Meet The Indian Institute Of Management Calcutta MBAEx Class Of 2026

Batch 19 students in the classroom attending a lecture by a well-known industrialist, Mr Madan Mohanka.

P&Q: What types of support does your career center and alumni provide to MBA students? How have these services and relationship made your graduates more competitive in the marketplace?

Rath: “The Career Center creates a student developed recruitment set-up, where students from the one-year MBA work towards developing placement services along with placement preparation activities. Thus, the uniqueness of the career development vertical is the student-initiated placement activities. Thus, the support is more in developing engagement management skills in student representatives: how to create cohort clusters; how to create target strategies; how to help develop pre-placement talks with a wide range of industry cohorts; and how to develop counselling and guestimate case analysis practices with students. Thus, the competitive edge for batch 18 was the additional guestimate-based case analysis practice highlighted by the career center.

The alumni played a special role for Batch 18 and for the academic year 2024-2025. The NextGen Forum Skill Workshop was a Soft Skill Recruitment based training developed in collaboration with the Career Center and the MBAEx program batch 18 alumni team. Together, this brought in 6 alumni across batches and across industries to conduct simulated real-time mock interview and CV preparation events – at a micro and hyper-personalized level, individualized for each student, ascertaining each student’s strength and value addition. More than 70+ alumni played a significant role in training and acquainting the student cohort with their journey and industry requirements through online 60 minutes meet with the cohort across the 1-year. The enormous alumni involvement peaked last year in the 18 years of the one-year MBA because of the development of a specialized 5-team member Alumni Engagement Team, and the team revolutionized the alumni participation in the career development practices of last year’s batch. The SOP for the NextGen Forum has been transferred to the new batch for more intensive and professionalized career development activities with wider and more professional engagement of alumni.”

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