Bengal Institute of BusinessStudies witnessed another engaging episode of Management Guest Inspired Series
unfold when some of the brightest minds from the leading corporate houses met
at Birla Academy of Art & Culture. Building
a strong corporate academic interface has always been an endeavour at BIBS and
MGIS is the reflection of this initiative. This time, the session focused on ‘what
it takes to succeed in corporate world’.
The panellists included some of
the noted names of India Inc such as Mr. Arnab Kumar De Sarkar, Assistant Vice
president, Kotak Securities and Mr. Arnab Kumar Basu , Senior Manager H.R.
, Reliance Industries Limited (Apparel).
Mr. Vidur Kapoor, chairperson,
BIBS was the moderator of the session. This event provided an opportunity to
the students to derive first hand information on what it takes to sustain and establish
a stable career in the highly competitive corporate environment.
The session opened with Mr. Arnab
Kumar De Sarkar “follow your passion and rest of things will fall in place. Failures
are inevitable but the attitude of not giving up is the vital key to success”.
Mr. Arnab Kumar Basu said,”what others consider to be your weakness
might be the strength for you”. Throughout the event, several questions
were asked by the students to the eminent guests and they answered each of them
carefully.
Undoubtedly, knowledge, skills
and attitude are the key things that drive our growth in an organization. But
both the dignitaries agreed that while knowledge and skills can be acquired
moving along, attitude is something that is ingrained within us and hard to be
worked upon. With the proper training and right attitude, an individual can
create wonders and on the other hand, a negative attitude can call for
undesired consequences.
While most of us have a
perception that attrition rate in companies dealing with financial products and
services is high, Mr. Arnab Kumar De Sarkar has spent about a decade with Kotak
Securities and that actually proves the perception wrong. He citing his own
example said “culture, loyalty, agreement of trust & understanding of the organisation
are his secrets to being in an organisation for such a long time”.
Changing jobs is not a wrong
thing fundamentally, but he insisted that one should be careful in doing so. It
needs to be ensured that the new job will be an upward movement in learning
curve. The monetary benefit shouldn’t be the sole deciding factor.
Both the guests stressed on the
importance of reading newspaper and shared with us that knowing about the world
around you is as important as knowing yourself.
“The session was a learning
experience for all of us. Being students, most of our time is spent inside
classrooms learning lot of concepts and theories. Such sessions provide the
link between theories and their applications” – (Sreya Ghosh, MBA
Marketing) .
“India is the country having the
highest attrition rate however, this session has rather made me develop an
optimistic view towards the statistic. I would try to keep all the points in
mind, discussed during this session so as to drive employee commitment in my
organisation when I start working.” – (Sneha Kundu, MBA HR) .
