Corporate Expectations discusses what corporations and new graduates expect from each other and how to bridge potential gaps. Corporations ultimately aim for profit but also want contributions to their long-term strategies and cultures. They come in three types - profit-focused, philanthropic, or balanced. New graduates often expect high pay, power and control but must adapt to corporate discipline, timelines, and accountability. The document provides tips on overcoming mismatches by understanding the business, building relationships, and improving skills to build a reputation while maintaining core values.

1. Corporate Expectations
Tuning ourselves to their requirements.
 What do corporates expect?
 What do you all expect?
 Is there a gap?
 How do we prepare ourselves to bridge it?
 When is the right time?

2. What do corporates expect ?
 Profit is the ultimate goal of every business
 It is quite often a tug of war between profit and growth-LABHAM
& BRUDDHI
 Short term goals may be –market creation, market capture, cash
burning for turnover –the ratio & proportion between the two
depends on the long term strategy of the corporate
 Every corporates has an ethos and a culture –stated /implied.
 You need to sense it and imbibe in it.
 Corporates look for your contribution in their journey.

3. Types of Corporates
 Like human beings every corporate wants to reach and be in a
paradise
 The three types -
 The wish fulfiller ones - profit only - work for the promoters and the
closest circle - promoters interest is paramount - always under
siege. Hunger outgrown - Profit plus philanthropy or in some cases
philanthropy plus profit - Section-8 companies. Trusts - CSR
companies. Consumer’s interest is paramount.
 Long term view - everlasting flow of profit with interest of
employee, employer and consumer in balance-intervene only
when necessary. Most of our companies, unfortunately, are in the first category - they
aim at fattening themselves.

4. What do you all expect ?
 Every one wants to be the BOSS, a fat salary and power to
gain control over different resources
 The experiment in an American class.
 The experience of a professor of a business school about
students from different geography
 Your old habits will look for sustenance in a new habitat.
 A new world - vastly different from your college/family in many
areas.
 Putting your learnings in use to contribute in the corporates
journey.

5. The Mismatches
 Discipline
 Timelines - partly
 Accountability
 Non-recognition
 Rewards going to lesser deserving ones
 Being asked to explain on where actually others lacked- not
you.

6. How do we overcome?
 Boss is important -be of value to him and in the process to
the organisation.
 You can do this by -
 Understanding the business
 Understanding the processes
 Understanding the environment
 Understanding his point of view
 Improving your skill set

7. Build a reputation
 Remain updated
 Build relationships
 Learn faster - timelines are very important
 Involve your whole self
 Never compromise with your core values
 Work for your satisfaction.