Alumni of a college are considered to be one of the most important pillars of the institution who carry the legacy of the institutions to stakeholders. Kristu Jayanti is proud to have educated thousands of students since its inception. The college has a good number of renowned alumni working across the globe who, continue to inspire us. One such alumnus, is Mr. Aneesh Chimmen, Assistant Vice President of Deutsche Bank. The main objective of this programme was to help students in understanding the importance of participation in a academic and to bridge the gap between industry, passion and education.

On 5th December, 2020, the students of Third year BBA, had the opportunity of interacting with a distinguished alumni. The meet started at 9:15 AM, through a virtual mode . The session started with a welcome speech. Mr. Annesh is currently working as Assistant Vice President of Deutsche Bank. He has 12 long years of experience working at with Deutsche bank, Prior to this Mr. Aneesh was working in HCL Operations. Mr. Aneesh started the session by sharing his experience at Kristu Jayanti and encouraged students also to share the experience in the open forum. During the session he shared his work experience with students and also spoke about the most difficult task he had to take up during his career. He also told students to always have a mentor for life so that it would help them to share their career path and provide suggestions which would motivate them to do better. When students asked him about the importance of specialisation Mr. Aneesh gave an insight that specializations are chosen by students based on their interest. He also gave an in –depth insight into the role of Human resource in an organisation and the different job specifications of an HR in an organisation as they are people responsible for finding the right person for the right job.

Students actively took part by interacting with the Alumni as the students were keen to now on what aspects they have to focus in order to get into investment management division of the company. Adding to it Mr. Aneesh also shared that internships are not mandatory to be completed by students but, it becomes an added advantage if a particular student completes internship. Mr. Aneesh also shared his own experience of how he faced interview after graduating and the lesson that he learned from each interview attended. Mr. Chimmen also motivated students that a PG Degree is always mandatory in the corporate world while looking for higher promotion in an organisation. The talk delivered by Mr. Aneesh Chimmen was a very big motivating factor for students to understand on how to meet challenges in career life and the ways to overcome failures.

The session was very interactive and insightful to the students. Mr. Aneesh motivated students to share their college life experience and then proceeded to provide insights on Career Planning and Guidance. He was very kind enough to answer all the questions that were asked. Mr.Aneesh’s inspirational talk made a tremendous impact on the students. The session on a whole was very motivating and inspiring session which encouraged students to understand the skills required to get into corporate world