Dabur, Havells, Whirlpool Top Recruiters At SOIL 2015 Summer Placements

The School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), Gurgaon has released the Summer Internship Report for its Class of 2016. This year leading companies such as Dabur, Whirlpool, Havells & Mahindra as well as startups recruited from the One Year PGP Class for month long internships.

SOIL  has reported successful summer placements for its Class of 2015-16. The school reports the Class this year was placed in both established companies and startups for one month internships between August-September this year.

Speaking to OneYearMBA, a SOIL representative said, “We witnessed continued trust from our existing industry partners and established many new relationships across industries. We are proud to have had repeat recruiters and to have drawn interest from startups who constituted one-fourth of the recruiters this year. These companies believe in the philosophy of SOIL and have made a commitment to partner with us.”

Companies that recruited SOIL students for internships this year include:

OneYearMBA talked to a few current SOIL students who participated in internships this year to understand how the internships contributed to their learning.

Surbhi Chauhan, who is perusing a course in HR from SOIL said, “I have been interning with Genpact for a little over a month. Although it has not been long time, but my experience has been rewarding so far. My project here is of Master Data Base Management and streamlining of Executive hiring process. I am fortunate to gain a firsthand experience about various HR processes in such a short span of time, meetings with recruiters and interviewing AVP level candidates. Genpact truly cares about every intern and has provided a stimulating and supportive environment that has helped me  realize my true potential.”

Another Student Shivali kapoor who is interning with MakeMyTrip said, “I am having a great time at makemytrip. I am working with the talent acquisition team under the Assistant Manager of HR. I am learning the entire recruitment process, including cold calling and coordinating interviews. Overall, the learning has been excellent!”

Pradeep Singh, who is interning with Genpact was excited about handling new tools in his assignment. “The learning is immense. There is a tool called Gentrac 2.0 on which we are working. This tool is helping the Genpact Transition team to record their work which will reduce their overall effort and time taken for tasks since it records all the project management processes from project initiation to closure. Navigating through the tool and getting to know how it is making work ‘smart’ is a big learning”, he said.

Summer Internships are an important part of an MBA course and many one-year MBA courses, not just those in India but globally too, skip on this crucial component. Time limitations in a fast paced one-year full-time course are cited as the most common limiting factor in having internships in their courses by B-Schools in Europe and USA.

Many B-Schools in India on the other hand tend to believe that internships are redundant since One Year MBA students already come with industry experience. This is far from true. Internships are a well established pipeline for hiring – the internship period helps companies evaluate future hires which often leads to a job offer. Also many students pursue an MBA to switch roles – an internship helps students learn the ropes in a new role.

Some schools in India such as IIM Bangalore have created special programmes such as Shikshu that enable virtual internships and help overcome the problem of limited time in a One Year MBA. 

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SOIL says the internships have helped SOIL Students land jobs last year at leading companies. There were 8 pre-placement offers (PPO) & pre-placement interviews (PPI) (offers made and interviews conducted by companies during internships and before the formal placement) last year. Genpact, VECV, Mahindra,  Dabur, Kohler and HCL were some of the companies that made these PPI and PPO Offers last year.

Genpact, a major recruiter at SOIL has had good things to say about students who interned and finally joined them in full-time roles. Bhavna Batra, AVP Human Resource Genpact says, “Students hired from SOIL have a unique ‘ability to execute’  and ensure that the delivery of results happen on time”.