EduShine assisted one of the top ranked Indian engineering university in securing 11 globally benchmarked liberal arts faculties.

The university is one of the oldest and most prestigious private institution of India. It is consistently ranked among top 5 private institutions of India and has been well respected for its academic rigour.

The university is a leader in engineering education in India, however it has no presence in the social sciences education. The university is coming up with a new globally benchmarked liberal arts school.

As a highly prestigious university, the institution offers globally benchmarked engineering education. In the changing environment, the institution wants to impart holistic education to its students. It wants to offer left brain-right brain balanced education by starting globally benchmarked liberal arts school.

To meet this objective, the institution decided to hire 15 faculties in all the major areas of liberal arts education. To meet the university quality standard, it decided to hire faculties with PhD from top 500 universities in the world.

Keeping this objective in mind, the institution appointed EduShine for hiring 11 global faculties for school of liberal arts.

Liberal arts education is emerging as a new trend in India. However, traditionally, liberal arts education has been neglected in India and due to this reason, there is a dearth of quality faculty in liberal arts area. On one side demand is very high, and on other side quality faculties who are open to consider job opportunities with private institutions are very limited.

The university is based at second tier city in Punjab and the campus is about 6 hours driving distance from nearest metro city of Delhi / NCR.

Being a traditional university, the institution doesn’t focus on brand building exercise so very few Indian origin faculties in Europe and US are aware about this university.

In this scenario, hiring 11 liberal arts faculties with PhD from global top 500 universities in the world is a real challenge.

As a higher education sector executive search and recruitment firm, EduShine understands the academic mindset and their preferences well. Considering this, EduShine suggested 3 stage hiring strategy to the institution’s leadership.

Stage 1 : Hiring 3 chair professors to represent the institution’s liberal arts school

EduShine suggested the Institution’s leadership to first hire 3 Chair Professors in the major areas of liberal arts – Psychology / Sociology, Economics and Arts / Design. The objective was to first hire the anchor faculties who can be the liberal arts face of the institution and can assist in selection process for the other faculties. The institution’s leadership accepted EduShine’s request.

EduShine mapped India’s all the the premier private liberal arts institutions and shortlisted 7 target institution. Out of these 7 liberal arts institution, we identified 23 liberal arts faculties with PhD from global top 200 universities and 20+ years of global teaching experience. After, assessment process, EduShine represented 5 profiles, meeting with the education, experience and subject area criteria.

Stage 2: Hiring 5-7 Assistant Professors

In this stage 17 liberal arts institutions were mapped for the assistant professor and PhD scholar profiles. After this mapping we identified 78 candidates meeting with the criteria of PhD from global top 500 universities. After internal assessment, EduShine represented 17 shortlisted profiles meeting all the required criteria.

Stage 3: Hiring 3-5 Expat Faculties

In this stage EduShine, identified 35 expat faculties from its database who were meeting with the required criteria. After internal assessment process, EduShine represented 7 expat faculties meeting with the required criteria and interested to join the instittution.

After rigorous selection process conducted by global selection panel, the institution offered to 4 Chair Professors. Out of these 4 chair professors 3 accepted the offer and joined in the month of March, 2020. Profile brief of these 3 chair professors are as below:

1. Professor in Sociology – PhD from Michigan State University with 30 years of teaching experience in US, UK and India
2. Professor in Economics – PhD from SUNY Buffalo with 25+ years of teaching experience in France and India
3. Professor in Design & History – PhD from UNSW, Australia with 20+ years of teaching experience in Australia and India

After second phase of selection process, 5 Assistant Professors are selected. And they joined in the month of September, 2020. They are PhD from Purdue University, Leiden University Netherland, Freie University Germany, JNU and University of Queensland.

After third phase of selection process, 3 Expat Professors joined (Virtually) in the month of September September, 2020. They are PhD from Queensland University of Technology, Lingnan University Hong Kong and University of Nottingham. All the 3 faculties will join at the campus once the international flights resumes to India.

Impressed with the successful completion of this liberal arts foreign faculty recruitment project, client institution leadership retained EduShine for the project of recruiting 5 foreign faculties in computer science area.

EduShine assisted this european premier BSchool in securing one of the finest Executive Education sales professional for South Asia Director – Executive Education role.

The BSchool of a globally renowned university, which ranks among the top 20 business schools in the world, wanted to strengthen its Asia presence by focusing on custom executive education programs offered from its Asia Centre in Mumbai.

This business management school, is one of the few selected business schools worldwide to have received, for its MBA program, all three of the prestigious international accreditations—AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), and AMBA (Association of MBAs).

The BSchool has been ranked among global top 5 for it’s executive education and finance and accounting programs. BSchool’s Asia Centre, being based at India’s financial capital, Mumbai, it was a natural choice for the BSchool to start executive education with financial services focused custom executive education programs.

As the BSchool has a strong global reputation, it wanted to communicate the same across select corporate houses and initiate focused, custom executive education programs. To meet this objective, the BSchool appointed EduShine for conducting the search for Director – Executive Education.

In India, executive education market is dominated by top 3 IIMs, ISB and top ranked US BSchools. As Indian BSchools doesn’t focus much on custom executive education programs, it was a virgin territory, however, it threw a challenge of creating market for executive education in India.

IIMs executive education programs are promoted by the professors and generally it goes to IIMs due to the professors relation with the corporate houses. In this scenario, it is a challenge to find result oriented consultative sales professional for Executive Education in India.

EduShine, being education focused executive search firm understood the Indian executive education landscape well and identified 4 target segments, which included Indian BSchools, global BSchools, Executive education companies and L&D firms.

We identified 23 B2B consultative sales professionals and after initial screen based on professional experience, education background, stability and past track record, we prepared a shortlist of 9 candidates.

We conducted video interview of these 9 candidates and Identified top 5 consultative sales professionals having the best fitment with the search objectives of the position. Finally, we represented best 3 profiles to the BSchool’s global selection panel for this position.

After rigorous global selection process consisting of 3 rounds of Interview meetings and 2 rounds of board presentation, the client selected the best fit candidate.

The candidate was heading northern region executive education for ISB. In Spite of being younger and and bit junior in organisational hierarchy, he was managing more than 40% executive education sales for ISB. He was also responsible for more than 60% sales for custom executive education programs for ISB. Earlier he worked with the company which is known as pioneer of executive education in India. He worked with both the organisations for more than 4 years and played seminal role in growth for executive education business.

Edushine, after 4 months of consultative engagement with the client and the candidate, was successful in securing the brightest talent for the Regional Head (Asia) – Executive Education role for the client.

Just within 6 months of completion of this search, the client approached EduShine for conducting Director (Asia) – Career Services search and conducting foreign faculty recruitment in the subject areas of Marketing, Leadership and Business Analytics.