XLRI Organizes Intelligentsia '08 in Association with HSBC Bank

XLRI Organizes Intelligentsia '08 in Association with HSBC Banktext

On 12 January 2008 at XLRI Jamshedpur, SAPPHIRE (Student's Association for Promotion of Personnel Management, Human Resources & Industrial Relations) organised an event named Intelligentsia '08 in association with HSBC Bank. text

The event comprised of two competitions - Antithesis (a debate) and Minerva (a quiz). The topic for the debate was whether "Vintage is Losing Ground in Today's Competency Driven Workplace", and it was a hotly contested motion. Minerva consisted of three grueling rounds of quizzing, which had diverse questions from the field of HR as well as general management. text

The Chief Guest at the event was Mr. Mohit Seth, Senior VP, Talent Management, HSBC. Accompanying him was Ms. Nidhima Malhotra, who is a member of HSBC's Campus Awareness Team and an XLRI alumnus.text

Mr. Seth gave away prizes worth Rs. 60,000 to the winners and later delivered a talk on talent management. With Nike T-shirts on stake as audience prizes, the event saw huge participation from XLRI students and was a grand success. The chief guest expressed his appreciation for the smooth organisation of the event and hoped for more collaborative efforts between SAPPHIRE and HSBC in the future, thus, further cementing the relationship XLRI has with corporate organizations. text