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On top of the agenda is the focus on fitment to the industry. There are other equally important personal goals that the students work for: execution - doers not just thinkers, personal transformation through empathy - appreciate others as much as you would expect others to do for you.

SMOT is aware of the fact that the expectation on the MBAs is quiet high from the indutry. Their expectations could be:

1. High standards of performance
2. Demonstrates application of knowledge
3. Listening, speaking and writing skills
4. Ability to put across the arguments fluently
5. Ability to identify problems and issues
6. Ability to understand goals
7. Independence and initiative taking ability
8. Judement
9. Clarity of purpose
10. Coming up with more than one option
11. Time management
12. Self discipline
13. Team work and ability to motivate others
14. Exposure to multiple cultures
15. Global in thinking
16. Realism
17. Clarity in short and long term goals

These goals are achieved through a set of activities, and some of them are:

• Listen to the knowledge pool of nearly 1200 man years of experience
• Listen to the innumerable short guest lectures on variety of topics
• Have a chance to meet business leaders and listen to them sharing their personal experience
• Listen to faculty coming from all kinds of background and geographies: international, industry and individual consultants
• Exposure to a corporate environment
• Exposure to professional management

Opportunities typically depend on many factors: expectations from the future career, your own skills and knowledge, what is it that you would bring to the table with your potential employer, your fitment to the role, short term and long term goals and so on. SMOT offers a curriculum that is a unique blend of meeting your short term goal of getting the right fit job and long term goal of shaping up as a specialist in the chosen area of expertise. The industry wants people with a blend of freshness in attitude and focus in delivery.

The curriculum at SMOT designed to career tracks immediately attracts the attention of the potential employers as they are able to clearly see what they want to recruit for and the specializations that students have done. Supply Chain or Finance Analyst or Retail or Market Analyst or Business Analyst - these are exactly the rolls that the business graduates are expected to take on and deliver and these are exactly the specializations that the students at SMOT would do.

While you try to shape up your future career, you are most likely influenced by factors such as your present occupation or job, whether you want to change direction or looking to re-skill yourself to better your current performance, the kind of experience you already have etc. Even the geographic factors, such as the type of city you are from, will have a say in the opportunities that are thrown open before you. Sometimes, your own beliefs, interests and values might influence the range of opportunities available to you.