A New insight Into The Corporate World

Mr Rai Varghese, Director, HRD at Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune addressed the first year MBA and B SC students on 12th July 2019 in the Management Block.

Mr Rai Varghese, a post-graduate in Personnel Management, is an experienced management professional with over 20 years of experience in reputed multinational and central government environments. Qualified as an ISO 9000 auditor, is an expert in process designing and systems development.

Mr Rai has a proven track record of independently handling HR function using modern methodologies and practices and can handle the functions with minimum resources. He has extensively worked on developing and implementing HR strategies, polices and procedures.

Mr Rai began with a self evaluation exercise and aptly mentioned that being less observant is quite common in today's society. He pointed out that students are unconsciously pulled into unwarranted competition because they are socially conditioned to be a part of a race.

 In the corporate world, the ability to compete with others is dependent on one's ability to think differently and be innovative. Mr Rai asserted that professionals are those who provide solutions to different problems. There is no way to apply a solution template to a given problem.

He spoke at length about how to be well prepared for the corporate world where there is a high level of expectations from the organisation. The need of the hour is to provide solutions to existing problems. He highlighted the importance of  efforts which the students will have to make to face challenges in an organisation.

They ought to use strategies and innovative techniques as expected. One has to be quantifiable and deliverable  because it is the need of the hour. Mr. Rai spoke about usefulness of conflict and difference of opinion to generate a strategy.

He insisted that teamwork is always the best option. Secondly including the opinions of others is always a good recipe for being successful.

He stressed upon the need for good communication between people in an industry. It will help to establish good rapport with each other and deal with all kinds of situations in a professional way. He further mentioned that the right kind of leadership skills adds value to the nature of job and benefits the company eventually.

Mr Rai asserted that being adaptable to new technologies, ideas, methods etc. always helps in successful implementation of new initiatives. As an open synergy seeker he motivated them to try to get the best out of human and technological potentials.

The students were quite interactive during the corporate talk and have learnt many valuable tips. In all probability his experetise and knowledge will help them in understanding the nuances of the corporate world in future.