1) I feel I possess all the necessary qualities required to join the placement committee because of the following reasons given below
Soft skills: My inbuilt soft skills like communication, friendliness and optimism would be useful to interact with top players from reputed companies, so that they could feel at home while visiting our campus for recruitment.
Extrovert: I have the ability to socialise with people easily, thereby I do not feel any difficulty to negotiate while meeting with new recruiters.
Exposure: I have done my PG from UK, where I was working in sales and marketing department for Lebara Mobiles, where I had to meet people from different origins belonging to different countries. Roughly I would meet 300 people in a day, to whom I had to do the same pitching again and again. I was also working as Store Manager in Supermarket, which would add to my exposure.
Interview skills: I have come across many interviews so far both professionally and part time jobs. I do not get tense or bogged down if I am not able to find an answer to any question.
I also possess few characteristics like discipline, punctuality, dedication, good sense of humour, academically strong which could be an added advantage.
2) Action plan for the committee
a) Review Meetings: I would suggest we conduct review meetings regularly to discuss about the pros and cons of our committee or committee members to make ourselves sure whether we are heading in the right path or not.
b) Interaction session: We should also make a point to interact with the students once in a month, a session where we get to know the issues involving the placement committee by conducting a survey of all the committee members names involved in. We can also find whether the students who are not in the placement committee have any contacts in top companies related to energy, whom we can approach for a guest lecture or so.
c) Q & A: If we know a guest lecture from a particular firm is coming to take a session tomorrow, we should form few questions from our side, so that the right questions are asked which would impress the person taking the session to come repeatedly and convert it into a placement opportunity.
d) GLIM Expansion: We should popularize the GLIM tag name, which is already making inroads into many sectors in the energy field, because I feel “word of mouth” is the best way to convince the other person who is related to energy sector. (eg) a guest lecture coming to meet our campus, should make his experience in GLIM memorable so that he passes on this information to other persons who he might meet in the forthcoming meetings or so.
e) Increase recruiters: Rope in many energy giants which are yet to visit our campus like Reliance, Tata. It is prestige to host these companies for guest lectures or for placements. Our aim should be to bring in atleast 50 and 70 companies for placements and summer internships for this year. We should try to implement a placement month, where all the recruiters could select from a pool of people rather than having recruiters visit our campus casually.
3) Letter to Senior HR for student interaction session
Kartik 11/07/2014
Great Lakes Institute of Management
PGPME – 2015 Batch
815, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon.
To,
The Head HR
Pepsi & Co. Ltd.
Sub: - Invite for Placement Process for PGPM(Energy) Batch 2014-15.
Sir/Madam,
I, Kartik of PGPME – 2015 batch is one of the representative of Placement committee of our University, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon would take immense pleasure in inviting your company for the placement process for the academic year, 2014-15. I would like to provide you a small insight of the diverse student culture present in our campus with students belonging from all parts of the country possessing different years of work experience from various sectors including Energy. Our student profile has 80% of work experience where average work experience is about 2.5 years. About 30% of them belong to core Energy sectors who had worked in big giants like Adani Group. Our institute has already proved its dominance in Post graduate program in Management in Energy specialisation which is a very unique course, where the students get to study Functional courses in Management along with a domain course in either of three energy domains including Power, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy. The institute aim is to equip the students with both functional and domain knowledge where they feel there is a urge for specialised managers unlike before. I would be thankful to you, if you could come for an interaction session to provide the students with valuable information about the growing market trends pertaining to the FMCG sector at a convenient time of yours. I can assure you that we both would get benefitted by the end of this session.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Kartik.
4) SWOT Analysis of GLIM
Strengths

1. Energy specialization.
2. Up-to-date facilities and latest infrastructure.
3. Guest Lectures by top professionals.
4. Brand Name
5. Student Run Management

Weaknesses

1.Heavy dependence on visiting faculties.
2. Inadequate library facilities.
3. Little emphasis on International placements.
4. Further expansion of the campus not feasible.
5. An upcoming institute.

Opportunities
1. Tie-up with foreign universities for International exposure.
2. Conducts inter B-school events for students.
3. Provides student with adequate information about International Conferences and funds student for participation.
4. Interaction with leading experts from Energy industry. Threats

1. Many top Indian B schools planning to launch the energy specialization in MBA.
2. Increase in competitors.
3. Absence of an AICTE certification.