35 HR mangers, CEOs and 60 academicians participated in the HR summit in K.K.Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research-Nashik
Training and Placement Cell of K K Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research Nasik, organized successfully HR summit -2015 on Friday 10th April in Dr.P.C.Ray Memorial Hall of Chemical Engineering Department between 9.30 AM to 3.30 PM. The theme of this HR meet was “Industry-Institute Interaction for Bridging the Gap”.
HR summit started with the registration in the morning followed by its Inauguration at the hands of Mr. Mr.Shekhar Kamble, Head Talent Acquisition Group, TCS-Pune, Mr.Sameer Bendre-Head HR Department, Persistent Systems Ltd, Nagpur and Mr.Ganesh Narayanan, alumni of K.K.Wagh College of Engineering and working in the L&T Info Tech, Mumbai as business head.
Around 35 HR mangers, CEOs from various industries like TCS, L&T Info Tech, Persistent, KPIT, Mahindra and Mahindra, WNS, Datamatics, JBM Auto Ltd, FIN IQ, Core Biz technologies, Master Moulds, Satpuda Industries, Mahindra Sona, CSI, and around 60 academicians of various colleges run K.K.Wagh Education Society have participated in this HR summit.
In the inauguration, Principal Dr.K.N.Nandurkar delivered welcome speech and called all the participants to participate pro-actively in the HR summit and help the institute in enhancing the Industry-Institute Interaction and help in further reducing the skill gap. Dr.P.K. Shahabadkar expressed the gratitude to all the industry representatives for accepting the invitation and attending the HR summit and shared the view with the participants that K.K.Wagh wishes to have a long term and more fruitful interaction with the industries for the benefits of students’ community.
Mr.Shekhar Kamble, Head Talent Acquisition Group, TCS-Pune delivered key note address and told that along with the technical knowledge, attitudes, self learning, ethics, team work, global mindset and communication skills are equally important for the students to get campus placements and to work successfully in the organizations. He requested the institutes to develop a mechanism where the students will be trained for the above skills along with technical skills.
Mr.Sameer Bendre shared the “Innovative model to be practiced for Industry-Institute Partnership” and called the institutes to form corporate advisory boards for enhancing the industry-institute interactions.
Mr. Ganesh Narayanan shared his thoughts on “Role of HR Managers in bridging the Industry-Institute Gap”.
Dr.K.N.Nandurkar addressed the participants on the theme of “Role of Academicians/Academic Institutes for bridging the Skill Gap” and Dr.P.K. Shahabadkar shared the various training programs that are currently being organized by K.K.Wagh to its students for enhancing their employability.
In the end an Interactive Session was conducted in which many HR mangers like Mr.Ravindra Chaubal of NIPM, Mr.Shrikant Joshi of Master Moulds conveyed the importance of students projects for bridging the skill gap. This interactive session was chaired by Mr.Nishikant Ahre, and Dr.S.S.Sane, Vice Principal, KKWIEER.
All the participants appreciated the effort of KKWIEER in arranging this HR summit and shared the view that these type of interactions should be held more frequently.