Talk on “Planning for Career”

MHRD’s Innovation organised “India First Leadership Talk Series” Episode 2 with Dr. Anand Deshpande CMD Persistent Systems Ltd. on 24th January 2019. This live talk series is important for the students, who are willing to become an entrepreneur by some innovative or creative idea for the start-ups and giving the opportunities to the students for exploring their ideas to the world. The students were very much confused regarding choosing the correct path for the technical careers and about how they can enhance their innovation skills before watching the Leadership Talk Series innovation cell session. After watching and understanding this excellent session by Dr. Anand Deshpande the students are now motivated and can confidently go for the idea of start-up. The career life story of Dr. Deshpande has inspired the students. His answers to the questions of students from all over India about career opportunities, technical goals, how to implement the creative idea, observing skills of entrepreneurs in the market competition, costumers viability etc. has cleared their mind about all the confusions they had before. Now, the students clearly know how much they still need to learn and how much time should they have to expand their idea to the customer and communication skills. His talk about network and being aware about curriculum activities has made them to think and explore more about it. Now, they know how they can make their strength more valuable to the costumers through the idea of start-up. For the vision and implementation of the plan, they should have knowledge about everything related to it, then should know about their strengths and goals and then comes market awareness. For this, they should have skill oriented mind. The most important personal skill he mentioned to use in the career is about handling the problems by self. Taking the problem’s responsibility in our hand and then finding the solution for it about which they still need to learn more. Being aware about their idea and exploring it by communication, making network with people and expanding it. Before watching this video the students used to think that they should first focus on the plan of their idea but as Dr. Anand Deshpande has said first important thing to become a successful entrepreneur is to concentrate on observing the other entrepreneurs and to know what is happening in the market or what would be the most useful information in the case of marketing research. Since, many students are interested in technical world, they should have all the basic information about that particular technology. As he said management is the last thing to focus on. Implementing the plans also comes last. Instead they should increase their particular skill. Not constraining to some fixed opportunity, rather to be active towards every opportunity related to it that's what the students learned from this video. In over all, this Talk Series have helped them to come up with best learning skills in any field to implement and to execute the plan or idea that they have created. Moreover, the students are now clearer about their career path and about how they can explore their idea.