Insights Career Seminar: An INLEAD Initiative

At INLEAD we are constantly striving to bridge the gap between aspirations and hopes of the youth with the opportunities and trends in the industry. To this effect, INLEAD has taken an initiative to conduct INSIGHTS - a series of Interactive Seminar that are open to all. The seminars will provide an opportunity for youngsters to interact with Industry experts and discuss the emerging opportunities and trends. Each seminar will focus on Emerging Trends, Job Profiles; skill set requirements and Career progression in a particular Industry.
The seminars will cover the following emerging sectors:
1. Event Management
2. Healthcare Administration
3. Hospitality
4. Facility Management
5. Corporate Administration
The first round of session commences on 16th December with Mr. Mehernosh Ditia, Vice President - Talent Development at Max Healthcare providing insights in the Healthcare industry. This will be followed by session on Event Management Industry by Mr Prakash Mishra, Account Director - Wizcraft International on 21st December. An overview to the Facility Management Industry will be provided by Mr Farhan Shahid, HR Manager – Sodexo on 23rd December.
We are sure that these sessions will provide the participants with not just the available opportunities but also help them chart a roadmap to their future success. We eagerly look forward to your active participation in these sessions and ensuring that INSIGHTS becomes a regular feature of INLEAD calendar.

Airtel Delhi Half Marathon: Another feather in the Cap

With the High Speed extravaganza of F1 still occupying the mind space of young INLEADers, another Mega Event awaits participation of budding Event Managers. In keeping with the INLEAD tradition of providing Mega Event exposure to our EMPR students, we proudly announce our association with Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.

The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon is an annual half marathon foot-race held established in 2005. It is both an elite runner and mass participation event. The last edition of event attracted around 29,000 runners who competed in one of the four races: the half marathon, the 7 km Great Delhi Run, a 4.3 km run for senior citizens, and a 3.5 km wheelchair race.

While the prospect of working with Celebrities from athletics and Bollywood has widened the smiles on the faces of students, they are equally excited to be a part of another international event.

We wish all the very best to participating students and we are sure participation in the event will be the ideal preparation for their future assignments.

With just days left the countdown has already begun.

A Grand Spectacle - ZANGOORA - Ritika Khare

Gurgaon, Kindom of Dreams hosts the biggest Bollywood musical theatre ZANGOORA – THE GYPSY PRINCE. In the Nautanki Mahal , a cosmopolitan class theatre , experience a universe of entertainment that brings the best national and international talent to create a truly magical and cinematic Bollywood saga. On 5^th October (Wednesday), we the INLEAD young professionals experienced this grand spectacle as a part of INLEAD Industry Exposure Program under Ms. Kanika Babbar (Event Planning and Marketing, Faculty ) guidance.
Bollywood is world-wide famed Indian film industry and one of the largest centers of film production in the world. Therefore WIZCRAFT ENTERTAINMENT and APRA GROUP are showcasing an entirely new genre of entertainment fusing bollywood culture and stagecraft technicles. Star casts include Hussain Kuwajerwala, Gauhar Khan, Kashmira Irani and Sadanand Patil. Music is composed by greatest Bollywood composers, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. The story and dialogues written are by Javed Akhtar. Masti mood is created by choreographer Shiamak Davar. Beautiful costumes are designed by Neeta Lulla . Action direction is done by stunt directior Alan Amin.

Story depicts the life of prince RUDRA whose parents the KING and Queen are killed by their chiefpersons. Rudra is brought-up by a GYPSY Nutanki group and named as ZANGOORA by them. He specialized in skill of dance and magic. Support of his family, friends and love helps him to win his throne back. The wow moments in the play are created by many acts such as graceful high energy dance , the king and queen holding court on the back of an elephant, special effects for marine life , desert, cable suspended aerobics, eagle flying and many more making the experience marvelous!

ZANGOORA – THE GYPSY PRINCE – The INDIAN BROADWAY in a very magnificent story of victory of truth over evil which is very marvelously presented with a perfect combination of high energy dance, drama, stagecraft and technique. It’s a never seen show an absolute delight!!!

INLEAD Shines Again

Brand INLEAD is just getting bigger and better day by day. Last year INLEAD had made its mark by sending students in Commonwealth Games. In CWG games students were hired by different event companies and they were all given big responsibilities in the organization of the overall event. Students of last year batches were anxious and excited to showcase their talents and skills they have learned in the class by facing the real time situations like the opening and closing ceremonies.

As India is growing at a tremendous pace and after successfully organizing the Commonwealth games many international organizers are viewing India as a great potential for rising in the events industry which ultimately will reflect in INDIA’s GDP. Keeping this in mind JPSI (Jaypee Sports International) is bringing Formula 1 to India on 30^th October. With two Indian drivers and one Indian team in the mix of things the craze of F1 is touching all time high.

INLEAD is all set to make its mark again with this F1 event. Through CIA (Corporate Industry Alliance) INLEAD has associated itself with different companies involving the hospitality and facility services and as well as the event companies. These companies have selected the events, facility management and the hospitality students to do the respective jobs. Events students would be helping in overall successful organization of the event while the hospitality and facility management students would be providing the best hospitality services to the esteemed guests who all will be coming on 30^th of October. Students from INLEAD are very fortunate to get an amazing chance to be part of this event and gain some practical exposure as well.

So INLEAD wishes all the students ALL THE BEST to do well and make INLEAD proud once again.

Kapil Thairani

Importance of OJT in Employability

Now colleges are coming up with the Internships or On Jobs Training (OJT) during the graduation/post graduation stage where students can apply the learning’s from academics in the real world. Through this they would be learning in a practical way and hence would be enhancing their skill sets which are needed for employability. Through OJT’s students would be getting Exposure (of the real world), Confidence (of facing real situations) and they would be doing Networking (making contacts) for themselves. OJT’s would also help them understand what are their real strengths and weaknesses.

Inlead situated in Gurgaon is one such institute which follows this pattern. They have divided their course module in four quarters. In quarter one student would be learning the basic concepts, depending on the course they would choose. Then in quarter two they would go for their OJT’s. Then in quarter three students will further enhance his academic knowledge and finally in quarter four they would either be having pre placements or the final paid internships.

This is in fact the USP of INLEAD Institute. Most Institutes provide Internship at the end of the course but INLEAD would be providing it two times just to provide an extra edge to its students in terms of Exposure and Confidence. INLEAD always motivates its students and makes them believe that they can lead their way through failures and achieves the desired success that they are looking for. It makes them ready to face real time tough situations in the Corporate World.

www.inlead.in

Kapil Thairani July EMPR

Brand Management, Want to sustain brand, diversify it

On 19^th September Inleaders of July EMPR batch were privileged to attend the industry expert session given by Mr Prakash Chandra Mishra of Wizcraft International. He holds a designation of Account director, where he handles the overall image of Brand Wizcraft in the market. It was a fun Interactive session where he shared his knowledge with us on Brand Equity.

Mr. Prakash began his lecture by telling that how brand sustain its value in the market. According to him Digital marketing is the most important aspect of brand marketing and has gradually evolved a lot in recent 4 -5 years. It is the cheapest and the most effective method of hitting the target audience. During the interaction students came to know that WPP (Wire and plastic products) and PUBLICIS GROUPE are considered to be world’s top communication agencies. They both use Integrated Marketing Approach to help build a brand name in the market.

One another cheap and effective way of doing brand promotions is Public Relations. PR is simply unbiased way of communication which helps a brand in showing its credibility in the market and thereby gaining the essential trust from their target audience.

During the interaction one of the students ask that advertising is also considered as a good way of building a brand. On this Mr. Prakash said that yes it is a good way but it is always considered as a biased approach because “Company valo ne ad agency ko paise die hote hai for doing their ad”.

Then he talked about brand equity. In layman terms brand equity can be defined as Goodwill of a brand which has been created in the market. Rapport of a brand is not created in just a day or two, it takes a lot of hard work and duration as well. ITC, GE, IBM, Godrej, Uniliver and Xerox all these brands are very old and they have seen success because of the diversification that these companies had gone under as they grow old and old. So Diversification is the necessity of every Brand. By diversification he means companies needs to have different and innovative products in their kitty rather than concentrating on just one. Brand equity can only be measured based on the product in the market and how easily that can be recalled in the minds of consumer.

Kapil Thairani July EMPR

On Job Training (OJT) in INLEAD

With a fresh mind full of enormous amount of theoretical knowledge comes a 3 month on the job training which is a very unique aspect of the curriculum taught at INLEAD. The on job training gives us a chance to experiment our theoretical learning in a real world scenario. Its helps us enhance our skills and gain a better understanding of the concepts. We get a chance to see and go through challenges that are faced in working and while performing different tasks on the job. In this on the job training we work in different departments and figure out which suits our personality and caliber the most. It provides us with a clear understanding on what we expect from our future in our respective fields. We get a chance to figure out the lacking skills and things that we need to work on to become a complete package for the industry we opt to work in. This unique aspect of our curriculum helps us explore our strengths and work on our weakness before we step out in the world to face the real world scenario away from the shelters of our faculty and institute.

Nitish Srivastava – EMPR Jan.2011

INLEADERS going for Final Placement and Internship

Now INLEAD is slowly moving towards the Corporate Connect period where the companies would be coming in the campus for hiring the young professionals. JAN batch students are in the preparation mode for their final examination starting from 29^th of this month and also preparing for their final placement interviews in some top companies. July batch is also gearing up for their internships. Recently they have been rewarded with their grades in the Employability Assessment which will help them understand that where they stand right now. At the end of the month students will start going for their interviews and based on their abilities they would land in their internships. 

As a part of July batch I would like to give my best wishes to all my seniors in JAN batch and to my colleagues in JULY batch as well.

So best of luck to all the INLEADERS and we all make INLEAD proud and make the Brand INLEAD achieve great heights in the coming future.

KAPIL THAIRANI

Corporate Connect week – April 2011

While the campus is still wrapped in the cricket World cup euphoria, students are moving towards a far more personal challenge. Everyone is immersed in his/her own world, imagining numbers and fat perks and great profiles in the coming week.


We, at INLEAD, are determined to carry out our pledge of preparing aspiring professionals take up challenging roles within their respective domains, and transform them into future leaders. To further this endeavour, we have organized a ‘Corporate Connect Week’ starting on 4th April 2011 with an aim to deliver a platform for the industry to initiate a formal dialogue with our program participants to discuss their employment opportunities and projects.


This time we have an extremely enthusiastic response from our Industry Partners with cross sector participation. With a dedicated effort from training and placement team, we have over 500 Industry partners. More than anything it’s the exemplary performance of alumni that has prompted the recruiters to return and partake in the week long activity.


While the expanding list of prospective employers has widened the smiles on the faces of students, the Industry is equally pleased to have a direct access to a pool of trained, talented and ready to deploy human resource.

We wish all the very best to participating students and we are sure they will prove not just to be a valuable asset but they will also meaningfully contribute to establish their organization as the front-runner in the industry.

With just hours left the countdown has already begun.

INLEAD celebrates with Corporate Partners

INLEAD celebrated the success and achievements of 2010 with our esteemed partners and guests on 22nd January 2011. There was much fun to be had by all, as is obvious from these pictures!

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My Success Story at INLEAD

My INLEAD experience will stay with me for the life time, guiding me to excel in my career aspirations. As a post graduate student of Corporate Administration and Facility Management, I believe that I made a wise decision in choosing INLEAD as a platform for my professional growth. The teaching methodology and the practical exposure at INLEAD are unique and have been developed keeping in mind the industry requirements and that’s what makes INLEAD stand out in the crowd.

After working for more than two years, I was a little apprehensive about coming back to the classroom. But once I joined the program and met my peers, I was sure INLEAD will be the catalyst for my success.

At INLEAD, the students are trained not only for their professional growth but are also groomed for their personal development that will come handy throughout their lives. The program itself is designed in such a way that during our internships we get a chance to be a part of the corporate world and know how the industry actually works. This really helped me prepare for my Final Placement Interviews and got me placed as Manager Operations in G4S Facility (India) P. Ltd.

INEAD Management and the Office of Student Affairs are exceptionally supportive and guide us throughout our time at the Institute. Personally, I think that INLEAD campus is beyond amazing, it is facilitated with all the latest amenities and the architecture is fabulous. With such a splendid Institute, I am proud to say that I am a part of INLEAD.

Sanjay Kumar Tripathi

P.G. Corporate Administration & Facility Management

February 2010 Batch

Park Plaza join hands with INLEAD

Located amidst blue chip multinational offices and world class shopping malls, Park Plaza is the ideal destination for corporate and tourist stay in Gurgaon. With fabulous hotel amenities including a rooftop swimming pool, well-equipped Business Center, on-site restaurants, modern health club and spacious rooms and suites, make Park Plaza an upscale hotel of Gurgaon.

For corporate people, Park Plaza is the perfect place to host business meetings and conferences owing to its proximity to the corporate hub, banquet space for up to 80 people, wireless Internet back up and secretarial support. The rooms and suites at this corporate haven exhibit a distinctive charm while the convenient in-room services represent an exceptional art of hospitality at Park Plaza. They provide the world class amenities like 32-inch plasma TV, dual-line telephone, mini bar and large work station to their visitors.

Park Plaza has joined hands with INLEAD to provide students a unique opportunity to showcase their skills and talent in hospitality and allied services sectors. Park Plaza will be joining other top companies during the upcoming INLEAD Corporate Connect Week to recruit the finest hospitality graduates in the industry.

Our Star Internships

Ahmar Hussain - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (Aircel corporate Office)

Akshdeep - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (Head office-Gurgaon)

Amit Pratap Singh - Management Trainee, Lakshay Events

Anoop Kumar - Assistant Facility Manager –Trainee, A2Z (Shoppers Stop Rajouri Garden)

Bhaskar Reddy M. - Management Trainee, Shrishti Pvt. Ltd.,

Gunpreet Kaur Chandok - Trainee-PR, Perfect Relation's

Himanshu Chaudhary - Guest Relations Executive, Kingdom of Dreams

Hitesh Goyal - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (BPTP Gurgaon)

Kanishq Kirti - Management Trainee, Communique Marketing

Kaushal Joshi - Housekeeping Trainee, Fortis

Mukesh Sharma - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (A.WHO Guragon)

Nikhil Singh Charak - Patient Care Services, Fortis

Paras Kumar - Assistant Facility Manager –Trainee, A2Z (IGL Corporate Office RK Puram)

Pooja Sharma - Management Trainee, XP Events

Priyanka - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (Ring road Mall Rohini)

Rahul Aggarwal - Assistant Facility Manager –Trainee, A2Z (MTS Corportae Office Okhla)

Rajender Kumar - Assistant Facility Manager –Trainee, A2Z (ESIC-ITO)

Rishabh Kumar - Management Trainee, Rashi Entertainment

Sachin Kumar - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (Harpreet Ford-Gurgaon)

Sarada Kafley - Trainee-PR, Fortis

Saurabh Garg - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (AVIVA-Gurgaon)

Senthil Kumar V - Assistant Facility Manager, A2Z (BPTP Gurgaon)

Tulika Chadha - Management Trainee, Thyme India

Vikram Singh Rawat - Supervisor Trainee, Lords Inn