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Monday, July 27, 2009 2:31 PM

18,000 people on the bench at Infosys

From Business Week's 'India's outsourcers: Using the Slump to Get Bigger' : “[The] problem is, all of these initiatives are expensive. If the global economy doesn’t bounce back in a year or so, India’s outsourcers could find themselves...
Posted by Aparna Kalra | 10 comment(s)
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:50 AM

An MBA student’s survival guide to the recession

So, the batch of 2009 is on its way out. We have had to bear the brunt of the recession and growth rates gone sour. We knew things were not that rosy, but as the world started unravelling and companies started going bust one after the other in September...
Posted by Vividha Kaul | 11 comment(s)
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:09 PM

B School Journal: The Return of the PSUs (IIFT Delhi)

PSUs, long-forgotten in the collective psyche of B-school students, have come back with a bang this year. Be it manufacturing PSUs or banks, they have all found several takers at India’s premier B-schools, something that would have been unheard of at...
Posted by Vividha Kaul | 6 comment(s)
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Monday, March 02, 2009 9:07 AM

Placements 2009: View from inside (NITIE, Mumbai)

Come April, and yet another batch of management students will spread their wings and explore their new habitat – the corporate world. They will now experience management at first hand. From beyond the confines of a class room and the generalities of your...
Posted by Ken Dsouza | 4 comment(s)
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:49 AM

Placements 2009: View from inside (IIFT Delhi)

For several years now, placements at India’s premier B-schools have typically been a question of a day or two. You start off in the morning and by evening, a major chunk of the batch would have been picked up by some good company or the other. Students...
Posted by Vividha Kaul | 3 comment(s)
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Friday, December 26, 2008 6:06 PM

Jobs: the worst of 2008 and the best of 2009

The son, a fresh grad picked up from college looked pretty smug to see that his company, an FMCG, figured in a sector that is likely to beat the recession. He also realized he was part of a lucky batch that saw campus recruitments at the graduate level...
Posted by Taru Bahl | 12 comment(s)
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