About (CRCAD)
The Corporate Relations and Career Advancement Division (CRCAD) is dedicated to fostering strong, sustainable partnerships with the corporate sector and civil society — both in India and internationally.
Its primary mandate is to actively engage with industry leaders, business associations, policy bodies, and other stakeholders to build mutually beneficial relationships. These collaborations are designed to create meaningful linkages between the Institute and the business world, ensuring that IIFT remains closely aligned with industry trends, expectations, and emerging opportunities.
A key focus of CRCAD is to facilitate the smooth and impactful induction of students from IIFT’s flagship MBA (International Business) Full-Time Programme and MBA (Business Analytics) Full-Time Programme into the corporate world. This is achieved through structured corporate engagements, live projects, industry immersion programs, and regular corporate interactions.
The student–industry engagement process begins with the Summer Internship Program, conducted at the end of the first academic year. During the months of April, May and June, students intern with leading organisations for a period of eight to ten weeks. This is an integral component of the curriculum, providing them with first-hand exposure to business practices, industry dynamics, and professional work culture.
This engagement continues with organisations from India and abroad visiting IIFT between December and February each year to offer career and job opportunities across diverse sectors, functions, and geographies. IIFT has a proud legacy of 100% recruitment success, a testament to the rigorous process that balances academic excellence with robust industry exposure. This legacy underscores the Institute’s commitment to producing graduates who are both theoretically sound and practically adept.
Through these initiatives, CRCAD plays a pivotal role in ensuring academia and industry collaboration — enabling students to apply classroom learning to real-world challenges and ensuring recruiters gain access to highly skilled, industry-ready talent.
Message from the Faculty Coordinator
Dr. Oly Mishra
At IIFT Kakinada we believe that the true measure of management education is how well students are able to convert knowledge into meaningful business outcomes. As the Faculty Coordinator for Placements, I get to work closely with our students when they are about to take their first big leap in the corporate world.
Our MBA (International Business) students possess a great blend of academic rigour, curiosity, adaptability and a global perspective. They are continuously exposed to real world business challenges through classroom learning, live projects, corporate interactions, expert sessions and industrial visits. The ability to learn, adapt, collaborate and to approach problems with a solution-orientated mindset makes them well-equipped to contribute to diverse organisations.
Kakinada IIFT also has the singular advantage of being situated in one of the rapidly developing industrial and port ecosystem of India. “Major industries of the region, logistics networks, ports and export-oriented businesses offer our students valuable exposure to the dynamics of international trade and business.
We see this as an opportunity not just to bring in talent through our placement process but as the start of a major industry-institution partnership when we invite organisations to partner with our students. We would be happy to host your organization at IIFT Kakinada and explore the possibilities of our talented pool of students to contribute to the growth and future ambitions of your organization.
We are looking forward to long term partnerships with organisations that value talent, potential and a global perspective.
Dr. Oly Mishra
Corporate Relations and Career Advancement Committee
Rishit Awasthi
Treasurer
rishit_kkd27@iift.edu
+91 8787265233
Sparsh Gupta
Co-convener
sparsh_kkd27@iift.edu
+91 8989064400
Sachin Kumar
Placement Coordinator
sachin_kkd27@iift.edu
+91 6304492690
