When mapping out their careers, one of the most important elements to consider for MBA students is what sector and domain they'd like to start their management careers in. This can go on to decide what your career looks like three, five or even ten years down the line. So which career path does India's crème de la crème lean towards? What sectors and roles do IIM students see themselves in, and why?
A career in corporate finance means one would work for the organization to help generate and meet its capital requirements, utilizing these resources optimally to allow organic and inorganic growth and channel the earnings in the appropriate manner as to boost further growth and shareholder satisfaction. One gets to work with the CXOs and top level executives of a large multinational company, a domestic leading group or even a relatively regional player with high growth prospects. Sounds exciting?
Products & technologies have had increasingly higher adoption rates. Telephones took almost 100 years to reach 100 million users, mobile phones took 20 years, Facebook took less than 5 years to reach the same mark and Instagram just 2 years! With a breakneck speed in the product adoption rates, organisations all over the world are realizing the importance of the product management role in developing, adoption, growth and retention of the product in its life cycle. Companies are cognizant of the fact that they can make consumers the king by actually making the product the center of all their strategies.
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde
Haven’t we all seen those Wall Street or Dalal Street movies and awed at the characters and their smart, calculative moves? Or read about Warren Buffet’s simple rules of investment and thought that “Well, I could do this”. Or heard yelling and commotion in their heads while picturing a stock market trading floor?
It's undeniable that the current economic & social situation has accelerated the need for upskilling. Professionals need to constantly upskill, do it more quickly than before and keep getting better in order to remain competitive & employable. Make no mistake, this trend has been noticed across industries & job roles.
"You are not you when you are hungry!" Who can forget this call out to the fundamental human urge? Immediately, a bar of tasty chocolate packed with peanuts, caramel, and nougat, and coated with milk chocolate comes to the rescue, satiating your hunger pangs! But Mars packs more punches in their brand portfolio than just the Snickers bar.
The pandemic has hit the job market across the world - hard. According to a recent report, nearly 19 million salaried Indians have lost their jobs since the pandemic began. The pandemic also hit the Indian MBA hiring market in the first half of 2020, with job offers and summer internships being cancelled or deferred, even for IIM students/graduates. So what is recruiters' outlook towards hiring MBAs in the near future? Is it largely negative or positive? To find out, the reputed Association of MBAs (AMBA) surveyed over a thousand employers to find out what's on their minds.
