I believe that I took a great risk when I made a decision to leave Ernst & Young, where I had been for 16 months to take care of my ailing father and follow my dreams to change the verticals from ITRA (IT Risk and Assurance advisory) to business management. I got a job with Ernst & Young in I.T. Risk advisory upon graduation. The job was all that I could ask for Challenging, Stimulating, Enriching and a brand name that took me to places. I got to work with domestic and International clients. I worked with domestic and International teams across various verticals across EY to present out clients with best deliverables. I burnt the mid night oil to be the best and at same time had fun filled outings, client dinners and off-sites with my colleagues and senior. But then my mind and heart were not in concurrence and I wanted to explore my strengths in Business advisory services. At that time father was recovering from a major vascular surgery and needed someone to look after him full time, I took this as opportunity to be there for my father and self introspect on future career path. I researched on Business Advisory Services, worked on my resume and statement of intent or cover letters. Over the course of period I applied to considerable number of Strategic consultancy firms that followed with rounds of interview but to my dismay I could not be fit into any, majority stating that they were looking for Postgraduate management studies on the resume. I did not loose hope and geared myself once again, in the mean I was approached by Surbhi Hospitals, a private group of hospitals, where I used to volunteer when I was in college with their immunization camps. Surbhi Hospitals wanted an Executive for their Non-Profit Services department and I grabbed the opportunity. When I joined full time, I was given the responsibility to expand the deeds and reachability of Surbhi Hospitals’ endeavors to the larger strata of the society. The biggest ordeal to accomplish this was endowment of funds and mass reachability to the society in hinterland of the Noida, India, location of Surbhi Hospitals. I strategized the formation and led the two teams, one team, which is responsible for awareness of our on-going activities in vicinity areas of high density underprivileged population and other team, which is responsible for corporate tie ups with an initiative of aligning the corporate social responsibility endeavors of the private firms with ours and thus being beneficial to both. This has been greatest risk that I have taken, leaving my lucrative job to follow my dreams and perhaps this has been most satisfying decision. In the period of eight months, I have achieved to hold child immunization camps from being held monthly to fortnightly, quadruple the number of people getting their child vaccinated in these camps, establish talks and camps on Child Upbringing best practices and get a corporate tie up from two mid scale industries.

1. C. Describe a time when
you took a great risk.
What was the outcome?

2. I believe that I took a great
risk when I made a decision
to leave Ernst & Young,
where I had been for 16
months to take care of my
ailing father and follow my
dreams to change the
verticals from ITRA (IT Risk
and Assurance advisory) to
business management.

3. I got a job with Ernst & Young in I.T. Risk
Advisory upon graduation.

4. The job was all that I could ask for
Challenging, Stimulating, Enriching and a
brand name that took me to places.

5. I got to work with domestic and International clients.
I worked with domestic and International team across
various verticals across EY to present out clients with best
deliverables.
I burnt the mid night oil to be the best and at same time
had fun filled outings, client dinners and off-sites with my
colleagues and senior.

6. But then my mind and
heart were not in
concurrence and I
wanted to explore my
strengths in Business
advisory services. At that
time father was
recovering from a major
vascular surgery and
needed someone to look
after him full time, I took
this as opportunity to be
there for my father and
self introspect on future
career path.

7. I researched on Business Advisory Services,
worked on my resume and statement of intent
and cover letters. Over the course of period I
applied to considerable number of Strategic
consultancy firms that followed with rounds of
interview but to my dismay I could not be fit into
any, majority stating that they were looking for
Postgraduate management studies on the
resume.

8. I did not loose hope and geared myself once
again, in the mean I was approached by Surbhi
Hospitals, a private group of hospitals, where I
used to volunteer when I was in college with their
immunization camps. Surbhi Hospitals wanted an
Executive for their Non-Profit Services
department and I grabbed the opportunity.

9. When I joined full time, I was given the
responsibility to expand the deeds and
reachability of Surbhi Hospitals’ endeavors to the
larger strata of the society.
The biggest ordeal to accomplish this was
Endowment of funds and Mass reachability to
the society in hinterland of the Noida, India, location
of Surbhi Hospitals.

10. I strategized the formation and led the two
teams, one team, which is responsible for
awareness of our on-going activities in vicinity
areas of high density underprivileged population
and other team, which is responsible for
corporate tie ups with an initiative of aligning the
corporate social responsibility endeavors of the
private firms with ours and thus being beneficial
to both.

11. This has been greatest risk that I
have taken, leaving my lucrative job
to follow my dreams and perhaps this
has been most satisfying decision. In
the period of eight months, I have
achieved to hold child immunization
camps from being held monthly to
fortnightly, quadruple the number of
people getting their child vaccinated
in these camps, establish talks and
camps on Child Upbringing best
practices and get a corporate tie up
from two mid scale industries.