HOME ABOUT US ASPIRANTS CORPORATE INSTITUTIONS THE iPRIMED WAY KNOWLEDGE CENTER CAREERS CONTACT US Reviews   Knowledge Center Blog Calendar of Events Calendar of Events January, 2012 11th January:Navin Kumar was one of the speakers at SAM-VRIDDHI Navin Kumar was one of the speakers in the Seminar conducted by Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, held at Hotel Vivanta by Taj on 11th January, 2012. He spoke on the various aspects of System Software and the future of Information and Communication Technology. For him, in this age of devices, there should be an impetus to push system software in India. The message which Mr. Navin gave the industry was to move beyond lip service and invest in creating world class labs, building efficient faculty and training people to meet the demands of the market. He talked about blending technology with behavioral skills. He opined that high critical thinking, analytical ability, ambiguity, talking the customer’s language and building relationship with them are some of the skills which need to be developed to overcome the issues of developing system software. December, 2011 22nd December Christmas at iPRIMED – The week was fun filled with competition, which culminated into a Christmas celebrations with games, awards to the interns competing against various batches 20th December NASSCOM CEO Cocktails Celebration – CEO of iPRIMED was invited for the all CEO meet at ITC Gardenia, over cocktails and snacks. This was hosted by UK Trade & Investment as a part of CEO networking. 16th to 31st December Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) days at iPRIMED – It is that time of the year, when we have to give it back to the society. iPRIMED has initiated the CSR week the highlight is to collect items for the less privileged in the form of cash and kind, which would be donated at various institutions 16th December CEO of Extentor, George Varghese visited iPRIMED today. He addressed the students on career, habits and success in today’s world November, 2011 30th November:iPRIMED showcased its study at DNI Summit conducted by NASSCOM iPRIMED along with CGI and NASSCOM conducted two survey on social demographics and generational impact on three people processes for “learning”, “engagement” and “performance”. Mr. Navin Kumar, CEO of iPrimed, was invited as a speaker and panelist for the workshop conducted by CGI. iPRIMED received close to 400 responses on the Generational Impact Survey. Various interesting patterns emerged from the study, which was presented by Mr. Navin Kumar at the NASSCOM SUMMIT. There were some interesting questions raised and conclusions drawn. This was very well received and appreciated at the Conference which was held at Leela Palace. 20th November:iPRIMED CEO was one of members of the Selection Committee for EPGP program at IIM-B IIM-B conducted the final round of selection for Executive Post Graduate Program (EPGP) candidates. Mr. Navin Kumar was one of the members in the Selection Committee that interviewed the candidates. 7th November :A batch from Tier 1 IT Firm graduates The pilot batch from a Tier 1 IT Firm graduated after 4 weeks of training at iPRIMED. A senior official from the company addressed the interns. This was followed by a small felicitation of interns by iPRIMED. The spirit among them was great and enthusiastic; and they left the premises on a high note. October, 2011 25th October:Diwali Celebrations at iPRIMED 2011:A batch from Tier 1 IT Firm graduates iPrimed family celebrated the festival of lights, DIWALI, together. On this occasion, all the employees dressed in their respective ethnic wears, decorated the office and their workstations. Each individual’s desk depicted different favours of Diwali. As the day passed, the level of fun and excitement kept increasing.A small event was organized in the spirit of the festival. It started with lighting the lamp. This was followed by a magnificent classical dance by one of our employees. The iPRIMED family also played lots of games and shared snacks together on this colorful evening. September, 2011 September:iPAT Assessment for a Tier 1 IT Firm In the month of September, we conducted iPAT assessments (behavioral assessment) for a Tier 1 IT Company. As a part of the hiring process, we conducted assessments successfully over 30 colleges across India. 19th September:College students who underwent training at iPRIMED, get placed in Infosys A milestone for US! One of the colleges we are working with attended campus placement of Infosys for the first time. It is our pleasure to announce that, 40% of selected students were trained by iPrimed. College officials were delighted with the results. We too are! But we know that this is just a glimpse of what we can achieve together. 9th September:Inauguration of MBA program, in a renowned college by the CEO of iPRIMED Mr. Navin Kumar along with a senior client member inaugurated the advent of MBA program in a College. More than thousand parents and students attended the function. Mr. Navin addressed them, emphasizing on the need to change our approach towards learning. August, 2011 30th August We have successfully completed the initial program in college and are very happy with the tremendous positive response we got from students. The improvement in the students on daily basis was encouraging for us. On the concluding day, a token of appreciation was offered to the students. We enjoyed the experience thoroughly and are thankful to the students to make the training sessions extremely interactive.. July, 2011 26th and 27th July On behalf of National Skill Development Corporation ( NSDC), Edexcel conducted a two day workshop on Occupation Standards (OS). OS are an important activity of the Sector Skill Councils being formed under NSDC, to act as the leading facilitating body for the respective Sector, and would serve as the pivot of the interface with NVQF (National Vocation Qualification Framework).Along with 2 other people, Navin represented NASSCOM in this workshop. He shared his approach on creating OS which was accepted very well by the other SSCs along with Edexcel. 23rd July Navin met up with the eminent, Prof Jagdish Sheth (www.jagsheth.net) to apprise him on iPRIMED developments and seek his advice. Dr Sheth, suggested a few innovative approaches on taking the iPRIMED offerings on a national/international scale 20th July Visit of Blue Star Infotech Limited CEO to iPRIMED. Sunil discussed the relationship and how to take it to the next levels. Strategic alignments were discussed and agreed upon. Next steps charted out 18th July We begin our journey with colleges.iPRIMED has started curriculums in various colleges which would enhance workplace skills even before they start their journey in the corporate world. This program is also aimed at giving the students a feel of what challenges they have to face when they enter corporate world. 15th July:An evening to cherish CapG batch 10 graduates today. The function began with lighting of the lamp. Facilitators addressed the students and shared their experiences. Students sang their favorite numbers. iPRIMED Staff too participated in the games organized in the function. It was fun filled day that every individual will cherish for a long time to come and also a memorable day as they would step into the corporate world. 14th July:A colorful and enthusiastic evening iPRIMED participated in NASSCOM -Georgetown University (EMBA) Research Project. A team from Georgetown University interviewed Navin on his views on the skills required by entry level employees in order to create leaders for the future – the balance between technical and soft skills, career progression etc. 1st July:A colorful and enthusiastic evening It was a colourful and enthusiastic evening, when yet another CapG batch 9 graduated on 1st July.The graduation function started with lighting the lamp. The students were addressed by Navin (iPRIMED CEO) and Praveen (iPRIMED COO). After which the students sang a self composed humorous chorus.Staff members were also brought onto the stage to play games. The audience cheered for the electrifying performance of students in the fashion show. Praveen addressed the students and awarded the students with the certificates of completion of the program. 1st July:iPRIMED completes 2 years today iPRIMED today gets 2 years younger. Our focused and persistent hard work towards changing lives is paying off. We have trained close to 1000 graduates and post graduates, who are working successfully in their respective fields of interest in top MNCs. The auspicious day started with lighting of the lamp around which we could see everyone shining in there ethnic wears. There was an aura of calm and composedness around. It was an unforgettable moment. We have worked hard and thus we party harder.It was fun to puff off the candles on the cake together. We organized a party for all of us where the iPRIMED Team had loads of fun and lunch together.Amidst all this fun, we know that the reward of good work done is more work. We understand that the road ahead will be much more challenging, and Yes! That’s what we are looking for… June, 2011 30th June iPRIMED in discussions with 2 captives to help them with their talent transformation needs. Various models were discussed and next steps agreed upon. 21st June iPRIMED initiated discussions with a Tier 1 IT firm to transform the talent acquisition space on the Business Services side. Both side agreed on the modus operandi; details are being worked out 16th June iPRIMED in discussions with a 25+ year old IT company to drive Business Transformation from a skills and talent perspective. iPRIMED is already working with this company in other areas. 2nd June The iPRIMED team met with a leading player in the products space to start collaborating/partnering with them. The discussions went well and the team is working on an innovative talent acquisition model. May, 2011 26th May The iPRIMED team met with a leading player in the products space to start collaborating/partnering with them. The discussions went well and the team is working on an innovative talent acquisition model. 26th May The iPRIMED team met with multiple companies in the NCR region to start collaborating/partnering with them. The intent is to start working with these companies by Oct/November time frame. IPRIMED is in the process of setting up an office in the NCR region. 25th May Navin addressed the leadership team from Bricoman, France on “Organizational Design - Influence of hierarchy and belief systems on business culture”. The workshop was organized at Leela Kempinski Hotel at Gurgaon. The session was well accepted by the French delegation. 18th May Discussions started with a State government to deploy iPRIMED model at a strategic level. iPRIMED team will be visiting the state to discuss next steps 13th May Discussions started with one of the largest banks in the World to help them with their needs around skills at the entry level. A team from PRIMED met the L&D head for the bank and walked them through with our offerings. April, 2011 18th & 27th :Meeting with World Bank Navin had multiple meetings with World Bank last month, to discuss one of the company’s ambitious projects. Our proposition was greatly appreciated. The bank has expressed their intent to discuss further, to explore collaboration opportunities. For an organization which is just two years young, does this seem like a feat? Yes it is indeed, however this is just the tip of the iceberg. 25th April A batch targeted to meet an emerging IT solutions and services company’s requirements, focused around development and testing on the It side, started today. Here, an innovative model is being tried out, wherein the interns will split their time between iPRIMED and the company. 13-14 April :TiE Atlanta Summit Navin Kumar (CEO, iPRIMED) visited TiE-Vista- the Largest Entrepreneurial Summit in the SouthEast USA in the month of April. He was also the guest speaker there and his ideologies were acknowledged with appreciation. He also received an acknowledgment of appreciation.. March, 2011 13th March 2011:Alumni Meet iPRIMED hosted an Alumni meet on the 13th of March, Sunday. There were about 250 members gathered. This event was mainly organized to welcome back our alumni to share their experiences and create a strong bond with them as years go by, and catch up with their friends and facilitators as they rekindled some of the memories of the long hours they spent at iPRIMED. Eminent guests from IT and ITeS companies were invited to share this moment of joy and encourage us. Apart from this lot of fun elements were added in the form of dance performances and Rock band to associate with the young audience.The event started with a welcome speech by Seema Pandey followed by the lighting of lamp. The lamp was lit by our guests Mr. PT Alexander, Centre Director BPO for Capgemini, Mr. Jnanesh Kumar, Vice President HR, Capgemini, Mr. Navin Kumar CEO of iPRIMED and Mr. Praveen Sinha COO of iPRIMED. Mr. PT Alexander and Jnanesh Kumar, spoke a few words of encouragement to the young audience. Many guests also joined the meet; they were from various organizations IT and ITeS organizations.Anindita Sarkar and Ashish Tyagi, have been associated with iPRIMED from the day of its inception. They took a “walk down the memory lane” and shared their experiences. They explained that iPRIMED Education Solutions is focused on enhancing workplace skills at the entry level. For an institute which had a very humble beginning from May, 2009 with only 5 employees and a model to intrinsically change India’s young generation and make them workplace ready, it has crossed a big milestone. More than 8 to 10 Alumni spoke to the audience and shared theirs experience and their takeaways from iPRIMED both informally and formally and how it has helped them in their careers now. After which there was break for high tea followed by Musical Extravaganza. The Musical evening had 2 programs led by the present iPRIMED interns and 1 by our Alumni followed by a professional rock band. The event culminated with a dinner where the alumni got more opportunity to network. All departed with a promise to be back for the event next year. Februry, 2011 18th Feb 2011:A Touching Au revoir by CGI – II today It started with an ice-breaker session, and turned out to be a roller coaster ride for each individual involved in the function. For the first time a surprise fashion show for the staff was organized. Each one in the staff was invited on the ramp. An electrifying dance performance, with a beautifully choreographed Fashion Show rocked the enthusiasm of every individual. Students touched our hearts when they expressed what iPrimed meant to them through some simple and beautiful words. 16th Feb 2011:Confident Auf wiedersehen by yet another batch of Capgemini This time creativity and confidence was in the air. With power packed performances by the students, the audience at iPrimed was mesmerized. Right from the melodious songs to the rocking dance performance, each kept adding to the life of the function. Students beautifully showcased attires of various nations of the world through an excellent Fashion Show. The day witnessed the lighter side of some of the facilitators as well when performed with students in a humorous skit. 8th Feb 2011:CGI 4 testing Batch-Fairwell It was a fun filled day when our testing batch graduated. Our interns sang songs and made the facilitators to sing various songs. The interns shared their experiences with the audience about their journey at iPrimed. All the interns were of the opinion that iPrimed is unique in their approach and has enriched them. There was a testing based fun game organized by the students which was very enjoyable January, 2011 21st January:Another Capgemini batch graduated from iPRIMED today Capgemini Batch 5 rocked iPrimed when they presented an excellent Fashion Show depicting the styles of various countries. Most appreciated amongst them was the fashion show on Japanese culture. The songs sung were great. The games for the staff had amazing response for its high entertainment. 18th January:Final day at iPRIMED for CGI-1 The students started their graduation day by expressing their gratitude towards the facilitators and staff. Each intern affirmed their transformation at iPrimed by sharing the changes in them. Students shared their experiences of sharing their learning’s with their friends. They noticed that they got positive acknowledgements from their peers when they shared their learning’s from iPrimed . 3rd January:CapG 5 – Power Dressing Day - Impact with Style The day began with a fierce competition amongst eight teams. Each aimed at outshining the others. A competition meant to make an impact on the minds, but with a style-A Power Dressing Competition. Each team was required not just to dress in formals, but also to carry themselves in a way that outperforms the rest. Contestants gave the judges real tough time to decide. With an edge over others on the grounds of their charisma, attitude and the capability to carry them well, Team 6 won the title of 'The Power Dressed Team’. Towards the end of the competition there was a brief informal discussion amongst the students and facilitators emphasizing the knowhow of carrying ourselves harmoniously with the attire. December,2010 30th December 2010:New Year Celebration. iPrimed rocked on the New Year’s Eve, when the students organized an entertaining, rib-tickling and glamorous celebration. The students sang their best songs. They performed with their musical instruments. Was the day all about the students? Nope! The staff threw their mind-blowing performances. Students added glamour to the celebration with a beautiful Fashion show. iPrimed family came together on the party floor and made it a memorable day. 10th December 2010:Musical Friday Evening at iPRIMED. Holiday season is on and it has started off with a fun filled musical evening by the iPRIMED interns. Various hit Kannada, Hindi and English numbers were sung. Some of the facilitators also sang and danced to various numbers. There was magic show by one of the interns. iPRIMED had arranged for some light refreshments to enhance the musical mood. December 2010:iPRIMED new wing is UP. iPRIMED has doubled its space and the new wing which was under constructions from the last 2 months is fully functional now. There are 6 additional classrooms and a new pantry for the staff. The technical team has shifted to the new wing of iPRIMED November, 2010 22nd November: One More Capgemini,Bangalore Batch Graduates today It was graduation and farewell day for the Capgemini 3rd batch to be deployed at their Bangalore office. The batch hosted an electrifying fashion show for the other interns and iPRIMED staff. The fashion show depicted various cultures across the world. The batch was divided in 6 teams which showcased attire and cultures from USA, Japan, UK, France, South Africa and Canada. The batch also showcased individual talents, who sang melodious songs from various movies. Finally the team cut the cake and mementoes were given from iPRIMED to all the interns. The interns also reciprocated by giving gifts to the iPRIMED facilitators and staff. 4th November: Diwali Celebrations at iPRIMED The festival season was celebrated with lot of fun and gaiety. The theme was ethnic wear and everyday the employees were seen in their festive colorful attire. Thursday the interns were left early and all the iPRIMED staffers got a goody bag as a token of appreciation and festival season October, 2010 3rd-4th October 2010-Campus Fair Hiring at iPRIMED The 3rd and 4th week of October saw various IT companies coming to IPRIMED facility for Campus selection. More than 40 iPRIMED interns were interviewed by various companies. Some of the companies were Thoughtworks, Spring People, Blue Star, Manhattan Associates, NOUS etc. 20th October 2010 Hire, Train and Deploy model for a Global MNC based out of NA has started at iPRIMED facility. 15th October 2010 – The CapG batch graduated from iPRIMED today. It was a memorable day at iPRIMED today. The CapG batch graduated from iPRIMED today. The enthusiastic team held a fashion show for the facilitators and other students. The theme was to represent the dressing style of people from various countries. One of the students gave an electrifying dance performance from various hit bollywood numbers. There was musical chair competition for the facilitators and staff. Post which there was cake cutting and the students gave away mementoes to every facilitator who taught them. As a farewell and remembrance iPRIMED gave away parting gifts to the students. 14th October 2010 The Recruitment team and HR team from a Tier 2 company visited iPRIMED facility today. 9th October 2010 – Hiring for CGI, Bangalore has started at iPRIMED facility. The process of hiring for CGI, Bangalore has started at the iPRIMED facility. The hire, train and deploy model here is for their software projects. The selected students will be trained at Bangalore iPRIMED facility. 6th October 2010 – Top MNC Bank visits iPRIMED facility. Head of HR, Head of Training and Head of Recruitment from a top MNC Bank visited the iPRIMED facility today. They wanted to explore collaboration opportunity with iPRIMED for hiring and training. They were also looking out for training their existing employees on various workplace skills that iPRIMED has designed. It was a half day workshop exploring various opportunities. 4th October 2010 – Hiring Process for Capgemini, Chennai has started. The process of hiring is on for the Capgemini, Chennai. Interviews have started to form a new batch for hiring, training and deploying. These students will be trained at the Bangalore iPRIMED facility September,2010 21st September From the iPRIMED team Navin Kumar and Himanshu met up with the MNC Training Team to discuss on learning, collaborating and sharing the best practices in the industry. 20th September Next Capgemini New Capgemini Corporate batch started 17th September The Capgemini interns participated in the Mad-ads competition today. There were around 8 teams and most of them were spoofs on various advertisement. It was a hilarious event and competition. The team which performed the ‘mama mia’ drink ad won the first prize. 16th September The CGI team comprising of the Head of HR and Recruitment visited the iPRIMED facility today. The team visited to learn and share the best practices in the industry. 13th September Next internship batch to start 8th September: Teachers/Facilitators day celebrated by iPRIMED interns The enthusiastic interns from the current 4 batches celebrated Teachers/ Facilitators day at iPRIMED today after class. The interns organised a special show for the facilitators and the iPRIMED staff members. The event started of with prayer by one of the interns. The students requested Navin and Praveen to address the gathering, followed by a cake cutting ceremony. Games were organised for the staff members like passing the parcel and whoever lost had to pay the penalty by either mimicking some actor, singing, staring without blinking the eyelids, various types of smiles, telling a joke etc. The students saw to the refreshments to all of them gathered and alongside there was a mimicry session by one of interns mimicking various Bollywood actors which made the crowd go in splits with laughter. The staff members were divided into two teams and they were made to play another game “dumb charades”. The winners got chocolates. The event came to an end by students presenting a memento to the iPRIMED management. It was an evening to be remembered!!!!! 7th September: CGI Visit Learning and development team from CGI visited iPRIMED today. The CGI team evaluated our learning methodology. The learning and development team from CGI were in iPRIMED to explore partners to assist them in talent transformation. Through the course of the visit, the two member team walked through iPRIMED facility and also into the classroom, where they interacted with the students. 4th & 5th September: Times Job fair, Chennai This was a two day job fair conducted by Times of India. iPRIMED set up a stall for recruitment of commerce graduates for Capgemini, Chennai. The selection procedure included an aptitude test, personal interview and HR round. On Saturday the 4th of September 33 candidates were interviewed and only 2 were selected, the trend continued on the second day of the job fair on Sunday, 5th of September where 29 candidates were interviewed and only 2 were selected. August, 2010 13th & 14th August: Jobsphere for Capgemini held in Bangalore School of Business The Bangalore School of Business hosted a jobfair called Jobsphere. It was a 2 day programme, where various companies participated. The event started in the morning with registration, followed by introduction by the Bangalore School of Business, about Jobsphere, Introduction to the participant companies, and the jobfair process. After the tea break there was presentation by the companies who participated in the jobfair. Post lunch interviews were held until 5pm. The next day also started of with the same procedure of registration and interviews. iPRIMED got a good response at the jobfair. August:iPRIMED Facility Expansion underway iPRIMED Facility expansion to 10,000 sq ft has started. The total facility would have a 250 seat capacity for students. There would be space for additional 5 classrooms and a convocation room. An additional seating arrangement for 30 staff members to be hired by the end of this year is already underway. There would also be a separate pantry area, a dormitory, a sports room and an extra area for gym. July, 2010 30th July First batch of Capgemini interns complete their internship ( all 34) and get deployed on the floor 29th July New internship batch started. 28th - 29th July: iPRIMED COO attends the 7th NASSCOM HR Summit iPRIMED COO, Mr Praveen Sinha attended the 7th NASSCOM HR Summit 2010 on 28 and 29 July, 2010 at Hotel Le Meridien, Chennai. The two day event showcased some of the best practices in talent management and explored key issues in talent engagement, attraction and retention that organizations face today. The various topics that were discussed were creative solutions to fully engage your talent, Ways to balance employee’s aspirations and align them with company’s objectives, Discuss the power that social media has unfurled, Comprehend the key issues faced today in the on-going war for talent, Having the USP to be the employer of choice, Planning succession strategies to ensure an on-going leadership development pipeline, Discovering retention plans to keep talent within your organization, Leveraging company’s development and training plan as a tool to build employee loyalty, Educating managers in effective talent management, Sharing experience with your peers and networking with experienced and successful practitioners. Besides this, the conference offered 6 workshops with topics ranging from HR and CEOs engaging on a strategic level to lessons from Bollywood; creating a democratic workplace to tightening your grip on life; managing talent acquisition to building a robust salary and compensation structure. Apart from the interesting workshop and topic, there were people from almost all the IT and ITes industry, as an exception there were some retail industry like Reliance attending the summit. Overall it was a good summit to network and understand the best practices in the industry. 26th July: Collage Competition The competition theme was around team work. The interns were divided into various teams and they had to create a collage based on team work. Judges thoroughly enjoyed looking at the creativity, learning and understanding of the team work. Trainees expressed that they enjoyed the entire process as it was packed with lots of learning..... 22nd July Cognizant Technology Solutions visits iPRIMED to discuss collaboration opportunities 19th July Fidelity visits iprimed to explore parternership models 16th July: CEO & CTO of Husk Power Systems delivers a motivational speech at iPRIMEDtd> CEO & CTO of Husk Power Systems, Mr. Gyanesh Pandey delivers a motivational speech “You Can” to the iPRIMED interns. Husk Power Systems is lighting up rural villages of India mostly Bihar by generating electricity from rice husks. Gyanesh is highly featured and has been a speaker at TED conference held in Mysore. This was the first TED conference to be ever held in India. 16th July CGI team visits iPRIMED to discuss next steps on hiring from iPRIMED 15th July: iPRIMED invited to participate in Nasscom initiatives in Education iPRIMED was invited to attend a discussion on NASSCOM initiatives in Education with, our Senior Director – Education, Dr Sandhya Chintala, at Bangalore. Around 25 IT and ITeS companies were represented including Infosys, Wipro, Mindtree, CGI, Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft etc however only 2 education providers represented the initiative and iPRIMED was one of them. 12th July iPRIMED interns get placed at MindTree 8th July: Fashion Show by Capgemini interns A fashion show was conducted by Capgemini interns. The theme was they had to represent various attires of different countries. The trainee had to research on the lifestyles and culture of the natives of the country. They also had to prepare presentation on holiday celebrated in that geography, climate, events in the news, key features of business etiquette, gift one should carry for the host country and so on.... The trainee’s embraced the culture of various geographies and this was very evident...by watching trainees walking on the ramp, dressed up in the native attire. This event definitely was learning for the trainees on international exposure, since they would be working in MNCs and the culture would be varied. June, 2010 28th June: India Head Capgemini Business Services addressed iPRIMED interns India head for Capgemini Business Services, Mr. PT Alexander visited iPRIMED and addressed the interns today. He addressed the students about the work culture in Capgemini, expectations from the employees. The India head of Capgemini stressed on the importance of communication, as per Mr. Alexander accounts is common sense. He explained the flat organization structure of Capgemini as well as how one can grow in the organization. 27th June New internship batch started 26th June: iPRIMED CEO addressed the IIMB students. iPRIMED CEO, Navin Kumar addressed the PGP 1 students at IIM, Bangalore. This session was a part of the students’ initiation into IIMB. The focus was on setting expectations, life after IIMB, career choices etc. There were about 375 students in the initial talk, later on the students were divided into 5 groups. These individual groups were addressed separately on hard work and smart work, tell me how to catch a fish and the importance of core skills. 25th June: Bollywood Hungama by Capgemini interns The theme of the event was Bollywood Evening. This worked out to be fun alongside a teambuilding exercise. The interns were divided into teams and each teams danced to the tune of various hit bollywood numbers. The evening was dazzled by various stars like Amir Khan, Kareena Kapoor... the trainees enjoy this event.... 24th June: iPRIMED attends the launch of TiE SIG Education in Bangalore The launch of TiE SIG Education was held at Sigma Hall, Chancery Pavillion in Bangalore. The Indus entrepreneurs of the special interest group had various programme lined up for the evening, they were ‘Gurutalk’ by Dilip Rajnekar of the Azim Premji Foundation, Panel discussion by Mr. K. Ganesh, founder director, TutorVista and other eminent speakers on ‘What makes Education the hottest sector today- Opportunities and Challenges’ 22nd June Avasant visits iPRIMED to discuss how they can partner with iPRIMED to enhance employability of fresh/junior graduates in Ghana 17th June: Team Building Exercise The Capgemini interns had a fun team building exercise today. The students were divided into various teams and they had to build tallest tower out of newspaper. The students put on their thinking caps and were working on various methods to make their team win. One team was building structures around a chair, while another team made one of the students stand and build the newspaper structure around him, so you could see a very creative atmosphere, where the students were trying to build the tallest tower with the newspaper. This tower was evaluated on architecture, appearance, height and stability. 7th June: World Environment Day, celebrated by the interns at iPRIMED The World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th of June, 2010. Since June 5th happened to be on a Saturday, the interns decided to celebrate the same on the 7th of June, 2010. The world environment day is celebrated each year worldwide by various means like street rallies, bicycle parades, various competitions in school, tree planting, cleaning up campaigns etc. iPRIMED interns initiated this day by encouraging the facilitators to pot a plant each. There were discussions organized on the relevance of “Going Green”. 7th June New internship batch started 1st June F&A batch for Capgemini started with 34 Interns May, 2009 11th May New internship batch started 4th May Industry experts representing the healthcare and life sciences industry visited iPRIMED and addressed the students on managing their careers 1st May Interview & recruitment started for Capgemini April, 2010 20th April: iPRIMED to “Hire, Train and Deploy” of Finance & Accounts Personnel for Capgemini Capgemini has selected iPRIMED Education Solutions to hire, train and deploy finance and accounts personnel. iPRIMED and Capgemini jointly agree on the curriculum to be imparted on the students. The curriculum leverages the iPRIMED model under patent. For hiring recruits iPRIMED uses its proprietary 7 dimensional assessment model. Aptitude and domain knowledge is only one dimension. 14th April NASSCOM Team visits iPRIMED to discuss collaboration opportunities 14th April New internship batch started 14th April: Nasscom team visits iPRIMED, Bangalore Sucharita Eshwar and Kunal Kashyap from Nasscom visted iPRIMED today. The team came over to discuss various collaboration opportunities. Sucharita and Kunal spent almost an hour in the facility. The Nasscom team members were pleasantly surprised to see the infrastructure, the kind of people at iPRIMED and promised to put across a word to the government and also to explore various partnership opportunities. 2nd April: iPRIMED CEO part of the interview panel at IIM Bangalore iPRIMED CEO Navin Kumar, was part of the interview panel for the flagship PGP (MBA) program at IIMB for the academic year 2010-2011. The interview was for a regular 2 year full time MBA program. The interview session was a full day event. March,2010 26th March: iPRIMED meets the Belgian IT Business Delegation iPRIMED meets the business delegation, led by the Crown Prince of Belgium, HRH Prince Philippe, on 26th March in Bangalore at hotel ITC Royal Gardenia. The IT delegation was a part of a 300-head business delegation led by the Crown Prince. This large incoming mission showcased the interest of Belgium in India, and the joint opportunities that may exist. Belgium and India have strong historic and trade links. A recent highlight was the bilateral Social Security Agreement that entered into force from 1 September 2009, a first for India. This unique agreement facilitates and reduces the cost of doing business, especially for the IT and ITeS industry in Belgium. Belgium has a strong ICT industry, combined with a unique geographical position in Europe. The networking sessions provided an excellent platform for Indian and Belgium companies to network and explore business opportunities. The objective of the delegation was for Business partnership, Collaboration toward local and global markets, Understanding the local market and Leveraging of skills. There were 18 Belgian IT companies part of this delegation 15th & 16th March: WDHB Seminar at Berlin, Germany attended by Mr. Navin Kumar, CEO iPRIMED Education Solutions Mr. Navin Kumar attended and facilitated the working sessions for other global IT leaders at the WDHB seminar held in Berlin, Germany. The seminar had diverse and eclectic group of people coming from various countries like Germany, Austria, Poland, France, UK, USA and India. The seminar lasted for 2 days and the theme was “Building Relationships”. 13th March: Free interview and evaluation session for IT job aspirants at iPRIMED, Electronics City Office. iPRIMED launched a unique initiative called the “Free Interview Programme” for the benefit of fresh technical graduates today. There were coaching sessions held by DDI certified interviewers. There were actual interview sessions and discussion of reports. The technical graduates who attended these sessions were awarded certificates and were well received with participants coming from far off places like Tumkur, Peenya etc. It was a daylong event. 11th March New internship batch started 8th March: Women’s day at iPRIMED iPRIMED celebrated women’s day today. All the women staff and the interns celebrated the day with cake cutting to mark the occasion. The men folk also joined the fun and frolic of the women’s day to support the occasion. Feburary, 2010 22nd February: AVP recruitment, Mahindra Satyam addresses iPRIMED interns AVP recruitment for Mahindra Satyam, Mr. Chanakya Sehgal addressed iPRIMED interns on the “Recipe for success in the corporate world”. The AVP stated that one must be passionate about your job and to like what work you are doing. The AVP also gave some cricket examples and related them to work life. The session was an interactive one, where Mr. Chanakya asked a lot of questions to the students and vice versa. 19th, 20th & 21st February: Offsite for iPRIMED at Coonoor, Tamilnadu The entire team of iPRIMED Education Solutions went to Coonoor, Tamilnadu for an offsite. The highlights of the entire 3 day session were as follows – Deliberations on the progress so far The Road ahead Team building events Fun n Frolic Awards & Recognitions The team was divided into 4 to 5 teams and each team was made to give ideas and do team presentations. 17th February: CEO of iPRIMED addresses the IIMB students on Careers, Transition and Leadership Mr. Navin Kumar, CEO of iPRIMED Education Solutions addressed the IIMB students on Careers, Transition and Leadership today. Navin highlighted and explained the importance of core skills and ability to leverage the same in the right context. Navin also stressed on the point of learning various functions by doing it and that, “there is no short cut to success”. He also explained on various career transitions what would be constant. From the leadership perspective Navin explained the spirit of adventure, being open to new ideas or thoughts; and tolerance for ambiguity. 6th February: iPRIMED CEO addressed the Siliconindia Training Conference iPRIMED CEO, Navin Kumar addressed on “Enhancing employability and career management in the IT industry” at the Siliconindia training conference. The highlights of the talk were “the world is ageing, whereas India as a nation is young. By 2020, 70% of the GDP will be from services, to meet the demand we need resources. India as a young nation has 3.5 million graduates to meet the demand; however they are not the right kind. The graduates do not have the right skills to get into the corporate life. For this reason we need to understand the reasons for low employability at entry level. The training institutes teach the necessary technological skills however they do not teach the students how to apply the same, as well as the necessary attributes required for a corporate life. iPRIMED focuses at learning and not on teaching – students pick up the necessary skills, where the core, content and direct skills are seamlessly interwoven. 5th February: Head HR, Capgemini Business Services, India addressed iPRIMED interns on the “traits and behaviours required for a successful Corporate Career” Head HR Mr. Jnanesh Kumar of Capgemini Business Services, India visited iPRIMED toady. He addressed the interns on the traits and behaviour for a successful corporate career. The HR head explained the classic divide between what a fresher considers to be “interesting” and what an organization considers “important” very often do not match. Mr. Jnanesh Kumar also stated the importance of hard and smart work. The interns got a new insight from the HR Head on the global nature of business today and the role of the entry level personnel or juniors in the industry. Early February iPRIMED files a patent for its systems and methods January, 2010 27th January New internship batch started 23rd January: SiliconIndia Job Fair, Bangalore iPRIMED participated in the SiliconIndia job fair in Bangalore. iPRIMED set up a booth in the fair. The response was very good; our booth received more than 200 footfalls. Post the job fair we also got a lot of queries and some of them joined as interns. 19th January Visitors from Tier 1 companies address iPRIMED interns January Campus Hiring started for graduates passing this year December, 2009 24th December: Christmas Eve celebrated at iPRIMED Christmas eve is here and entire iPRIMED is decorated. The atmosphere is of fun and frolic as the holiday season is here. The interns and the entire staff at iPRIMED were in joyful and festive spirit 18th December: iPRIMED CEO featured in the IIMB Magazine – winter 2009 iPRIMED CEO, Navin Kumar featured in the IIM Bangalore Alumni magazine – winter 2009. The magazine had “entrepreneurship” as its theme and Navin Kumar featured in the same. The feature reads as “With an idea aiming at enhancing employability of fresh graduates, Navin Kumar PGP ’99 has launched a new company named iPRIMED. Navin took to entrepreneurship after a successful career at Infosys”. December 100% of Foundation Batch Interns placed in different IT organizations November, 2009 23rd November IT & ITeS new internship batch started 19th November: CEO of Infosys BPO addressed iPrimed interns on “Need to Work Smart and Work Hard” The day saw the interns of iPrimed with a session on “Need to Work Smart and Work Hard”, addressed by Mr. Swaminathan Dandapani, the current CEO of Infosys BPO. Swami explained various scenarios to the interns on the BPO industry today, which has matured from providing a remote body to someone who works smart and hard. He also stated that the early years are the years to learn the ropes without many expectations. Mr. Swaminathan also gave an insight where the industry gives an opportunity to work/ run for various industries and functions – an opportunity which is difficult to get if you are working in the client organization. He was very happy with the innovative model that iPRIMED has come up with and expressed interest in trying out some of the models. 19th November: COO of INS Zoom addressed the interns on “QE Revolution in the IT space”. The interns got to know about Quality Engineering Revolution in the IT space. The COO of INS Zoom Anuradha Biswas addressed the interns on Quality Engineering. She talked about her career and how she was able to reach her current position even though she started out with a disadvantage – the lack of an engineering degree. The students understood that there is a lot more to testing, than what is commonly known. Testing is more about common sense and orientation to details than about technology. The COO explained that quality engineering is a combination of quality assurance and quality control and the size of the industry runs in billions of dollars. India is just scratching the surface of the pie. The COO of INS Zoom also stressed “not to get carried away by peer pressure” and that it is important to love your job. 14th Novemebr: iPRIMED CEO called in as a panellist for EPGP interviews at IIM, Bangalore iPRIMED CEO, Navin Kumar was called in as a panellist for the EPGP interview at IIM, Bangalore for the academic year 2010-2011. The EPGP program is a 1 year full time program for executives and managers, who have above 7 years of industry experience. It was a full day interview session and people working in various varied industries attended it. October, 2009 30th October: HR Head of United Kingdom based British Telecom visited iPRIMED HR head of UK based British Telecom; Sarah Reddington along with Priya Khullar visited iPRIMED Education Solutions. Both Sarah and Priya shared their perspectives on employability in the international context. Sarah explained that the employability issue at entry level is pervasive even in UK as many cultural factors have a role to play. The HR Head of British Telecom also mentioned that British Telecom has conducted various experiments in the areas of social learning. iPRIMED is also trying to introduce the same concept in some of the learning methodology 12th & 13th October: Seminar on employability in the IT industry conducted by iPRIMED Graduates and engineering students along with their parents in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand took part in a seminar on employability conducted by iPRIMED Education Solutions. There were around 120 people who attended the seminar. 55 people took assessment and 5 people joined iPRIMED Education Solutions to do their internship program in Bangalore. In the seminar on employability iPRIMED explained the reason behind the need for having a skilled resource in the IT and ITes industry today. iPRIMED addressed the audience on the need to have organizations like iPRIMED which would help the students to be a part of this skilled workforce by learning various skills like the core or soft skills, content and direct skills. This would make the students workplace ready and hence better employability. Various IT and ITes companies have adopted the iPRIMED model of learning and imparting knowledge to their employees for enhancing work place skills. In the evening there was a press conference to spread awareness on employability in the IT and ITes industries. The newspapers that represented in the conference were The Telegraph, Prabhat Khabar, Dainik Jagran etc. We also started a local office in Jamshedpur now for any inquiries 1st October iPRIMED becomes a member of the National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) September, 2009 15th September: 1st Internship Batch at iPRIMED Today the 1st internship batch or the foundation batch started at iPRIMED. The batch strength is 17 and all of them are from engineering background. The interns have come from various parts of the country including Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. It is quite a diverse batch as students come from various cities and around 50% of the batch is girls. The interns were quite impresses with the infrastructure and seating arrangements where they were provided with work like environment – very different from what they had seen in the past in their colleges and schools. 4th September: Launch of iPRIMED Assessment (iPAT) iPRIMED conducted multi – dimensional assessment and interview for the first internship batch at their Electronic City office. There were around 47 students who took the assessment. The assessment comprised of 7 areas where aptitude/technology was one of the 7 dimensions. It was conducted in 3 steps which included a 90 minute written assessment followed by interviews. It almost took the entire day to complete all the assessments. The students found it interesting and they gave their feedback saying the assessment was interesting and very different from what they had seen before. August, 2009 August Face to Face Meetings and Events conducted in Institutions in the North July, 2009 13th to 31st July, 2009 Face to Face Meetings with Institutions across Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu. iPrimed addressed students on Graduation day, Pool campus etc. 6th July Road Show held for students at the iPRIMED Operations Office June, 2009 13th June: iPRIMED CEO addressed the re-orientation session for 2nd year IIMB students The Post Graduate Program students from IIMB, in their second year had a re-orientation session as they were coming back from their internship program. In this context 3 alumni from the IIMB had been invited from different sectors and Navin Kumar, CEO of iPRIMED was one among them. There were more than 200 students attending the session. Navin shared some of the highlights of his career spanning decades and across multiple countries where he was engaged in various kinds of work. Navin addressed the students saying that in their early part of life to put down their head and focus on their work. Navin also stated that we learn a lot from adversities and necessity, like the recession now. Navin also explained that most big companies like Microsoft and Apple were started during recession.      Home | About Us | Aspirants | Corporate | Institutions | The iPRIMED Way | Knowledge Center | Careers | Contact Us | Reviews | Blog Website Contents Copyright © 2009 iPRIMED Education Solutions Pvt Ltd. All Rights Reserved.