Recruiters' Guide 2019
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ST. JOSEPH’S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT RECRUITERS’ GUIDE 2019 - 20 POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT ST. JOSEPH’S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT 28/1, Primrose Road, Off M.G. Road, Bangalore - 560 025. 2 Table of Contents 04 About the Institution 14 Internship Feedback 05 Executive Director’s Message 16 Academic Highlights 06 Dean’s Message 17 Batch Profile 07 Placement Officer’s Message 18 Student Profile - 2019 08 Governing Council 47 Course Structure 09 Faculty Profile 48 Our Past Recruiters 10 Recent Activities 49 Placement Trend 12 Alumni Speak 50 Campus Facilities 3 VISION ABOUT THE INSTITUTION To be a management institute of excellence committed to nurturing responsible business leaders having concern for society and environment. MISSION The JOSEPHITE tradition started in Bangalore with the opening of the St. Joseph’s European High School by the Paris Foreign Mission Fathers • To impart contextual management education in 1858. Thereafter, St. Joseph’s College was established in 1884. focused on ethics and social issues St. Joseph’s Institute of Management (SJIM) was established in • To produce impactful year 1968. The institute currently offers a two-year PGDM course research approved by the AICTE. SJIM operates out of a new state-of-the-art • To promote institute- campus in the heart of the city, just off M.G. Road, Bengaluru. industry interface on a continual basis • To employ teaching SJIM has fifty years of legacy in management, education and it pedagogy that promotes is only Jesuit Business School in Bangalore. It is managed by the critical thinking, International Jesuit Organisation, which also runs XLRI, XIMB and innovation and LIBA. entrepreneurship VALUES SJIM rated A++ by Business India. Several of the faculty at SJIM • Integrity & ethical have Ph.D’s from reputed schools like IIMs/IITs, as well as vast conduct corporate experience. Admissions are purely merit based and the • Inclusiveness & small classroom size maximizes learning through close faculty- tolerance • Passion for excellence student interaction. • Commitment to students SJIM is listed among the Top 100 B Schools in India in NIRF - 2018 ranking • Creativity & innovation by MHRD. SJIM is also one among only four B-Schools in Bangalore to be • Jesuit spirit of Magis ranked by the NIRF. • Service to society 4 Executive Director’s Message Dear Recruiters, socially conscious leaders in the tradition of other Jesuit Management Institutes like Greetings from St. Joseph’s Institute of XLRI, XIMB and LIBA. Management! We assure you that our current batch of It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you students are adequately equipped with to the 23rd Placement Season with this edition personal and professional skills and industry of our Recruiters’ Guide - 2019-20. Through ready. They are highly motivated, talented the pages of this brochure you will get a broad and enthusiastic. Their diverse educational overview of our programmes, activities and backdrop will give you varied options as you the placement process. We have designed the seek bright young men and women to add Post-Graduation Programme very carefully to value to your organization. They are designed develop our students into global organizational to excel in whichever sector they are put leaders who can create wealth for their to work in. Our ever growing alumni base organizations. spread over more than 100 organizations We thank the 70 + firms who have been in myriad sectors around the country and regular recruiters of our students for your abroad speak for this fact. long standing support and invite the new Once again. I welcome your organization firms to explore the quality of our current to our beautiful campus for the recruitment passing out batch. of graduating student managers of 2018-20 St. Joseph’s Institute of Management (earlier batch. known as St. Joseph’s College of Business We look forward towards enduring and fruitful Administration) is a 50-year-old Jesuit relationship with our esteemed recruiters. Institution. SJIM has been ranked A++ amongst the best B-Schools in the country. Rev. Dr. Manoj D’Souza SJ SJIM is committed to building ethical and Executive Director 5 Dean’s Message True education enables a student to achieve his / her Faculty in SJIM is the hallmark of SJIM student’s life goals at the same time be of value to the society in academic life. With proven track record and a high which they live. SJIM celebrated Golden Jubilee last degree of knowledge and versatility, students find year. In a way, we are gifted with the responsibility their stay rewarding in multiple scale. SJIM constantly of carrying the legacy of the school to the next adds to the strength of faculty and currently SJIM has generation so that they are also benefitted. First and 17 regular faculty members. In addition, we have a foremost, in its heart and soul is the concern for the number of visiting and adjunct faculties to provide society and environment and sensitizing its students a rich mix of industry perspectives of business and to be of responsible business leaders is what we insist management. upon throughout their stay here. We are witness to the While academic preparations are important, the exemplary contribution of our alumni to the society corporate world also expects the recruitees to be job- with impeccable concern and dedication. ready – ready to be deployed the moment they join the company. This is a tall order for a typical MBA At the forefront is ethical conduct amongst eight curriculum to achieve. In order to fill the gap, SJIM values that SJIM pursues, to be inculcated amongst has drawn out a 6-month pre-placement training its students. Being honest even under extreme program, called Career Advancement Training (CAT), testing conditions, being a person of integrity and to be completed in terms 4 and 5. This is a non-credit of being service-minded are the true qualities of and compulsory pass module. Successful completion a leader and SJIM has set these as the values that of this module is a necessary and sufficient condition guide the school to conduct its activities. They find to avail placement services of SJIM. these values being translated into actions in several ways. At the curriculum and program delivery level, Diversity of the cohort batch is as essential as all the SJIM has set itself five outcomes to achieve in every rest of the requirements. Diversity ensures a student student. At the end of the course, we want them to be is able to come out of all barriers, regional, linguistic etc., and develop a broader view of humanity which is able to look at business as a positive outcome of the not only essential but inevitable to be part of globalized duality of problems and solutions. Ability to think of businesses. SJIM, this year, has achieved even higher a whole comprising of several parts gives you skills degree of diversity in terms of academic background, to troubleshoot. Ability to look at parts constituting gender and demography. a whole gives you skills to think in terms of top-line and bottom-line. In technical parlance, the former is Most noteworthy learning happens when students are in Critical Reasoning ability and the latter is Systems groups and when they are benevolent enough to teach Thinking ability. Communicating business artifacts others and share their knowledge without any inhibitions. with precision and purpose is yet another program SJIM liberally encourages its students to complete outcome we aspire to achieve. As they do various assignments in groups, prepare and deliver slide courses and other activities, every learning goal points presentations in groups. We keep changing the student mix term after term and thus groups also change. to one or more of these program outcomes. From start to finish, their academic life is rigorous and sometimes On behalf of SJIM, I cordially invite you and your rancorous too. Achieving high grades in their pursuit esteemed organization to participate in campus of a master’s degree is by no means a lesser purpose. recruitment drive for our students. I am confident that However, securing mere academic grades alone does these students will make a mark where ever they go not take them far enough deep into their future; many and make their alma mater proud. high achievers are known for establishing a mark in Dr. R. Narasimhan their chosen field with a very high degree of mastery. Dean 6 Placement Officer’s Message Dear Recruiters, by the NIRF. The institute is committed to excellence as its core mission and practices It gives me immense pleasure to welcome innovation in management learning that you to St. Joseph’s Institute of Management is not only conceptual but analytical and for the final placement process for the batch decision oriented. of 2018-20. It is a moment of pride for us to present you a group of vibrant, young, We assure you that our students are dynamic and talented batch of student adequately equipped with personal and managers ready to join the corporate world. professional skills and industry ready. They Our student mix is selected through a rigorous are designed to excel in whichever sector selection process ensuring that only the very they are put to work in. I am hopeful with best of the lot get into our campus. This optimism and confidence that the students selected batch is exposed to a curriculum will be received by the Industry. It is sincerely that is thoroughly updated and in sync with anticipated that the students would match the the demand of modern business scenario. expectations and that you find our students as finely-crafted quality human resource. SJIM is proud to have stood up to the expectations of several organizations over I take this opportunity to cordially invite you the past years and past recruiters have to participate in the forthcoming Placement been regularly recruiting our students which Season 2019-20.