Always be positive, work your best, and leave the rest.
Always be positive, work your best, and leave the rest.
Shweta Singhvi was born and brought up in Udaipur and completed her schooling from Central Academy. She has a double MBA in HR and International Marketing from Sikkim Manipal University, where she emerged as a topper.
Her first job was with Zee Education, where she taught around a thousand students at a time. Thereafter, she got married and moved to Bangalore, she worked for some time teaching export procedures and working on projects at the RNS Institute of Technology.
After coming back to Udaipur, Shweta joined BN Boys College where she worked around for six years and had to leave the job after conceiving and delivering a premature baby. After two years, she restarted her career by opening her own coaching center with just two students in the beginning. It's been fourteen years now and Shweta has 450 students learning from her with no more than seven students in a single batch. Shweta loves teaching and is appreciated by her students.
Shweta recollects that since her childhood she has been inclined towards teaching because she used to dress up just like a teacher and learn her concepts that way.
Shweta experienced struggles right from her MBA days when she had the pressure of getting married but she wanted to continue her studies. After convincing her father enough, she completed her double MBA and feels happy to have done so. Leaving her job after the baby was also a difficult period for Shweta. Her neighbor came as a ray of light for her and motivated her to start teaching again. She sent her two students to teach, and her journey began again.
Shweta shares that the COVID period was a great time for her to spend with her family. However, professionally, it was a rigorous time since she prefers teaching students face-to-face than taking online classes. Shweta takes Business Studies, Entrepreneurship and Economics as her subjects.
For aspiring teachers, Shweta shares that a good teacher should have a command over their language and always come up with new ideas. According to her, it is very important for a teacher to be confident, befriend their students and know their subject well. Shweta also feels that it is important for a teacher to allocate time to listen to students and be flexible and bilingual. Shweta thinks a teacher has to be attentive to the students’ queries depending on their level of interest in studies and handle each of them differently.
Shweta feels that education is prime but experience develops your confidence, especially in the teaching profession, where you are required to address a class of students.
She considers her father and mother-in-law as her role models who helped her balance her personal and professional life and motivated her to become a better person. She also draws inspiration from Ratan Tata and implements his lessons in her day-to-day life.
In her free time, Shweta likes to indulge herself in reading good books like autobiographies of businessmen. She loves dancing as well.
Shweta claims herself to be a born leader since she has had a dominating demeanour since her childhood. However, she shares that she has inculcated leadership qualities in her during her MBA days giving project presentations in front of dignitaries.
Shweta is a great believer in God and believes Him to be a constant support in her life struggles.
If Shweta could go back in a time machine, she would like to revisit her childhood days which she spent with her grandparents. She would also like to study her 11th and 12th classes again. Shweta would also like to obey her father's decision of her pursuing CA, if given an opportunity.