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Wish more people can come forward and share their GD/PI/GI experience. -------------------------------From: Aditya V <adityahere@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:21am Subject: My SP Jain GI experience My GI exp pretty much in q&a went on a bit like this: GI1: (two faculty members and a student on panel) 6 candidates> marketing fresher female ,IM (2 of us) 1 from infy bangalore ,Finance (1 from infy again ! ),marketing another 2-3 years exp gy (pune ,swedish MNC) and another ops exp guy Kicked off with intros: My intro was good (i guess ) - Am blah blah working for TATA's for the last 4 + 1/2 years I worked in geographies of south ,east,west africa,south east asia,mid-east and south asia,domains,technologies,roles,projects,education ,parents,hobbies etc.. (panel)about your present project ? explained about project and implementation, actvities ,standard chartered bank and client (panel)clients of the project and how they use? i practically gave them a qwiky intro to our project does the bank make money on this project ? one of the most profitable projects of the bank,major portion of the bank's transactions come thorugh this project what after mba ? in medium to long term want to do research focussing on areas of info mgmt + emerging markets(i.e bottom of pyramid) hobbies ? travelling ,thanks to my job and personally ,adventure sports like rafting and bungi jumping,volunteering, contributing articles, travelogues to magazine (panel)Any questions to us ? (me and it's question time ) How do you encourage / Do you encourage students to take up assignments in Non- Profit organizations post MBA? (panel)We have DOCC and students do socially relevant

projects.......etc (me again)I mean post MBA ,sir? (panel)We had 1 student who worked for NGO and now applied to LSE,and we will be happy if students choose this path may not be rewarding financially but has other career advantages...(i liked the answer ,very true ) (in brief about others : infy IM had to sing a rafi song as his hobby was singing,fresher female said she was reading Da Vinci code but could'nt expalin convincingly the story or plot , marketing fellow said somethign about importing goods to be sold at premium in India ,and use india as export base to produce same products here in pune !!!,IT guy applying for finance was asked about coimbatore )

GI2: (Brigadier and faculty) This time 4 candidates - 4 months exp from infy for mkting ,finance guy from prev GI again from infy,IM from CSC Indore and me ! Intros as usual My q&a: Brigadier - you mentioned about adventure sports ,what was the most recent one? I went on white water rafting trip on the zambezi river in sep 2004 ending, considered grade 5 by the british rafting association,i.e extremely dangerous and high waves, day long rafting trip takes you from zambia to zimbabwe (faculty) How does it help you in your life /career? Rafting is all about team work,working in unision and following your leader any silly mistake and everyone's in water Future Plans ? Research based career in medium-long term in IM + Emerging markets What you don't like about TCS? Need for Hi performance work culture ,similar to GE vitality curve Removing bottom 10 is too drastic? Bottom 10 % can be counselled first and their objectives and role clearly definded and removal only in worst case scenario If you are offered a role in TCS post MBA,would you consider it? Yes,love to Whims/Fancy? I want to be known as the greatest management thinker and business philosopher of this century (others fancies ranged from playing cricket for India ....etc) Like who?

Drucker and Prahlad (panel)Team work as in TCS? (me) And am sure , other companies too Overall am optimistic about the GI, lot depends on the weightage they give for all aspects you can check out the longer and boring version here (if this posting itself is not long enough) ---> http://nomadi.blogspot.com/ Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.[IMG]