Best Practices

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1. JOB FAIR :

Job fairs serve as an excellent opportunity for job seekers in their hunt for the perfect job. It proves like an answer to many of the job seekers queries. Job fairs offer opportunities that no other job search sources provide. The reach, scope, and magnitude of the job fair is large and hence, they help the job seekers a lot in their effort of searching for a job.

Ashoka Mega Job-Fair is an annual event organized by Ashoka Business School that brings lots of prospective candidates seeking employment face to face with potential employers under one roof.

Ashoka Business School always strives to give the best to its students. The Job fairs organized by Ashoka Business School for the unemployed have been getting an unprecedented response from the candidates every year. Three Job fairs have been organized so far and every year nearly more than 2500 candidates register for this fair. A huge number of candidates secure jobs here.

The 2019 Job fair saw training provided to about 400 Candidates free of cost prior to the job fair. More than 400 vacancies from 37 companies participated in Job-Fair. Lots of career opportunities were available for aspiring candidates. More than 2600 students had registered for the same. This also proves to be a very good CSR and PR exercise for ABS. Then Overall feedback from both the candidates and the recruiters always has been satisfactory.

In order to boost the chances of the youth appearing for interviews during the Job-Fair, Ashoka Business School organized a free training session on Resume Writing and Interview technique in the job fair organized on 15th February 2020. The head of Career Guidance and Employment Cell, supported by Ms. Aishwarya Chawla, a student of MBA I at Ashoka Business School carried out this training. The training mainly revolved around creating the right resume, some essential Do‟s and Don‟ ts, interview etiquette‟, how to answer specific questions during the interview, etc. The training was attended by more than 110 students from all over Nashik.

A total of 3400 candidates had registered, out of which over 500 candidates secured jobs. Applicants from various branches of Arts, Commerce, Science, Pharmacy, Engineering, and Management had registered for the fair. Over 35 renowned companies from various sectors like Manufacturing, Information Technology (IT), Retailing, Banking, Financial Services, Construction, Electronics, Electrical, etc., participated in the Mega Job Fair. Major organizations in Nashik such as WNS, Netwin, Ztek, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ABL, ACL, Just Dial, Fox Solutions, Dhumal, MarketFx, Decathlon, Big Bazaar, Supreme Equipment, Ahire Machine Tools, etc. had participated as recruiters for various positions such as Sales and Marketing, Customer Care Executive, Relationship Manager, Front Officer, Unit Manager, Agency Manager, Marketing Executive, Finance Executive, Pharmacist, HR Executive, Accountant, Online Sales Executive, Web developers, etc.

2] Vyaktitv Club

When we talk about an MBA as a choice of education, the idea is not only to acquire management knowledge but to also gain an enriched, presentable and skillful personality. At Ashoka Business School, this latter part of the personality is taken care by a club called “Vyaktitv.... Person behind Profession”. The core value of this club is to look beyond academics and give students an opportunity to peak, touch and experience the Corporate World and its requirements.

In Vyaktitv, the students are the torchbearers. Here they are given the opportunity to plan and execute activities and events which makes them learn the life lessons required in their professional lives to thrive at the workplace and also to add the element of confidence in their personalities.

Under the banner of Vyaktitv, the students get an opportunity to meet and interact with top professional leaders and management gurus. In addition to such interactions, many activities to are undertaken with the objective of improving the self-esteem of the participants.

Vyaktitv and its activities revolve around the students. The club works on the personality of the students with an objective to prepare them to enter confidently in the professional world.

This is one of the best practices which focuses on the students entirely and helps build up their personalities in every way whatsoever.

3.] Ashoka Innovation and Start-up Cell

Start-up as terminology was initially used in the United States to describe an early-stage company with great growth potential. These start-ups were known as technology start-ups or internet start-ups due to the technology they were based on a start-up ecosystem can be said to take its form due to interactions between people with ideas and other organizations and institutions from different locations in various stages of development. The interaction leads to the generation of start-up organizations which strive to meet different requirements of the society at large. The organizations can be in the form of colleges, universities, support and funding organizations, research organizations, service providers and other large institutions. Ashoka Innovation and Start-up Cell was established to create a favourable environment for entrepreneurship at Ashoka Business School. Ashoka Business School has a legacy of Entrepreneurship. Chairman of Ashoka Education Foundation is Mr. Ashok Katariya. Mr. Katariya has founded Ashoka Buildcon Ltd., a company listed at NSE he himself is a well-known entrepreneur of the region. And we believe that entrepreneurs are not born, they are created.

Objectives of the Cell: 1 To identify students having entrepreneurial skills and/or innovative thinking and categorize these students into 5 categories based on their progress in entrepreneurship. 2 To facilitate students to convert their ideas and projects into feasible business 3 To create at least 1 student start-up every year with a client base of 1000 clients 4 To become an aggregator for the various products of students of AEF 5 To extend entrepreneurial support to various sections of society practices:

Expert sessions: During AY 2019-20 AISC has conducted many experts session for the students, some of the prominent speakers who interacted with our students are Mr. Parimal Modi( CEO, The Founder Lab), Ms. Kalyani Shinde(Founder, Godaam Innovations), Mr. Alkesh Chopda(Founder, Chai Tapri). 2) Ashoka Start-up Utsav Ashoka Innovation and Start up cell of Ashoka Business School had organized a, Startup Utsav on the 22nd Jan 2020. The idea behind the event was to encourage the “Entrepreneurial Aspirations” of young entrepreneurs and make Nashik the Startup capital of Maharashtra. It proved to be a resounding success. Promising startups of the region had an opportunity to present their projects to representatives of venture capital funds such as 100X VC, Bank of Maharashtra, VentureWolf etc. Parallel to the interaction of investors and start-up founders there were expert sessions arranged for all those who were interested in entrepreneurship but did not know how to go about it. Some experts whose session was scheduled are, Mr. Pushkar Kale, Mr. Pradip Peshkar, Dr. Omprakash Kulkarni, Mr. Devang Raja, Mr. Adil Merchant Mr. Heramb Shashastrabuddhe 3) Mentorship: AISC has a strong team of experts as its mentors, these mentors constantly guides aspiring entrepreneurs and provide constant support to them. Impact: 1) Handy Crafty: Mr. Nikhil Keluskar, an engineering graduate took admission to Ashoka Business School, he never intended to become an entrepreneur, however after joining AISC he realized his potential, he was properly mentored and guided by the experts associated with Ashoka Innovation and Start-up Cell, Nikhil decided to start own venture, and he started Handy Crafty, a start-up dedicated to personalized gifts, and his annual revenue for FY 2019-20 is Rs 10,00,000. 2) Getyourartist: Mr. Shubham Tekam of Ashoka Business School started a website getyourartist.com, an online platform to get any kind of artist to your doorstep for any kind of function. Challenges: Even though entrepreneurship is a good career option but still it is not the first choice of many students having entrepreneurial caliber, job placement is still the first choice of many students. To develop the mindset of students towards entrepreneurship is a challenge for the cell.