Head-Campus Recruitment
India
- Current
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- Training and Placement Officer at Oriental Institute of Management
- Past
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- Profit Centre Head at TRI Technosolutions Pvt Ltd.
- Manager - Placements at Institute of Business Studies & Research
- Manager Sales and Marketing at Meta-i Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Head - Campus Recruitments at Mahatma Education Society
- Asst Manager - Marketing at Wigan & Leigh College
- Brand Manager at Nepal-Thai Foods Pvt Ltd (Chaudhary Group)
- Education
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- Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan
- University of Calcutta
- Assembly of God Church School
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Saurav Das’s Summary
I have a little more than 12 years of diversified experience in the areas of pooled-campus recruitment, business development, branding, media relations among other activities.
Quite a multi-tasking guy, I have spent the last seven years of my career with academic institutions and led teams to recruit more than 10,000 students not just from the institutions I worked for but also from those in and around Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and neighbouring districts. I did initiate and implement some of the largest joint-campus drives in the region for multi-national IT as well as non-IT companies along with my team.
Of late, I am focusing on starting some ventures in the field of education like a primary school for the economically backward with corporate and individual sponsorship; and a venture for free career counselling (mentoring) using the social networking sites for young engineering and management graduates.
Saurav Das’s Specialties:
Business Development, Sales, Campus Recruitment, Marketing Communications, Event Management and Corporate Relations
Saurav Das’s Experience
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Training and Placement Officer
Oriental Institute of Management
(Education Management industry)
July 2009 — Present (6 months)
Oriental Institute of Management, Vashi offers Management courses from the University of Mumbai as well as an autonomous programme approved by AICTE.
I am in charge of campus recruitment of the students who have graduated in 2008, 2009 and those who will graduate in 2010. Opportunities have been identified and some recruitment of the students who were not placed due to the economic slowdown has been accomplished around September 09.
The current focus is on the placement of Ops students from the 2010 batch as well as the Finance and HR students.
My accompishment here includes starting an inovative programme called "Meet the Industry" which brings in industry heads to the institution to share their personal growth stories, caselets, industry requirements from fresh graduates, among other things in a very informal and interactive session. That apart, I am leading the live projects from the industry for the students of the autonomous programme. -
Profit Centre Head
TRI Technosolutions Pvt Ltd.
(Privately Held; Education Management industry)
February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)
The start-up is into teaching of embedded systems and also into robotics for kids.
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Manager - Placements
Institute of Business Studies & Research
(Education Management industry)
November 2008 — January 2009 (3 months)
IBSAR offers MBA from Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth. It also has an institute offering MMS at Karjat which is under the University of Mumbai.
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Manager Sales and Marketing
Meta-i Technologies Pvt Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
Meta-i Technologies is known for its skills testing and assessment services serving a wide variety of clientele. The company's details may be viewed at www.metaitechnologies.com
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Head - Campus Recruitments
Mahatma Education Society
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 2 months)
I was in charge of Campus Recruitments primarily for the following institutions / colleges: (1) Pillai's Institute of Management Studies & Research; (2) Pillai's Institute of Information Technology, Engineering, Media Studies & Research; (3) Pillai's College of Arts, Commerce and Science; and (4) Pillai's Polytechnic.
That apart, having been a specialist in Joint Campus Drives for various companies, I have been indirectly in charge of engineering placements for a couple of other colleges not associated with Mahatma Education Society.
Overall, as I look back in the last 6 years, I enjoyed my experience as the Head of Campus Recruitment and it would be great if I can contribute back in anyway to my former organization. -
Asst Manager - Marketing
Wigan & Leigh College
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 6 months)
Wigan & Leigh taught me how to live life in Mumbai. I am indebted to Mrs. Renu Kapoor who was my Director then in Mumbai for teaching me multi-tasking and how to work in a B-School. After my job at WLC, I got married to my wife and started a new life in Mumbai from a scratch. Thank you Mrs. Kapoor for everything you taught me and for enabling me to network successfully though I have a long way to go.
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Brand Manager
Nepal-Thai Foods Pvt Ltd (Chaudhary Group)
(Food & Beverages industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
I was in charge of some 9 brands mostly into noodles and flavoured milk. My responsibilities included promotions, publicity, sales support, media relations and advertising.
I coined a term for us 'expats' at Chaudhary Group: we called ourselves "paid tourists" as we loved what we did and loved rural Nepal very much.
Saurav Das’s Education
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Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan
PGDMSM , Sales and Marketing Management , 1995 — 1996
It was fun zig-zagging in someone else's car without knowing driving. I still have the craze of auto-gear cars. So much for internship :)
- Activities and Societies:
- Here I did some work for Daewoo Motors and 'learnt' driving an automatic Cielo in rear gear (absolutely straight). It was only when I thought of driving ahead that I pressed the accelerator hard and lost control of the car and gave someones first free service car quite a jolt. I quit my job the next day before I was detected.
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University of Calcutta
B.A , English , 1992 — 1995
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Assembly of God Church School
ISC , Humanities , 1978 — 1992
The Assembly of God Church School in Calcutta (now Kolkata) is part of the Assembly of God Mission headquartered in Springfield, U.S.A.
In those days we never had the term "international school" like we have today with certifications in IB, but what we enjoyed was a true global schooling with members of the AG Mission coming frequently from abroad teaching us the values of life.- Activities and Societies:
- Inter-School Music Competition : 2nd Prize
British Council Inter-School Drama Competition : Runner's Up (Team Award)
Participant : Global Peace Village
Additional Information
Saurav Das’s Interests:
Management and HR Certification, Lectures on Career Development in campuses, Engineering Projects, academic software projects on Java, Outbound tours
Saurav Das’s Honors:
Distinction - Grade III - Violin - The Royal Schools of Music, London
2nd Prize - Inter-School Music Competition - Individual Instrumental Performance - Violin
Certificate of Participation by British Council, Calcutta for Inter-School Drama Competition
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