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IFBI WINGS

IFBI Student and Alumni newsletter V OLU ME 4, ISS UE 1 4

IFBI placed 6500+ candidates in the year 2013-2014 in ICICI group across various roles. Out of which

4400+ students started their career with ICICI Bank through IFBI’s PGDBO program and the rest in Phone Bank-

ing and Sales Officer roles. Mr. Bimal Jain, President IFBI said, ―We have a close relationship with ICICI Bank

since 2006. FY-14

was a year of im-

mense expansion at

ICICI Bank and we

are glad we could

support the business

and manpower requirements at scale‖. IFBI trained the students on Customer Services, Selling Skills and Business

Development . The students are also trained on Finacle software, customized e-learning and simulator and bank-

specific products and processes. Here is a picture of proud students flashing their offer letters from —IFBI Hydera-

bad (left) and IFBI Ahmedabad (above).

The IFBI-ICICI story continues to go strong !

IFBI bags Leadership Training assignment from Indian Overseas Bank IFBI recently won a prestigious order from Indian Overseas Bank to train Scale II and Scale III Officers

in Management Development Program. It was one of the most significant programs that IFBI conducted and the

first of its kind—4 days residential program for a PSU at a

Managerial level and it involved around 500 participants

across 4 locations. The 1st batch was successfully executed

@ Kanchipuram from 3rd Feb – 6th Feb 2014 and it was

followed by 13 more batches at different locations of Kan-

chipuram, Delhi - NCR, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata.

Under this program the IOB Managers were taught Leader-

ship styles, team manage-

ment, setting goals, driving

results and customer service.

The following faculty mem-

bers were instrumental in

the success of this program:

Mr Ramakrishnan, Mr Ramesh, Mr Rathindra Banerjee, Mr Trevor Fernandes, Mr

Awni Ranjan, Mr Avijit Roy, Mr Prabir Bose, Ms Charu and Mr Mankad assisted

by many other senior content and domain experts.

In FY 2014, IFBI places 6500+ candidates in ICICI group

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IFBI Chennai center had conducted a memorable 6th convocation ceremony on 23th Feb at Hotel Chen-

nai Delux, Chennai. It was a fantastic evening with alumni, parents, staff and guests. There were 87 alumni who

received their certificates. Mr. T.M Ramani, Retd. General Manag-

er, City Union Bank was the Chief Guest. Others on the dais were

Mrs Porkodi Palani, Mr V. Kabaleeswaran (Academic Co-

ordinator) and Mr Bennet Gordon (Territory Head, South)

Mr. Ramani congratulated the graduating batch of IFBI

and wished them success in their career. He spoke at length on im-

mense opportunities, various roles and career paths available in the

banking sector in India. During the talk, he emphasized on the

growing needs of professionally trained and job-ready manpower

required by the industry.

Speaking at the

event one of the

alumni, Mr.

Sunil .V.P, Assistant Branch Manager @ ICICI Bank Ernakulam

said that the IFBI candidates who come to work in ICICI bank have

the right aptitude to work and good knowledge on banking and

banking products. He said he had recommended to the ICICI HR

team to recruit employees for his branch only from IFBI !

Post the graduation ceremony, there was a grand high tea

arranged for all the guests.

IFBI Pune conducted its 1st ever ―Celebrating IFBI Alumni

Success Event‖ on 9th Mar 2014 at Hotel Coronet, Pune. Amongst

the invitees were Mr. Paritosh Sinha, Vice President, Yes Bank and

Mr. Rajesh Acharya, Deputy Vice President, HDFC Bank and 2

HODs and 2 Training Placement Coordinators from esteemed col-

leges of Pune. Apart from these, we had the main stars of the day—

OUR ALUMNI who are now working with reputed banks and finan-

cial organizations. The event started with felicitation of Guests of

Honor followed by lighting of lamp to inaugurate the function. The

stars of the day, our alumni were welcomed by Ms. Meghna Mishra

(Area Head, Pune) who also gave a glimpse of IFBI and its progress

through the IFBI video.

Our current students also gave an exhilarating dance performance to welcome the invitees. This was

followed by an inspiring talk from our senior most faculty Mr. Neelkandan who shared his experience about IFBI

Pune since its inception. Next was the main event for the day of felicitating the alumni. It was a MOMENT OF

PRIDE for all of us as the alumni were coming on dais one by one and their success stories were displayed on the

screen. During the felicitation process, one of our alumni— Mr. Paritosh shared “ To be successful as a banker, one

has to be passionate, keep on acquiring knowledge and should remain positive especially during adverse circum-

stances. Relevant certifications will always help to do the job more professionally to the utmost satisfaction of the

customers.” Another Alumni—Mr. Rajesh Acharya said “IFBI has

marked today 25000 placements and within comparatively less time it

would scale up to many folds. I anticipate IFBI to touch 2,50,000

placements in another 5 years.”

The event concluded with vote of thanks from Mr. Amitabh

Chattoraj (Academic Co-ordinator, Pune) who gave a message,

“Guru Gobind dono khade kaku lage pao,

Balihari guru aapka Gobind dio chinhay”.


Convocation, Caps in the air and High tea !

An evening to remember for IFBI centers


On 23rd Mar 2014 IFBI Hyderabad conducted an alumni meet. In spite of the fact that it was so far the

hottest day of the month, our alumni ensured to reach

the venue without fail and without any delay. The

function started with high tea and refreshments, how-

ever as the evening settled in it became a little pleas-

ant and more and more alumni poured in.

Amongst the invitees, was our main Guest of

Honour, Mr Anjaneylu, AGM SBI. He was more than

thrilled to be a part of this event and touched upon

important areas for student development during his

keynote address.

The event began with the traditional

―Lighting of the Lamp‖ followed by a Devotional

prayer song. Audience was welcomed and the staff

explained the progress that IFBI had made. The time

then arrived, when the main activity of the evening started ―THE CONVOCATION‖, where students smartly

dressed in their robe and cap came up and collected their certificates from our esteemed Chief Guest and senior

faculty members.

The current students entertained our guests with a short play titled ―IFBI’s GOT TALENT‖, it was a

spoof of the Indian version hit show ―India’s got talent‖. It had a local flavor and a lot of comedy which kept the

audience in splits throughout. To conclude, a vote of thanks was shared by Ms Sujatha, faculty. IFBI Hyderabad

team is all all geared up to make the next Alumni Meet/Convocation event even BIGGER !

IFBI Kolkata successfully conducted their

very first ―Alumni Event‖ where alumni participated

across various banks like: ICICI Bank, Axis Bank,

IndusInd Bank etc. Event started with lightning the

lamp of knowledge followed by Saraswati Vandana.

Ms. Surmayee Shirsath (Territory Head) took the

audience through the entire journey of last 7 years. A

short cultural program was organized which was fol-

lowed by the Alumni felicitation process. Mr. Avijit

Roy and Ms. Lakshmi Madhavan (Academic Co-

coordinator’s) did present the small token of gift to

our Alma-mater. The event was concluded by VOTE

OF THANKS shared by Ms. Lakshmi and followed

by High Tea. The event concluded with the group

photograph, IFBI Team and Faculty Members. This

was undoubtedly one of the most memorable mo-

ments in the history of IFBI.

News from the World of IFBI

IFBI Bangalore conducted alumni event cum

convocation . It was a fantastic evening where more than

60 alumni were present to mark this event. Needless to

say, they all came from different banks, however one thing

which was common across all of them was that, they start-

ed their career through IFBI. Alumni shared some very

interesting incidents of their work life and culture at

banks. They also spoke about how IFBI transformed their

life and gave a jump start to their career and how they

moved up the ladder using the knowledge which was im-

parted to them during their stint at IFBI. Alumni were

very exuberant to meet their faculty members during this

event. The entire team at NIIT IFBI Bangalore had co-

ordinated commendably in a short span of time playing

the ―PERFECT HOST‖ to the homecoming Alumni.

An evening to remember for IFBI centers…...Contd



IFBI conducts refresher training for

Bank of Baroda employees

IFBI has successfully conducted refresher

training for Bank of Baroda employees across vari-

ous locations. More than 4100 employees were

trained under this training which was spread across

31 locations. IFBI faculty members conducted the

training which was well appreciated by the BOB

employees. Seen above are IFBI faculty members

with the batches at Vidya Knowledge Park, Meerut

location (above) and at Bhopal (below).

IFBI commences 2nd BANK OF BHUTAN batch

Bank of Bhutan’s 2nd batch @IFBI commenced on

13th January 2014 with the introductory sessions being taken

by Mr.Avijit Roy and Ms.Lakshmi Madhavan. The content

included advanced banking topics based on the feedback

from the Bank and taking into account that the trainees were

experienced. For the ISAS presentation, the batch was divid-

ed into four groups and topics were allotted viz. Relevance

of Customer

Service, Credit

Cards, Savings

Accounts,

Fixed Deposits.

All the groups

had taken keen

efforts in sourc-

ing information

and preparing

presentations in

PPT formats for the topics allotted to each group. Assess-

ment on various parameters was conducted on Content cov-

erage and Query handling. Topics related to Bhutanese Fi-

nancial Regulations, Risk Management, Insurance, Equity

Markets, Customer Service and Sales Orientation and Sell-

ing Skills were also covered during the program.

The Trainees enjoyed their sessions on Quality

Customer Service and Selling Skills. They were shown

IFBI’s PGDB videos on selling skills. Students were asked

to do a role play selling a product as per the Handouts of

Role Plays( effort was taken to see that the role play had the

Bhutanese scenario and Bhutanese product) that were given

to them. It was heartening to note that the participants actu-

ally scripted their role plays as per the guidance and prac-

ticed cross selling and learnt immensely in the process. Mr.

Prabir Bose (main faculty) handled the session with the sup-

port from Mr. Anup Ray and Ms.Lakshmi Madhavan.

Job fair activities for ICICI Sales Officer Programs

IFBI’s JO Sales team had been engaged in various job

fair activities across different locations to do the sourcing for

CRBSM program. One such job fair was held at Universal Group

of Institutions, Lalru, Punjab where many students attended the

fair from nearby locations of Punjab and Haryana state in search

or a job. Around 15 organizations participated in this job fair, out

of which NIIT IFBI was one. There were around 50 candidates

who were interested for ICICI Bank Sales Profile. Post the suc-

cessful completion of the selection process, IFBI was able to pick

candidates from this institute who are now successfully placed

with ICICI Bank.

Another such activity was conducted at Baba Farid

Group of Institutions, Bathinda wherein the enquiry footfall for

ICICI JO Profile was around 80+. Participating in this event had certainly further strengthened the ties between

the institution and NIIT IFBI.

The GCC Campus @ Bangalore boasts about the successful

completion of 20 batches which have been executed at the campus

from Nov 2012. Candi-

dates are selected through

a stringent process to en-

ter the CRBSM

(Certificate in Retail

Banking and Sales Man-

agement) program. The

selects are trained on Eng-

lish language , Account

opening process, KYC

norms adherence and re-

lated modules thereby transforming them in flat 26 days to have all the

confidence in taking the challenges of selling the Banking product. The trainees are covered under medical insur-

ance from the date of joining at our training center. So far, 625 students have been trained @ GCC Campus.

Thanksgiving organized by IFBI Delhi students Students of PGDB+ batch (B140012/16) organized a thanks

giving party for the Faculty members and center staff of IFBI Con-

naught place, Delhi.

An exciting ceremo-

ny was organized by

them which had cake

cutting, singing and

some mimicry for

entertainment. Stu-

dents presented

IFBI team with

Ganesh Idol, me-

mento and a thank

you card.



Graduates turn to professionals here @ GCC, Bangalore

Some placements before course completion @ IFBI Bhubaneswar

A Batch at IFBI Bhubaneswar with 20 students were over-

whelmed with joy when they received their joining details even

before they could complete their classwork sessions at the center.

Students were

very much

astounded on get-

ting the offer let-

ters from ICICI

Bank in such a

short period of

time. The envi-

ronment was ec-

static. Many had

mixed emotions

when they held

Offer letters in

their hands.

IFBI launches 1st batch for Kotak Mahindra Bank

IFBI has launched their 1st batch

for CCBSM program (for Kotak Mahindra

Bank Lim-

ited) at Ah-

medabad

campus for

the post of

Assistant

Acquisition

Manager

profile. The

batch started with

17 candidates on

19th May 2014,

where senior mem-

bers from Kotak

Corporate HR team

were also present to

take certain ses-

sions. IFBI is

launching their 2nd

batch also shortly.

Mr. Rudra Mishra, Asst. General

Manager, HR, ICICI Bank (4th from left,

sitting row) visited our JO Sales Academy at

Vidya Knowledge Park Meerut from the 7th

to the 12 February, 2014.

As Head of the ICICI Bank JO

Sales Academies, he visited the Academies

across the country. He spent 6 days at our

Meerut Academy (Vidya Knowledge Park)

and during that period he shared his vast

knowledge in training. He shared the expec-

tations of ICICI Bank. The academy orga-

nized a Sports meet (cricket match) in which

Mr. Rudra participated whole hearted-

ly. The students enjoyed the exciting summer activity on a busy winter Sunday !.


Saraswati Puja Celebrations

@ IFBI Kolkata

IFBI Kolka-

ta performed prayers

to the Goddess of

learning. This year

IFBI Kolkata per-

formed this Puja, with

whole hearted participation from the existing students, staff

members and faculties of IFBI. All the students turned up in

traditional attires and took very keen interest starting from deco-

ration to performing puja rituals.

Cricket TITANS @ IFBI Campus (Vidya Knowledge Park, Meerut)


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IFBI enrolls students for customized training program with City Union Bank

IFBI Chennai did a pilot program for City Union Bank. The program was launched with an objective of

hiring first and then training the candidates for Priority Bankers/HNI sales roles @ CUB. Selection process in-

cluded IFBI’s test and Interview process followed by Aptitude Test and HR Interview by CUB Panel. Under this

train and hire model, 67 students have been selected by CUB for Probationary Clerks for Marketing Priority and

Trainee clerks for Operations .

April May 2014 flash news IFBI placed 1215 students in the month of

Apr and May 2014. More than 1000 stu-

dents have started their career with ICICI

Bank in last 2 months.

Top three IFBI Centers where highest num-

ber of ICICI Bank joining happened in this

period were Hyderabad (80), Ahmedabad

(67) and Chennai (45).

IFBI wishes Good luck to all students

who have just started their career!!!

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