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1. You did not make it to an IIM or any other of the Top 20 B schools.
2. You are mildly depressed.
3. Your family wants you to get into a decent B school this year itself.
4. You do not want to spend another year preparing for CAT.
5. You don’t want to take a huge bank loan to get your MBA from some vague school in Australia, Canada, France, Singapore, U.K. or the U.S.A.
6. You are tired of relatives and friends ask you “So, what are your plans? What will you do next?”
Sure, getting a good, high paying job is important. But you have to perform well in the interview to get it. How will you crack the interview?
By answering the interviewers’ questions.
How will you answer your interviewers’ questions?
By knowing stuff, your subject matter.
How will you know stuff?
By attending class and studying.
Is knowing stuff enough to clear an interview?
Let me think. Let me think…No, it isn’t. One must first get called for an interview.
How will you get called for the interview?
By writing a winning resume.
How will you write a winning resume?
By getting trained in writing resumes.
Is training all you need to produce a winning resume?
Of course not. You have to have material to put in it, the resume I mean.
Like?
What you want to do. What you have done which will let you do what you want to do. What knowledge and skills you used to do what you did and can help in doing what you want to do. What education gave you the knowledge and helped you develop your skills.
Ok, let us say you get called to an interview. Is your resume all you need to get you selected?
No. You need to answer interviewer’s questions, confidently and convincingly.
How will you answer the interviewer’s questions confidently and convincingly?
By getting trained in interviewing skills.
1. Does your B School have a Placement Office?
2. Does your Placement Office market your B School and its programs to companies?
3. Does your Placement Office provide students training in self-assessment, resume writing,
interviewing skills? If yes, can you share some details about such training?
4. Does your B School provide any Work Study Scholarships, where students are given 20 hours
of assignments in exchange for scholarships, such as Tuition Waiver?
5. How many companies came for placement to your campus this year?
6. How many graduating PGDM's found jobs through campus interviews?
7. How many job offers did students receive on average?
8. What were the lowest and highest CTC packages?
My name,
My mobile phone number
My email address)”
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Dr. Nagananda Kumar, Professor, Strategy and HR, MYRA School of Business, Mysore. He studied his Bachelor’s degree from St. Stephen’s College New Delhi in 1973, Masters at Loyola College, Chennai in 1979, and PhD (Fellow) from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, in 1986.
You can contact him on his Email – naga.kumar@myra.ac.in