been achieved. Still there are

many goals yet to be achieved.

I would like to thank Priya, My roomie, who always cared for me, we did interns

together whenb there was nobody to help me get onel; Tejesh, with whom I

always fought, but that was just because he was special to me. I thank Anna

(Vijay), for providing me the support all the time (even till the last minute I was

in Maharashtra). Arshad who has always been very caring and supportive. And

last but not the Least Ujjwal who was also equally caring. A real special gift

which BITM gave me. All My 5 friends….

Thanks BITM. Thanks Bala Sir for giving me an opportunity to speak, to say

something which I never told to anybody…

I wish Sri Balaji Society all the best and also all my friends a great career ahead.


Somya Kalra

I am Somya Kalra Student Of Bitm Telecom

Batch 2009-11;TM-09-8167;

Finally Placed IN COMPANY C and appeared for 3 processes

A sincere thank to BITM specially BALA sir for shaping us and grooming us to

corporate citizens. The saying “problems are opportunities “has been a constant

source of strength during various phases in my two year journey of BITM and

these words still keep me going during difficult times.

All well that ends well –came true for me as far as campus placements in BITM

are considered. Being placed in dream company ,for the sought after role, with

a reasonably decent package was difficult for me to believe at first; but yes

efforts put for two years rather past 20 years –were rewarded well

Going back to the days of October 2010 - the air used to be filled with names of

companies , roles offered, opportunities ahead, along with the Job descriptions,

eligibility criteria to ; when placements used to be the only discussions be in

lunch ,dinner ,snacks or sometimes even during the lectures. It was tough time

to figure out what do I really want ...A good brand to be proud to be associated

with or a handsome package or king of roles and responsibilities..Really

speaking the serious preparation for the campus interview brings out so much

in oneself that one had not bothered for so many years in life.

I can recollect the days when we used to be assembled in audi for registration

of companies;and BITM telecom student being niche used to be some time

upset and walk out of the audi thinking what do we really have in store of us.

Do we have a opportunities as good as marketing guys?? But thanks to our PAT

members, directors and others who worked day night to bring the Industry

leading brands all in queue at our campus during the first week of our campus

placements.

Within The first 10 days of placements most of us were being called(though

after satisfying company and college eligibility criteria) for various company

processes...and now the difficulty was to select which company to appear for-

as there were so many in hand by this time..

The first company that visited the campus was world reknowned MNC ..and we

would have never expected this company to visit ou campus..unfortunately i

was not shortlisted .Though my academic records and all college criteria were

satisfied –it was beyond my understanding what went wrong and how is the

shortlisting being done..after much investigation I realised that i slightly miss as

I had secured B grade for personality assessment however only those who

secure A and A+ were shortlisted. It was really sad and i was little upset as I


felt that i may not be a part of other such good companies as well. Within no

time i decided nothing much could be changed for grade B and i started

preparing for interviews harder.

Visiting library , going through new arrivals, being in touch with current affairs

on magazines both social and technical; practising aptitude, GD and PI was on

target till I secure a job. One thing that really helped me on the D- Day was

maintaining the register where I kept writing small important notes regarding

telcom concepts being taught in class; intresting facts and figures from

magazines and newspaper, latest info from telcom sites and much more.well

then this register became a source of confidence ..i felt i have all info at my

hand, before my eyes..:).

While i was just engrossed in this preparation ;i was shortlisted for an IT

major;the company was supposed to visit the campus a day after the

announcement. The process was to be conducted for all the four colleges of

SBS alongwith other friend colleges of Pune as requested by company.

The process began early morning –first round was written aptitude test;which

was a easy one-anyone without much preparation cud have cracked that. This

was an elimination round.

It was followed by GD where group of 12 student mixed from all B-schools were

present. Our topic was merger and Acquisition. it was a calm group and

everyone was given a fair chance to speak.i made two three valid points and

used GD techniques to crack it. I qualified this as well.

Then we were asked to fill forms based on all academic and extra curricular

details .

Next was the PI.my PI was really smooth .it was simple HR round-introducing

yourself, carrer objevtives.how would you behave if not given a telecom role;

strengths and weakeness etc.i managed well and results were awaited .

My preparation for the other pipelined companies continues.

I appeared for another Indian IT major .i was happy to be shortlisted but could

not manage to qualify the online aptitude test this time. this test was really

difficult and out of more than 50 students who appeared only 5 students could

clear the test.

Next day was scheduled for a VAS leader for the role I was not much interested

..though i was not looking forward eagerly at this opportunity yet i appeared

with the mindset i will do my best and learn something.the first round was

meant to be a telephonic round.though i waited for whole day long my turn for


interview did not came and process was closed for the day with the

announcement that we will be informed whenever the interviews will be

arranged next time...and today i could see that while it all happened..the best

was yet to happen

Next day was the the D day of my life and company C, one of the reputed, well

known It major was scheduled to visit the campus early morning . I was so

excited to be a part of this process.

The day began with filling of interview forms and the all set and done the

interview panel arrived the campus..it was a big panel of 12 members..all from

core telecom domain.the first thing on agenda was the Pre Placement talk. The

panel introduced themselves and the company followed by instructions for us

for the day and sequence of events.

Within 15 minutes of end of pre placement talk..the interviews began and we

awaited for our turn of interview ..i must mention this few hours of my life will

always remain fresh in my life forever. as the interviews were being conducted

our friends shared the experience of interviews and those whose interviews

were still awaited kept on brushing all the telecom basic concepts,latest

technologies and all the management concepts ,marketing models etc.

Just after the candidates finished their technical round, they were being

recommended for HR +Business round if the technical panel considers the

candidates to be technically fit. the best part of the process was that if the HR

was happy with the interaction he used to confirm the candidate that he or she

is now a part of Company C.

So while i was waiting for my turn of interview i had already revised two times

all the technical concepts and was feeling pretty confident .7 of our friends had

already been confirmed were welcomed to the company C.

My name was called out for the technical round.i reached the room where the

interview was being conductedmy heart was beating faster i tookdeep breath

..allowed myself to calm and enterd the room with a smile on my face.i greeted

the panel (2 gentlemen ).they asked me to sit ..and all of us realised there was

no chair...i thought its a stress interview..i told myself even if its stress interview

ill manage..but the panel members asked me to pull a chair that was lying far

off..some peon did that for me.

The interview began

Panel members: introduce yourself briefly

Me:a general introduction with my academic background ,achievements, areas

of intrest ,special skills,hobbies etc.


Panel:what kind of responsibilities do you expect in the role offered

Me:i picked few points mentioned in the job description ..elaborated on it

followed by a discussion

Panel.How do you think you are fit for this role..they wanted me to justify

Me:i justified that i performed a similar role during my summer interns with the

india's top most service provider and my efforts were much appreciated and

since i enjoyed such role ..i think think this is best suited for me.

Panel :which areas of telecom are you comfortable with

Me..i named a few like networks,oss/bss,Vas

Panel..few question on OSI model and function of L2 devices like switches

Me. I answered thae panel seems to be satisfied

Panel: asked me to draw M.Porters five force model and explain it wrt telecom

Me: did so confidently

Panel: various governing bodies and their roles

Me: IEEE,TM forum and few others.. discussed their responsibilities.

The conversation followed discussion on OSS /BSS. NGOss, TMN etc in detail.

The other things they discussed was if you will be asked to write a code how

would you handle .

Then at the end they checked my analytical skills as i mentioned that i am an

analytical person and would love to work as a consultants. they asked to solve a

probability puzzle which i did and explainewd my logic.

I qualified this round and within half an hour was called for HR round.

The Hr round was really easy just he was checking confidence i guess as he

played question fire round ..which i handled with calm.

Few question posed by HR were as follows

Telecom evolution

why was privitisation brought into this sector by govt of india

market share of Telcos

what caused recession in US

Practical examples of Liquidity .reporates and reverse repo rates

Largest iPO in telcom sector

Tele density

Why did you choose Mba in telecom

Why do you want to join this company

What responsibility will you be looking in this offer

Will you be willing to re locate

And with the my final nod expressing my readiness to relocate to anywhere .he

offered me to join the company ..and from that moment on i am thankful to

BITM for grooming me to this level and helping me achieve my dreams.

A very sincere thanks to ALL


Sonal Bhaseen

I am Sonal Bhaseen

Registration No.: TM 09-8053

From Dual-A,

BITM (2009-2011)

Specialization- Marketing & Finance

I am placed in company ABC.

It is a dream of each and every student to get successful in life, to earn good

fame and name in the society and to make their family and friends happy and

proud. In order to achieve this, my journey begins from the first day of the B-

School. Then our decision making skills are tested in the third semester where

we are in a tough situation of choosing the right Company. This has a major

impact on our future and thus has to be the perfect one. Throughout the

Placement Process we have questions running in our mind like "Will we get the

best Company, best job, a good package and so on...". Life is full of challenges

& you have to work hard to strive for success. I too followed the same pattern

of achieving success by learning & adapting the skills required for a great

future.

It gives me immense pleasure to share my campus placement experience with

my juniors, who could surely gain some knowledge & belief to learn the things

they did in order to secure a good position in corporate world. And not to

forget, your college itself is a practical class to learn from.

From the day 1, I was fortunate enough to be eligible for the company which is

a dream of every student and is the first company in the campus. And then the

journey of tension, excitement, anxiety, happiness and relaxation started. I had

made up my mind not to go for Banking Sector from day 1. Besides, salary

package and the company profile was a main concern for me.

My weakest point was clearing a GD which I analyzed when I saw other people

getting placed and I being rejected at different placement process levels. I

started to work hard on it as I knew that GD is being conducted by every

company and to qualify for the final round i.e interview I had to clear my GD

round anyhow.

In Nov 2010, XYZ Company visited our campus. As usual, all eligible candidates

had to attend the PPT. The job profile was exactly what I wanted but the salary

package the company was offering not upto my expectations. But still I decided

to go for this company coz the Brand was good and moreover there was no GD


round in the selection process. So I made up my mind that this is a right choice

for me.

There were total 5 rounds and first 4 were elimination round.

1st round was of Aptitude Test which had almost 40 questions in 45 minutes

based on Quant, Data Interpretation, Reasoning and English. Test was not so

tough to crack. See P&L, Speed time Distance, Work & Time, DI,

Comprehension, questions. On the basis of this aptitude around 67 students

were short-listed.

In the 2nd round, we were asked to write an email stating the postponement of

project deadlines due to some problem. It was to check the writing abilities.

In the 3rd round, the short listed students were divided in groups of eight for

the next round which was a case study round. It was very exciting and

interesting. Our group performed well.

The 4th round was that of Versant, which was a quick spoken English test. It

was conducted to evaluate language and literacy skills. The panel was quite

impressed with the performance of the candidates. You have to just answer

some phone recorded questions; they just check whether you have a good

accent, your sentence building, grammar etc. It was around 11'o clock in the

night till all these four rounds completed. So they called it for the day and the

interviews were scheduled for the next day.

Next morning, we all gathered near the BIMM building for the final judgment of

our destiny.

5th round was of personal Interview. Only those were eligible for the 5th round,

who cleared all the above 4 rounds. I was one of them.

Before I went for my interview I did a massive research on the company and

their culture. Some of the questions asked were-

1. Tell me about yourself

2. Mention your strengths and weaknesses

3. Areas of academic interest

4. Why our company?

5. Why should we hire you?

6. What if, another good brand with a better package but a similar profile

offered to you? (This was asked to check whether I am interested in their

profile or just the brand)

7. What are your Long-term Goals?

8. Why are you interested for this profile?

My interview was very good and I was quite confident that I'll be selected.

Finally the result was declared after some time. But, I was disappointed and

disheartened that my name was not there in the list of selected students. After

some time, one of the company person, who was an alumni of our college, told


me the reason for my rejection. The point where I lacked was that I was not

able to convince the HR panel on why I was interested in the job profile.

My confidence was on a low-side but still I started sitting for the companies

again. But there was a continuous rejection from all the companies due to

which I started developing a negative feeling that “what if I could not get

placed? “. My health started to decline and in feb, I was on complete bed rest

as advised by my doctor. The reason was not taking proper meals and the

tension of not getting placed. But two mantras, “PROBLEMS ARE

OPPORTUNITIES”, and “LEAVE NO STONES UNTURNED” kept my spirits high

during this crucial time.

In March, I again sat for the companies, though at that time the flow of

companies visiting our campus was reduced to 50%. Then one day, ABC, a

Leading Logistic Company invited applications from our college for off campus

recruitment. And the best thing was that the company was interested in only

those candidates who had prior work experience of 1 year or more. I was one

of them so I applied for that company.

1st round was a telephonic round, in which just the basic details were asked to

check the fluency of English over telephone as the profile was of Customer

Service Executive.

For the 2nd round of interview, they called us at their Mumbai office. We were

total 8 people. I was the 2nd last one to be interviewed. There was a brief

discussion on my academic qualification and my strengths and weaknesses.

Then they asked all of us to leave. i was just 5 minutes away from their office,

when I received a call from them asking me to come back for the next round of

interview. I was the only one to be shortlisted. There was a mixed feeling of

happiness, excitement, and anxiety.

The 3rd round was a HR Round. The questions asked were:

- Tell me about yourself

- Family background

- Why marketing as a career?

- Strengths and weakness

- Hobbies

- Why this profile?

- Your Co-curricular activities column shows that you have done a lot of dance

shows and fashion shows, why don't you make your career in that field?

- The interview ended on a positive note. I came back to Pune.


After 20-25 days I received a call from PAT that I have been shortlisted for the

next round of interview i.e the technical round, to be conducted in Mumbai

again.

In the 4th round, there were more of situation based questions like:

- Tell me any instance from your previous job where you came across a

customer complaint/grievance and how you handled it

- As this is a customer service profile and it will involve handling a lot of

customer complaints and grievances, what will you do to refresh yourself?

- This profile will keep you on your toes. For eg: you can't keep the phone

ringing at your desk. Would you be able to handle all the frustration? How will

you handle?

- Are you ok working with MS-office?

The wait for this round result was quite long. In May 2011, I received a call

from PAT that I was shortlisted for the final round of interview to be conducted

at their Gurgaon head office. All the arrangements were done and I reached

Gurgaon with my mind full of positive energy.

The 5th round was a mix of HR and Technical.

Then they asked me to give a presentation. The situation was: I being a

representative of college have to invite this company for college placements.

The time allotted was 10 minutes to prepare. I gave the presentation and the

message was successfully delivered.

My wait was over and I was finally selected. It was a dream come true. It was

the day of reward of all my hard work and efforts put by the college at every

single day of my PDGM journey. From the bottom of my heart, I am very

grateful to Bala Sir, my colleagues in PAT and my friends and family.

My suggestion for all those who aspire to get placements, keep yourselves

updated on the daily news and business news specially, know about yourself,

your strengths and areas of interests. Read the company's website and also

about the competitors, it really helps. Be very clear about the industry you want

to join. Placement is still easy to get but what you want is difficult to identify

when you are in college. I would like to say that do not lose your hope and do

not get de-motivated. Have patience and work on your weak areas and be

confident of your strengths. Be frank and be yourself. Know your areas of

strength and always try to push the interview towards that area, never get

drained out, and keep a smile on your face. Believe me it makes a difference.

And above all-

“NEVER GIVE UP”

I wish all my juniors a great career ahead.


Sonal Chopra

I am Sonal Chopra

My Roll No: is TM-098292,

Class -Dual-D from BITM from the Academic year 2009-2012.

My specialization is Telecom &IT.

I am finally placed in the Mumbai based Company.

I am very glad to share my experience of my campus placement with this

forum. I tried my best to express my views, opinions and strategies which may

help the juniors who has to sail in the same boat in which we seniors sailed.

I will start with the words that two things were very important in those days.

One among that is “Being always update and the other is having “Patience”.

Because what I have experience is that people started losing their patience by

seeing their friends placed and get depressed which hamper on their actual

facing company day and then they shake and lose the opportunity. Please go

ahead with my experience……

Placement ………Placement ……….. Placement ……!!! The frequent chatting topic

of those days. Simply mentioning days will not go, it has to be specified with

other adjective terms too, horrified, tension ful, sleepless, hahaha…Those days

which were awaited since the first joining day of my MBA college, everybody

joined with the dream in their eyes………..“ to be placed in a good company with

nice package.” So those were the days which were considered as turning point

in one's life.

we all are from one family “ Balajians ” but we all cannot be same in case of

putting efforts and in our luck too..

I started with great enthusiasm and ended with happiness. In between was like

sailing in the boat in a storm in order to reach destination….anyways “All well

that ends well.”

We all started hidden preparation a month ago …yes a hidden one from the

time of hearing that companies are started going to come but truly saying..no

one accepts it on asking “kyabaat he ,tune to placement kitaiyaarishurukar di ??

”…but apart from preparing all those Mental ability, Quants and other reasoning

questions, what I could find was having the “General awareness” is most

important but this thought also become wrong when I saw the people who are

having a good one of it, didn't got placed as per their expectation. They were

absorbed by 'ok company' with 'ok package' just loosen up by losing patience.

They deserve a lot more so here “Patience” plays the game.


I was fulfilling all those criteria which one should possess for 'eligibility. ' and sat

in the first company in the month of Nov .I tried…I lose. I tried…I lose

…reached till the last round waiting for the name to hear still lose. What's this..?

I cried but didn't lose hope. Getting every night a call from home and a voice

full of expectation when get into the ears touches heart and shakes my mind

but makes me more stronger … it encourages me a lot and then what next

again one new day with one more company but was just playing a hit & trial

game. As usual fulfilling all criteria so went for the first round of my company

which was “GD”. Well, till the time was having a good experience of it and then

I played a strategy game and get through it. There was no smile on face but

still there was a light of hope “shayadhojaye…” and then name was called for

second round which was combo of Technical and HR. Two long rectangular

shaped table joined and covered with grey color Table cloth over which two

Laptops and our CV's on it. On one side of the table 4 Company People were

sitting and opposite to them was a single lonely chair.

I was waiting outside the room in the corridor with others and was in unstable

condition. I sat on the chair outside and then after sometime I stood up, took a

round of the corridor and sat again. I don't remember how many times I did

this and weather any one notices or not.

Anyways…my name was announced by the Placement coordinator .I took a

deep breath and knocked the door …voice came …SonalPlease come in….!

I entered confidently, greeted them and sat on the chair. They started with their

same question “Tell me about yourself ?”

Since I belong to Telecom, they shoot me with some of the Technical Question

like “Tell me something about VPN?”

They ended with the appreciation that I did well in GD and asked me to wait

out. A smile came to my face and I said “Thanks Sir…!” and then I went.

Final round was announced by the company members which is “Power point

presentation” which is to be given at company Head office in Mumbai.

The Topics were provided by them to 7 selected students. I was one of them.

My Topic was “ Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in India.” . Topic given to others was

like “Value added services in Hospitality by IPTV.” “Broadband in India ”

etc…etc..

We all 7 went to Mumbai at company's office and waited for an Hour for

Directors to come. One by one presentation was going on. Mine was 3rd turn , I

gave it with confidently and also answered each question to the best what I

can.


Then we all were asked to write the answers to some questions like …

Your future after 5 years..?

First thought in your mind when you wake up in the morning?

We were provided with the white A4 sheets to write. All were watching each

other's face, smiling and writing. Behind all that smile the worry was hidden.

Out of 7, 3 were selected and I was one among them.

This is what my placement experience is.., which is mix of Efforts I applied, The

Unstable condition of mine in the bad situation, The courage of my loved ones

and above all the self-confidence which I maintained till end.

Thanks

Sonal Chopra

Hi Everyone,

Sourav Purakayastha

REG No: Tm10-9127

BATCH: 2010-12

The day 17th Feb 2012 has been special for me… Perhaps I was waiting for this

day since I started my school career. It was the day when I got placed in a vas

company. I am a student with telecom background and it was immensely

satisfying for me to get into a company that is catering to the telecom value

chain. Vas or (Value added Services) is currently the segment that is generating

most revenue for the BIG BOYS of the telecom… i.e. the service providers.

Vas Players basically provides all the back end support to the operator's .They

basically looks after all the non-voice operations of the company. Never ever a

vas company comes to the forefront or in the lime light. But only an operator

knows the importance of a Vas player to his success story.

The Initial reaction of my family members were sheer happiness but then they

have never heard the name of the company..so they were initially a bit

susceptible about the whole thing.

Sourav Purakayastha


The day 17th Feb was another day for me… I was waiting for my placements

and counting the number of companies, when my luck will click. I was already

rejected from three HR rounds and n number of technical and last but one

rounds.

The day started with a lecture from Mr. Kundan Das who was from CISCO. It

was followed up with a process. Initially there was a rumor about C.V

shortlisting. Now this has always been a scary issue for me because many times

I have been on the wrong side of the things. You feel bad about not getting an

opportunity and you have no one to complain to. But fate intervened and the

C.V selection process was called off.

After a pre-placement talk of about half –an-hour..the original process started.

The whole process included three rounds. The first round was a G.D round. The

second round was a debate round. The third round being a normal H.R round.

Half of our batch has already been placed at that point of time so 45 of us sat

the process. The students were divided into 5 groups of nine each and the G.D

was conducted. My name was in the last group. 3 members panel turned up for

the whole process. After several quite moments of waiting our turn finally came.

By that point of time we have heard from other groups the types of topics on

offer. It seemed to me a cakewalk because the topics were really very simple.

The first group was offered a topic naming Indian telecom industry.

It was a very generic topic an many of our guys have spoken well and were

feeling excited about their chance of making it. Finally, my turn came and we

went inside for our test. We were offered a G.D topic titled “PINK IS THE NEW

BLUE”. Initially everyone looked bamboozled as no one has any idea about what

to speak. one among us showed us the way. The GD coordinators also clarified

the topics more to us an then the real fight for a survival started. After 10

minutes of ferocious group discussion the show was called off.

Hence the first round came to an end. We waited outside for our results. In

between time I was reliving my GD moments because it has been a tough GD.

The topic was new to me and I felt lot more areas could have been covered by

me. The coordinator announced the results and only two of us have cleared the

round out of 9. In total 17. Now the rest of the students were moving towards

there debate process.

The round 2, of this process has been an entirely different experience for

everybody because none of the company that has visited our campus so far has

conducted a debate round before. We were unaware about the rules of the

game and were just thinking what was in store for us. This time the students

were divided into 2 groups. One group consists of 9 candidates another group


consist of 8 candidates. I was the member of the bigger lot at this time around

we were called first. After the round started we were sub divided again. One

group consist of 5 candidates another one four candidates. The group which

has 4 candidates were assigned “FOR THE MOTION “and the group that were

having 5 candidates were assigned “AGAINST THE MOTION”. The rules of the

games were told to us. It would be a sequential process where candidates from

both the teams would speak one after the other. This process was far away

from what a GD would have been. Our topic for discussion were “DOES RANBIR

KAPOOR DESERVE THE FILM-FARE AWARD 2011” . The time scheduled was

15mins. After the process was over the next group was called in. Again the

waiting time starts and the anxiety level rises. After the process for the second

group was over it was the time for the result.

The results finally came an 11 of us went to the last round. 3 fellows each from

both the group were rejected.

The round 3 started and I know that only 1 round waits between me and the

glory. I have been in the similar situation 3 times before and this time I wanted

to cross the hurdle at any cost. I was given the fourth slot in the interview.

Again my wait started as candidates who were slotted before me went in to give

there interview. As they started to come out other started to ask them what was

going on inside. One question was common they were asking to sell bisleri

bottle.. . Soon my turn came. As I went in the person start asking me simple

question like describe yourself??, tell something about your family…?? Then he

shifted his focus on my C.V and started asking questions from my C.V regarding

hobbies… I was good at it an answered him convincingly. Then came the

mother of all question …HOW WILL YOU SELL A BOTTLE OF BISLERI?? Then he

checked my c.v again and in language known it was written Tamil.. So my task

now was to sell the bottle in Tamil. I did that and they were very impressed.

Finally they ask me why do I have any location preference?The answer to this

question from my part was no. With a perfect shake of hand I ended the

interview and came back satisfied hoping that this time I should have a reason

to laugh.

The final twist was left. After all the interviews were over we were eagerly

waiting for our results. This time the company officials came to announce the

results. The intermediate time was short and the result came out quickly. They

declared that they have finally selected 7 candidates. They went on announcing

the names… after the 4th and 5th name tensioned started to seize me up

because I was expecting I would be there after the 6th name was announced I

was sweating profusely because the make or break situation has now arrived…

an finally he paused and….. He asked people to guess .They guessed one or

two peoples names and he shook his head in disapproval and finally pointed the


finger towards me.. THUS MY BIG MOMENT ARRIVED… The moment for which

I have been waiting for so long. Hence my goal is accomplished. I got an early

joining too. I joined my company within 15 days from my placements. I TOOK

ME 17 COMPANIES & 3 MONTHS TO REACH THIS STAGE.

Two of my own room mates were placed at an early stage of the season and I

was unable to replicate that performance but never lose faith on my abilities… I

was always ready to fight it out mentally till the end. I came here for

placements and will see myself placed in a decent company that was my

attitude. So stay positive and stay focused.

Finally I want to Thank BALA SIR & SRI BALAJI SOCIETY for giving me this

opportunity. BALA SIR is a person who has leaded his life by example… from

him I have learned to stay positive in adverse situations. He is a role model for

me as well for the entire society. May I contribute to the growth of SRI BALAJI

SOCIETY.

Name: Suhani Kharbanda

Roll No:-TM-09-8310

Stream: PGDM-Telecom

Batch: 2009-11

I would like to share my on-campus placement experience. In the first 2

campus placement I did not reach the Personal Interview stage, but third time

is a charm and I not only reached the Personal Interview but also got the job.

The first company (Company A) had a written test which included aptitude,

general English and some reasoning based questions as the first round. About

600 people (pool campus in our own college) took the test and only 180-200 of

us cleared the written test. The people who cleared the test were divided into

groups of 10-12 for the group discussion round. I was part of the third pool of

students and the topic of discussion was “Whether Obama's visit to India will be

beneficial to India's economy”. During the GD everybody started specking at the

same time and the whole place turned into a fish market. The moderator finally

got control of the situation and asked everyone to state their points one by one,

so it was no longer a discussion, but it turned out to be everybody was just

stating their opinions to the moderator. I did not reach the Personal Interview

round for this company.

The second company for which I sat in the campus interview was Company B

and they also had a written entrance test. I cleared the test along with another

Suhani Kharbanda


150 people and we were again divided into groups of 12-14 for the GD. The

topic for the GD was “Reality Shows on TV”. I spoke pretty well from my side in

the GD but unfortunately not selected for the Personal Interview round.

The final campus interview that I took part in was with Company C. They did

not have a written test but instead they were screening CVs. My name was in

the list of shortlisted candidates who were supposed to take part in the GD. For

the GD we were divided into groups of 12-13 and the topic was “what kind of

impact movies are making on us in bringing a social change”. I was ready for

this topic and had a couple of very good points already in my mind, so I decided

to initiate the discussion. Since I had stared the discussion most of the replies

from the other candidates were directed at me, and I was able to make my

point and convince others. The moderator was impressed by my handling of the

situation and when they released the list of the shortlisted candidates for the

Personal Interview my name was first on the list.

I was the fifth person to have the Personal Interview. The first four candidates'

interview averaged only 10 minutes, but when it was my turn, my interview

lasted almost 45 minutes which was quite alarming for everyone out there. The

interviewer instead of asking me questions related to my MBA, started by asking

me about my educational background, which I replied as briefly as I could.

Then he asked me questions related to my final year project during my

engineering. My project was about the OSI/TCP model and I told him all about

seven layers in detail and he then asked me to give some practical example

related to seven layers. Next question was difference between Hub, switch and

a router. Then he asked me about LAN, WAN and other networking concepts

and their technical names and topologies. He then asked me how much I know

about cloud computing. After that he asked me a couple of question related to

my MBA interns which was MR based Telecom project and then he asked what

new you have learned in MBA interns. In respond to his previous question I

explained about getting a free mobile SIM card these days and even after

selling free SIM card how Telecom companies are still getting some

profits/margins. Next question was -what was my major during my MBA, and

how would it be useful to the interests of Company C. Lastly he asked about Are

you aware about all the three profiles company C was offering to students and

which one you are preferring. I was able to answer all of his questions very

confidently and he looked satisfied with all my answers. This was all for the

technical questions and now he started asking me if I would be okay working in

24X7 shifts and if I was willing to relocate to wherever the company would

place me. I responded , that I would be more comfortable moving to Delhi/NCR

as compared to Chennai/Hyderabad but being a fresher I am ready to relocate,

which he noted down and that was the end of the technical Interview and I

didn't realize how that 45 minutes passed.


Now came the HR round, which took place immediately after the technical

round. The HR lady who was there was really nice and mentioned that I had

had a very long technical interview ( I guess this was mentioned on my CV

which was forwarded to her by the technical interview team).

Since the interviews were back to back the lady almost force fed me a couple of

biscuits and chips from the plate she had and even offered me a glass of water.

This really put me at ease and I was relaxed and ready to face whatever

questions she had for me. Then without asking any other general HR questions

she directly jumped on to a question that if I was comfortable working in 24x7

shifts and would relocation be a problem. I responded that I was comfortable

with it and did not have any issues whatsoever. Then she mentioned that the

company had a Bond that I would be asked to sign if I was offered the job, and

then mentioned the terms and conditions of the bond, which were quite

standard and I said that I would have no problems serving the bond. That

concluded the HR interview and very next day we got the list of selected

students and luckily i got selected for Company C.

Thanking You

SuhaniKharbanda

I am Sumit Purandare

Reg No: TM09-8248

Specialization: Telecom; Div: C

BITM; Batch: 2009-2011

My experience for campus placement

The ultimate aim of joining BITM was to get a job in a good company. My

journey started with enlightening sessions of Mahabharata, unforgettable

sessions of Bam sirs' presentation and a fun filled creative induction period.

After this started the real and rigorous classroom training started. It's not

possible to listen to each and every subject with an equal interest. So I

generally took interest in one or two subjects and believe me they even helped

I my final interview as well.

As soon as it was September, 2010 the placement season started. The first

company which came for campus placement was Big company .I being from

computer science back ground was not allowed to sit for it. It was a

disheartening start for me.

Sumit Purandare


Company 1: The first company for me. First round was Telephonic interview

only six candidates were there they were asking general question to all about

mobile marketing .Since I was aware about it so I was quite confident about the

selection and result came little late after two days I suppose only one candidate

got selected…and my name was not there and I was not able to accept this…

Company 2: My experience was nice with this company was good and I reached

till final round.In this Company they have taken two rounds of technical

interview and one HR interview I was lucky enough to clear all and got the

remark as a good candidate but the final round was on VOIP I was ready for

that also it was gone ok but unfortunately I was not in the final list….

Company3: So much hope with this company I cracked GD and called for

Technical round and it was good he asked me so many question for around 45

minutes then I called for hr round it was not bad either it was 12 AM and all

were waiting for the results keeping their finger crossed but due to some reason

they announced result around 9 AM this I prepared a lot but my preparation

was not good enough according to the companies parameter..i was little

frustrated just because at the last moment something was going wrong..this

time also same thing happened to me…name was not there in the final list…I

still remember that day, I was retrospect about my mistakes and improvement

in final round…I sat with friends they keep me motivated and gave me some

suggestion those who has got placed in good companies,,.., with the help of

suggestion given by them I was able to crack company 4 description is as

follows

Finally Company 4 came to campus and I got placed on 1st Apr 2011 after a

long struggle it was sigh of relief…

The Process

The process started as same as that of others with a Pre Placement Talk. Thus

the entire process can be summed up as……

Company short-listed candidates who have applied

Pre Placement Talk (Company campus in Pune)

Presentation(Company Campus in Pune)

Personal Interview 1 (Company campus in Pune)

Personal Interview 2 (Company Campus in Pune)

Final result declaration (next day of interview 2)

Pre Placement Talk

The Pre Placement Talk included the description of the group companies and

their available models in market. The peculiar thing about the presentation was

they do not disclosed exactly the profile and the package at the time of PPT.

Presentation

There were 10 students in each group; mine was the first group in the

Presentation . First they asked each one to introduce self. Then the topic for the


presentation was given group decides in next 30 minutes.

Our group decided to take it as normal GD and we started discussing the topic,

the discussion was healthy and lasted for 12-13 minutes than each of us

individually laid our points after this there were still 7 minutes left for discussion

so we again discussed it till the panel said fine lets end the discussion.

Personal Interview 1

It was taken by the two panel members that visited our college. The questions

were same for all the students like

It was more of an HR round I suppose than a technical round.

Personal Interview 2

The short listed candidate from the first PI for their final interview which was

with the

Executive Vice President HR

Executive Vice President Marketing

My interview was the first there also. The questions that were asked were:

Tell me about your family?

Tell me about your Strength and Weakness?

What is telecom marketing?

How do you analyze customer need?

Successful and Failure marketing and branding examples?

Where and what you did in summer internship?

Why this company?

Any Work experience?

The peculiar thing was that they did not entertain any of our questions during

the PI and till now also not disclosed package and profile.

Final result was than disclosed the next day. I was happy that day because I

have achieved what I want to be, being a part of Balaji Society

You just need to be confident and of course your positive attitude really helps a

lot. But there is no shortcuts to get placed basically you just have to wait for the

right company and get selected..I would like to thankful to Bala sir, DrMilind Oka

sir, Vignesh sir and the entire faculty who taught me…

My suggestion

Have the knowledge of basic of your graduation (little) and of marketing

Have knowledge of the industry

Have knowledge of the company

Have descent awareness of the current trend of the industry you are interested

in Be calm & composed and cheerful during interviews.


Be prepared from your side and be yourself.

Maintain a notebook with answers all possible questions

Start preparation from months before not a day before placement starts.

Practice aptitude

Read newspapers on regular basis.

Most importantly have a LUCK on the D-day its all about the luck you might be

the best in the GD but still not get selected this happens with all and you are

not any different so be ready to face it.

Regards,

SumitPurandare

TM09-8248

Telecom


Name: Swati Srivastava

Registration No: TM-09-8293

College: BITM – Dual D

Academic Year – 2009-2011

I am finally placed with One of the Top brands in Telecom VAS domain.

My placement experience was a pretty tense period. In fact I haven't been this

tense since a long time. It was probably because I got placed within the initial

placement season, on December 18th, 2010 and had a decent offer with one of

the Big brands of India. I felt secured and relieved.

Although things did not work out well as they cancelled the offer on February

2011, when the placement season was almost over!! Almost all BIG companies

had completed their process. I was at the starting point Once AGAIN!

I was left with nothing. The thought of not getting a job in hand before I

complete my education was scary!!

More than anything, I guess what the placement process teaches you is that

Life is not fair and that sometimes luck matters more than ability. There is

always something better stored for all of us. Although I was demotivated,

tensed but my spirits were high. I somewhere knew somewhere a job is waiting

Swati Srivastava


for me! :)

6th March, 2011: The very first company which visited BITM after my offer

cancellation. Since I was left with very less time and opportunity, I knew this

day has something better for me. I prepared myself, mentally & academically.

An air of anxiety, sweat trickled down furrowed foreheads, pulses raced and

students experienced their hiccups of the strife involved in getting a first job.

The session started with a pre-placement talk by the company executives -

company's services, market presence, growth component and work culture, it

covers them all. This is followed by a brief explanation of the skill sets required

for employment and the procedure the company will follow for the ensuing

recruitment. The actual recruitment procedure started with a GD round. During

the course of this round, wrinkled foreheads apply their grey cells to the

optimum capacity.

Our GD was very tough because first time I experience around 14 people

setting same time in GD and everybody wants to crack his/her GD , nobody was

giving chance to anyone to speak even a single word , but then at that time you

have to act quick and smart to grab your chance in that mess to prove yourself .

As the time was about to run out, frantic attempts to finish take maximum

chances and make a few last minute statements. The mental workout that was

involved is evident from the gasps and sighs from various corners. Then begins

the seemingly long (but actually only a few hours), unbearable and intriguing

wait for the results. This interlude was spent by the “may-be-hired” student

populace in a multitude ways. Some recite their last however never ending

prayers, while some try to avoid all the adrenalin rush by taking a power nap.

As the time for the announcement of results came near, waves of students

started inundating the second floor once again. All around one can see pale and

fatigued faces – a fall out of the excruciating test and the unnerving wait.

Finally the moment of reckoning arrived and the list of students who qualified

for the next round was read out. There were signs of disappointment and

screams of joy. Then I heard my name! Yes! I cleared GD round. Then the

necessary instructions for the process of interviews were given.

Interview call came, and I went into the room, there were 2 members in my

panel, both really cool and casual guys; when I greeted them by referring them

as 'Sir', they said that I could call them by their name and take it as a casual

interaction so that both sides get to know each other properly! Then they

congratulated me for making it so far and I really appreciated the manner they

were treating me with!


Then came some basic HR questions like my introduction, toughest moment in

my life, about disputes while working in my team, some questions out of my CV

related to the projects etc. then it was my turn to ask them questions, so asked

them about some surveys done by the company which I looked up on their

website and few questions related to the job responsibility.

After I was over with my first round of interview, I was told to sit and wait in

the hall for the next round of interview. After about a wait of half an hour, I was

called in the second panel where one gentleman and a lady were waiting for

me. Each one of them were talented and equipped enough to find out what

good each one of us had to offer and who could be the best one of them. After

a casual talk, I was asked some technical questions, and thereafter few

questions were asked by the HR. My interview went well and I was satisfied

with my performance over all.

Now, it was all about wait for the results.

All the 30 students interviewed were called in one room, we were told that 8

people were in! After sometime they started calling out the names and then…

My Name! YES! I MADE IT!! I was through!! :)

I Hadn't told my parents that I had my placements on that day. Now it was my

turn to call them up and share the good news!

I had a wonderful experience and was quite lucky to get my hands on one of

the biggest brands in VAS industry. I am very grateful to Bala Sir, my colleagues

in PAT and my friends and family.

I had great learning at this prestigious institute. It has given a new shapes to

our lives. I would always remain thankful to the teachers, friends and everybody

out there to help me make it possible!

I wish all my colleagues ALL THE BEST and hope they achieve success in all

their endeavors.

Thank You!!!


Tanuj Kumar

Hi,

I am Tanuj Kumar

Registration Number TM-09-8294

Class Division- Dual d BITM,

Academic year 2009-2011

My specialization is in Telecom

I am finally placed in Company A, working in business development group for

Product engineering services.

It gives me an immense pleasure to share my campus placement experience

with my juniors, who could surely gain some knowledge & belief to learn the

things I did in order to secure a good position in the corporate world.

Life is full of challenges & you have to work hard to strive for success. I too

followed the same pattern of achieving success by learning & adapting to skills

required for a great future. Also I would like to thank the college placement cell

for working day & night, burning mid night fuel to stand on hopes of the

students & bring in almost 300 companies to the campus for placement.

To start with, the skills required for success in campus placement is to develop

logical & analytical skills. This would help to strive for 1st level for selection that

is “Written Aptitude test”. For this many books are available to go for. To

develop this regular work with numbers to be precise is important; students

should go for numbers as these would help in their corporate world. Since

consistent performance is the key to success people should not be demotivated

by the level of difficulty in any exam.

Next step is the “Group Discussion” round, this is a rejection round, so you need

to focus, pitch in points that are relevant to the subject. For this the best thing

the college provides is the “Economic Times” paper. This paper would help to

know the current market trends, help you to analyze the market situation &

would help develop the ability to understand the market happenings. I used to

regularly read the paper, maybe not the complete content, but the basic

headlines, so as to know what is happening in the market. And for telecom

students it is important, as telecom sector is at the boom, so any change in the

market can change the tide of the carrier.

And the final is the personal interview, both HR & Technical, & for this I think

our college professors has done a commendable job in knowing us the current

technologies, in & out, know the future technologies, & help us to know the

basics from the core of each subject, maybe its marketing, telecom related

issues & what not. I am thankful to Bala sir for providing such esteemed

professors at our disposal, so that we could learn a lot from them.


I have divided my campus placement experience into the following four

activities:-

lWritten Aptitude Test

The aptitude test was divided into 3 main parts i.e.quant, verbal ability and data

interpretation. Generally questions from RS Aggarwal were asked. We were

given around 90 questions to be responded in 60 minutes. After conducting the

written test, I was selected for the next round that is group discussion round.

lGroup discussion

22 groups were formed for conducting group discussions with around 15 to 20

students in each group. We were asked to select a topic for ourselves but after

a minute's time we were given a topic “SEZs: Boon or Bane?”

Students were judges on the following parameters:-

lAbility to lead the group

lCommunication skills

lYour understanding of the topic

Group discussion was for 15 mins and the discussion went in a flow as

introduction to topic, examples and pros and cons of the topic were discussed.

Group discussion was elimination round and 2-3 students per group were

selected.

I got through the above 2 rounds and the next was HR interview

lHR interview

The interview was conducted around 10 PM. The interview started with the

questions like:

lIntroduce yourself

lTell me something about your family background

lWhy you want to join our company?

lAre you ready to be work anywhere in India?

lDiscuss about your strengths & weaknesses

lDo your SWOT analysis

lTell me something about services (particularly IT) sector in India?

lWhat do you know about the company?

lAre you ready to sign the bond?

The interview went well for almost 40 mins and after 7 days the results were

conveyed to the PAT team into which I was selected.

lTechnical interview

The final round of interview was a technical one and it conducted 2 weeks from

the day HR interview results were announced.

The interview was a telephonic call which was taken from Bangalore. The

interviewer introduced himself & started asking me questions on technical side,

accessing my logical, analytical & basic knowledge about technology.


Some questions that were asked are:

lMarketing related questions like product life cycle for a service, new product

development, knowledge of RFP/RFI, how to pitch the customer, what is

configuration management? Some questions about MS office tools.

lWhat is project management? Some questions were asked on real time

problems in marketing & how you as a PM would solve it. They also

concentrated on my summer internship as to what problems did I face during

my summer internship and what did I do about it.

The interview was carried on for about 60 minutes, and finally the interview

results were announced the same day and I was selected.

I thank Bala sir for making me share such a wonderful experience for placement

that would surely help my juniors for motivation & just want to wish all the very

best for their future. As always Bala sir used to say, “Problems are

Opportunities” I would always remember those words life long, & in case of any

urgency would not hesitate to apply sir's Guru Mantra. Again I would like to tell

my juniors to follow footsteps of sir to achieve something memorable & big in

life, as I always do.

Thanks & Regards,

Tanuj Kumar

TM-09-8294

Telecom (Dual D)

Hello Everyone,

I am Taruna Chaudhary

Roll Number. TM 09 8171,

Class of Telecom & Marketing,

Division-B,

from BITM



My specialization is in Telecom & Marketing.

First of all, I would like to appreciate the commendable efforts of our college

and our peers in Placement Cell who worked hard and made our campus

placement season a huge success. I am very Glad to write here that over 200

companies visited our campus during our placement season and it was a treat

to see your friends getting placed one after another, not to mention the nice

startup packages they got.

Taruna Chaudhary


The companies follow different processes to conduct their placement process.

The companies which I sat for were of IT, FMCG, Retail, Construction, Finance &

Market Research domains.

I did not get chance to sit for Company B which was the first company of our

college, because I could not meet the eligibility criteria. They required 70%

marks throughout your academic career which I had at every stage except for

my PGDM. So, its advisable to maintain 70% benchmark score at all times or

else you also might miss a chance like me. However I had no regrets as I had

faith in myself. Then I sat for few companies but I was very choosy. I didn't

want to go for sales as I wanted a Business Analyst or Research profile.

There were initially many companies which started pitching in and I chose to sit

for few of them. First company for which I sat was Company A. I had prepared

well for it but during the CV screening process, we came to know that the

Company was not willing to take Computer Engineers. That came as more of a

shock to me because I really wanted to get into this company and I had

prepared for it very hard. But I did not get disappointed. Then I did not sit for

the coming few companies because they were not meeting my aspirations of

career as well as pay package. After few more companies, one more

Consultancy company came for which I appeared. The initial process consisted

of an aptitude test which I cleared and after that we came to know that

company was also willing to take Group discussion and a Business Plan round

along with the Interview. It came as much of a surprise to me because I was

not mentally prepared for it. But however it was a do or die situation for me and

I had to perform well to get through. I performed well in all the rounds but one

wound which was the Business Plan round for which I had not prepared earlier.

Our GD coordinator gave us a Topic for which we had to make a Business Plan.

Then everyone had to present it. One out of all the plans was selected and then

we had a group discussion on whether the selected plan was ok to go or it

needed modifications. After all the rounds, we were eagerly waiting for the

results, but unfortunately the result was not so pleasing for me. Out of the

entire lot, only one student was selected and the rest of us returned back in

vain.

That was the frustrating of all when I had no clue as to what should I do. This

is the time my friends played a very important role and they didn't let me loose

me patience.

I sat for almost 21 companies they were from different domains. From these

companies processes I learned a lot and in the end I was lucky enough to have

the job with the profile which I always wanted.


For my Company , process started with CV selection and then Online test which

was a elimination round.

Only 2 of us were able to crack this round.

Then we were called by company in their Head Office-Pune, where other

candidates from different colleges were called.

Then the process started with 6 written tests- each for

1. Numerical ability,

2. Analytics,

3. Digital marketing knowledge,

4. Creativity,

5. Client servicing,

6. Marketing.

I got through all the written rounds.

Each written test was for half an hour which was followed by GD.

I got through GD and then in Interview in questions were like:

1) About your Internship

2) Why this profile

3) What would you do if you don't get meeting scheduled

4) Why Digital Marketing?

5) Why Start-up?

6) Scope of Digital Marketing in India.

Then there was the HR interview in which again they asked me about

1) Started the interview about yourself & family background.

2) Strength and weakness & how your strength helps you in achieving your

goals and how does knowing your weakness helps you.

3) Whether I would be comfortable working with startup – Lack of Resources,

more commitment & more work.

4) When I would get settle down.

5) Asked a lot of questions regarding the client servicing, like how would you

handle a situation where “n” number of clients are demanding different outputs

at the same time.

6) Asked about how do I see myself after 5 years down the same work line and

do I see any future with the startup companies.

ANALYTICAL INTERVIEW

1) I was given a certain situation where in my feedback was asked

regarding how would Interact and handle the situation.

2) They asked me few puzzles to check my analytical abilities and how I

approach my work.


3) The questions were based on check my logical abilities, which I passed

with flying colors.

4) They also gave me a business case which I had to solve in 15 mins and

had to make the business model for the same.

General questions.

Sorry, I don't remember much of the questions now.

Immediately after my last round was over, they said they will declare the result

after two days.

And after two days I got a call from PAT office that my name is there. I got

selected on my B'day.

All I would suggest is have faith on yourselves (never lose it), be clear about

your competencies and areas of improvement, and never get frustrated,

because one thing is for sure, NOBODY LEAVES THIS CAMPUS WITHOUT A JOB

IN HIS HAND.

Best Wishes & Regards

TarunaChaudhary

BITM (2009-11 batch)

TM09-8171

I am Tejesh Vazarkar

Registration Number: TM - 09 - 8249

Division C from BITM from the academic year 2009-11

My specialization is in Telecom

The placement experience was one of the best experiences if my life. Here it

goes.

ABC company was a one the most renowned in telecom domain.

First round: GD

Group was of 12 people. Topic was “Woman executive are doing well in

Corporate and are moving ahead of their male counter parts”

It was very hot topic; everybody was giving their opinion and was not giving

facts or any example from the corporate world. It was first company so it was

obvious to have this situation.

Tejesh Vazarkar


The one who gave facts and figures got selected in GD. I was not the lucky one.

Next was a good Mumbai based company deals in Servers and other

communication products. It was very good experience.

First round: GD

We were 7-8 in a group, topic was generic. 3 of us were selected for next

round.

Second round: PI

In PI they gave us catalogue of their products and asked us to give a closer

look, they asked us questions based on the catalogue. It was not that difficult

but u needs to have deep knowledge of various technologies so that one can

add that knowledge during PI. Three of us got selected but the package they

were giving was much lesser than what our PAT team told us. We didn't agree

to the same. This was a moment where we got highly frustrated. Here the

succeeding PAT team please make sure that the company which agrees to give

a certain package is confirmed before sending to their place.

This is the company which I placed in.

There was no GD, it was direct interview.

First round of interview was with VP – Sales & marketing. He asked me lot of

questions form telecom domain. Following are the questions,

Q: Tell me the call routing if I call from Pune to USA?

A: for the same answer professors like CerveshDaga& our dearest Thote sir

helped me a lot. They not only taught us the technological aspect but the

practical knowledge of it like which is entry point for data access in USA, where

are the major servers located in India, where is the antenna located in India

which does the most of satellite communication in India, etc.

Q: what is difference between Wimax& Wi-Fi?

Q: Tell me about your work in internship?

Q: How the marketing which you did in internship helped for the company

A: I did my intership in Uninor for the Blue Wave Project; here I gave

calculation as what was the target company gave us for SIM cards and due to

the marketing process (Road Show, Visual Merchandizing, etc) how we over

achieved our target.

Then many other questions related to technology were asked, I answered them.

Second Round of interview was with the CEO of the company.


CEO was very cool person but when one tries to bluff him he catches it and

then that moment is so horrified that one cannot express.

Q: Do you know MS Excel.

I told “yes, I am proficient in Excel”, then he gave me a huge data and told me

to tell him a story depending on the data.

It was business projection of a company and had lot of columns and lots of data

in those columns.

Here I recalled teaching of VivekMarathe sir and also the talks which he used to

make during lectures. I wanted to laugh on one of his joke but was in front of

CEO of the company.

I prepared Pivot table and then graphs and started to tell story as in like what

resources will be added for the coming month for the required growth, which

circles will be added, why only these many circles will developed initially and

why not other, etc etc.

Q: Do u think it will be possible to achieve the Business Projections?

I told him 50-50% chances are there for success. This answer I think have

made him little restless.

Q: What factors do you think will resist the growth of the company?

I told him that government regulations, external competition, natural calamities,

etc will affect the growth.

Q: what will be success factors?

Time to market, quality, etc will be the factors, but he asked me to give factors

for service industry. I was not able to answer. He helped me and explained.

This was the question which he asked me after asking me what package I want.

I told him that my minimum requirements.

Q: What is the latest news in Telecom Industry?

This question answered me a lot of questions which I used to get during my

collage days in BITM, Why there was ET test, why Ramashastri Sir wastes his

first half of class discussing news, etc.


Due to the news reading habit which I got during my college helped me to

answer this question, I would like to thanks Bala sir for the ET test which is now

helping me in my Corporate Life. Thank you Sir.

For this question i have read a news article in TOI which tell the market share

value for Nokia & Samsung.

Ramashastri Sir during their lectures have taught us how to analyse the news,

how to get the whole market value and then to extract each players market

size, to get the market size for previous day. Etc. His teaching and Despande

Sir's Teaching are the one which I will never be able to forget.

While reading that news I actually did some calculation on my mobile and told

the CEO of the fact. He was doing something on his Tab, I think he was

verifying it and was smiling.

Here I got the clue; he told me that my first round of interview was over and

need to come for some more rounds. There was no another round. There was a

call from the HR department of the same company that I have being selected

and was offered the same package which I asked for.

I joined as Associate Marketing and now I am Engagement Manager in the

same company.

Thanks all,

Tejesh

TM-09-8249

I am Ujjwal Narayan


Class of Telecom,

My name is Ujjwal Narayan (TM-09-8250)

Before describing about my placement in XXX, I would like to share few more

instances that happened to me.

Being an engineer (and rejecting a package of 3L at the time of engineering),

when I came to BITM to do Management, I thought anything around 5-6 will be

easily achieved. I was decent at my studies, but being in the environment, I got

to know the ground realities.

Telecom ,still being a very niche segment in the management studies, I

understood that it is more about learning and achieving with experience than to

get everything you thought of on DAY 1.

Ujjwal Narayan


Our 2 years with SBS was and will always be one of the most enjoying and

satisfying period, where I got to learn many new things, and also got some

extremely helpful and caring friends with the likes of TejeshVazarkar, Vijay

Raghav, Priya Sharma ,SnigdhaShukla and almost the whole of PGDM C of

BITM. .I got ill (dengue) when I was in hospital for approx 7 days; It was the

time when I got a BIIIIIIIIG Card by all my classmates in the hospital, saying

GET WELL SOON.. This was the most cherishable moment…

Before sitting in the process of XXX, I sat in few more companies, A,B,C,D,E to

name a few. The confidence was pretty low when I gave my first GD in A. But

gradually I started getting more confidence in myself and also started to crack

atleast first few rounds. There were moments when we entered the last round

of few companies; but regretted by the fact that there are many better

companies still lined up.

Placement week/ or better the placement period is the toughest as far as

getting support from friends are concerned. Everybody is busy in themselves

trying to get the best package , trying to learn new things that only HE/SHE

should know . It makes many people tough and at the same time many gets

hurt when they see themselves not getting shortlisted.

Then came one of those many days when a company named XXX AAA came in

our campus. As usual we got ready and were called in the Audi for the Company

/ profile presentation. We were lease interested when the presentations were

going on. But then found it to be a not so bad choice. However there was only

one confusion in my mind that I didn't wanted to go as South as Chennai; as it

was also one of the POP along with Noida.

1- GD:

The day was very long and started with batches of 12. Finally we were called

for the GD round and I was feeling very excited that I got my turn. We were 12

people in our GD group and there were 2 panelists to conduct the GD. There

was rectangular table in HRD building and I was sitting across the judges. Topic

of GD was:

“BOLLYWOOD MOVIES ON PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED AND ITS THE EFFECT ON

INDIAN SOCIETY”

(I don't exactly remember the topic)

Major discussion points:

I was just thinking that where to start with and I decided not to speak first

(honestly speaking). I wanted to see the flow of group so I started on third no

and following are the major points out of discussion:

First member started with the support of such movies as it provides a better

picture of the society.


Topics like Euthanasia came for films like Guzaarish. Also Taarezameen par and

Paa was constantly a centre of topic in the GD where the movies have shown

that people with such disabilities should be treated well in society.

Second member picked up and said that we can do better business by

producing such emotional and socially involved monies; making it a Win Win

situation for both the Film makers as well as the society

But few were against such film makers and its ill effects against the subjects like

Euthanasia which can have a wrong effect on the society (Since Euthanasia is

still illegal in India)

Then I spoke in favor of the topic for approx 1 and half minutes (which

fortunately everyone listened very calmly)

Honestly speaking, I was not 100% sure about whether I should go for or

against the topic. But then as the flow of discussion went Even I went and

spoke for the topic as there were many better reasons and many good things /

awareness for the society than wrongs.

3 people were randomly selected to conclude the topic but fortunately I was not

one of them.

My part in the GD was over by then and I started to analyze whether I could be

selected or not.

With, GD got finished. I was little bit sure of my selection and I was not thinking

much of it Finally result came out and I was selected. Now second round….

2- Interview 1: Technical

We had 2 interviews. First was the technical interview, the next was HR

interview.

I was the first from the Telecom Batch to be interviewed. I was a bit anxious as

I thought they might ask many technical questions which I am not very sure of;

but they asked few networking questions

Few of them are:

1. ITIL: Since I am an ITIL certified , they asked me regarding it a couple of

time to check If I am thorough with the concepts of it

2. Router/ BRouter/Switches; He asked few networking questions Difference

between them.

3. Cloud Computing

4. about IT infrastructure management

These were few of the important questions , Apart from this they also asked

regarding my interests, subjects we have studied, our MTNL training etc.


Altogether it was a nice interaction with the interviewer and he looked

convinced so was I.

I was smiling and my heart beat was up in the sky… With greetings to them, I

came out and had some water..

3- Interview 2: HR

Interviewer: Tell me about yourself?

Me: I gave very general description as everybody gives.

Interview B: Can you tell us about your family and income resources.

Me: I explained very clearly and honestly.

Interview A: Are you comfortable to work 24x7, preferably in night shifts.

Me: At this point of time, I am not 100% comfortable in night shifts but I am

not resistant to work in night if the work is not monotonous. Further I explained

in this way… Now days, organizations are working day and night so I will have

to adjust myself for that culture too.

I was smiling and my heart beat was up in the sky… With greetings to them, I

came out and had some water..

Interviewer: If I select you and send you Chennai then you won't be able to

manage there so why should I take you?

Me: Honestly speaking… I felt like I am blank and nothing to say. Then I said –

sir, If you are saying this then there must be some reason. But let me tell you

sir, I belong to Bihar and did my graduation from Nagpur and stayed in Pune i.e

I am out of my home for more than 6 years So I do not have any problem in

adjustments in new city.

The interviewer also asked if there is anything I would like to clear or ask.

With this, he said me all the best and let's wait for the results that would be

displayed by your placement coordinators tomorrow.

So I became a part of XXX as the next day I got a confirmation from PAT Cell

that I was one of those selected in XXX.


Utkarsh Tiwari

I am UtkarshTiwari,

Roll no TM-098172. BITM,

Dual-B

Telecom and Marketing.

Balaji society has provided a lot in life, it has provided me a platform because of

which i am here today, in Private sector bank.

Regarding my campus experience.

This Private sector Bank has been a regular recruiter from our collage,company

has given a week advance notice that it is coming. Our collage has asked for

names of student who are interested in joining the company. I was always

interested in banking sector, and I have heard about good work culture bank

has from our seniors.

Bank has a built a good reputation in nearly 8-9 years & has got a turnover of

nearly 45k crores. It gives me immense pleasure to be a banker & as I have

learnt the two greatest things from SBS which I am implementing over here i.e.

ETHICS & INTEGRITY.

The placement procedure of company in which I got placed begins with two

online screening tests which consist of 2 Aptitude test in which nearly 600-700

students have appeared.

Company has screened out & selected the list of nearly 75 students. The

selection panel came down on 22nd Nov with 3 HR head & 2 Regional branch

manager in our campus.

First round consist of GD in which 7 groups were made out of which they

selected nearly 25 students.

My GD topic was “Leaders are born or made” I just started the discussion with

some positive note supporting Leaders are made & kept my point,by giving

various examples of successful leader such as Indira Nooyi, steve Jobs. I ended

the discussion with concluding the points were discussed by the group. And

after few minutes the list came down in which surprisingly mine name was also

there. The biggest factor in campus recruitment process for me was cracking

GD & hopefully I have given my best & that's it.

After that PI round begin with Head HR of Mumbai he asked me several

questions related to internship & then related to banking background. He asked

me some current scenario questions as well which was able to answer it

comfortably. Then he also explained me the job profile & given me situation in

which I need to deal with the client in which I guess I have not done very well

but still have shown my confidence & on a positive note I think somewhere I

have impressed him.


The second PI was with the Regional Branch Manager of Mumbai who asked me

banking related questions in which 1-2 I was not able to answer. But the basic

question I was able to answer because of continuous ET paper reading has

helped me & I am really grateful to college for making it strictly which we

always used to curse them. He asked many question related to my internship

which I answered it very well.

At last the last round was taken by HR Head & RBM of Pune who just asked me

few questions related to after doing BTECH in ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION why MBA & after that how come you are joining banking

industry.. This was the toughest question to convince them as they keep on

questioning after my response but still I was able to handle it & make them

convinced that I am the right person for your organization whom you are

looking out for.

So at last after the long process of day selection panel came out with a list in

which they have selected 10 people & by default mine name was last. At that

point of time they clarified about the location and work profile.

So that's it company has decided to finalize me and then panel spelt the magic

words "You are selected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although there is overabundance of MBA colleges which boast themselves as

the institute providing the best MBA program, not many offer justified reasons

for the same. Also, professionals who look out for a reliable MBA program are

not choosy. Ideally, all they look for are basic features in an institute's MBA

program, which are as follows:

1. Certification of the institute

2. Flexible timings:

Flexibility to the working professionals to study as per their convenience

Does not put an extra strain on a professional to attend lectures on the same

day after office hours

3. Study support

Does not end the support by giving just course material and asking the

professionals to learn every chapter by their own

4. Quality of course curriculum

5. Reliable teaching methodology

6. Placement assistance

But Balaji, today offers many non-traditional opportunities to earn college credit,

such as internships, cooperative education, and volunteering. If you want to

work with well-known instructors, participate in groundbreaking research

projects, or delve into well-stocked libraries, Balaji has got all the resources.

Whilst talking about the placement department of the Balaji, it has very well


nurtured its liaison and good relationship with the company executives from the

Corporate.

I would like to talk about our faculties (our mentors),Prantosh sir who has made

our concepts regarding marketing very clear. He started everything from the

base and explained each and every concept.Girish sir brought to us various

examples from the industry which really gave us a great insight of the industry.

Moreover the corporate interaction from corporate stalwart has improved my

insight of the industry. Another great thing about balaji society was each and

every festival was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the same way we

celebrate at home.

Last but not the least i would like to thank Bala sir who stood as an inspiration

for me ,i can never forget his words "PROBLEMS ARE OPPORTUNITY".He always

taught us about Discipline,dedication and determination and now I found the

true values of these words.Bala sir regular update about the industry and the

environment is still helping us a lot.

THANK YOU BALAJI SOCIETY FOR EVERYTHING.I ALWAYS FEEL PROUD TO BE

ASSOCIATED WITH BALAJI COLLAGE.THANK YOU BALA SIR FOR BEING THERE

FOR US, ALWAYS.

Hi All ,

I'm Vijay Raghav

Registration No.TM 09-8251

PGDM ( Telecom ) ,Dual C

BITM 2009 - 2011

Before coming to SBS, frankly speaking I'm not interested in MBA. I want to

pursue MS but due to recession in the economy, my parents convinced me to go

for the MBA. The day I entered in SBS, I know my future is in safe hands.But

still the goal is to get a good placement in the reputed organization. The logo of

SBS still reminds me i.e., 3D's discipline, dedication and determination. I proudly

say that now where I'm stand it's because of SBS, our beloved Bala Sir,

Directors of each institute and the most important faculty. They taught us how

to cope yourself in the corporate environment. They taught etiquette's,

personality development ,interpersonal skills ,communication etc.

Vijay Raghav


For me, the campus placement experience is mixed with both feelings and

emotions and also lots of pain for me. The reason is that I get placed in the last

where only 4-5 of my batch mates were left for the campus. So ,you all can

understand that how tough it was for me. I prepared myself in all the aspects

whether it will be GD, Interview etc.

I remember that the first company visited to our campus for the Telecom is

Company A. I'm very excited about that and also feeling some heat (in other

words nervous ). The first round was GD and for this they made a batch of 12-

15. Finally, the turn has came and we entered into the GD room and the topic

was “Pros and Cons having relationship with China “. As, the panel gave the

topic the whole room becomes fish market in few minutes. Even, I became

aggressive. After coming from the GD room, I was quite optimistic that I will be

selected. Soon, the results were announced and I was not selected. I felt

frustrated but I thought this was the first company.

After that lots of companies came but I wasn't be able to shortlisted in those

because of the less percentage in both Engg and MBA.In between, several other

companies came but I have not shown any interest because I didn't liked the

profile they were offering.

I created lots of opportunities during that time but I failed twice or thrice during

my interview rounds. I wasn't able to capitalize on the opportunities which I

created for myself. My morale is going down and I'm losing my confidence.

Then came one of those many days when a company X came in our campus. As

usual we got ready and were called in the Audi for the Company / profile

presentation. There was a confusion regarding the job profile but later they

cleared that the job profile they were offering is related to the project

management. Then I decided that I will go for it.

The process started with the Written Test. There were 60 questions which

includes aptitude, reasoning etc. I was able to clear the written test.The next

round was Group Discussion (GD) .We were 12 people in our GD group and

there were 2 panelists to conduct the GD. There was rectangular table in TM

building and I was sitting across the judges. Topic of GD was: “GROWTH OF

TELECOM INDUSTRY IN INDIA"I was just thinking that where to start with and

I decided not to speak first (honestly speaking). I wanted to see the flow of

group so I started on third no and following are the major points out of

discussion:

lOverview of the Telecom Industry

lEmerging Technologies like WiMAX ,OFDM

l3G and 4G

lVAS Industry

lKey Drivers for Telecom Industry (For Eg. Network Equipment Vendors,

OEM's etc.)

With, GD got finished. I was little bit sure of my selection and I was not thinking

much of it.Next day, the results were announced and I was shortlisted for the


next round. After 1 week they Company X called in their campus and when we

went there, the panel was waiting for us. Again, they took the Written Test and

after 30 mins they announced the result and I was shortlisted for the final

round i.e., Interview Round.

The interview round took place after some days. It includes all aspects like

Technical and HR in one interview. There is no separate HR round.I was the first

from the telecom batch to be interviewed. I was a bit anxious but I tried to

keep myself calm and composed.

They started with the general questions like:

1)Tell me about yourself

2)Family Background

One interesting question is that they checked me in Sanskrit because I

mentioned in my CV is that I got 58th rank overall in India. They asked lattlakar

for gachati.

What are your hobbies etc.

Now they jumped into the technical questions.

1)Questions on the technologies like Wi-Fi, Wimax, difference between Wi-Fi

and Wimax, IEEE standard for Ethernet.

2) What is Project Management , Financial Management in Project Management.

3) Three most important aspects of Project Management

A: Time ,Cost and Quality

4) What is Change Management etc.

These were few of the important questions, Apart from this they also asked

regarding my interests, subjects we have studied, our MTNL Training etc.

Altogether it was a nice interaction with the interviewer and he looked

convinced so was I.The interviewer also asked if there is anything I would like

to clear or ask. With this, he said me all the best and let's wait for the results

that would be displayed by your parent company X..

So, finally I got a huge sigh of relief when HR called me and told that you were

selected.I thank my parents and family members for providing the support

throughout that phase and encouraged me that you also get placed one day

and I thank god for his blessings. Without him, nothing is possible.

I whole heartedly thank SBS for giving a shape to my career. I thank Bala sir for

his blessings with us. I thank Director ,Deputy Director and others also for their

blessings with us.


Vaninder Kaur,

Hi

I am Vaninder Kaur,

Registration Number is TM09-8058,

Class Division is Dual A BITM,

Specialization is in Marketing & Finance,

Academic Year 2009-2011,

Placed on 7thDecember, 2011.

Dear friends,




1st Company Experience.........


Experience with XYZ was awful.

In the first round......... they conducted Group Discussion wherein groups of 6

to 8 students were made and very generic topics were given, altogether from

BITM 120 students of marketing appeared for the GD round. Out of 120 the HR

picked up just 5 students which were two less a number.

Five students including myself appeared for the second round which was a

general aptitude test.

Aptitude Test is conducted to have a better understanding of the candidate and

his/her response to multiple situations. It more or less gives a complete picture

of the candidate thereby helping the HR Team to match the characteristics of

the candidate with their requirement.


While our interaction I simply asked one of the panel members, “ Why so less

students were selected in the Gd round from BITM”, my curiosity somehow

annoyed the HR and they didn't like my inquisitiveness and in turn my chances

of getting into XYZ came to an end.

Second Company Experience..................

Then I appeared for another company, although the name was new in the

industry but I was quiet impressed by the package and the profile, therefore, I

sat for the interview .


The First Round........ This round was Group Discussion wherein a topic related

to sports was given, so I didn't take the initiative to start as 'sports' is not my

cup of tea, but I had the confidence to speak about any topic thrown at me. So

I got through the first round of Gd.

The Second Round.........All the students who cleared the first round sat for the

next round of Gd, topic given was, 'Is jugaad, the way of doing business in

India'? All the students who cleared the 2nd round sat for the 3rd round. In

every round students got eliminated.

The 3rd Round............In this round the HR panel said, to start and conduct the

Gd on our own, which created a lot of mess and a lot of leaders, who wanted to

prove their worth.

Than the 4th round......... the coordinator asked to give one word in which our

friends can best describe us. Post which they finally shortlisted students for the

interview round. I did appear for interview but couldn't make through the

selection process, maybe I didn't fit into what they were probably looking for.

Emotions..............After appearing for two companies, reaching till the end and

not getting selected made me feel a little low and then I appeared for a couple

of more companies where in I failed to clear the Gd round which to an extent

had lowered my self confidence and I couldn't see anything positive happening

around when finally my lucky day came. I was so sceptical about giving my CV

for ABC Co. that I took it back had a discussion with my parents and friends and

went again to give my CV.




Last Company Experience..........

My Selection day.......................

First Round............it had to be group discussion which is also elimination

round. Groups of 10 to 12 students were made. Topic was related to real estate

industry as the company was from real estate sector.

Second Round........ all those who cleared the first round sat for another round

of Gd, where the topic was Global Warming. After the group discussion, the HR

panel asked each one of us to conclude in minimum of words and to be as

precise as possible and bringing forth each once perspective. I was the only

student in my group who cleared this round as my group members couldn't


restrict to the word limit as was instructed by the panel. Therefore, very

important it becomes to understand what is expected out of you and how you

present yourself.

Final Interview Round............ It was a panel of two members one was the

Head HR of the company and the other from the Marketing Department.

Q1. They asked me to select any service from the service sector of my choice

and market it .

Ans. Since I had a strong interest in Event Management I selected being a

Wedding Planner and marketed wedding packages to them.

** They even checked on my negotiation skills and cross- questioning and my

skills to convince the client.

Q2. Why Real estate sector especially when it is a male dominated sector.

Ans. They wanted to know my interest and how comfortable I would be in this

industry. I explained them confidently the pros and cons of this sector and

'being a girl' should never be a reasons to hold back in career in today's work

culture.



ambiguity.

Q4. If we reduce the total CTC that we are offering by Rs. 50,000. Will you still

go for the offer?

Ans. I confidently said, “that the Company and brand is what that matters and

package is

Secondary”.

After the Final Interview Round..........

Out of 15 students who appeared for the interview round only 5 were picked up

and I was one of them

Finally I got selected.........



scrutinising our CV's. Out of 5 students who cleared the interview round, 3 were

selected and offered the job. I was the only one selected from BITM which

made me feel proud all the more.

Offer letter.............. mentioned the joining date to be 14th of Feb, 2011 which

made all three of us very excited, as we would be joining early and getting paid

very soon and additional months get added to the experience we gain.








with those black suits and heavy pay packages to rock the world..............

Hi.

VarunVerma

Reg. No. : TM09-8173

Div.: Dual 'B' Marketing &Telecom(Balaji Institute of Telecom & Management)


Specialization : Marketing

First of all, I want to thank BITM Placement Team (2009-2011 Batch) for their

hard work during the whole Placement season. They worked day and night for

our Placement....Thanks A lot Guys! Without your efforts it would not have been

possible for us... !!!!!!!!!

The placement season is the time we all dream for when we join MBA college.

The fever of Placement season rises up as the time comes close by. It was 18th

of September, 2010 when our Bala Sir announced in the auditorium that the

journey towards our destiny would begin from tomorrow onwards, the journey

full of anticipation and anxiety, the journey of Campus Placements 2010.....

Then the day arrived, 19th Sep was here, ABC Comp. was in the Campus, a

different mood was there of seriousness, of responsibility, for the first time in

the audi people were not asked to arrange themselves or asked to “settle

down”, it just happened and you could understand it, for sure something was

very different. The process started and i did not clear the G.D, and it was very

disappointing to say the least.

Varun Verma


My placement experience was quite good. I have selected limited companies to

start my carrier.

My Second Company was X . I had cleared the Aptitude Test only 100 student

had cleared the Test from the whole BalajiSociety , I felt proud that out of the

best 100 students who cleared the Aptitude Test and got selected from the

whole Balaji society I was the one among them. But to my disappointment, in

the next 30 minutes I was rejected in the GD round. Thankfully I was not

disheartened because this was my first chance and I did good in the process.

Then new companies and firms kept conducting campus interviews and I fully

determined kept on facing the process. Again I was rejected sometimes in GD

or sometimes in the Final Interview.

But then there was something else in store for me, something on the 23-01-

2011, “A” Company in the campus and “It Happened”, I got through-I was

Placed!!!!

The Company had already sent a criterion for short listing, apart from the

College's criteria of 60% marks throughout and 90% attendance.

At around 1100 hrs the Co. arrived, and we all were asked to submit our C.V's

and rush to the Seminar Room of TM building for the PPT (Pre Placement Talk).

The environment in that room was one of its kind, people were tensed

regarding the process, phrases like “Best of Luck Yaar”, “Are teratho is me ho hi

jayeha”, floated around.....all were trying to show that they were very normal by

talking, laughing, but inside everyone knew the tension levels were soaring sky

high......

The officials arrived, our Director mam introduced them, and then the PPT

started, they showed us everything in complete detail, from the profile offered,

their latest Projects, the working hours, culture, ethics, and most importantly

the compensation part-the entire break up including the take away, or the in

hand salary.....

On the same day I am also having a final exam of financial management. After

completetion of my P.I. I rushed through the HRD building to attened my Exam.

There is mixed feelings for placement and exam.

I rushed to the place where our P.I was supposed to be held, they had gone for

lunch and by the time we were asked to fill a Personal Profile Form. It was

much like our C.V with the additions like Strengths, weakness, and the

important question “Why IT Sector?”

I was the second one for the interview too. The first interview lasted for 25

mins or so believe me those were the longest 25 minsi had experienced. And

then finally that time came when my friend Nitin told me it was my turn next.

I went inside greeted the panel and was asked to take a seat. Then their

questions started the first one being the most anticipated one-“priyesh tell us

something about yourself”, then a sequence of them were fired at me like:


The Questions which they generally ask

1 . Describe yourself?

This question was asked by every company, so every one has to prepare for it,

very well which can be influential for the interviewrs.

2. Some current affairs

As a part of our curriculum reading economic times on a daily basis helped me

to give answers to the current affairs asked by interviewrs.As a marketing

student everyone has to know about different brands their tag lines and other

related parameters.

3.why marketing

two years in marketing give me lot of reasons to satisfy interviewrs about this

question.

4.where you see yourself 5 years down the line

5.Why xyz company.

For this question it requires a lot of home work about the company, about its

balance sheet , its establishment , its presence , about its products which can

be acquired from the company website.

After facing many group discussions and interviews finally my day had come I

got placed in the 10th company on 23 Jan 2011

There was a normal group discussions, which again I cleared as usual. Then

there were only direct interviews

The panel consisted of 3 members.Each one of them were talented and

equipped enough to find out what good each one of us had to offer and who

could be the best one of them.

In the pre placement talk the speaker introduced himself and the company to

us. The work culture, what they were looking for, the salary structure, job

profile, everything was clearly explained to us. Questions were answered and

other doubts were also clarified. The placement procedure consisted of the

following rounds:-

1.Shortlisting of students.

2.Group Discussion

3.final interview 1 & 2

Interview with each of the candidates went around for 20 mins which implied

sufficient time being taken by the panel members to judge each one of us. The

questions asked during my P.I were:-

Basic introduction.

Strengths and weaknesses.


Major setbacks and achievements.

Learning from them

Hobbies and interests.

Company of summer internship, project undertaken.

Where do you see yourself five years down the line?

How can you contribute to the growth of our organization?

Flexibility with regards to location.

Questions from branding and marketing?

How you can make your product different from others.

What is the gaurantee that u dont leave us after taking experience .

The day had come because of the hard work put in by our pat members , every

faculty which taught us , by our beloved bala sir, inamdar sir who always guided

us as a mentor and on every step boosted our confidence.

I am very lucky that i am passed out from such an esteemed institution.

My Suggestions:

Patience is the key, Go for the profile and be very particular about the sector

you want to

enter. If you are good you will get what you want and money would

automatically follow

you. Be confident about yourself, continue doing hard work, success will

ultimately follow

you. Don't get disheartened by the rejections, instead learn from them to

improve.

“The ride is not smooth if you want to achieve great heights.”

I wish all my colleagues ALL THE VERY BEST and hope they succeed in their

endeavours.

SBS WILL HELP YOU LIVE AND FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS.

Thank You

Varunverma


Ms. Veenu Ahuja

I am Ms. Veenu Ahuja

Registration no TM 09 8296

From Dual D BITM

Telecom batch

2009-2011 Batch

from the academic year 2009-11

passed out on 26th APril 2011.

Company: Telecom services and Product Company

Placement is Dream of every student when he or she enters into the college. I

also saw the same dream and it got completed after sitting for 3rd company.

It is well said that everybody has got his /her own day and that person gets

placed on that particular day. So i would like to share my experience of MY DAY

that was on 29th November 2011.

Being from an Engineering back ground helped me understand what the

telecom industry was all about. Apart from the regular reading of newspaper

and browsing the internet to gather data about various industries helped me

prepare well for the process.

Entire process was consisted of two rounds.

1) Group Discussion

2) Interview

1) Group Discussion on various topics ranging from abstract to those with a

focus in marketing issues and current affairs

Students were divided into groups of 10 to 12 each. The topics for discussion

were from all the fields ranging from IT to those of general awareness. There

were 1-2 moderators per group who clarified the rules for discussion.

The topic for my group was “ARE WOMEN CEO'S THE ONLY WAY TO INDIA

SUCCESS?

We were given 5 minutes to organize our thoughts and jot it down and another

10 minutes to carry out the discussion at the end of which we were asked to

draw a conclusion. Most of the students were able to make their point amidst

much noise from certain quarters and we finally concluded with a consensus

that EQUALITY IS IMPORTANT.


However from the discussion that ensued one thing came to the fore that

students were not very well equipped with facts and appropriate subject matter

as most of them gave a very generic picture of the entire thing. It was

disappointing as a post graduate student from an institute of repute like ours

should have known better. I made my presence felt in the discussion at the

appropriate junctures, especially once when the student who initiated the

discussion took it off the track which could have sabotaged everyone's chance

of going to the next round. At the end of it 2 students from a group of 12 were

shortlisted for the final round. I have always followed the mantra of keeping my

calm, use of simple words, clear pronunciation and never indulge in cross talks

while the discussion is in progress.

2) Interview

A panel consisted of Head Talent Acquisition and our alumni. The interview

started with a small talk to break the ice and then they started asking questions

like :

a)Tell us something yourself that your resume doesn't tell us

I basically tried to focus on my family background and extracurricular as my

resume had all other academic details.

b) If I call someone from your class, would they know you? How would they

describe you?

My answer basically emphasized on my qualities and I tried to substantiate

them with illustrations.

c) If you were to compare yourself with an animal, which animal would that be?

I feel that no matter which animal one says, one should explain why that animal

has been chosen by you and should have experiences to highlight the qualities

that the animal is associated with.

d) Give one word that best describes you.

Here I would like to advice that always use the word which gels with the

description in your resume and your personality because the interviewers

cannot be bluffed on these grounds

e) Tell us something about the company where you did your internship

I did my internship in Bharti airtel limited. So I told them about the company, its

standing in the market, its ventures, some of its ongoing marketing areas. I also

focused on the company culture and other details which I felt it distinguished

the company from others.


f) What was your project?

I described my project, its scope and its applicability. I also focused on my

contributions in doing the same.

They had also asked some minor details about the project while I was

describing my project. I suggest that one should know one's project in depth.

Be honest incase one is unable to recall any other detail.

g) What were your recommendations? Were any of them accepted?

I told them about my recommendations made to the company and about the

suggestions that were accepted.

h) Do you have any profile preferences?

I told them what I would prefer but I also made sure to emphasize on the fact

that I am open to marketing profile that the company has to offer.

Here, I would stress that one should be open to other profiles than that of one's

liking.

I)what are your expectations from the company?

j) Were you look yourself after 5 yrs from now?

I see myself as Project Manager - Business development after 5 yrs from now.

They also asked me as to why do you think that we should take you?

To this I had given a genuine answer stating some of my strengths relating it

their expectations which they had stated in their presentation

I would suggest that one should be fully prepared. In-depth knowledge about

the project and recent developments in that field and others areas should be

there. Moreover, one should go and face the interview with an open mind and

should be flexible. One should be confident and truthful in the interview.

One should keep in mind that we are the navigators of our interview. It is us

that help the interviewer make their decision. One should always remember that

no one is less talented than the other and the efforts that we put in will surely

be rewarded.

Wishing everyone a bright and successful future.


Vibhakar

Hi,

I am Vibhakar

Registration Number TM-09-8060

Class Division- Dual a BITM,

Academic year 2009-2011

My specialization is in Marketing & Finance

I am finally placed in Company A, working in business development group for

chemical Product.

It gives me an immense pleasure to share my campus placement experience

with my juniors, who could surely gain some knowledge & belief to learn the

things I did in order to secure a good position in the corporate world.

Life is full of challenges & you have to work hard to strive for success. I too

followed the same pattern of achieving success by learning & adapting to skills

required for a great future. Also I would like to thank the college placement cell

for working day & night, burning mid night fuel to stand on hopes of the

students & bring in almost 300 companies to the campus for placement.

To start with, the skills required for success in campus placement is to develop

logical & analytical skills. This would help to strive for 1st level for selection that

is “Written Aptitude test”. For this many books are available to go for. To

develop this regular work with numbers to be precise is important; students

should go for numbers as these would help in their corporate world. Since

consistent performance is the key to success people should not be demotivated

by the level of difficulty in any exam.

Next step is the “Group Discussion” round, this is a rejection round, so you need

to focus, pitch in points that are relevant to the subject. For this the best thing

the college provides is the “Economic Times” paper. This paper would help to

know the current market trends, help you to analyze the market situation &

would help develop the ability to understand the market happenings.

I used to regularly read the paper, maybe not the complete content, but the

basic headlines, so as to know what is happening in the market. And for

telecom students it is important, as telecom sector is at the boom, so any

change in the market can change the tide of the carrier.

And the final is the personal interview, both HR & Technical, & for this I think

our college professors has done a commendable job in knowing us the current

technologies, in & out, know the future technologies, & help us to know the


basics from the core of each subject, maybe its marketing, telecom related

issues & what not. I am thankful to Bala sir for providing such esteemed

professors at our disposal, so that we could learn a lot from them.

I have divided my campus placement experience into the following four

activities:-

lWritten Aptitude Test

The aptitude test was divided into 3 main parts i.e.quant, verbal ability and data

interpretation. Generally questions from RS Aggarwal were asked. We were

given around 90 questions to be responded in 60 minutes. After conducting the

written test, I was selected for the next round that is group discussion round.

lGroup discussion

22 groups were formed for conducting group discussions with around 15 to 20

students in each group. We were asked to select a topic for ourselves but after

a minute's time we weregiven a topic “SEZs: Boon or Bane?”

Students were judges on the following parameters:-

lAbility to lead the group

lCommunication skills

lYour understanding of the topic

Group discussion was for 15 mins and the discussion went in a flow as

introduction to topic, examples and pros and cons of the topic were discussed.

Group discussion was elimination round and 2-3 students per group were

selected.

I got through the above 2 rounds and the next was HR interview

lHR interview

The interview was conducted around 10 PM. The interview started with the

questions like:

lIntroduce yourself

lTell me something about your family background

lWhy you want to join our company?

lAre you ready to be work anywhere in India?

lDiscuss about your strengths & weaknesses

lDo your SWOT analysis

lTell me something about services(particularly IT) sector in India?

lWhat do you know about the company?

lAre you ready to sign the bond?


The interview went well for almost 40 mins and after 7 days the results were

conveyed to the PAT team into which I was selected.

lTechnical interview

The final round of interview was a technical one and it conducted 2 weeks from

the day HR interview results were announced.

The interview was a telephonic call which was taken from Bangalore. The

interviewer introduced himself & started asking me questions on technical side,

accessing my logical, analytical & basic knowledge about technology.

Some questions that were asked are:

lMarketing related questions like product life cycle for a service, new product

development, knowledge of RFP/RFI, how to pitch the customer, what is

configuration management? Some questions about MS office tools.

lWhat is project management? Some questions were asked on real time

problems in marketing & how you as a PM would solve it. They also

concentrated on my summer internship as to what problems did I face during

my summer internship and what did I do about it.

The interview was carried on for about 60 minutes, and finally the interview

results were announced the same day and I was selected.

I thank Bala sir for making me share such a wonderful experience for placement

that would surely help my juniors for motivation & just want to wish all the very

best for their future. As always Bala sir used to say, “Problems are

Opportunities” I would always remember those words life long, & in case of any

urgency would not hesitate to apply sir's Guru Mantra. Again I would like to tell

my juniors to follow footsteps of sir to achieve something memorable & big in

life, as I always do.

Thanks & Regards,

Vibhakar


Vikas Kumar Singh

Hi I am Vikas Kumar SinghRoll Number –TM09-8175BITM-Dual B (Marketing & Telecom)Academic Year 2009-2011


My Alma Mater:When I joined BITM a lot questions went through my mind. Questions like whether have I taken the right decision? Will I be able to get good placements? Will I be able to prove myself in this totally new

environment? And things like that. But today as I look back I see that Balaji society has given me much more than what I would have ever desired. Apart from knowledge, it has given me the strength and stamina to fight with this cruel world outside which is filled with so called sharks, it has taught me very basic yet very powerful lessons of life as how to respect and appreciate others. I would like to salute the efforts of Bala sir whose strong vision and leadership has transformed many lives and would continue doing it in futures to come. I still remember those long hours of sitting in auditorium and watching Mahabharata episodes and cursing myself, those extended classroom sessions and no holiday concept. But today I understand the importance of those times when my days in the office extend to 11:30 p.m. in the night. It was all done to prepare ourselves. The pain which we took that time is now a blessing for us. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my mentors in the Balaji Society for giving me such courage to stand where I am today.

The D-day-: No prize for guessing this day but it's the same day for what we were there. We had worked hard and wanted to do well. This was my third company in which I was sitting. Earlier I had my chances in companies like DHL and ShapoorjiPallonji group but somehow bad luck followed or rather I would say that there were others who were better than me. It was Company A whose process started late and went up till midnight with two rounds yet to be taken on the next day.

The Company's Process:First round : It was as usual a written test which I was very confident of clearing, yet I was getting very anxious to know the results as soon as


possible. I could hardly wait. Finally it came and I was through to the next round.

Second round (Group Discussion): I was in the sixth group. The wait was too long to handle. Every time a group was out we were in a hurry to share their experience inside. A very usual process yet so exciting.

The topics varied from politics to sports to economy etc. I was just sitting with my group and guessing our topic. Finally, the time arrived and we were inside. We all looked cheerful and were just ready to let ourselves blast. There were two moderators one of them a lady. The moderators wanted us to feel very comfortable and they started chit chatting before we actually started the session. The lady in the conversation asked which topic we as a group wanted to discuss. Everybody had their own notion. I too suggested some current topics. Suddenly the HR (male) gave us the same as our topic meaning he wanted us to split in two groups of five and decide a topic amongst our groups and then convince each other as to why should we have this topic for discussion. And this whole exercise became our GD topic. For a moment we were taken by surprise as we had entered with a different perspective. Lesson here was that we have to be ready for anything and everything all the time. Soon we started the exercise. I convinced my group about the topic “china's relations with India-complex & Sensitive”. Altogether we had a great experience and an intense discussion.

Third Round: This session was about testing our writing skills. It was all happening around midnight but still everybody looked fresh and active.

We were shown few pictures on the screen one by one for 15 seconds and were suppose to conceptualize a story based on the picture that for which we were given 4 minutes each. The process was very similar to SSB interview. It was an interesting round allowing us to show our imagination and creativity.

The final round (Interview): It started the next day. There were three persons one of them being a lady. I entered the room with full confidence not knowing that it was going to be gruelling session. I started with my introduction and how my upbringing happened. Then all of sudden a

strange question:Interviewer: You have got 58.9% aggregate in your graduation and our criterion is 60% then what are you doing here?Me: Sir, with all due respect I would like to say that I have already


crossed three rounds of yours which proves that I am the right candidature for the job and as far as marks are concerned I don't think 1 % is going to make any difference as long as you have the conviction and courage to go out in the market do good for your company.

As the interview went along I was asked to show a mock of the selling process where I was suppose to convince the person about my products and how these are going to add value to his business.

I was supposed to come up with 20 reasons and ideas to convince him.

Though I never matched that number but did fairly well. Later there were some light discussions about my family and marriage. It went up to 35 minutes. All the way interviewers were trying to put me down and make me feel low and it was all done to check how I work under pressure.

I was confident of getting selected but still those butterflies did their job in my stomach. Finally the entire wait and the anticipation came to an end as the Head HR announced the results and my name being one of them. Altogether there were 11 people who were selected. I thanked GOD as I took breath in relief.

Let me take this opportunity to thank all my well wishers, my mentors in Balaji society, my parents and of course my friends for all their support without whom it would have never been possible.

At last I would like to wish All the Best to all my juniors. Success and failures are a part of life. Failures are just the milestones for the success

to come. I would like to quote a line here:“The Dawn always happens after the darkest hours of the night”

Thanks & regards

Vikas Kumar Singh


Vikrant Rai

I am Vikrant Rai

Registration No: TM09-8309

Specialization : PGDM ( Telecom)- Dual 'C'.

Batch :-2009-2011

Hello Ma'am,

Following is my placement experience in SBS.

I was rejected in two companies and was not shortlisted for two other

compnaies due to low attendance (my attendance was 91.1%) . I kept my cool.

XXXXX was the next on list. I knew I had to make it.

The day was 8th December 2010. The process started at 10 pm . Initially the

HR gave a small presentation about XXXXXXX and its various product lines. Only

Engineers were allowed to appear for this company and not more than one

backlog was allowed during engineering graduation.

The first round consisted of Group Discussion. My GD was held at 11:58 pm and

this was my GD topic as well “ GD at 11:58 pm.” Time duration for GD was 10

min. I took the initiative and related it to SBS rigorous schedule that due to the

“Commando Training” we all are still feeling live to appear in GD at this hour

and how we are molded to work in tough corporate conditions. The result came

after 5 mins and I was through.

After that we had Psychometric Test. And to clear it, there is always one rule as

per my opinion. Always create a positive story around the picture shown in

slides.

The result was declared around 1 pm and I cleared it as well.

Next day around 7 am our interview was scheduled. Due to my Gap years

between 12th and Engineering I had very little room to play. XXXXXX was

offering Sales Profile and I had done my Internship in “YYYYYYYYY” in sales.

I knew it that I have to build my interview on Summer Internship only. I had

given a presentation on MVNO during my Internship, so I deliberately put “

Presentation on MVNO” in other activities column.

And the moment HR asked about it , I had plenty of things to talk about. My

interview went on for 30 mins and of that 20 mins we discussed about

Internship only.

Apart from this few technical questions were also asked to me :-

Q1 What is SS7?


Ans: Common Channel Signaling System No 7 (SS7 or C7) is a global standard

for telecommunications defined by International Telecommunication Union

(ITU). The standard defines the procedure and protocols by which network

elements in the Public Switched Telephone Network ( PSTN) exchange

information over a digital signalling network to effect wireline and wireless call

setup, routing and control.

Q2 What is GSM ?

Ans: GSM is a technology which is the leading cell phone standard all over the

world. In 1982 it was recognized as a standard for digital wireless

communications and was first adopted in Europe and then by Asia, Africa etc.

The first system was online in 1991 and GSM was formerly known as Group

Special Mobile but now stands for Global System for Mobile communications.

USA, however has not adopted GSM as a standard and so different carriers now

use different technologies as opposed to only GSM.

GSM is an open system and is a non propriety technology. One of the great

benefits of GSM is that it facilitates international roaming. As it is adopted by

more than 170 countries, you have the facility of using your GSM cell phone in

all these places without having to change your number. GSM satellite roaming

has broadened the scope of cellular services even to areas where standard

terrestrial services are not possible.

GSM is a technology that is rapidly growing and constantly evolving with

wireless, satellite and cordless systems offering greatly expanded services.

These services include multimedia data services, high speed, inbuilt support for

side by side use of these services and faultless incorporation with the Internet

and wireline networks.

GSM works on different frequency bands across the world. In North America it

uses a 1900 MHz frequency whereas in other parts of the world it uses either

900MHz or 1800 MHz.

Q3 What is Wi Fi?

Ans: Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) is a wireless networking technology. It allows

devices to communicate without wires. Wi-Fi refers to any system that uses the

802.11 standard, which was developed by the Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and released in 1997. In a Wi-Fi network,

computers with Wi-Fi network cards connect wirelessly to a wireless router. The

router is connected to the Internet by means of a modem, typically a cable or

DSL modem. Any user within 200 feet or so (about 61 meters) of the access

point can then connect to the Internet.


It uses radio frequency in 2.4 GHz range, a lower frequency that does not

require near line-of-sight operation, to transmit data through air. Initial speed

was 1-2 mbps. Now 802.11a,b,g has been added.Wireless Internet is just one of

the services that wifi supports. Wifi is a wireless communication standard used

between computer devices to share files and resources.

Q3- Bluetooth vsWiFi?

Ans: Bluetooth and WiFi are both wireless technologies that use radio frequency

(RF) waves to create networks, but they're used for fundamentally different

purposes. Bluetooth's main purpose is to temporarily link an individual's

personal devices together over short distances, while WiFi's purpose is to link

multiple computers together over longer distances.

Q4? What is eTOM?

Ans: Every business has standards and best practices. The most widely used

and accepted set of framework to guide the development and management of

key business processes within a Telecom service provider is eTOM.

eTOM started back in 1995, known then as the TOM. TOM very much focused

on just the operational process needs. Since starting in 1999, eTOM has

gradually added strategic, marketing, and product lifecycle planning and

Enterprise process elements.

eTOM replaced the aging Telecommunications Management Network (TMN)

model.

The enhanced part of the title illustrates the focus on cutting-edge telecom

technologies, such as DSL, broadband, and Internet-related telephony. As with

other sets of business standards, ETOM is regularly updated. The current

version is Version 4.5.

At its most basic, ETOM is a blueprint for telecom companies to implement

enterprise practices. In e TOM four lifecycle stages are defined:-

Fulfillment.Assurance, Billing and Operation, Support and Readiness.

Around 4 pm the result was declared and I was selected.

The experience was thrilling at all times, yet it must be a cake-walk for any

telecom post graduate from BITM.

Thanks for a patient read.

Please feel free to reach on +91 9560808517.

All the best.

Regards,

Vikrant Rai

TM09-8309


Vineeta Rai

Name :Vineeta Rai

College: Bitm

Dual : B

Roll number: Tm 098176

Batch: 2009-2011

Here I present my experience of getting in Abc

Actually I became serious for this company, only 1 day before it was to come in

my college. In preparation I did few chapters of marketing management by

kotler…but just one day before I revised all the chapters that I did before and

on the next day morning that's on 1st November did small portion of verbal and

nonverbal book . (I did nothing new but I revised only the chapters of Kotler).

Then at around 1 pm they start with their PPT..I can say in my case that it's

only after going through their PPT I felt that I want to be in this company. I was

so impressed but some kind of controversy was going in my mind as I thought

that as compared to other students I haven't prepared well. Its just 5 to 8 hrs I

have spent on preparation but I was thorough with all topics of quant and

verbal so I maintained my confidence in me..that's all I did before going in for

written test that's boosting my inner confidence that I can do it…

About written test I can say preparation matters but the main thing is speed

and the time management…below I write for you the pattern of the written

test—

It consisted of 6 sections having 100 questions in all to be attempted in 1 hr

with no negative marking….

Section

1.Verbal section—it consisted of 35 simple clues but again the speed matters…u

think about the answer and just click on the option there is no time for

rechecking .the question of coding and decoding was there in appreciable

amount so I suggest you that if u are appearing for abc written u better write

ABCD…. On rough sheet before the exam starts …truly it works!!

2. Non verbal section-it was having 20 questions simple and the main portion

was formed by analogy, pattern matching…

3.Quantitative aptitude—only 15 questions of aptitude were there and as I knew

that my quant is weak so I attempted only 7-8 questions of which I got the

answered in first go—actually I can say I was bit lucky in this regard as I


practiced for partnership question well in my prep hrs and in my quant section

there was about 6 simple questions from partnership ..rest I marked all the

other arbitrarily(the main advantage of negative marking)!!

I completed this section in hardly 5 minutes..

4-5. In these two sections was 25 questions of English—like fill in the blanks

with conjunctions ,synonyms, antonyms(simple one not the alien words),it was

all easy for me…

6. it consisted of 2 comprehensions very-very simple its just speed which is

required as u get only 4-5 min to do it .I attempted this section in the last 4

min…

I have given u so much detailed explanation of the written test as in tech m

written forms your more than 70% chances of getting placed in it…u can see

from the fact that in my college 245 students appeared and only 31 cleared

it…..

I waited for the result and was lucky to clear it…

Then everybody was in hurry to prepare for the interview….after passing long

waiting hrs then the next day my call for the interview came. YES I was bit

nervous but was trying to feel better by singing songs….(that's my best way

ever)

Then as I entered the room they welcomed me with so much warm smile that I

started feeling comfortable then my technical interview went for almost 45

min…they were impressed by me…

Here is how my interview went….

As I entered the room they I saw that there were 2 persons sitting to take my

technical…

greeted my interviewers with a smile and was asked to have a seat. My resume

was asked and then began the questioning part..

Intervier:Vineeta introduce yourself to us.

A. I told them about my schools , my family, my nature and in last about my

hobbies..

Intervier:So you like to dance what kind of?

A. I gave a satisfactory reply to it.

Interviewer: Where from you learnt these types of dances?

A. I told them about the sources.


Interviewer : So you was also a basketball player at your school level then can

you tell me the number of total players in it?

A. I replied correctly, that's 5 main and 7 extras..

Interviewer :Any international basketball player whose name you remember this

time?

A. (after thinking any name for few seconds even though I didn't know any I

said) no sir I don't know

Interviwerer:Okay can you just tell to which country it belongs?

A. To this I guessed America (but I don't know why I was sure of it also)

In reply he told me the name of that player which I don't remember even now

(but that time I thanked god that I didn't take any fake name so as to impress

them)

Interviewer:Okay after reading my resume he said that you also took part in

swimming competition at district level!! good..so can you tell me the dimensions

of the pool where you participated?

A. (luckily I remembered the dimensions written on the pool) so I answered

correctly…

So till now it was only my hobbies which was making my technical…

Interviwere:Tell us about any of your strong point in life?

A. I answered.

Intervierwer:We also like to know about your any negative point?

A. I answered ….and by reading their expressions I can say they were

impressed by my strong point as I justified it by giving a real example from my

life.

Interviewer: Now Dipti we want you to solve this puzzle for us.

So they gave me a temple and flowers puzzle that I solved but after taking

atleast 10 min..but as I was solving they asked me the method I am using and

appreciated my approach to solve it..

Then they gave me a cake problem which I wasn't able to solve..

Interviewer: Share any moment of life with us when you thought that you are

trapped but with your hard work and will you were able to come out of it..

A. To this I gave them the example which was also cleared by resume..so he

was very impressed to know that I was a medical student with no even optional


maths in my 12th and then I carried on with my b.tech in e&c and that's with so

much good percentage!!

Interviewer: If our company give the chance to you to carry with your studies

further..would you like to go for it?

A. Yes sir sure.

Interviewer: So since when you are living far from your parents?

A. sir since 4 yrs

Interviewer: So do you feel comfortable living so far from them?

A. Its comfortable to some extent if I have telephonic contacts with them

Interviewer: Any more adjustment…out of house?

A. Yes sir with food.

Interviewer: Do you have any questions to ask?

A. first I asked their names then their experience in abc..the years they are

working with it..the scope of electronics students in this sector and also whether

they can efficiently take on the work load or not ..

After this they said that I can go now and they wished me to have a great

future with them…

Then my HR went as below

(it was of hardly 20 min)

HR: So vineetahello

A. Hello sir and very good afternoon

HR: So have you taken your lunch?

A. No sir

HR..So are you not feeling hungry?

A. sir yes but it happens sometimes when your work is very imp.

Reply—you are rite VINEETA ..you know I more often miss my lunch coz of my

work!!

But are you feeling comfortable?

A.Yes sir

HR..so VINEETA I want u to speak on the topic Maslow motivation theory for

atleast 3 min..

I spoke for about 2 min on it then he said its okay good…


HR..tell me about the company ABC?

A. To this I told them everything that I knew about

HR..SO where from you get to know about all this?

A. SIR from my friends,net, your PPT

HR: Why do you want to join ABC?

A. Yes

HR: VINEETA why dint you went for OTHERS?

A. Sir I dint clear it's written test.

HR..What they told you in their PPT?

a. Actually sir it was only for those students who was short listed fir the

interview..

HR: Hmm so what do u think was this, right? Or are you happy with our pattern

of giving PPT to every one appearing in the test?

A. sir an my opinion everybody should know about the company so your pattern

was better than them and In some way the PPT also boost the energy level of

the students to get into that company if they feel impressed(that's what

happened in my case)…

Then he gave me a form to sign and my HR was over

After about 1 hr result was announced and I was very happy to hear my name

in the list of 21 selected students and then it took me around 2-3 days to realize

that yes m placed in ..it was just like m living in dreams before!!

So my friends the main thing that u should have in you to get in some good

company is to have confidence in your capabilities…and yes time management

during the written test!!

It will be very mean of me if I don't introduce the one who made all this happen

for our batch.

I thank Balaji Society all my respected faculties and the CRT ofour college who

have helped me achieve this. They have helped me make SBS journey a success

story. The GD sessions conducted in the auditorium were helpful. Subject

knowledge was very important but even more important was to present

ourselves with confidence. Recruiters just see your attitude. They don't want

you to know everything they ask they just want to see whether you have that

learning instinct or not. They don't want to see you as the strongest candidate

but they want to see you as most adaptable and one who can survive any

challenge. Recruiters are themselves learning off course they are are well

versed then us but they are keen on our learning skills.Training given


throughout my life in SBS , Bala sir's 3 D, no holidays and strict schedule led me

achieve my dreams.

I would like to thank Bala Sir for guiding us in every tough situation

Thanks for reading my experience and whatever I have written here will be

worth for me if it will help you in any way.

All the best!!

VineetaRai

Hi Everyone,

This Vipul Kumar

from BITM DUAL D 2009-2011 Batch

Specialization: TELECOM & IT

Roll No. :TM09-8298

Registration No. : 19-1926

Dear Sir I am sharing my campus placement experience. I feel very proud to be

part of SBS alumni family and i hope my placement experience will help my

juniors in their placemnet season.

I will start my campus placement experience with a special mention of our

college and BITM placement cell who worked very hard and done a

commendable efforts to make our campus placement season a huge success. I

would also like to mention that more than 200 companies visited our campus

during our placement season and it was good to see most of my batch-mates

and friends getting placed on after another with good start up packages.

The placement season for TELECOM batch started as soon as we returned from

MTNL training in Mumbai. The training was a good learning experience for me

and my batch-mates from TELECOM.

When the placement season started I was not eligible to sit in placements

because of my backlogs. But I have confidence in me that as soon as I will be

eligible for placements I will get through. One thing which I learned during my

placement experience is that one should be confident enough to succeed in

process followed by different companies for their recruitment.

Also I would like to mention that every student should maintain 65% and above

score. I didn't get opportunity to sit for some good IT companies because they

wanted 65% and above throughout.

Vipul Kumar


So its advisable to maintain 65%% benchmark score at all times or else u also

might miss a chance like me. However I had no regrets as I had faith in myself.

Then I sat for few companies but I was choosy.

CV screening is the first criteria for any company. I missed some good

companies because of my Computer Science background in my Engineering

graduation. Its sometime luck also which has to be with you. Never the less I

didn't lose my confidence and prepared for next company.

Different companies follow different processes for their recruitment like some

companies only take GDs followed by HR/PI rounds on the other hand some

companies take aptitude test followed by GDs and HR/PI rounds.

Before sitting for campus placement a student should be clear in his/her mind

that which company, sector and profile he/she opts for which will help in

achieving his future goals.

The domain I selected for my placement was Telecom Infra, Telecom VAS,

Research& IT.

The first opportunity came my way was in the form of Telecom Infrastructure

company XXXXX. The process for this company was GD followed by Personal

Interview.

I was in 2nd GD group comprising of 12 students. The topic for our discussion

was Women CEO's are better thenthere male counter parts.

In any GD my suggestion to my juniors will be listen to the topic carefully and

after listening figure out your points and thoughts in a piece of paper if they

allow or just make up your mind that what all thoughts and views you put

forward in GD. Also put forward your thoughts and points loud and clear.

Well I cleared my GD round and 7 student were selected for Personal Interview

round. In personal interview they asked me following questions:

1. About my internship

2. About training in MTNL Mumbai

3. Why Telecom

4. Willing to relocate

5. And some technical questions

I have not prepared well for technical questions so I got rejected. I felt very bad

because reaching this close to appointment letter I was rejected. But that was

also learning experience for me because I came to know about my weak areas.

I worked hard to improve my technical skills.


Then after one more rejection I sat for a Telecom VAS company XXXXX.

The process for this company was again GD followed by Personal Interview.

This time I was determined to get through all the processes. The topic for our

discussion was related to VAS industry. The topic was somewhat business plan

types. We have to come up with a unique VAS product for our native places.

It was almost half hour of discussions.

After crossing the GD hurdle comes Personal Interview round. The question

asked in my Personal Interview cum HR interview are:

1. VAS industry

2. My internship

3. Why I am interested in VAS industry

4. What are shot codes in VAS

5. Different promotion medium in VAS

6. Followed by some general HR questions like native place from where I

belong, willing to travel etc,.

After conducting all the processes finally HR of the company came with the list

of students selected by them. And the moment when company HR called my

name I was like YES!!!! I have done it and I tell you frankly that those moments

gives you Goosebumps every time you remember it. I was on cloud 9 my efforts

paid off.

After that I was allowed to sit for one more VAS company XXXXX because the

package offered to me was not best but good. For this company also I was

almost got through but due to there lack of number of positions they didn't

selected me. But at the end of all this the I have one offer letter with me and

getting my selected for my domain industry I am happy. I have made a good

start and all credits goes to my college and the placement team for allowing me

to sit for my selected domain.

I joined this Telecom VAS company XXXX and currently serving in VAS industry

handling different VAS services for Telecom Operators.

On this note i would like to end my campus placement experience.

My message to all my loved juniors who are still waiting for there names to be

written in the Golden list is that Do believe in Yourself and knowledge you

acquire in these two year of your MBA. Do some good homework about

company before sitting for campus placement, take feedback from your Seniors

who got placed and work on your weakness. Last but not least enjoy your

college life because the life after this will be even tougher and you gonna miss

these college Days after passing out from SBS.

All the very best for Corporate Future.

With Best Wishes & Warm Regards

Vipul Kumar


Vishal ghule

Name- Vishal ghule

College-BITM (Telecom)

Batch & Roll No. 2009-2011 TM 09-8299.

Dear Sir I am sharing my campus placement experience. I feel very proud to be

part of SBS alumni family and i hope my placement experience will help my

juniors in their placemnet season. It all started when our Telecom Batch

Returned from MTNL Training in Mumbai which was a nice learning experience

of Telecom Managers. At that time I was not eligible 2 sit for placement because

of Backlogs. But I have confidence in me that whenever i will be eligible for

placement I will get through. As soon as I got eligible for campus placement i

almost got through my first company i.e, MICROQUAL. One thing i want to

share with my juniors is that always have that confidence in you that you can

succeed in your GDs and Interviews.

After my first company rejection i got to know what are my weak areas and

what should be my strong points and i planned accordingly. Also, I would like to

mention that before placement season starts you select or rather I say opt for

that company or profile which you find suitable for you or for which you think

you can excel in it. After my first campus placement experience i was quite sure

that either I opt for a Research company or for a VAS (Value ADDED SERVICE)

Company. One of the greatest thingi learned during my placement is Patience.

You got to have a lot of patience.

After sitting in some more companies finally the D-Day arrived. I sat for XYZ

which is telecom company. It started with GD on Telecom topic i.e, we have

come up with a unique VAS service for the region we belonged. The approach

for GD should be in way that you should convey your points clear n loud. But

you should not be making fish market in GDs which do happen in most of the

cases try and avoid that. After clearing GD round then comes the Personal

Interview which was as difficult as was GD. For personal interview I have

prepared well and thanks to GK & Current Affair paper i was able to tackle all

the question which was asked in Interview. And the moment came when

company HR called my name and I tell you frankly that those moments gives

you Goosebumps every time you remember it. Friends here i would like to share

myselection process with you.

It was probably 11th or 12th company I sat for. Every evening we used to go to

the auditorium to hear the announcements for the companies to come. The day

I went for XYZ company's announcement and heard they were giving the profile

and designation which none other company was giving for an MBA fresher. After


hearing the same, I just told my friend sitting next to me in the auditorium that

this is the company I want to be with.

And then the day came. I was sure of cracking the GD as I cleared the GD for

all the companies I sat till then. XYZ company was giving the pre placement talk

and I kept on dreaming about being a part of the company. Then, groups

started to be made for GD. Every GD group had 12 students and when my

group was announced, got to know all the good speakers were in my group

only. Anyways, didn't lose my confidence and we entered the room. I was the

one sitting nearest to the panel as my serial number was the last. I always

feared current general topics as was not very good at general knowledge. Then

the panel of two HR professionals announced the GD topic “Is business

knowledge important for telecom management student”. The announcement of

the topic added to my confidence as technical topics were my favorite on which

I could talk for long. I opened the discussion and got chance to enter the

discussion for some 4-5 times. It went for good 12 minutes. I also helped the

people who had relevant points but could not speak because of the presence of

aggressive people in the group. The discussion ended and I was very confident

of being selected in the same. It took another hour or so to complete the GD for

all the groups and then the result was announced with my name in the list of

people who cleared the GD round. The next round was personal interview and

luckily I got the same panel who was there for GD. They had already assessed

me to an extent and this was the chance to make their belief stronger in me

that I was the one to be a part of the company. The following questions were

asked:

1.Tell me something about yourself.

2.As you are from Pune, won't your parents want you to stay here with them

and work here.

I answer these question based on my past experience from campus

recruitment. When the results for the interview was announced, it again had my

name in the list of selected candidates. However, at the same time, it was

announced that there would be another round of interview with the Chief-HR.

We kept waiting for the date to be announced for the Final interview which

came after a week. We are asked to go to the corporate office of Bajaj Finserv.

Seven of my batch mates who could make it for the last round hired a cab and

reached the office which was around 34 km from the college. We landed there

and we were excited to see the infrastructure of the building. We were asked to

sit in a conference room where we were told that there would be 2 rounds of

psychometric test(Thomas profiling test) to test whether our profile matches to

the one they are offering.


The test took around 15 minutes and I scored the highest in the same. I was

getting positive vibes sitting there and every round was adding to my

confidence. Then post lunch, the final round of interview started with the HR

head. One by one 5 people went to the HR head's cabin coming back to the

conference room with different expressions on their face. For every candidate, it

took almost an hour. Then came my turn and the Chief HR turned out to be

from my native place. He asked me a couple of general questions.then finally it

turn out so called “D” day for me.on this note i would like to wish my juniors for

their best future.

My message to all my loved juniors who are still waiting for there names to be

written in the Golden list is that Do believe in Yourself and knowledge you

acquire in these two year of your MBA. Do some good homework about

company before sitting for campus placement, take feedback from your Seniors

who got placed and work on your weakness. Last but not least enjoy your

college life because the life after this will be even tougher and you gonna miss

these college Days after passing out from SBS.

All the very best for Corporate Future.

With Warm Regards

Hi,

I am Vivek Maharshi

Roll No. TM 09-8301

Balaji Institute of Telecom & Management (Dual D)

Batch 2009-11

My Campus Placement Experience :

I got placed on 18 January 2011. It was actually not expected because of many

reasons but now it is most memorable day of my life.

Before I got placed I have been participating in many companies and in 90% of

the companies I made it till interview but always ended up as not selected. Each

and every time I learned different learning's

To be honestly It was not in my mind in this way that why the others were

selected and not I?? As the other students use to do at that point of time

At that time I was tensed and at the same time I was more confident that this is

the last time when I am out.

Vivek Maharshi


And finally the day came – 18 Jan, 2011, I got the news that I have been

shortlisted by my dream company. It was my seventh company in which I was

going to appear.

My preparation for campus had started almost 2 months back.

I geared up and refreshed all the knowledge that I had learned in my MBA

(Telecom). My preparation where then specific to the company I wanted to get

selected in.

I still remember the night before my placement at that night I had a chat with

my parents and they only told two things:

1) Take a good sleep today, so that you will feel fresh and confident

tomorrow.

2) What ever happened last time take lessons from it but do not carry

forward it in your mind as burden.

I followed both instructions given by them.

On 18, I woke up early around 5 AM. Revised all the technical stuffs taught to

me by my faculties.

The process started at around 9 AM with the PPT.

The PPT session was inspirational, err all the nerves, “this is the one which I

have to be in!!!!”, “what a brand!!!” , “look at the HR!!!”, “the package!!!!!” and

all that stuff.

Then began the actual process, we waited in a room for our chance to come.

There were three rounds-the first one was Group Discussion on the case study

and the second was technical interview and the third was HR interview . We all

waited eagerly for our turn, all studying some or the other stuff. Some said

study this, other said study that; all were busy and so was I, but One thing that

was in my mind was that I have to make it today.

The first round was Group Discussion on the Case Study: How to make the

cookie manufacturing company a centralized data center in production and how

we can reduce the energy. As the GD ended candidates where declared who are

selected for the next round. By the grace of god I was selected for the next

round. During the announcement of the selected candidates the announcement

of the candidates started. The nervousness began to increase; the air heated

up. Everyone was excited who will be the next one and then a female came

shouting “I am selected”. O God that was the moment everyone began to think

when will their turn come and they will be the one being called selected. And

then the second person was called for interview and it was me.

It was the technical round, where four guys were sitting (VP head, Head

Technical corporate, DGM Technical, Head Deployment). During this round I was

asked the basic telecom questions like- what is e-Tom model? What is TMN

model? What all you learned during internship?? What is MPLS technology?

What is broadband??

What is 4G? What is IP? What is future of telecom and Infrastructure?

Questions Related to VAS?


Then they asked me to leave and told that we will let you know the status. I

came out and went to the waiting room. People were going in for interview and

coming out.

Meanwhile some got selected.

I thought I am gone; I am not selected as people after me are already selected.

I have again lost a chance to get into my dream company.

I asked the coordinator that “shall I'll leave”, they told “Please Wait, We have

been asked not to let anyone go”.

Then I waited patiently. The lunch time came.

I went for lunch dis-heartily.

Had my lunch and came back.

I was climbing the stairs to the waiting room; suddenly I heard a voice of a

coordinator asking for me.

I went to her and told that “you are looking for me”, she told that you have

been called for interview. I went in to interviewer's room with a big smile on my

face, I could not hide it. It was HR interview for me.

I was heading towards the waiting room and suddenly again the coordinator

said my name and asked me to go to the HRs room for HR interview.

I went for the HR interview where the Chief HR officer (CHRO) accompanied by

his management team were sitting. The HR was very friendly.

He asked me about myself. He asked me about the BCG matrix, the repo rate,

reverse repo rate, sin wave, cos wave etc.

They said you wait for the final decision. We were almost 30 peoples were

waiting for the final result. The time came and they started calling names of the

selected candidates and finally my name came after 5 guys. I was selected in

my dream company.

I went outside with a big smile on my face and I was so happy that finally I

have made it. I am selected in my dream company as a Senior Executive (Site

Acquistion)

I got a learning that day:- when things are going according to your wish then it

good but when they are not according to your wish then they are going

according to gods wish and something great is waiting for you.

Thank You Bala Sir, I am here because of you, my faculties and my parents.

Thank You!!!!!

VivekMaharshi


Yash Jethani

Hello All,

I am Yash Jethani

Registration no. 01-1150

Batch: 2009-11

Specialization: Telecom & IT

Dual: C

Roll no: TM-09-8215

Company no: 2

First of all, I want to thank BITM Placement Team (2009-2011 Batch) for their

hard work during the whole Placement season. They toiled hard-- day and night

for our Placements....Thanks A lot Guys! Without your efforts it would not have

been possible for us! Never ever!

Following is my placement experience in SBS.. I am placed in Company A (It

was my 2nd company).

After clearing first round of Company 1's recruitment process, was dismissed in

the second round of interview.

I was barred for sitting for the placements in the following 5 companies as I

didn't attend a PPT of a company right after Company 1's process. (I was not

interested in listening to the people for whom I was damn sure of not working

with)..So far so good..

Indeed, it was a long wait until I could make it through.

My campus placement experience was quite amazing and challenging as I had

to go through the typical rounds of technical interviews. In the last week of

December, we were asked to come for the presentation of a company. After the

presentation it was announced that the entire process will take two days and

comprised of:

1) CV short listing

2) Aptitude Test

3) Technical Interview

4) HR round

5) Technical Interview

CV short listing:

All those students who secured above 65% throughout their academics were

being shortlisted.

Aptitude Test:

Aptitude test was conducted for the students who were shortlisted in the first

round. This test comprised of the following sections:


1) English & Communication skills

2) Reasoning skills

3) Math and Data interpretation

4) Logical Reasoning and Financial questions

The results for this test were announced in the late evening

These two processes were conducted during the first day.

Then the next day i.e. the second day began. I was called for the first round of

technical interview at around 2pm.

Technical Interview:

The first process of Day 2 started. I was the second candidate to be called in

the interview room. The interviewer began the process by asking my name and

asking about my background. Simultaneously, he was cross checking what I was

saying with what was written in my CV. The interview comprised of following

sections in which I was asked various questions.

1) Personal details round

2) Summer internship project

3) Case study round (based on various marketing models, my summer

internship project), SWOT Analysis of a telecom company

4) Reasoning round

5) Questions on telecom value chain and OSS/BSS (Operations Support system /

Business Support System)

5) General knowledge round (name of CEOs, current news, economic news). So

please do read the newspapers daily to keep yourself updated.

7) What is eTOM model?

8) What is ITIL?

9)What is MTLS?

My first technical interview was amazing and it took around approximately half

an hour. I was called for the HR round in a short while.

HR Round:

It was quite relaxing. I was asked:

1) 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses

2) Can you describe yourself in one word

3) Current news

4) My family background

5) Passed some funny anecdotes as well

6) Any issues in travelling to Gurgaon?

7) Which is a better brand – Vodafone / Airtel? I stuck with Airtel (Told her I

was emotionally attached: P)


8) Where were you during the 26th January earthquake that hit your town?

How have the people reacted to it after an eon?

My HR round was also good and it took around one hour. Then at around

3:30pm results were announced. I was shortlisted for the last round.

Technical round:

It was quite similar to the first technical interview. It included the same

sections……. But the questions were different

1) How many traffic signals are there in Delhi? How do you propose to get the

Shortest path first in the midst of traffic? How do you calculate the average

moving speed of the traffic?

2) How many balls can come inside an airplane? Justify.

3) What is revenue, net profit, number of employees and share price of

company till date?

4) What do you mean by enterprise solution?

5) What do mean by business outsourcing, IT solution and all?

6) What do mean by BW/BI?

7) Where does cloud fit into telecom value chain?

8) How do you define cloud architecture?

9) Different components of mobile ecosystem..?

10) Components in a cloud architecture? Deployment steps of a cloud?

I managed to give all answers satisfactorily. I knew I was commanding.

With these questions my final round was concluded. The company said to

announce the results on Monday i.e. 3 days after my interview. I was waiting

for the final results to come..

Few tips to the aspirants:

Do not lose patience & make up your mind before applying for any company

i.e. decide beforehand which profile interests you.

Brush up your technical knowledge before the process which is very important

to get you through any company.

Always remember Job Profile & Company is important for your career ahead,

do not sacrifice on these two for anything else.

Keeping yourself updated with the current affairs around the world, business by

reading newspapers always helps.

Always be composed & calm during the placement days & keep yourself


prepared for any company.

Don't get bogged down if you failed to get through any company as there will

be many other opportunities where you prove your mettle.

Always be confident of who you are and show the same during the process.

Be thorough with your CV before an interview as most of questions are asked

from the CV. Don't put false information in the CV.

Work on your weak areas & showcase your strong areas during the process.

I would like to wish all the best to the junior Student Managers for their

placement. Always believe in your abilities & don't get tensed about the

placements as Bala sir, Dimple Ma'am and Dr. Asha Nair will leave no stone

unturned for getting you all placed. Don't compromise on your academic

knowledge ever .

I wish & pray Balaji Society grows by leaps & bounds & placements get even

better for years to come. Wishing Balaji Society all the luck & success.

Warm Regards

YashJethani

Name: Yashasvi Sharma

College:- BITM,

Roll No. :- TM09 - 8061

Dear Friends,

It gives me immense pleasure to share my placement experience with you all. I

would like to start with my overall campus experience and then placement

process.

I remember my first day in SBS morning on 9th June, 2009. There was a big

PoojaOrganised in the Sidhhivinayak Temple. Pooja was done by BALA Sir. Then

we had nice Welcome ceremony. We all were were dressed traditionally. On that

day Bala sir gave us the mantra of “Problems are Opportunities”

Campus experience:

It would not be correct if I say I started the preparation since the very first day.

The first year was very jubilant as we came into a new ambience with new

dreams and ambitions, but at the same time it was very hectic and tiring. But

Yashasvi Sharma


these hectic schedules proved to be a boon to us when we went for our interns.

I did my interns in a Newspaper company. There I realized when other interns

were frustrated due to overload of work; I was able to easily sail through it

because of our corporate commando training.

My first and lifetime learning in BALAJI which got started from the very first day

was to have patience. It would not be correct if I say I liked the long hours of

classes, sitting from 9am to 6:30pm initially. We all were so impatient that we

can't sit for long hours then after first semester I realized the change in me. I

became more patient and focused. Which are the most required qualities for a

manager.

I am very thankful to the faculties provided to us who did not even teach us but

shared their valuable industry experience with us, which helped us a lot to know

the market scenario.

I still remember the line said by Bala sir at the beginning of the Placement

season that “We all are gold, we will be sold” this line always kept me

motivated. I thank to Bala sir for all those addresses which he gave us at every

time we needed motivation.

Placement Process:26th October 2010, A Retail firm was going to visit our

campus. As usual, all eligible candidates had to attend the PPT. I was pretty

sure that I wanted a good work culture so I decided that this company would

be the best choice for me.

I got placed with a big Retail firm in Mumbai. As per my experience, process

was not so tough to crack. Overall I enjoyed the process.

The panel consisted of 3 Team leaders from company accompanied by 2 HR

personnel.

In total we had 5 rounds and first 4 were elimination round.

1st round was of Aptitude Test which had almost 40 questions in 45 mins based

on Quant, Data Interpretation, Reasoning and English. Test was not so tough to

crack. See P&L, Speed time Distance, Work & Time, DI, Comprehension,

questions.

Then the 2nd round was of Group Discussion, we were given the topic of

“Chinese Dragon”. We enjoyed the GD. The discussion was really interesting. It

started with China's Currency and then went to many more threads as usual.

But we had strong contenders in our group. So it was difficult for the panel to

sort us out. So they called for 3rd round.

In the 3rd round, We were given a case study. It was an elimination round.

These short listed students were divided in groups of eight for case study

round. It was very exciting and interesting.

The 4th round was that of Rapid Fire round. We were given few seconds to

answer the question. They were checking our presence of mind. I was scared

before getting into the room but that HR was really helpful she made me

comfortable for the same. She asked many interesting questions like what will

you do if……..

And I have to answer them instantly. Believe me it was the best round actually


it was fun. It was around 10'o clock in the night till all these four rounds

completed. So they called it for the day and the interviews were scheduled for

the next day.

Only those were eligible for the 5th round, who cleared all the above 4 rounds.

On 27th October 2010 morning, we all gathered near the BIMM building for the

final judgment of our destiny.

Before I went for my interview I did a massive research on the company and

their culture. Some of the questions asked were-

1. Tell me about yourself

2. Mention your strengths and weaknesses

3. Areas of academic interest

4. Why our company?

5. Why should I hire you?

Some of the answers given by me- “Sir being a fresher I am raw material for

the industry, you can give trainings and mould me into anything suitable for

companys best benefit”.

Just be confident and sure of what exactly you what from a job and the

company don't try to flatter them. Ensure them that if they are able to give

what exactly you expect from them, than you would sustain and would have a

long-term relationship with the company

Questions were not at all hard but yes the answers expected were little different

and practical.

Just an advice, whenever you are asked a question which you don't know

about, tell it frankly, be what you are, don't try to manipulate. Panel can easily

judge the authenticity of your answers.

Finally the results were declared and they picked up 11 students from the

marketing stream. I was one of them. I can't forget that day. It was just like a

dream come true. It was the day of reward of all my hard work and efforts put

by the college at every single day of my PDGM journey.

I had a wonderful and unforgettable experience and was really blessed to get

one of the biggest brands. From the bottom of my heart, I am very grateful to

Bala Sir, Milind Sir, my colleagues in PAT and my friends and family.

I wish all my Juniors ALL THE VERY BEST and hope they succeed in their

endeavors.

Thanks & Regards,

Yashasvi Sharma

BITM(Marketing & Finance)

Batch2009-2011


Yashwant Kumar

Hi Everyone,

I am Yashwant Kumar

Registration Number- TM 09-8302

I am From Balaji Institute of Telecom & Management, Division D

From the academic year2009-11, passed out in April 2011.

My specialization is in Telecom, I am finally placed in Company D.

When you dream about your college life, Placement seems to be the best

chapter of it. So it was with me. After starting my journey in BITM with

enlightening sessions of Mahabharata, unforgettable sessions of Bam sirs'

presentation and a fun filled creative induction period the only thought that

drove me throughout was the thought of getting placed.

And soon it was September 2010 when the campus recruitments were about to

begin, the amount of energy, knowledge and zeal of achieving the dreams in my

batch mates sometimes pressurized me but always encouraged me to just focus

on my aim and to believe that “Yes I am better than others and yes I can do it”.

It was a difficult task to balance my classroom studies, to update my general

knowledge and to prepare for the exams at the same time but somehow when

u have realization of your dreams it is enough to ignite the passion in you to

just look towards the brighter side of everything.

Everything that was happening around me whether cultural activities or studies

it left an impression on my mind and I realized my inner desire of getting into a

creative firm. I was able to relate my studies with my interest and sooner it was

crystal clear for me to just focus on my aim.

When the first company came to our campus for telecom specialization we are

very excited about the process and interview questions. Process started with

Aptitude test and I am not able to clear the test. Some other company also

visited to our campus but at that time I am keen to focus on some of the

branded company with decent package so not applied on those companies.

After wards I sat for couple of more companies like 2, 3, &4.

But I was not able to get it through. In all these companies the first round was

aptitude test. This contained questions from mathematics, reasoning and

English. Solving the questions was not a problem but to solve them in allotted

time was a bit tricky. So the 2 findings which I got from these rejections were;

Attempt each section of the aptitude test equally (for that you need to be good

in each of the sections) and do it all in the given time.


Having sat for all these companies, I had a good experience of written test. This

helped me in cracking the first round.

In that mean while time some of my friends got selected in couple of companies

like A,B,C etc. I am still waiting for my turn. I came to Mumbai couple of times

for interview process but some companies not declares the result and some

companies gives a very less compensation so I am not interested. Days and

months are passed and still I am not selected in any of the companies.

Time passes and we reach at the month of Feb 2012 and still I am no get

placed, at that time placement cell told us to sit for each and every company so

that we all get placed because at that time very limited company either comes

to our campus or they selected some of the students and invite their

organization for the further round in the interview process. We are told that “it

is compulsory for each and every unplaced telecom student to sit in the process

for every company who visit telecom specialization”.

That time various session conducted by Mrvignesh for the unplaced telecom

student mentioning that what will be our strategy to be placed in the company

who visited our campus, works on G.D. Topics and many more things……that

session will help to boost our confidence.

When me and some of my classmates got to know that we are selected for the

interview process conducted in Mumbai we all get excited, and came to Mumbai

for the interview process.

We reach CCD down below the organization and we got the news that one of us

get selected in a good company with a better package ……….we all are excited

and forgot the process for what we are coming for, we start the party at CCD

and after that he left for the process.

Our time comes we all entered to the company and process start…..

First process is Group Discussion- topic related to politics

Then interview, when I entered into the interview room there are two

gentlemen one of them holding my C V, interview started with the formal

question-

Tell me about yourself?

1) Why telecom?

2) Difference between marketing and selling?

3) Show us the demo of selling coffee cup?

4) Why do you want to join us?

5) Are you comfortable with the profile and location?

6) Tell us about you hobbies and achievements?


Family background and so on…….

Interview held for about 45 minutes and the time reaches 10 pm, there are

nobody in the office, since result was not declared at that time but I am pretty

sure that I will be selected.

After that we back to Pune and we got the result that 5 of us including myself

are selected for psychometric test ……. That is the tough time for me because I

have not cleared any written exam conducted in our college.

But at that time test was pretty easy and I thought if I am not able to clear this

test I will not get the second chance.

Our 4th sem exam are started and still we don't get the final result for the

process.

Finally my prayer to god help and result declared and I am selected as the post

for Business Development Executive.

At last I would like to say that college days are the best and most beautiful days

of our life. I wish I could relive those days….!!!

Thanks,

Yashwant Kumar

Balaji Institute of Telecom & Management

TM09-8302

My CPE BITM 2

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