Gaining wide knowledge is a must for students in B-Schools

Today, as a part of the Induction programme, Mr Sathasivam addressed us as the Industry speaker

Mr.N.Sathasivam is a chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience at senior levels in larger corporate. He had also held the position of CFO for over 10 years and currently, he is the co-promoter of ThinksynQ Solutions. The interactive session with Mr Sathasivam began with a topic “Employability”. In which, he gave us valuable information about how we should present ourselves in an interview, that includes

§  Having a thorough knowledge about the company’s history

§  Understanding their  competitors

§  Having In-depth knowledge in our area of expertise

He emphasized about the importance of reading books, to make the optimum use of the resources we have in the library and to develop a habbit of reading news papers.

In addition, he introduced us to concepts like Balance of trade, Current account deficit, fiscal deficit and GDP which made us to think about the threat that our Economy is facing in these hard times. He shared his findings and opinions about the problems that could arise due to certain schemes of the Central Govt of India like NREGS, Freebies etc.,

To sum it up, his speech was very informative, thought provoking and made us realize the need to stay up to date with current issues happening globally.

-Murali V, 2013-14 batch