IIML IPMX Kick Off

1. GOCRACKIT
.
2021
IIML IPMX
Introduction
Incubated, funded and supported by
Take Charge of Your Career

2. PRESENTATION
OVERVIEW
About Us
Mentors
Program Details

3. Students
10,000+
Mentoring Hours
17,000+
Resume Reviews
7000+
Group Discussions/
Industry/Sector/Company
Presentations
1000+
Mock Interviews
6000+
Amongst 1700 startups
at Goldman Sachs WSP
at IIMB NSRCEL
Top 15
Take Charge of Your Career
Incubated, funded and supported by

4. Who are we
Suhruta Alok
GoCrackIt
•
2021
30 years of experience in leading brands

5. SUHRUTA KULKARNI
Co-founder. IIM Ahmedabad
ALOK SHRIVASTAVA
Co-founder. IIM Bangalore
NINAD BHAVE
Mentor in Residence. IIM
Ahmedabad
SHIVA KUMAR
Front End Designer
PES Bangalore
SUMITA C
Operations Executive
VIDYA GANGADHARAN
Head of Technology

6. Provide relevant senior industry experts as mentors
Mentors who have 'been there done that'
Provide continuous support
We support students and institute till the end of season
Technology enabled platform
Everything at one place
What we do really well?

7. Our Customers
B-Schools

8. Our Mentors

9. Suhruta Kulkarni
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 14 Years
Cofounder, GoCrackIt
Investment Banking | Strategy Consulting |
Entrepreneurship | Harvard published author |
EY | PWC | NTPC | IIM Bangalore
Alok Shrivastava
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 15 Years
Cofounder, GoCrackIt
Management Consulting | Technology |
Operations | Contracts | Harvard published
author | PWC | NTPC
Laxminarayanan G.
PGDM IIM Lucknow | 13 Years
Senior Manager, Deloitte
Analytics | AI/ML | Technology
PWC | 8k Miles | Mentor | Speaker
Rohan Agarwal
MBA IIM Bangalore | 10 Years
Associate VP, Swiss Re
Strategy Consulting | Operations | Technology
| PwC | Xerox | IBM
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Prasanna Rajappa
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 16 Years
Director, Agilisium Consulting
Strategic Consulting | Progam Management |
Analytics | Technology | Deloitte | Cognizant
Ami Ganatra
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 14 Years
Strategy, BASF
Management Consulting | Strategy | Bain & Co
| Infosys

10. Ashwin Pai
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 18 Years
Associate Director, PwC
Management/Strategy Consulting | AI /IoT |
GTM Strategy | Advisor/Mentor | Zinnov | L&T
Sandeep Chincholkar
MBA Vanderbilt | 12 years
Product Manager, Rakute
Internet/Ecommerce | Reliance Jio | Nissan
US Capital Partners
Vineet Mavani
MBA IIM Bangalore | 11 Years
Manager, Deloitte
Financial Services | Business Process
Consulting | Technology | Accenture
Anindya Chakraborty
PGPEX IIM Calcutta | 19 Years
DVP, Bandhan Bank
Branding & Marketing | Product Roadmapping
| Startup Consultant & Mentor | ATA | Citi
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Lakshmi Narasimhan
INSEAD | 17 Years
Manager - Consulting, Intel
Management & Technical Consulting | Life
and Leadership Coach | NTT | ICF
Charvi Gandotra
PGPPM IIM Bangalore | 7 Years
Sr Manager, Commonwealth
FinTech Consulting | Management Consulting
| MIX | McKinsey | Microsave

11. Harshit Kumar
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 17 Years
Sr Product Manager, Microsoft
Technology(Cloud SaaS) | Analytics | Product
Management | Juniper | Lucent | Advisor
Deepkumar Varma
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 12 Years
Product Leader, Amazon
Technology (next-gen products) | Product
Management | INSEAD | Excelity | Altisource
Rishabh Singla
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 11 Years
Product Lead, Adobe
Global Product Management | Business
Strategy & Partnerships | Microsoft | C-DOT
Aparajita Chattopadhya
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 15 Years
Product Manager | Zynga
Global Product Management | Market Entry
Strategy | Tech Mahindra | Dr. Reddy's Lab
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Shreya Chakraborty
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 10 Years
Product Management, Amadeus
Product Management | Global Management |
E-Commerce | Dell | Volvo
Sandeep Chincholkar
MBA Vanderbilt | 13 Years
Product Management, Rakuten
Product Management | Product Strategy |
Digital Marketing | Reliance Jio | Accenture

12. Saranya Roy
MBA IIM Calcutta | 14 Years
Program Manager, Amazon
Program Management | E-commerce
Operations | Consulting | PwC | Virtusa
Tridev Kundu
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 14 Years
Associate Director, Flipkart
EpCommerce Supply Chain | Growth
Strategist | Genpact | Schneider Electric
Pallavi Palkar
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 12 Years
National Head, Bigbasket
Strategy & Operations | New Business Growth
| P&L Head | Flipkart | KPMG Advisory
Santhosh Sarangan
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 13 Years
Product Mgt | Growth Mechanics
Strategy & Operations | Advisory Services |
DW/BI | Amazon | Cloudtail | Uber
E-COM
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Ajai U
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 9 Years
Sr Vendor Manager, Cloudtail
Vendor Management | Global Account
Management | Practo | MindTree | Google
Nikhil Chalakkal
PGP IIM Ahmedabad, M.S. Emory
Univ | 10 Years
Decision Scientist | FedEx
Business Analytics | Data Science | Supply
Chain | Strategy & Planning | NCR | Flipkart

13. Siddhartha Bannerjee
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 10 Years
Manager | Orchid International
Marketing & Brand Management | GoCrackIt |
Fino Payments | Lava International
Anupama Jangid
MBA IIM Ahmedabad | 10 Years
Former Marketing Head, AirAsia
Business Strategy, Brand & Marketing | E-
commerce Sales & Strategy | Airtel
Bithindra Biswas
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 15 Years
Cluster Bus. Head, Radio Mirchi
Marketing Research | Product Management |
Business Analytics | Idea | Angel Broking
Vatsal Jain
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 9 Years
Enterprise Sales Lead, PayPal
Digital Consultant | Sales Leadership |
Strategy Management | TransUnion
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Gaurav Bhandari
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 14 Years
Digital Marketing, BAI
Digital Marketing | Marketing Analytics |
Business Management | Techforce | Quest
Prashanth Bajaj
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 19 Years
Regional Director, Lindstrom
Business Strategy | Management Consulting |
Strategic Leadership & Finance | Essentra

14. Sujoy Roychowdhury
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 18 Years
Group Manager & Scientist | IBM
Analytics/ML/Data Science | Cognitive
Technology | Harvard Published Author
Mausam Deb
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 14 Years
Director-Data Analytics, Optum
Digital & Growth Strategy | Operations
Analytics & Consulting | PwC | Ericsson
Ipshita Saha
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 8 Years
Consulting Head, Digilytics
Business Strategy Consulting | Operations |
Product Development | Ogilvy | BCG | ITC
Raghunath Babu TJ
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 15 Years
Head-Data Science, Digilytics
Data Evangelist | Technology | Analytics & BI |
Entrepreneur | Myntra | Axis
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Vineet Batra
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 18 Years
Director - OPM, Oyo
Product Strategy & Design | Data Analytics |
Product Development | BNY Mellon | NEC
Rajesh Ramaswamy
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 10 Years
Product Manager, Digilytics
[Product Management & Strategy | AI/SaaS |
Business Management | Tech Mahindra

15. Prashant Pande
PGP IIM Calcutta | 14 Years
Financial Market Specialist, AMRO
FX Products & Analytics | Strategy Consulting
| Interest Rates Strategist | Nomura | Barclays
Manisha Aithal
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 14 Years
Manager, Insights, Novartis
Strategy & Corporate Finance | EA to CMD |
Emergency Task Force | GVK
Arjun Jayasimha
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 10 Years
Senior Manager, Wipro
Intelligent Automation | Business Analyst |
Digital Transformation | Analytics | Altisource
Radhika Khare
MBA Finance ISB | 9 Years
Media Finance Manager, Unilever
Finance & Strategy | Chartered Accountant |
Tax & Regulatory | International Tax | EY
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Anup Maheshwari
PGP SPJIMR | 10 Years
General Manager, Flipspaces
FinTech | Corporate Banking | Debt Capital
Markets | KredXIndia | Axis | Kotak
Debraj Bannerjee
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 12 Years
Former VP, Lakshmi Vilas Bank
Corporate Finance | M&A | Capital Markets |
Investment Management | Jana | Thermax

16. Vinit Poddar
PGP IIM Bangalore | 14 Years
Chief Manager, Kotak
Digital Payments Strategy | Product
Management | Corp Banking | BIT Mesra
Shilpi Gupta
PGP IIM Calcutta | 10 Years
Product Management, Yoma Bank
Program Management | Digital Strategy &
Transformation | Financial Services | BNY
Anurag Singhal
PGPX IIM Ahmedabad | 11 Years
Chief Mentor, CAJobPortal
Financial Modeling | Valuation | Corporate
Strategy | HUL | Aditya Birla | ICAI
Mayur Ekbote
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 9 Years
Director, Capillary Technologies
Strategy & Operations | New Products | SaaS |
Consulting | Financial Risk | PwC | Hexaware
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Guha Prasad
PGPX IIM Ahmedabad | 22 Years
Vice President, Northern Trust
Global Reconciliations | Fund Accounting |
Commercial Banking | J.P.Morgan | Barclays
Vatsal Jain
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 9 Years
Enterprise Sales Lead, PayPal
Digital Consultant | Sales Leadership |
Strategy Management | TransUnion

17. Ashish Dongre
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 14 Years
Joint Head & AVP, GVK Mial
Business Optimization | PE Deals | Operations
Strategy | Corporate Structuring | Hindalco
Kaustubh Khare
MBA FMS Delhi | 8 Years
Brand Head, FAASOS
Brand and Retail Management | CFA Level II
|Behrouz Biryani | Madura Fashion
Kartik Agarwal
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 9 Years
Manager, Exicom Tele-Systems
Strategy & Business Consulting | Financial
Modeling | Analytics | Adani Group
Sirajuddin Nellur
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 8 Years
Sr Marketing Manager | HealthKart
Brand Management | Product Strategy |
Digital Transformation | Kohler | PwC
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Geresh Ramawat
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 15 Years
Head-Procurement, Sterlite
EA to CEO, Strategy | Procurement | Business
Process Re-engineering | Business
Development
Durgesh Kashyap
PGP IIM Ahmedabad | 12 Years
Team Lead, Strategy, Reliance
Strategy | KPMG | OC&C | PwC | Consulting

18. Sahil Verma
PGPX IIM Ahmedabad | 11 Years
Operations Manager, Amazon
Strategy | Supply Chain & Operations |
Stakeholder Manager & IIOT | Vodafone | Jio
Saquib Ansari
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 10 Years
Senior Program Manager, Ola
Business Transformation | Supply Chain
Management | NTPC | Shahi Exports
Shekhar Tyagi
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 12 Years
Program Leader, Baxter
Business Transformation | Analytics | Process
Excellence | Six Sigma (DFSS) | GE | Shahi
Debashish Chandel
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 14 Years
Vice President | Deutsche Bank
Technical PM | Data Analytics & Digitization |
RPA | Big Data | Goldman Sachs | SMS
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Rohin Khanna
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 7 Years
Senior Manager | Swiggy
Process Excellence | Supply Chain
Management | Quality Assurance | Flipkart
Prashant Kondle
EPGP IIM Bangalore | 16 Years
Product & Technology, Ivis
Business Intelligence | Technology | Growth
Strategy | Product Development | EZappt

19. Program Details

22. Program Overview
Career Conversations - One to One
Career opportunities, strengths, interests. Reflect.
Master Resume Review
Repository of all points in a well structured, impactful manner
Practice Interviews
Resume Based | Target Career Based
Foundation Sessions
Resume Preparation Best Practices | Interview Preparation Best Practices

23. Resume preparation best practices(1/2)
Relevant resume points
How to create relevant resume points - Projects, competitions, PORs, Volunteering
Recruiters' Expectations
How do recruiters' screen the resumes? Relevance and potential of resume for a job
Best practices
Content | Bucketing | Top to Bottom | Use of power verbs | Structuring | Phrasing | Myths busting

24. Resume preparation best practices(2/2)
Framing Sentences in Resume
Science behing writing good sentences: SAR, Left to Right
Types of Resumes
Master and variant resumes | Resumes for experienced and freshers
For PGP2s - How to showcase internship experience
Examples and case studies
Examples of multiple types of good resumes | Case studies from students' resumes

25. Best Interview Practices [1/3]
Recruiters' expectations
What do recruiters expect from you? How do they evaluate you in interviews?
Different Types of Interviews and Typical Questions
Why do recruiters use different types of interviews? How do they evaluate? What are the
common questions? How to prepare for these? Frameworks for different types of interviews.
Situational
interviews
Resume based
interviews
Behavioral
interviews
Case study based
interviews
Fit based
interviews

26. Best Interview Practices [2/3]
Structures & Frameworks
Structured answering - STAR, MECE, Hypotheses driven problem solving, Context building
Self-Awareness
Resume thoroughness | Strengths and weaknesses | Short & long term goals
JD Specific Interview Preparation
How to analyse JD and prepare for the interview

27. Best Interview Practices [3/3]
Communication skills
Speaking | Listening
Body language and non-verbal gestures
Convition/assertiveness
Examples, case studies and common mistakes
Sharing of examples and commonly made mistakes

28. Master Resume Review Process
Student to submit
resume draft based
on inputs from
Resume workshop &
GoCrackIt will provide
1st look comment on
first part as indicative
comment
Have one-to-on
online discussion
with your mentor.
Discuss on
improvements to
resume
Resubmit the
resume after
working as per
mentor's
feedback
GoCrackIt "First
Look Review"
Discussion with
mentor
Written
comments by
mentor
Final sign-off
by GoCrackIt
Final sign-off by
GoCrackIt

29. How can resume communicate impact
Final sign-off
by GoCrackIt
15 years of experience
Her first 3 lines were only which was talked in all interviews/ shortlisting !!!

30. Career shift through leveraging past experience and MBA learning

31. Career Conversation Process
Students will be provided Career Assessment Package (CAP) comprising of:
Students will go through CAP and fill our SAF and CDP
During the discussion, mentor will understand student expectation and profile
fitment. Mentor will then discuss SAF and CDP in detail and provide inputs to bridge
gaps vis-a-vis student's current standing and career expectation.
-Self Assessment Form (SAF)
-Career Development Plan (CDP)

32. Career Conversation helps in determining right career
Product Management role
I want to get into PE firm?

33. Self Assessment Form

34. Career Development Plan

35. Career Development Plan
1.Dream Job
2.Fit job
3.Plan B

38. Mock Interviews
Mentor will
conduct
interview
Evaluate
students
performance in
interview
Detailed oral
feedback by
Mentor
followed by
interview
Mentor gives
feedback in
written format

39. How can cracking interviews help?

41. Timelines (Tentative)
Program Aug'21 Sep'21 Oct'21
Foundation
MRR
CC
MI-1
MI-1

42. WE
WOULD
LOVE
TO
HEAR
FROM
YOU!
THANK YOU
support@gocrackit.com
https://www.gocrackit.com