SP JAIN GLOBAL BLOGS

During my routine performance evaluation meeting back in 2018, my boss asked me a seemingly simple question – ‘Where do you see yourself in a year? What plans have you made for your personal growth?’ It was when I heard this question that something struck me – I had become so comfortable in my life that I had stopped thinking about the next stage. I had been in the same company for 9 years, being unaware of the stage when I stopped adding value to the role and vice versa. Many of us go through this phase, don’t we? We get a full-time job and once we get settled in the role, we get so accustomed to our daily routine that we stop thinking ‘What next?’

A career at sea is not for the meek. A majority of global trades happen across the oceans, demanding that the seafarers often brave their lives in order to achieve their targeted goals and serve the public. How could they be rewarded for these efforts? This is what serial entrepreneur Saurish Nandi (Executive MBA Class of 2012) wanted to address when he co-founded SeaMiles in late 2018. We caught up with Saurish to know more about the venture.

A commerce graduate from Bangalore’s Christ University, Rishab Bhansali had done a couple of internships and spent a few years working with his family’s business before enrolling for SP Jain’s Master of Global Business (MGB) program in 2018. He recently started working as the Head of Marketing at Mana Projects Pvt Ltd, a real estate firm in Bangalore. We caught up with him to find out more.

Manthan Shah (BBA Intake of 2018) is a professional athlete who captained India’s team in the International Table Tennis Championship (Pacific Games, Australia) and won 2 bronze medals in the event before he joined SP Jain. Since then, he represented the School in the Spartan Race (Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore) and is currently the youngest Indian to do so. He also gave a talk at TEDxGateway, was a part of the Dean’s List for academic excellence, was a guest speaker at the Podcast on Climate Change with Scott Amyx (USA), participated in the outreach program in Philippines, published a research paper on Circular Economy, won three gold medals at the Fiesta Games 2019, and so much more!

Get the salary bump you want and deserve! Everybody loves a good paycheck and knows how critical it is to negotiate well when they receive a job offer. When that offer comes, however, we worry about appearing too greedy and whether the offer will stand on asking for a higher salary, making us shy away from a good salary negotiation. According to Jobvite, a recruitment firm, 71% of people do not negotiate their salaries, leaving money on the table. Here are some tips that I have learnt to implement from experience while negotiating a job offer.

At SP Jain, we believe that every student has the potential to achieve success with the right training and guidance. Over the years, our students have often gone above and beyond their call of duty to achieve absolute brilliance in their field of interest, and this year was no different!

This year, Dan Ng (BBA Intake of ’17) decided to pursue his sophomore year at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain. How is the Study Abroad Program helping Dan? We caught up with him to find out!

With an aim to graduate as a truly global citizen, Kalyani Iyer (BBA’17) is currently undertaking a student exchange program and completing her 4^th semester of BBA with IÉSEG School of Management, France. How is this program helping Kalyani? We caught up with her to find out!

The BBA cohort of September 2017 visited the Ferrari World and Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on 21^st September 2018.