Published: October 23, 2013
Career Services Director Q&A: VK Menon of the Indian School of Business
VK Menon has served as director of Career Advancement Services at the Indian School of Business (ISB) since 2004, a role in which he helps to build and strengthen relationships between the school and the corporate world. He leads a team of 30 executives who help ISB’s class of 770 students secure top jobs in India and elsewhere.
Prior to joining ISB, Menon was a professor of marketing and sales management at SDM-IMD, a business school in Mysore. He spent more than a decade before that devising marketing strategies for some of India’s most recognized corporations, including BPL, Philips and Nelco.
In the interview that follows, he outlines the recruitment process at ISB and talks about the valuable role alumni play as part of a program called Knowledge Transfer Sessions by Alums. Clearly, he and his team must be doing something right. The school had its best-ever placement record this year, with 425 companies making 820 offers to ISB students.
Clear Admit: How do you view your role as director of Career Advancement Services? Is it to administer workshops? Counsel students? Counsel companies? Manage the entire office and oversee its various functions? All of the above?
VK Menon: The primary objective of the head of Career Advancement Services is to manage three interests: 1) That of the recruiters, who would like to hire the talent that best fits their requirements; 2) That of individual students, who would like to get a role that they would love to work in, in a company of their choice, and 3) That of the business school, which would like to ensure that the entire class gets placed within three months of graduation.
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