The highest salary package was 16.20 lakh. The PGPM-BL median salary was 9.00 lakh and PGPM-HRL median salary Rs 7.69 lakh.

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SOIL PGPM Average Increase in Salary

PGPM-BL students got a 98% increase in salary while the increase in salary for PGPM-HRL students was 124%. IN PGPM-Bl, the pre-MBA salary that stood at Rs 4.71 lakh went up to Rs 9.37 lakh post-MBA.

Similarly, for PGPM-HRL, the pre-MBA salary of Rs 3.47 lakh rose to Rs 7.80 lakh post-MBA. The total percentage increase in salary for the batch was 105%.

SOIL PGPM Overall Placement Statistics

Of the total 116 students, 113 had opted for placement. Of them, 108 accepted job offers. A total of 84 companies participated in the placement.

SOIL PGPM Industry-wise Placement

In industry-wise placement, IT / ITES / BPO had the lion’s share at 52% followed by Automobile / Manufacturing and BFSI (11% each), Education (8%), Internet / E-commerce and Hospitality (6% each), and Consulting (3%). Companies from Logistics, Real Estate, Telecom, Travel & Retail also participated in the placement process.

SOIL PGPM Placement Roles & Salaries

Marketing & Sales took in 33.3% followed by Analyst (22.9%), Consultant (19.8%), Project Management (10.4%), Project Management (7.3%) and Pre-Sales (6.3%).

The CTC offered for the Project Management role was Rs 12 lakh. Pre-Sales comes next with Rs 9.88 lakh, Marketing & Sales 9.52 lakh, Consultant 8.91 lakh, Product Management Rs 8.64 lakh and Analyst Rs 8.59 lakh.

SOIL PGPM Placement Major Recruiters

Major recruiters at the placement were Aditya Birla Group, Adecco India, Anand, Exide, Capgemini, Genpact, HCL Technologies, HeroFinCorp, Intellect Design Arena, Mahindra, Infosys, Oyo, Tata Steel and TVS.

SOIL PGPM Class Profile 2018-19

The PGPM class of 2018 comprised 116 students with an average age of 26. They possessed an average of 3.5 years of work experience. The class had 40% female representation. The average 10th score was 80%.

SOIL, a Management Institute co-created with 32 partner companies

The SOIL Institute of Management, located in Gurgaon, one of India’s start-up & innovation hubs in the National Capital Region (NCR) was established a decade ago with 32 partner companies including Infosys, SAP, Intellect, gsk, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra, Dabur, Grant Thornton, Maruti Suzuki, Larsen & Toubro, TVS, Johnson & Johnson, ABB, Asian paints and Max Life insurance.

The one-year PGPM Business Leadership admits candidates with a minimum of 2 years of full-time work experience. Apart from a rigorous program of courses is an extended and strengthened talent development program. All the MBA students get professional mentoring by senior leaders from the Industry.

Action Learning Projects (ALP) provide them with an opportunity to work on relevant industry-specific projects and a cutting-edge social innovation program where they volunteer to develop solutions for real-life problems facing the Non-Profit sector.

The one -year full-time PGPM program in Human Resources has been ranked and recognized by SHRM, the global body for HR Professionals.

The program is completed in three semesters. The first semester starts with the Core Courses that continue into semester 2 when Electives will also be introduced. Semester 3 is devoted to Electives only.

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In our last conversation, you said that SOIL is an experiment to bring a change to management education by shifting the focus from creating managers to creating leaders. Can this experiment be now critically reviewed for its success or do you think its still early to judge?

The opportunity to give birth to the School of Inspired Leadership has been a real blessing. In the last five years, we have created an ecosystem that is unique and is contributing to creating a leaders.

Of the 32 organizations that support our one year full time programs, fifteen of them have co-founded the part time ‘Emerging Leaders Program’ and 11 serve as Partners for the part time ‘People Next Program – for HR Leaders’. Six have joined hands with our school and MESA (a US based firm) to initiate the three week Global Leadership Program for Senior Leaders.

SOIL offers a unique ‘Social Innovation Program’ – an integral part of all our full time one year Programs in which student teams work with NGOs one day a week at the grass root level on social problems ranging from literacy to health to ecological balance. This develops emotional intelligence and compassion and makes our alumni stand out for their positive attitude and teamwork – crucial components in leadership.

The 25 NGOs who partner with us do us a big service by allowing us to serve them and their target audience. This gives SOIL graduates a distinct identity.

All our offerings have a strong focus on ‘Self Leadership’ – the key to inspire one self and others.

What new learning systems are you adopting to develop your students into effective leaders?

We are teaching a new course on ‘Transformational Industrial Relations’ so that they can serve the cause of building work places that have harmonious union – management relations free of violence seen in many companies recently.

Our students are actively participating in Consulting projects given to the School of strategic nature. For example, we have been partnering Mahindra Group in their transformation journey called RISE and our students participated in important planning meetings for this initiative. They also were part of an exercise in which we helped the National HRD Network to revisit its vision statement.

In partnership with MIP (a top 25 University of the World) of Milan in Italy, we are introducing new courses on ‘Design Thinking and Innovation’ to prepare our students to contribute actively to the Innovation agenda in our work places.

We also have faculty who consistently are rated above 4 on a 5 point scale by students for their passion and student centered approach. We are blessed to have not only outstanding full time faculty but also inspiring teachers from many parts of the world.

We are fortunate that over 100 of the country’s top recruiters have shown faith in us by hiring our alumni in important roles. Recruiters have appreciated the leadership skills we have been able to instill in students and tell us that our students display positive attitude, enthusiasm and distinguish themselves because of the strength of their values and ability to lead!

Any success stories you would like to share of SOIL students who have successfully transformed into leaders in their spheres?

Two of our students have become social entrepreneurs and are spreading happiness to countless others. Many others have created their own business enterprises which are growing successfully.

But leadership is much more than heading oragnisations – it is also about ‘service to the community. Perhaps that is where our and our students’ biggest success lies. 

We often hear stories of organizations in which our alumni have gone the extra mile to help those in need.

When companies like HCL Technology, Anand group, Maveric, Genpact, Wipro and many others single out SOIL Alumni for their ‘perspective and character’, we feel satisfied that our experiment is working

When companies like HCL Technology, Anand group, Maveric, Genpact, Wipro and many others single out SOIL Alumni for their ‘perspective and character’, we feel satisfied that our experiment is working.

One of the key questions that MBA aspirants might have is: Who is the ideal candidate for SOIL’s programmes? Are there certain qualities a future leader must possess? 

The ideal candidate is around 24-25 years old, has got an undergraduate degree in any discipline and has 1- 4 years of work experience and has the basic values of ethics and compassion.

Such a person has a dream of making a difference instead of complaining about the state of our organizations/community/country/planet.

The person is looking for a ‘Transformational Learning’ experience rather than a short cut to get a better job.

The person deeply loves the idea of being of service to others and enabling others to be happy.

Mr. TV Mohandas Pai, Chairman Manipal Global Foundation, Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder Digital Empowerment Foundation, Ministry of Communication & IT, Govt. of India, Mr. Puneet Bhatia, Director, Emerging Technologies & Digital Practice, KPMG, Mr. Pratik Kumar, CEO Wipro Infrastructure Engineering; Mr. Subroto Gupta, Digital Transformation & Innovation Leader, Genpact & Dr. Vinnie Jauhri, Director, Education Advocacy Microsoft Corporation were among the key participants at the two day event.

On Day One, in his inaugural address, T V Mohandas Pai, chairman, Manipal Global Foundation, held forth on ‘Digital India: Leadership Challenges and Opportunities’. He fascinated the audience by narrating the many disruptions that have ended up, over the centuries, transforming the world and the direction of history.

“Educational institutes are accepting digital with open arms. It is humbling to see the disruption brought about by Digital India in the society,” added Pai. He went on to share his firm belief that, “Very soon, India will become a global digital power with the kind of progress it is making with the new generation”.

“Disruptive technology has penetrated the rural sector and is working towards the elimination of middlemen and bringing profit directly to the manufacturer of the product,” said Pai.

Students were actively involved in the event and two SOIL students, Bhavishya Raghuraman & Alka Dixit presented a research paper on “Digital India- Winning Strategies across Business and Social Sector”.

Rounding off the day was a panel discussion on readying India for a digital revolution, and an ‘open space’ on how Digital India is impacting sectors as diverse as the media, e-commerce, manufacturing, logistics, FMCG, BFSI, advertising, IT, telecom, and travel and hospitality, facilitated by Mr. Anil Sachdev, Founder & CEO, SOIL. 

On Day Two, the keynote address was given by Osama Manzar, Founder, Digital Empowerment Foundation, ministry of communication and IT, who spoke about the social divide, and how the Digital India initiative can bridge this gulf, but not in the absence of a ‘human connect’.

Shriram, Vigneshwar G and Rethina Kumar, students of SOIL, presented a white paper on the Impact of Digital India on Education Sector. A panel discussion on Leveraging Digital India for the Social Sector- Education, E-Governance, Healthcare, and Impacting Rural India witnessed a conversation between Mr. Kumar Abhishek, Founder of ToneTag and SOIL alumni – Dr. Vinnie Jauhri, of Microsoft, Mr. Vishnu Karthik of Heritage Group of Schools, Mr. Anirban Mukerji of Qualcomm and Dr. Vimarsh Raina of Bharat Stem Cell.

SOIL  has reported successful summer placements for its Class of 2015-16. The school reports the Class this year was placed in both established companies and startups for one month internships between August-September this year.

Speaking to OneYearMBA, a SOIL representative said, “We witnessed continued trust from our existing industry partners and established many new relationships across industries. We are proud to have had repeat recruiters and to have drawn interest from startups who constituted one-fourth of the recruiters this year. These companies believe in the philosophy of SOIL and have made a commitment to partner with us.”

Companies that recruited SOIL students for internships this year include:

OneYearMBA talked to a few current SOIL students who participated in internships this year to understand how the internships contributed to their learning.

Surbhi Chauhan, who is perusing a course in HR from SOIL said, “I have been interning with Genpact for a little over a month. Although it has not been long time, but my experience has been rewarding so far. My project here is of Master Data Base Management and streamlining of Executive hiring process. I am fortunate to gain a firsthand experience about various HR processes in such a short span of time, meetings with recruiters and interviewing AVP level candidates. Genpact truly cares about every intern and has provided a stimulating and supportive environment that has helped me  realize my true potential.”

Another Student Shivali kapoor who is interning with MakeMyTrip said, “I am having a great time at makemytrip. I am working with the talent acquisition team under the Assistant Manager of HR. I am learning the entire recruitment process, including cold calling and coordinating interviews. Overall, the learning has been excellent!”

Pradeep Singh, who is interning with Genpact was excited about handling new tools in his assignment. “The learning is immense. There is a tool called Gentrac 2.0 on which we are working. This tool is helping the Genpact Transition team to record their work which will reduce their overall effort and time taken for tasks since it records all the project management processes from project initiation to closure. Navigating through the tool and getting to know how it is making work ‘smart’ is a big learning”, he said.

Summer Internships are an important part of an MBA course and many one-year MBA courses, not just those in India but globally too, skip on this crucial component. Time limitations in a fast paced one-year full-time course are cited as the most common limiting factor in having internships in their courses by B-Schools in Europe and USA.

Many B-Schools in India on the other hand tend to believe that internships are redundant since One Year MBA students already come with industry experience. This is far from true. Internships are a well established pipeline for hiring – the internship period helps companies evaluate future hires which often leads to a job offer. Also many students pursue an MBA to switch roles – an internship helps students learn the ropes in a new role.

Some schools in India such as IIM Bangalore have created special programmes such as Shikshu that enable virtual internships and help overcome the problem of limited time in a One Year MBA. 

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SOIL says the internships have helped SOIL Students land jobs last year at leading companies. There were 8 pre-placement offers (PPO) & pre-placement interviews (PPI) (offers made and interviews conducted by companies during internships and before the formal placement) last year. Genpact, VECV, Mahindra,  Dabur, Kohler and HCL were some of the companies that made these PPI and PPO Offers last year.

Genpact, a major recruiter at SOIL has had good things to say about students who interned and finally joined them in full-time roles. Bhavna Batra, AVP Human Resource Genpact says, “Students hired from SOIL have a unique ‘ability to execute’  and ensure that the delivery of results happen on time”.