Campus & young professional programs

Your degree gets you the interview. This is about the rest.

Guest lectures, industry interaction and mentorship for final-year students and young professionals — led by someone who spent 37 years running businesses and hiring the people who joined them.

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Session formats
What Sumit talks about

From the boardroom to the classroom.

Four ideas run through every session, whatever the format:

  1. 1A degree opens the door. You walk through it. What a hiring manager is actually assessing once the shortlist is made.
  2. 2You can only sell yourself if you have something to sell. Building capability first, presentation second — in that order.
  3. 3The first job is not the destination. How careers actually compound, and which early decisions matter more than salary.
  4. 4Setbacks are data, not verdicts. Lessons from turning around businesses that everyone else had written off.
Sumit Malhotra speaking on a campus stage
Why this matters for students

Classroom concepts, tested against a real career.

Case studies teach frameworks. Sumit teaches what happened when the framework met a real factory, a real P&L and a real deadline.

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Real P&L experience

Not consultant theory — decisions made as the executive who was accountable for the outcome.

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Full value-chain view

How factory operations connect to consumer markets, and how every function feeds profitability.

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Industry-specific depth

Manufacturing, cement, building materials and emerging sectors like solar and controlled-environment agriculture.

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Direct access

Sessions led by the founder himself — not a junior facilitator standing in.

Topics

Nine sessions. Build the series your students need.

Most campuses start with two or three and add more across the placement season.

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University engagements

Guest lectures, executive education and industry interaction, shaped to your department and cohort.

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AI for the job search

Practical use of AI tools for research, applications and preparation — and the flip side: how companies now use AI to screen candidates, and how not to get filtered out.

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Build your case

Hands-on work on the LinkedIn profile, the CV, a personal web page and a landing page that together make a candidate findable.

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A CV that actually gets shortlisted

What separates a CV that gets a call from one that doesn't — drawn from real hiring decisions, not generic advice.

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Interview readiness

What CEOs and hiring panels actually evaluate beyond rehearsed answers — case-style questions, reading the room, salary conversations.

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Workplace reality check

The real gap between campus expectations and shop-floor or office life: hierarchy, patience, politics, and how appraisals actually work.

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Time & priority management

Managing your first hundred days — reframed from managing multi-crore portfolios to managing your first job.

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Business & financial literacy

Reading a P&L, understanding EBITDA, and why commercial awareness matters even in non-finance roles.

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Resilience & career resets

Lessons from turning around underperforming businesses — how to handle early-career setbacks and come back stronger.

Students during an open question and answer session
Session formats

Four ways to run it on your campus.

  1. 1Guest lecture. A single session or short series bringing 37 years of executive experience directly into the classroom.
  2. 2Case discussion. Real turnaround situations — Ever Enviro, JK Lakshmi, Shree Cement — walked through with the person who led them.
  3. 3Industry interaction. Open Q&A on manufacturing, commercial strategy and leadership, grounded in named examples.
  4. 4Mentorship. For placement cells and student bodies looking for an ongoing industry relationship, not a one-off talk.
For placement officers

An industry relationship, not a calendar slot.

Placement cells that work with PINAQ across a season get a consistent voice through the student journey — awareness early, skills mid-season, and interview readiness right before the drives begin.

We are happy to shape the sequence around your placement calendar and report back on what students engaged with most.

Small group mentoring session
For placement officers & student bodies

Bring a real executive's view to your campus.

Tell us your programme dates and the format you are looking for — guest lecture, workshop series, or ongoing mentorship — and we will come back to you within a couple of days.