Career orientation Talk

Prof. Shyam Prasad sir presented the talk and explained about the following points

• After your Engineering there are three paths- Job, Higher Studies, and Entrepreneurship.
• Jobs are classified into various types like government, Defence, Techinal/Core, IT/Software.
  
• Identify the area of interest and research groups.
• Students have to prepare a strong Cirriculam Vitae which includes
• Academic Background
• Internship
• Project Work
• Certificates
• Extra-Circular Activities
• Position of Responsibilities

Government jobs:

• UPPSC Jobs
• Engineering Services Examination
• Consists of five papers
• Total sum of 1000 marks
• General Knowledge, Aptitude and Core subjects of Mechanical Engg.
• Civil Services
• IAS (Indian Administrative Services)
• IFS (Indian Foreign Services)
• IPS (Indian Police Services)
• IRS (Indian Revenue Services)
• IFS* (Indian Forest Services )

Defence:

• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is an agency of the Republic of India, responsible for the development of technology for use by the military, headquartered in New Delhi, India.
• DRDO has a network of 52 laboratories
• Engaged in developing defence technologies covering various fields, like aeronautics, electronics and computer sciences, materials, missiles, combat vehicles development and naval research and development.
• The organization includes more than 5,000 scientists and about 25,000 other scientific, technical and supporting personnel.
  
  
  
• Tough Recruitment procedures are maintained

IT /Software field:

• According to statistics 33% of other branches shift into IT sector.
• TCS, INFOSYS, ACCENTURE, CAPGEMINI, CISCO, HCL, IBM, WIPRO, are some of the multinational companies which recruit in a large scale every year.
• TCS recruited more than 40,000 new employees this year. More than 30000 were placed into INFOSYS.
• Some of the Advantages are white collar job, easy placement, more income, multi national exposure, 5-day week.
• Disadvantages are low certainty of job, it is a chair of roses full of thorns, low incentives.
• Communication skills, stress management, courage to face the interviews, inter-personal relations, leadership qualities are major factors that is been considered
• You have to face exams like
• Written round
• Technical interview
• Management interview
• HR interview

Day 11 of Theme Entrepreneurship

5.40-6.40 --> Talk by Krishna on What vital role a B-plan has

Contents covered:

·        Purpose of Business Plan

·        How to Use a Business Plan

·        What investors look for

·        Financial projections

·        Creating Company’s strategy

·        Competitive analysis

·        Requirement of user friendly B-plan

·        Nuts and Bolts

·        Due Diligence

6.40-7.00 --> Talk by Prof.Shayam Prasad sir on contents of B-plan and also on the competition that is to be held on ASME day.

7.00-7.40 --> Talk by Mr.Vinay on how to write a B-plan

          Contents covered:

·        Vision and Mission of B-plan

·        Market size for a product

·        Targeting specific customer

·        How to prepare a product and its alternatives

·        Management team

·        Analyzing our state of development

·        Product road map.

·        Who our competitors are..???

·        Why partnerships are required???

·        Revenue model and fund raising.

·         How to write Financial Plan Template

Day 10 of Theme Entrepreneurship

5.40-5.50 --> collected the feedback of students on previous sessions

5.50-6.30 --> Talk by Mr.Vamsi Krishna on “Finance management”

Contents covered:

·       Role of financial system

·       Nature of financial claims

·       Structure of financial markets

·       Nature of financial intermediation

·       Process of financial intermediation

·       Implications of financial intermediation

·       Prime means of finance in India

6.30-7.10 --> Talk by Mr.Ashmeeth on “Banking management”

Contents covered:

·       Banking in India

·       Central bank(RBI)

·       What commercial banks are???

·       Balance sheet of commercial banks

·       What T-accounts are???

·       Development banks and specialized banks

·       Changes in bank operations

·       Risks involved in banking

·       Risk management

·       Causes of bank Failures

·       Asset liability management

7.10-7.20 --> Interacted with students about the importance of tomorrows activity.

Day 9 of Theme Entrepreneurship

5.40-6.00 --> Talk by Sampath Kumar on patenting system in India

          Contents covered:

·        What a patent is..

·        Criteria for patenting

·        Novelty

·        Which products can be patented???

·        Who can apply for patent???

·        Location of patent offices in India

·        Types of patent applications

·        Restoration of lapsed patent

6.00-6.30 --> Talk by Keerthana on brand management

          Contents covered:

·        History of branding

·        Difference between product and brand

·        Uses of brand in firm’s perspective

·        Concepts for creating strong brand conduct

·        Brand equity

·        Difference between brand value and brand equity

·        Brand awareness

·        Brand image

·        Key factors in building brand image

6.40-8.15 --> conducted LOGO Quiz in 2 rounds. Here each team is given a logo to identify which company’s logo it is.

Day 8 of Theme Entrepreneurship

5.45-6.25 --> Talk by Mr.Yaswanth on Innovation and Leadership

Contents covered:

·       Introduction to innovation

·       Thinks required for innovation

·       Effect of innovation on business

·       How a leader should be???

·       Need for head in organization

·       Qualities expected in a leader

·       New approach to identify a leader

6.25-7.00 --> Tower building i.e., each team was given a set of news papers and cello tape. They were asked to build a taller and stronger tower which can resist the blow of a person.

7.00-8.00 --> A case study was given to every team and the members of the team were asked to enact the case study.

Day 7 of Theme Entrepreneurship

5.30-6.15 --> Talk by Mr.Azam Shaik

Contents covered:

·       Introduction to share marketing

·       Why to invest in shares???

·       Investment bank offers

·       When we are in need of share holders?

·       Types of business

·       Where to buy shares?

·       Diversification of stocks.

6.20-7.20 --> Talk by Mr. Prabhath Kiran

Contents covered:

·       How shares are issued?

·       DMAT account and its usage

·       SEBI-its importance in shares.

·       How price is determined?

·       When to invest in particular stock?

·       Types of stock market

·       Different types of analysis

·       Market conditions

·       Bear market

Day 6 of Theme Entrepreneurship

Name of the Activity: ACTION PLAN

10.00-11.00 --> Teams were divided and instructions for writing action plan were given. Each team was asked to come up with different ideas.

11.20-12.20 --> Each team had presented their ideas and came out with one idea with which the action plan seemed feasible.

12.20-1.30 --> For the idea finalized, each team had prepared the action plan.

1.30- 2.30 --> Lunch Break.

2.30-3.30 --> A presentation was prepared by each team for their action plan.

3.30-4.00 --> Each team had presented their Action plan.