Event Report: Sampark III
The Event: “Sampark” Sampark is the team A4’s initiative for helping PGP1 students in their preparation of summer internship placements. It’s a platform where they can interact with our alumni and can get to know the actual nuances of the industry which will help them in carving out their career path. Sampark III was organized from August 28 to September 29, 2015 by conducting mock interviews and interaction sessions for PGP1 students by the Alumni (PGP 2013-2015) of our IIM Udaipur, who have joined the industry recently and are at best positions to give the valuable suggestions and advices. Sampark program has not only helped PGP1’s in securing good summer placements but also facilitated the interaction of the alumni to our IIMU Community. The IIMU community has always worked as a family since inception and to further strengthen this bond, Team A4 takes pride in organizing such endeavors. Sampark III was conducted at just the right time for the PGP1 students who were in the confusion with fast approaching summer internship placements from Oct 7, 2015
The Process We floated the interest form to the 2015 batch alumni seeking their help for the interviews and interaction sessions. 24 alumni positively responded to our request. We floated another form to the PGP1 batch for seeking their interest in Sampark mock interviews and interaction session. 58 PGP1s expressed their willingness to participate. We collected stream interest and resumes from the candidates. Team A4 then mapped the candidates to the alumni depending on the candidate’s interest and the area of expertise of our alumni. According to the convenience of alumni and candidates, we scheduled the interviews and interaction sessions through video conferencing on skype, gtalk or phone call. A 20-minute interview for each PGP1 was organized followed by the feedback session. Feedback sessions were time independent and solely relied on mutual satisfaction of PGP1 candidates and the alums. PGP1s took great advantage of this opportunity by asking all their queries freely, regarding their career choices, industry, formal and informal tips.
53 PGP1s who got the valuable guidance in Sampark III Abhishek kumar, Mehul Popat, Aniruddha Patil, Nikhil Parmar, Gourav Chaudhary, Eshan Agrawal, Jitendra Baghel, Anurag Gupta, Prashant Bhansali, Amit Hanspal, Mohammad Zeeshan, Kshitij Prabhu, Siddarth Bhargava, Sumit, Anchal Katyal, Abhijeet Deshmukh, Nikhil Kaushik, Rohit
Saini,
Ashutosh
Shukla,
Swapnil
verma,
Lalit
Bindal,
SrinivasSanapala, Sambhav Kanulla, Deepak Jaiswal, Gaurav sharma, Ravi Shekhar, Siddharth, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Garg, Akshay Bhopale, V Ravi Chandran, Rohit More, Debostuti Das, Rahul Kaul, Ashish Chander, Sidhartha Kanungo, Navjot Singh, Seema Kumari, Bhavik Vachhani, Avinash, Priyank Verma, Kalpak Chaudhuri, Chandan Sagar, Balkesh Narang, Akshay Agarwal, Anirudh Kumar, Hemant Chandak, Bankuru Vinay Kumar, Karan Verma, Raghav Lakhotia, Priyank Negi, Amrita Gurung & Tarun
18 Alums who Guided and Interviewed us in Sampark III Chandan Kumar, Ramakrishna Matli, Nagaraj, Ankur, Jahid Hassan, Prakhar Vardhan, Nischal Naidu, Deewakar Gupta, Angad Singh, Edwin James, Anupam Mandal, Arun, Mithilesh Nichkaode, Rohit Mishra, Sitanshu Upadhyay, Srikant Dronavalli, Vaibhav Mital & Rahul Gupta
Organizing Team for Sampark III Akanksha, Amrita, Anirudh, Debostuti, Priyank, Raghav, Richa, Swapnil & Tarun
Few words from the participants (PGP1s) Ravi Shekhar: “My Interview was taken by Rohit Mishra. The interview was good and quite
informative. Rohit has given a good direction to prepare for interview. He has also told how to make resume effective and how to progress in interview. Besides this he has also told few Finance related topics which one should read for interview.” Zeeshan: "The session was helpful in understanding my position from the Point of View of an
alumnus. Mapping was accurately done according to my request.” Sambhav: “Personally, i loved the talk. It was more of a guidance session to me than an
interview and would like to interact with him more often” Ashutosh: “I sincerely thank A4 for organising interview with Angad
Singh Abrol. All in all it was great to be a part of such an amazing process.” Abhijeet: “First of all lots of thanks for arranging my interview with our
Alumni: Prakhar Vardhan. It was a great learning experience and going forward, I believe feedback from him will be a lot helpful to improve myself. Thanks again for this privilege and I hope that A4 team will come up with more such initiative to help students.”
Gratitude We express our sincere gratitude to our Alumni for their valuable guidance and a big thanks to PGP1s for their enthusiastic participation in making Sampark III, a success.