Recruiter’s Night 2008

AIM’s Annual Recruiter’s night was held last Wednesday at the AIM Conference Centre. Well to start with, the first years were not invited officially or unofficially and 5 of us had to get a special permission , courtesy of Regnard who was kind enough to arrange it for us.The evening though was typical. A few stalls from the companies , a very good welcome speech from President Estrada followed by one from the Enrolment Management and Placement (EMP) director Prof. Eli Santos , smartly dressed seniors many of whom I saw hurriedly shaving at the last minute in the dorm :))) and good food. I don’t know much about what happens at the recruiter’s night at AIM but looked like everyone felt satisfied. With the Indians students forming the major chunk of the MBA class year after year the pressure on campus placements has increased. From what I hear , the response from companies have been good and is increasing by the year. The prominent companies that have come to campus or attended the night includes some big names like Ayala , Telus , Qtel , Convergys , IBM Daksh , First Gulf bank , Cognizant and HCL. Also the placements have just begun and there is so much more to go. Good luck to the seniors and let them all have a wonderful placement season. Another good news in the air is that the class of May 2008 has been fully placed.

But could the night have been better ? Yes. definitely yes. The event could have been much better and to rightly put it , could have been much more impressive. I know it is very easy to criticize something when somebody has done all the hardwork but I felt there were some more things that could have been done and some things that could have been done much better , like the student presentations. They were too short , contained very common information like class diversity and previous work profile which I don’t think impressed the recruiters. To add to that , one of the guys got tensed getting on stage and fumbled badly with the presentation. When it is your recruiter’s night , I think such mistakes are unpardonable and leaves a very bad impression. Also , not much was shown to differentiate an average AIM MBA from the other MBAs. The USP of AIM is the pedagogy and the rigour that moulds the students here but when that is not highlighted enough , there is something definitely missing. Also the total non-involvement of the first years and the apprehensions of some seniors on seeing us in the night were unfortunate. We only wanted to know how it happens so that we can improve upon that in the next year. Now having done that by actually sneaking in , I think the takings from this meet would help us to do a much better job the next time.Thanks to Regnard once again for helping us out.