April 2009 - Posts - On The Job

April 2009 - Posts

Tips for the Common Law Admission Test or CLAT

Posted by Aparna Kalra at 
Career Launcher, a test preparation company whose IIT-JEE test analysis was posted on this blog earlier, has offered tips for CLAT. The exam is scheduled for May 17, and 14,000 candidates will sit for it. All those worrywarts out there who are chewing on their nails, sample questions are available on the company's website: http://www.clat.in/ ....

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MBA - Men Below Average

Posted by Tarun Matta at 
A vast majority of engineers (non-MBAs) think MBAs are useless and a drain on organization’s resources. MBA graduates don’t understand anything about the product, technology, etc and are extremely arrogant. In fact, there are a bunch of people who think MBAs are responsible for the current economic meltdown. I’ve been on both the sides at some stage...

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It's the manners, stupid

Posted by Aparna Kalra at 
Alerted via Twitter this morning on a lovely slide-show of U.S. President Obama's manners . Yes, he pulls-out chairs for lady heads of state, greets his guests -- usually presidents and princes -- by making strong eye-contact and even walks them to their cars. Showing good manners on the job always works. Of course, a difficult thing to do if you...

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Top 5 interview mistakes

Posted by Tarun Matta at 
You decided that you want a job. You made a high impact resume, applied for multiple jobs and got a few interview calls. Interview is the most important step in the whole process. You don't have too much time to create an impact and show that you are the best candidate for this position. How to ace an interview? That’s a difficult question to answer...

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What do MBAs want from their employers?

Posted by Tarun Matta at 
How often have you heard senior management complain about the fact that MBAs are not stable in their jobs? According to an estimate 50% of IIM graduates switch jobs within 18 months of graduation. Companies pay them inflated salaries; make investments in training, to finally lose them to their competitors before they could start getting the benefits...

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Getting a job during the slowdown

Posted by Tarun Matta at 
Tarun Matta is the founder of iimjobs.com – an exclusive job portal for MBAs from IIMs and other premier business schools in India. Last month I was in the corporate office of a large MNC for a meeting with one our prospective clients. One of my old buddies AB works in the same office. I decided to call him to see if we could meet up while I was in...

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The best jobs ever...

Posted by Aparna Kalra at 
Alerted this morning via Twitter on an American website that lists the best jobs in technology in the U.S. The latest one is Bobby Johnson's. He works at facebook, which, hold it!, 200 million people use. Now, this made me think of India and what would be the best jobs here. Think. Here are some: 1. Mayawati's fund manager. Seriously, this person...

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Analysis of the IIT-JEE exam

Posted by Aparna Kalra at 
Test preparatory company Career Launcher, whose owner Mint covered as part of its Education Czars series , has analysed the IIT-JEE exam held on Sunday. The 3.75 lakh candidates who sat for the test may please send us their agree/disagree comments, simply so we can see how accurate this analysis is. Here it goes.. IIT- JEE 2009 Analysis Changing pattern...

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Anything's possible in B-school

Posted by Vividha Kaul at 
What are the activities that you think you will accomplish in your two years at B-school? Become a good public speaker, win lots and lots of B-school competitions, become adept at writing business plans, come up with some entreprenuerial ideas...Whatever we may have thought before joining IIFT, Delhi, writing a book certainly did not feature among the...

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