Admission Process of PGP in Sales & Business Leadership by Kraftshala

Thank you for applying to Kraftshala PGP in Sales and Business Leadership! 

We’ll use this article to outline how you can maximise your chances of getting selected for this really high-potential cohort. But before that let’s understand what the program is about.

What is Kraftshala’s PGP in Sales and Business Leadership?

PGP in Sales and Business Leadership helps you land top tier B2B Sales roles in brands like Nestle, Zomato, Browserstack, Tranzact, Piramal, Leadsquared, Turbohire and more!

These are amazing roles to get into because they set you up for a career of quick growth and high impact. Companies like these expect their business and sales talent to be great at

• Problem Solving
• Impact and Convince
• High Ownership
• Tools like CRM, Sales Nav etc

We work on building all of these skills with you- very intensively, through projects of substantial depth and complexity, because sales is not learnt in the classroom. Sales is learnt by doing, and getting coached by practitioners who are amazing at their work.

The program is built to drive:

• Skills – We start from the roles which we want to open up and work backwards. We carefully pick what you need to learn, make sure you learn it by doing real work under the guidance of top practitioners, and build a strong problem solving mindset which acts as a foundation for all your future roles
• Motivation – Everyone at Kraftshala comes with a singular goal of getting on an accelerated career path and thus motivation is very clear. But more often than not, the goal is not enough – you need someone to hold you accountable. Accountability becomes easier if you are having fun in the process. We solve for these by assembling a very high potential cohort and having a dedicated team working with you and checking in to make sure you are not getting off-road. 
• Outcomes – All Kraftshala programs are job linked. We may not be the largest in terms of enrolments, but are much larger in terms of verifiable placements and by placement rate, the number which matters most to our students, we are by far the largest. 

How do we assess your candidature?

We assess your capacity to learn and grow, your ability to solve problems, your ability to impact and convince and your accountability and responsibility. We test these things through a detailed conversation, an interview with you. We will have 1-2 such discussions depending on your performance.

The 1-1 session is divided into 3 parts:

The intent of the conversation is to know you deeply, to know your WHY. So focus on show and tell instead of just tell. Eg. If you say you love learning, demonstrate. So our further probe would be – What makes you think you love learning? Tell me about your transition from engineering to sales. How did you manage to pick up the new things? 

One final word – enjoy the process. 

Even if you realize mid-process that the program is not a right fit, or if you don’t make it, what will be truly worth your and our time would be if you can have fun in the hours that you spend with us and if we can mutually learn from each other.