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Top 5 Roles and Sectors IIM Students Want To Be In | Career Options After MBA

MBA students' internal debate between picking a sector, company, or role has been one that has raged on for many years, and the one question MBA students ask even before joining a business school is - "How do I pick my post-MBA job?" The answer to this critical question can vary from student-to-student and can go on to shape entire careers. To help MBA students' decision-making process, we've come up with a list of the top roles and sectors MBA students want to be in, as per the latest InsideIIM Recruitment Survey of 2021.

Team InsideIIM24 Feb 2022

What An MBA Will Never Teach You! | Real-Life Stories From HUL & UNICEF HR Experts

If you think Human Resource Management is a career for the ‘nice’ people, you’re somewhat wrong and if you think that HR Management just involves hiring and engaging employees, you’re way off the charts! HR Management has been what makes or breaks great organizations. Most of the companies that had underplayed this function found themselves in an uncomfortable situation when nations went under lockdowns overnight. Trade froze, services disrupted, cash flow stopped; but somehow the show had to go on, amid the acceleration of digitization, employee well-being concerns & remote model of work. This was a moment of reckoning for the HR Management domain & this was not taught in any b-school!

Team InsideIIM19 Feb 2022

Top 10 Finance Companies To Work With After MBA

Did you know - a study by GMAC has revealed that a whopping 35 percent of MBA graduates at the world's leading business schools want to pursue a career in Finance. The story is not dissimilar in India, where MBA students have revealed that the BFSI sector is amongst the most desirable sectors and roles to work in - case in point being IIM Ahmedabad, where Finance emerged as the second most in-demand function for the MBA batch of 2021. So, which BFSI companies do MBA students flock to? Which international and Indian banks and finance companies do IIM students aspire to work with? To find out, we asked them!

Team InsideIIM19 Feb 2022

Want To Make A Sales & Marketing Career? Secret Behind Building Trusted Brands From Reckitt Leaders

Brands are not built in a day. Through constant efforts, carefully led out strategies, understanding customer pain points, target audience, tracking data and countless other variables are associated with building a solid foundation for a new brand. And one company that has done it over and over again throughout the years is, Reckitt, previously known as RB. Whether it is Har Ghar Ki Zaruruat Dettol or the Harpic bathroom cleaner or the mosquito saviour Mortein, Reckitt has built legacy brands through carefully crafted strategies for years. Now, the leaders of Reckitt are here to help you crack your B-school and get a chance to be part of the legacy.

InsideIIM Career Services10 Feb 2022

FREE Demo Of A Tool That 97% Of Fortune 500 Companies Use

Data Analytics is no longer just a good-to-have business capability. It has become the strategic differentiator & most businesses are being restructured around it. For example, daily, Spotify users create 600 GBs of data that the company uses to perfect its algorithms and machines to improve customer experiences and extrapolate insights. This means that no matter which domain you are in, as a management professional, you got to sit up and take notice of Data Analytics.

Team InsideIIM03 Feb 2022

One In-Demand Management Skill That Can Boost Your Salary In 2022

As per LinkedIn’s 2022 Job report for India, 82% of India’s workforce is preparing to switch jobs in this very year and 45% of them are confident about their next job roles. Coming in the aftermath of a pandemic-induced long stagnation, this #GreatResignation or #GreatReshuffle- call what you may- is good news, as it finally allows businesses to bring in fresh problem-solvers and professionals with people skills. This also brings up an important question - what are the key skills that these organizations will be looking for in these candidates? If you belong to this set of 82%, you are probably asking this same question to yourself as well.

Team InsideIIM02 Feb 2022

The One Thing That Can Stop The Great Resignation!

If you are looking to upskill yourself as an HR professional, you should consider acquiring the skills of a data analyst. Sounds weird? Actually, it isn’t. The arrival of Big Data and Analytics during the 2008 financial crisis proved to be a game-changer for various business functions as it helped them to measure and monitor all the work they do and thus understand how efficient and effective they are. While business functions like Marketing and Operations have been quick to embrace the benefits of Analytics, HR has been a relatively late entrant.

Team InsideIIM27 Jan 2022

My Journey Of Working Through Startups Ft. Rangarajan Ramamurthi, AVP Unacademy

One after the other startups are raising eyebrows through their IPOs in the current scenario. It is no longer necessary that a b-school student's dream company would be a legacy one. One such b-school graduate was Rangarajan, who did his MBA from SDA Bocconi and decided to start his career with a startup called AskMeBazar. There was no looking back ever since for Rangarajan who currently works as the AVP at Unacademy. InsideIIM got in touch with him to understand his journey and how he became an architect of his own career growth. Here are the excerpts:

InsideIIM Career Services31 Dec 2021