THE PLACEMENT CELL REPORT: 2015-16 The Placement Cell started functioning with the appointment of the committee for the Academic Year 2015-16, which is listed below: Faculty in Charge Prof.SudarshanaSaikia Secretary Ishani Chattopadhyay Joint Secretary JanhaviJadhav Joint Secretary Shivam Arora Finance Secretary Adhishree Aras Finance Secretary Kiran Bhatia Student Representative Trunali Pawar Student Representative Sanket Srinivasan The Placement Cell started functioning with a very clear objective of ensuring a higher placement record and a better reach to the students of the college. To facilitate this objective, a ‘Placement Awareness Programme’ was conducted, under which, the Placement representatives visited each division of the B.Com and BMS classes to give a short presentation on the Placement Cell and its planned activities for the current year, replete with a timeline. This ensured that the students were well informed about the placement activities of the college and their part in it. The Placement Cell conducts the following main activities in the college: 1. Articleship Hiring for CA students 2. Placements for Final Year Students 3. Internship placements The following Training Activities are also conducted:

1. Mock Group Discussion- Personal Interview Session: Date:15th September, 2015. Speaker- Dr. Ashish Sen (DGM- HPCL) The Mock Group Discussion-Personal Interview Session was conducted on 15th September, 2015 by Dr. Ashish Sen, DGM of HPCL. He briefed the students about what exactly is a Group Discussion and how students should go about it and how the Recruiters analyse the students during a GD session. WRT Personal Interviews, Dr. Sen had guided the students on essential aspects like body language, confidence, communication skills and how students should put across their points with Diplomacy as and when required. This session was attended by 80 students.

2. Resume Building Workshop

Date: 17thOctober, 2015 Speaker: Miss Esther Rodrigues (HR- Smart Link) The Resume Building Workshop was conducted on 17th October, 2015 by Miss Esther Rodrigues, HR at Smart Link. It was conducted to train the students on how to construct a Resume.There were around 60 students who had attended the session.

This year the training activities where conducted by industry experts so that the students have a better understanding as to what the companies are looking for in a student. The Articleship Hiring season at Podar in 2015-16, was attended by the following companies:

1. EY 2. PwC 3. KPMG 4. Deloitte 5. Sharapia Mehta & Associates LLP 6. MyCFO 7.Ramaswamy and Associates.

The Placement Cell had also taken up Winter Internships and did receive a tremendous response from not just start – ups but also from prominent companies like Cadbury and HDFC bank. The First Placement Week of the College was held from 26th November to 2nd December. Following companies participated in the session: COMPANY STUDENTS SELECTED PAY PACKAGE EY

7 students selected: 2. TrunaliPawar 3. Shikhar Tiwari 4. IshaniChattopadhyay 5. SnehaRadhakrishnan 6. AshnaWadhwan 7. ShyamDatye 8. SushamanaBillore

3.41 LPA

KPMG

16 students selected: 1. AadityaVikram Singh 2. JanhaviJadhav 3. JayeshAmbwani 4. Rohan Nayyar

3.10 LPA

5. DishaPanchamia 6. Natasha Trikha 7. Aditya Rathod 8. Kiran Bhatia 9. MonikGokani 10. Meir Killekar 11. HeerPrajapati 12. ShristiTripathi 13. ParthMangla 14. MadhaviShahani 15. ManasaAnand AXIS RISK CONSULTANTS 3 students selected: 1. VirajVakatkar 2. UtsavSejpal 3. Meir Killekar

2.75 LPA

TATA CAPITAL 2 students selected: 1. Nikhil Sangle 2. NarayaniShankaran

3.25 LPA

DELOITTE 6 students selected: 1. Kiran Bhatia 2. Priyanka Pol 3. Ruby Mathews 4. MayuriChikane 5. JayeshAmbwani 6. UtsavSejpal

3.36 LPA

ICICI PRUDENTIAL 1 student selected: 1. Sameer Bharame

2.5 LPA

KOTAK SECURITIES

7 students selected: 2. AkshayChungade 3. Akshar Gujarati 4. Jay Mehta 5. Abhinay Jain 6. ShubhamAbhani 7. Abhishek Gupta 8. Sanjeet Vaidya

3 LPA

Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. 2 students selected: 1. HemantMohite 2. NidhiSalva

3 LPA

Teach For India Gandhi Fellowship

Pre – Placement Talk

Pictures of the First Placement Week

A total of 44 students were placed in the First Placement Week, a 37.5% rise over last year’s 32, which was a composite of the First Placement Week. While last year in total , i.e., a composite of two Placement Weeks , 44 students had been placed but this year 44 students got placed in the First Placement Week itself. The Average Salary Offeredon Campus this year was Rs. 3 lakh p.a. Mondelez India (Cadbury) recruited the following students for their Winter Internship Programme:

Anusha Jain OmkarSawant Pranjal Chavarkar PrincyPatil Rohan Singh SiddhantManjrekar Shweta Rajhans VishakhaShilewant SiddeshSawant

The Stipend offered to them was 12K per month. The Second Placement Week had been conducted in the month of February, 2016. Name of the Company Students selected Pay Package Darshaw 1 student selected: 1. SarthakThorve 3 LPA Aegis Gifting 1 student selected: 1. Harsha Pawar 2.4 LPA

Resource Bridge 2 students selected: 1. Shreya Patel 2. ShubhamKumthekar 3.75 LPA

JP Morgan 4 students selected: 1. SupreetWasan 2. HitakshaGambhir 3. Shilpika Shetty 4. Shivani Shinde

2.65 LPA

ConfirmR 1 student selected: 1. AkshayGharat 2.75 LPA Innoesis 1 student selected: 1. MihirVeshvikar 3 LPA MyCFO

6 students selected: 1. NaazreenShakir 2. HitakshaGambhir 3. ForamMaru 4. ManodayaRasane 5. AishwaryaGolatkar 6. Gaurang Desai

2.70 LPA

Future Tech

6 students selected: 1. AkanshaBagda 2. DivyaKesarkar 3. MihirVeshvikar 4. SaumyaIyer 5. RuchaNavale 6. Sameer Bhamare

1.8 LPA

Saint Gobain 2 students selected: 1. QueenciKotak 2. Jaanvi V Shah 2.75 LPA

Trevista Financial Services 1 student selected: 1. PoojaSarvaiya 3 LPA The Placement Cell makes sure that the students make it to their desired profile and the companies, their desired candidates. We make sure that there is a tinge of healthy competition amongst all students to help them grow; Also, for all the companies to recruit quality candidates.

PLACEMENT CELL – ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 The Placement Cell started functioning with the appointment of the committee for the Academic Year 2014-15, which is listed below: Faculty in Charge Prof. Sudarshana Saikia Secretary Amit Haldipur Joint Secretary RasikaKaware

Joint Secretary Sachin Someshwar Finance Secretary ManaKatageri Finance Secretary Upasana Tendulkar Students’ Representative Vidhi Mehta The Placement Cell started functioning with a very clear objective of ensuring a higher placement record and a better reach to the students of the college. To facilitate this objective, a ‘Placement Awareness Programme’ was conducted, under which, the Placement representatives visited each division of the B.Com and BMS classes to give a short presentation on the Placement Cell and its planned activities for the current year, replete with a timeline. This ensured that the students were well informed about the placement activities of the college and their part in it. The Placement Cell conducts the following main activities in the college: Articleship Hiring for CA students Placements for Final Year Students Internship placements The following Training Activities are also conducted:

Resume Building Workshop GD Sessions The Articleship Hiring season at Podar in 2014-15, was attended by the following companies: EY PwC KPMG JMP Advisors The First Placement Week of the College was held from 26th November to 2nd December. Following companies participated in the session:

NAME OF THE COMPANY STUDENTS SELECTED KPMG 10 students selected:

1.Amit Haldipur 2.Poornima Rao 3.Megha Dhawan 4.Talish Barmare 5.Shivangi Agarwal 6.Meherzin Pithawalla 7.Om Gangan 8.Vaidehee Murkar 9.Sonia Paradkar 10.Shubhra Taparia

EY 4 students selected: 1.Shalakha Sanal 2.Sanjana Parakh 3.Tanya Saraf 4.Abhishek Devadiga

Axis Risk Consulting 4 students selected 1.Akash Gholap 2.Prachi Dedhia 3.Revant Reddy 4.Yugandhar Kakade

Tata Capital 4 students selected 1.Krishna Iyer 2.Rega Das 3.Tejaswini Naik 4.Kajol Chheda

ICICI Prudential 10 students selected 1.Varun Lapasia 2.Karan Mehta 3.Priyanka Gawli 4.Tejal Thanage 5.Asmita Kosambia 6.Chaitali Bansode 7.Tejaswini Sutar 8.Pratik Ajgaonkar 9.Niteshkumar Bharadwaj 10.Vimal Raymangya

Teach for India and Gandhi Fellowship

Pre-placement talk

A total of 32 students were placed in the First Placement Week, a 14% rise over last year’s 28, which was a composite of the Two Placement Weeks. The Average Salary Offered on Campus this year was Rs. 2.6 lakhs p.a. In the Second Week of Placements conducted in the last week of January and first week of February 2015 the following students were placed. Second Placement Week: NAME OF THE COMPANY STUDENTS SELECTED Purple Squirrel Eduventures Pvt Ltd

3 students selected:

1.Kajol Chheda 2.Karishma Wasan 3.Om Pahalwan

Delloite 8 students selected: 1.Vishal Karalkar 2. Shreya Marwah 3. Neha Sardar 4.Reshmi Kumar 5.Sonia Paradkar 6.Charmi k Bheda 7.Pooja P Nayak 8.Pratik Ajgaonkar

SMERA ratings 1 students selected: 1.Tanvi Rane

A total of 12 students were placed in the Second Placement Week with an average salary of Rs 3 lakhs p.a. This year the placement cell got a good response in the summer internship drive as well. NAME OF THE COMPANY STUDENTS SELECTED Birla Sunlife 40 students selected:

Reserve Bank of India 2 students selected: 1.Ishani Chattopadhyay 2.Nikita Sharma

Ventura Securities 4 students selected: 1.Bhavneesh Shah 2.Jay Singal 3.Shubham Jawlekar 4.Vrudhi Salva

Tripda 1 students selected: 1. Riva Ranka

JMP Advisors 1 students selected: 1.Janhavi Jadhav

Couch Tomato 2 students selected: 1.Princy Vincent. 2.Trunali Pawar.

The summer interns were given stipend on a pro - rata basis. The Placement Cell has run very smoothly with regular meetings and co-ordination between its highly dedicated members. The Placement Cell is a 37 member strong forum now, with a larger bias towards First Year Students, who are to lead the forum in the coming years. The Placement Cell has again followed its motto “Our Success, lies in your success” in the most upright and ethical manner this year too. PLACEMENT CELL – ANNUAL REPORT 2013-14 Placement Committee Chairperson Mrs Sudarshana Saikia Secretary RajaliBisht Joint Secretary - B.Com Alisha Pinto Joint Secretary - BMS Shyamlee Khanna Treasurer ManoshriTrehan Students’ Representative – B.Com

Sanjukta Naha HarshitaAdhyapak

Students’ Representative - BMS TejasPande RohitDeorukhkar

The Placement Cell is truly a forum of the students, by the students and for the students. The Cell is operated by the students of the College under the aegis of its Chairperson to provide Podarites with jobs of their choice. The academic year started with an On Campus Placement Drive for CA Articles where 31 of our students were placed in two of the Big Fours. The names of students placed are as follows: Price Waterhouse Coopers Ernst & Young 1. Sandeep Tondwalkar 1. JeetendraKhilnani 2. Asmita Joshi 2. Sarthak Shetty 3. Devaki Dhamankar 3. Girish Shenoy 4. Aishwarya Jain 4. VarshaSrini

5. RohitJaithliya 5. DishaJhunjhunwala 6. Girish Shenoy 6. Sumath Kamath 7. Nikita Shetty 7. VenugopalRajamani 8. Sumant Kamath 8. DeepanitaShelar 9. Gavish Gupta 9. Abhishek Gad 10. AishwaryaBadetia 11. RuchikaKhemka 12. PratameshEktare 13. RegaArvee Das 14. Vimal Shah 15. Prakrati Gupta 16. VarshaSrini 17. Avanti Bhide 18. Karthiayani Nair 19. Nukul Jain 20. Himali Chauhan 21. DeepanitaShelar 22. MaulikSheth Team building and training sessions were organized for the team members. A Resume Building Workshop was organized for the registrants of Final Placements which was attended by around 80 students who were beautifully guided by Ms KuntalDoshi, a Consulting Psychologist. The Placement Cell website was merged along with the college website since this year. Following is the link of the same: http://www.rapodar.ac.in/pc.php Ernst & Young, KPMG, Axis Risk Consultancy, CRISIL, Zomato Media were the companies that came On Campus forFinal Recruitment during the first phase. The names of the 13 students placed are as follows: NAME OF THE COMPANY STUDENTS SELECTED SME Rating Agency 1. Sankalp Singh Ernst & Young 1. AshwapurwaKumari

2. RajaliBisht 3. Ritu Oberoi 4. MubeenSayyed 5. Adwait Vaidya

KPMG 1. Sanjukta Naha 2. HetalWagh 3. UrviBhandarkar

Axis Risk Consulting 1. ManoshriTrehan 2. Sheena Uppal

Zomato 1. Pranav Sanghavi 2. Gunjan Agarwal

Citi Corp 1. HarshwardhanNerurkar 2. Yash Mehta

Second phase on Campus (for final recruitment) The names of the students placed are as follows: NAME OF THE COMPANY STUDENTS SELECTED Crisil 1. Sameen Khan Tata Capital 1. YashwardhanDalmia

2. Shweta Venkatram 3. Renu Nair 4. SaachiPai

KPMG 1. Sanjukta Naha 2. HetalWagh 3. UrviBhandarkar

DBS 1. Glynis Rodrigues 2. Sayalipatil 3. Shyamalee Khanna 4. PriyankBadola 5. NishigandhaKerure 6. AnujaKumawat

J P Morgan 1. SanjanaKundaikar 2. Mercy Poulose

RBI recruited two Second Years students as summer Interns. Student Selected For internship at Reserve Bank of India: 1) Amit Haldipur 2) MeghaDhavan Stipend paid to students - Rs. 6500 Duration - Two months I-Can recruited two first year BMS students as summer interns. 1) NinadUnavne 2) PinakKarande