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Soft Skills Training & Employabilty Training Session conducted at Delhi

Date:- 22nd December 2011

 

1. "Soft Skills Training" Session by Ms. Jeeta Vaswani

Ms. Jeeta Vaswani ,MA,B.Ed is a leading Soft Skills expert and has imparted more than 12 years of classroom teaching from Primary to High School in reputed schools like St. Xavier's Boys School ,Kolkata ,Somerville School, Noida G.D.Goenka Public School , Delhi & Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore.

While at Bangalore she worked as a Training Consultant/Corporate Trainer  for more than 10 years to leading Corporates like HSBC, DELL, Unisys ,IBM ,HUL ,Accenture ,JPMC , THOMSON- Reuters ,  INDIGO , CNBC etc. with training ranging from English Language Enhancement Programmes to team building, corporate etiquette,time management & cross-cultural sensitization.

Ms.Vaswani has conducted an activity based game at Unitedworld's Delhi Campus to involve the students as to how much they know each other and how good they are at expressing themselves in English. This also involved gauging the participants in the following:-body language, understanding the process of knowing each other and participation in the activity.
Ms.Vaswani  was invited to gauge the students in terms of gaps in soft skills and the various preparations required at various stages while undergoing their two years PGPM programme at Unitedworld and attainment of employability skills.

2. "Employabilty" session by Mr Rajesh Gopal

Mr. Rajesh Gopal heads the Education Consulting division at Technopak, Gurgaon in his role as Associate Vice President-Education. He has over 16 years of experience in New Business Start Up, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Operations and Franchising

Mr. Rajesh holds  a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from NIT, Surathkal and an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Mr.Rajesh’s last assignment was with Merittrac , India's largest Skills Assessment company, wherein he helped set up their foray into Employability Enhancement and Skill Certification for the Higher Education and Vocational Skill Development segments. Mr.Rajesh is a frequent speaker on Education, Skill Development and Employability at various conferences organized by CII & NASSCOM.

Mr. Rajesh's session mostly covered the employability requirements across various industry sectors and the likely preparedness required for fulfilling the criteria as specified by the Employers.

Some of the employabilty preparedness as suggested by Mr Rajesh  included strong Domain Knowledge , Academic performance, Ability to adopt, Ability to deal with Uncertainty,Ability to take greater responsibility,Managing People along with an attitude to accepting challenges in Corporate world.

 

 

VST visit by first year students 17th Dec, 2011 from HYD campus.

Date:- 17th December 2011

 

VST Industries: Factory Visit. United World Business School, Hyderabad, organized a factory visit to VST Industries, for first year students. VST Industries makes the famous Charminar brand of cigarettes, besides Charms. The visit started with a brief on the company history and how the famous Charminar cigarette brand came to be. Since Jawans were the first customers of Charminar, and they travelled all over the country, the cigarette came to be one of the first national brands! Mr: Vijay Kumar, Manager Quality Control, VST Industries, briefed the students in detail of the company’s history, famous brands, and the market & competition .As well as, the company’s financials and staff strength. Our Students asked a series of questions, after the brief, which were honestly answered by Mr: Vijay Kumar. The briefing was followed by tea & biscuits, after which the factory visit commenced. We were first shown the primary manufacturing department where the Tobacco is processed. After this, we were shown the secondary manufacturing department, where the cigarettes are made & packed. Fascinating to see a long uncut cigarette, over ten feet long, before it is cut and a filter added on! The group was accompanied by Professor Piush Bahl, who was visiting the factory again, after 40 years, having been there earlier as a school boy!

 

 

Lecture By:-Mr. Ankit Nagpal, Executive -HR , TCS Gandhinagar

Date:- 17th Dec, 2011 (Saturday) & Time:11.00 am to 12.30 pm

 

Synopsis of the Session:

A research in the United States of America proves that only 3% of the people accomplish their objectives, reach their goals and live a successful life. On the other hand 97% of the people have never ever put their goals on paper and committed what they will do with their lives!!!

What differentiates these 3% people from the rest of the world??

The 90 minute session ’See You at the top’ has inspired the students to THINK BIG, HOW TO SET GOALS, more importantly how to reach them and the reason why people do not set goals in life. The inevitable obstacles that one needs to overcome to reach their goals.

‘Goals do not care who have them, it could be individuals, groups, organizations or even a country.’

How a country like Japan bombed out emerged as one of the powerful nations of the world, what made McDonald enter an industry packed with competitors and still rise to the top, what was special about Amul that it has become a household name today. The session has effectively answered these questions.

   

The session also highlighted the POWER OF CONTRIBUTION to the world and becoming more responsible towards the society with the help of real life examples, short stories and stories of ordinary people.

 

 

First year students ( 140 in number) visited the National Stock Exchange office in Kolkata

First year students ( 140 in number) visited the National Stock Exchange office in Kolkata on 7th December 2011 ( Wednesday)- the students were divided into batches of 35 for a two hour interaction per batch with the NSE & MCA officials. The students were taken through a presentation jointly given by the NSE official & one MCA ( Ministry of Corporate Affairs ) official. The presentation was approved by the MCA- they covered  Indian Financial System, Financial Instruments & Securities ( which include inter alia shares, bonds, debentures, Money Market Instruments and Derivatives like Futures & Options), Regulatory Bodies etc. & Structure & Operations of the Stock Exchange. They covered Capital Markets, Derivatives Markets & NSE's Certification on Financial Markets (NCFM). There was a section of about 30-40 minutes on demo trading, price discovery, order matching and Trading Systems in the Capital & Derivatives Markets.

 

UW students shine in the "The Gold Rush – Online Treasure Hunt"

Four students from UWSB Mumbai Campus have been selected for the final round of “The Gold Rush – Online Treasure Hunt Mood Indigo 2011”, an annual cultural festival conducted by IIT, Mumbai. The students who have reached to the finale are:

1	Jibon Jyoti Changmai	AY'2011-2013	42nd Rank
2	Pradeep Pal	AY'2011-2013	43rd Rank
3	Deveshi Halder	AY'2010-2012	45th Rank
4	Harikrishna Pillai	AY'2011-2013	160th Rank

 

Three out of four students found place in the top 50 slot beating more than 2000 contestants from
different prestigious campuses like S.P. Jain, S.J. Mehta, J.B.I.M.S, IITs, NIT, etc.....

 

Mundra Port & SEZ visit - Photos & Sequence of Events

On 19th November 2011, a group of 45 students from  batches 2010-11 and 2011-12, along with two faculties of Unitedworld visited Mundra Ports & SEZ (Now renamed as Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd, Mundra),as a part of their industrial tour. They reached their destination at around 9:30 in the morning and were given a warm welcome. After spending some time to have a healthy breakfast, the students were shown a film on the Adani Group and on MPSEZ, showing its history and progress. This was followed by an interesting presentation by Mr. Harsh Joshi (ASM-HR) on MPSEZ. After the presentation, the students had one and half hour’s visit to the Mundra port, which was followed by the lunch.

Post lunch, the students and the faculties had a brief talk with Mr. Mukesh Saxena who explained them the importance of SEZ and which was followed by an enlightening lecture on HR Practices (Ports & SEZ) - by Mr S Reddy and 15 minutes session for Questions and Answers. After this informative session, students and faculties visited the Mundra West Basin, followed by tea and coffee break. The group started their journey back to Ahmedabad at around 5:00 in the evening. In short, the whole visit had been proved to be very helpful and very educational for the students of Unitedworld. Smooth Organization and management of trip would not be possible without the support by Mr. KBM Swamy Joint President-HR, Capt. Ajay Singh Rakwal DGM-Administration, Pururajsinh Zala Deputy Manager-Administration & Mr. Harsh Joshi ASM-HR.

Unitedworld School of Business organized a visit to AMUL Dairy

Unitedworld School of Business organized a visit to AMUL Dairy on 12th Nov, 2011 for 70 students which included students of the Batch 2010-12 & Batch 2011-13. They were accompanied by 04 Faculties.

The students and the faculties left for Anand the destination fro AMUL Dairy at 9.30 am for Anand which is 55 Kms from Ahmedabad.

The details of the programme for the visit were as follows:-

• 11.00 am - Visit to the Dairy Museum
• 11.30 am - Presentation on Dairy Co-operative & Farmers' society
• 12.00 Noon- Presentation on brand -AMUL
• 12.30 pm - Visit to processing unit of "Dry Milk Powder" Plant
• 1.30 pm - Visit to "Butter" Processing Plant
• 2.00 pm - Lunch
• 3.00 pm - Departure for Ahmedabad

AMUL has two other milk processing units- Paneer , Chocolates & Ice creams which are not open for public visits due to some security reasons.

NDTV money mantra show

NDTV money mantra show attended by 24 Students of UWSB, Delhi on 10th Novemeber.Topic- Liquor Industry- Trends & Future

United-Minds

Unitedworld School of Business and IIM- Bangalore Vista (Vista being the annual event of IIMB consisting of various events for Corporate and UG/MBA students) presents United-Minds , a mega event which aims at promoting awareness and to identify potential young minds for India’s future and growth.

Zonal Round – December 2011
Zonal rounds will be conducted at Unitedworld campuses(Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Delhi and Hyderabad) and selected teams will compete against each other for the national final at IIM-Bangalore. Zonal round will comprise of simulation based strategy online games and team dynamic test.

Final Round – January 2012
National Final will take place at IIM-Bangalore and 40 teams from all five zones will be eligible to compete.