Necessary tips for New Business School Students by Dr. Kulneet Suri

The Article is written by Dr. Kulneet Suri, Senior Director at Institute of Management Studies ( IMS ) Noida and Alumni of Harvard University (HKS)

Business management is one of the most sought-after career opportunities and a popular major for college students across the globe. Business management being the most lucrative career is acquiring more and more MBA aspirants every year and the student pool is consistently and dramatically broadening. The business management industry demands professionals who can keep up with the pragmatic, fast-paced race of the new era complexities, and hence taking up an MBA education programme now requires dedicated efforts more than ever before. Listed below are some of the prevailing but potent pieces of guidance that will help you conquer the bigger picture as a new MBA student.

Prepare yourself for a challenging atmosphere

Only MBA seekers know how many aspects they need to keep in mind before racing into the constantly flourishing corporate world. Unlike other streams, MBA aspirants need to cope up and prepare themselves in an all-encompassing manner for the highly competitive platform. Besides, the changing paradigms of management education have brought new ventures to its students and success will follow only if you groom yourself with the right understanding, outlook, and mindset. If you find the mentioned statements familiar and you are one of those pursuing education in MBA, you are at the right place.

Don’t miss any opportunity

The idea of research might sound ordinary, but it is the foremost practical step to avoid that nervous, shaky feeling on the first day of B-School. Attending B-School is quite different from the rest of the streams, as you will need to be hyper-aware of the ongoing activities throughout the school hours. MBA courses are mostly loaded with events, seminars, practical sessions, experiential learning, and industry visits and you can’t miss out even one! This is the stepping stone to the active and swift business realm and every move counts. More than textbooks and theoretical knowledge, innovation, active participation, and embracing the dynamic opportunities will help you grow, and that is precisely how you need to start to avoid even the slightest regretful consequence.

Explore and Upgrade yourself

Moreover, you need to understand that institutions nowadays follow different trends of imparting education and a certain level of pre-research on your institution and course-structure will only aid you in settling into your MBA life. Your personal and academic life will blend more than you assume. Now, this is a very tricky part that most students struggle to adjust with. An MBA course will require you to communicate, interact, and connect with people, more than any other academic stream. For most of the projects, students will be divided into groups, and you can hence expect to spend ample time working with a team. This becomes a major issue for students who are of an introvert nature. However, remember that you do not need to be an extrovert to socialise and work efficiently in a team. These are some of the crucial and lesser discussed skills that you will learn to develop during the course of your MBA programme that will further help you build the right attitude both for your academic and personal life. Apart from work, management students often need to be active in an extended classroom environment that involves college events, get-togethers, casual workshops, and webinars. You can always groom yourself to some extent to embrace the change, as it will always be fruitful for your career.

Network with people

Lastly, focus on building valuable connections. Many MBA students get misguided by the idea of taking necessary steps like building connections, researching job availability, and grabbing additional opportunities after the completion of their MBA course. It needs to be understood that accelerating the moves for your professional lives begin much earlier, when you are an MBA student. So, you need to keep your spirits high when it comes to building a network and socialising with seniors, real-life business executives, and industrialists who might contribute in your professional life ahead.

However, a substantial part of your skill sets and capabilities to attain the customs mentioned earlier and practice them, depends on the level of expertise of your mentors at your B-School. Hence, choosing the right institution for yourself rightly serves as the stepping stone to success. The cutting-edge course curriculum of the MBA degree programme fused with a state-of-the-art learning environment provides students the finest mentorship that they need to excel in their academic as well as professional lives. The right guidance can enlighten the careers of MBA students by helping them to recognize their signature trends, passions, and inbuilt managerial skills.