Speaker:   Mr. David Samuel
Designation: Product manager
Organization:  Frontier Business System Pvt. Ltd.
Profile:   Mr. David Samuel has a rich experience of 14 years in the industry enabling corporates to find better profitability and productivity. He is an Alumnus of ICFAI Business School of Batch 2006 with an MBA post-graduate degree. He is currently working as a Product Manager Personal Computing at Frontier Business Systems Pvt Ltd.
Date:        27th November 2020
Title:        Experience sharing, Expectation management (KSA)
Details:    Mr. David Samuel began the discussion with an anecdote where he talked about his past experiences and how he grew in his corporate ladder keeping the essence of today's theme intact. He emphasized the importance of marketing and how to market ourselves in front of the interviewer. He also focussed on the importance of creating opportunities from nowhere and gave some examples of companies that did the same. Going forward he also talked about content marketing. He made students learn how to mold an interview in one's favor. He explained these by sighting his personal experience at BOSE.
Students learned different aspects of an excellent interview through a question-answer session. Answering questions asked by students he mentioned things to keep in mind when asked to introduce oneself within 30 seconds. He emphasized the importance of humor and how to make the interviewer ask for more. He then talked about points on how not to begin an introduction. Mr. Samuel also spoke about things to keep in mind while negotiating pay packages.
Additionally, he discussed how to answer questions revolving around strengths, weaknesses, and how to answer open-ended questions diplomatically. He went on and took queries on how and what to question an interviewer when given a chance.
Mr. Samuel then summed up every point he covered. He ended the session with an inspiring line “It's okay to be number 2 and 3, but never stop learning. Risk and fear are states of mind. Always be humble and it's ok to fail”