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Top 7 Operations Online Courses To Pursue During Coronavirus Lockdown

COVID-19 has been and continues to be the biggest roadblock for operations/supply chain departments of almost all organizations in the world. With travel/transport bans, less on-site presence and incoming budget cuts, things are becoming difficult for managers to manage. While it's a difficult time for all, it’s an opportunity for an operations student and MBA aspirant. The COVID situation is not just a case study but also a great time to learn new skills and harness tools that will help you solve such cases in future. With colleges, WAT-GD-PI interviews and jobs appointments being postponed indefinitely, here is the chance to take up some useful online operations courses. Don’t Wait! Start learning NOW!

Poonam Das10 Apr 2020

Top 8 HR Online Courses To Pursue During The Lockdown

Coronavirus (CoVID19) induced lockdown! A state of being that has kept us feeling uncertain, uncomfortable and isolated for quite a few days now. With b-schools and offices being closed, GD-WAT-PIs, internships, and jobs are delayed indefinitely. While the situation may look grim for most b-schoolers and aspirants, it's also an interesting and opportunistic time for HR enthusiasts. How? Well, CoVID19 has disrupted the way the industry works. There is a shift in the way people are working, what they are working on and whom they are working for. We are lucky to have a birds-eye view of the entire situation. Let’s use this information to learn, up-skill and be ready for future situations like this. This article is for all those MBA aspirants, HR enthusiasts (like me), “people's” people, MBA students, and professionals. Here's a list of 8 HR online courses that you can pursue to use your time productively during this lockdown and be well prepared for the future. Read on to know more.

Team InsideIIM07 Apr 2020

Online Courses To Pursue In This Lockdown To Improve Your Profile

Well, we all are enjoying our lockdown period while few might have got bored. But as for CAT 2020 or any other management exams aspirant, this might be the best time to invest in studying, working on their hobbies or improving one’s profile. Few of them might have already been started with these things. During this period I was thinking about how I can improve my profile over a year or before exams so that this will help me during my college interviews & also get some fair knowledge on which specialization I should choose for my masters.

Priyesh Walunj02 Apr 2020

Skills, Qualities Of A Product Manager Decoded Ft. PMs From Flipkart, Uber, Amazon, Microsoft

Do you want to become a product manager? Do you wonder what a product manager actually does? What kind of background does a PM need to have? Must a product manager be an engineer? If these are some of the questions on your mind, check out this video featuring Harshil Adesara (Senior Product Manager at Flipkart, Ex Intuit, Ex Entrepreneur, IIM Indore Alum), Anusha Jayanti (Group Product Manager at Flipkart, Ex Dexetra, IIM Indore Alum), Anuraag Gupta (Senior Product Manager ar Microsoft, Ex Directi, ISB Alum) and Divya Anand (Senior Product Manager at Uber, Ex Amazon & HT Media, Published Author, SP Jain Alum, UCB Alum). Find out how a product manager thinks.

Team InsideIIM31 Mar 2020

10 Online Finance Courses You Can Pursue During The Lockdown

We are currently in a state of lockdown. So are other states, countries, etc. With the coronavirus influenced pandemic, schools and colleges seem to have shut their doors. As an MBA aspirant or student, you must be intimately familiar with the repercussions of this lockdown. Your b-school GD-WAT-PIs, summer internships and jobs are all indefinitely delayed in many cases. While the situation looks bleak, there’s also a silver lining. You have the ability to utilise this time to learn a new skill or fine-tune your old ones. So how do you do that? One option is taking an online course. To help you along, today we list down a few online finance courses that you can pursue to use your time more productively. From personal finance to financial modeling, find a little something for your expertise level here. So read on!

Upasna Doshi31 Mar 2020

Risk & Return Explained | Learning IRL By ABGLP

Interested in a finance career? Whether you aspire to become an investment banker, a consultant or play the markets game, you need to have really strong basics. A grounding in accounting and finance basics is a pre-requisite for most of the coveted finance jobs out there after all. If you're a CA, CFA (candidate too) or a commerce student, you probably know this stuff. But for the rest of us mere mortals, far removed from the world of finance jargon, these concepts are like Greek & Latin. So today, we take a few minutes to deconstruct a basic finance concept for you. Check out this explanation on how the concepts of Risk & Return work and brush up on your basics today!

InsideIIM Career Services07 Mar 2020

Important Macro Economics Concepts For Your Interviews

For an MBA interview, it is important for one to be abreast with various terms and concepts related to Economics. In the previous article, we have looked at important concepts related to Microeconomics. In this article, we will be looking at the concepts related to Macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is the branch of economics that studies how an overall economy functions on a large scale. Let us start by looking at how the health of a country's economy is measured.

Ashi Jain04 Mar 2020

The Rules Of Financial Planning Deconstructed | Learning IRL By ABGLP

If finance is your dream domain, and you see yourself as a future consultant, banker or investor, you need to first start small. You need to keep in mind world economy, politics, popular trade trends, et al. in order to successfully build a career in the world of finance. Take the Coronavirus for example. It has dealt a blow to international trade as well global companies operating out of China. International trends have a pesky way of affecting the smallest individual. Which means, in order to truly understand the concepts of finance, you need to know the basic tenets of personal finance and investments too. Which is why, in this month's version of Aliensplained, aliens Flub and Perp talk about an important concept that you must know during summer internship interviews (and life!), the concept of financial planning. In association with ABGLP, as a part of the Learning #IRL series, we bring you a fresh concept comic strip - Aliensplained.

Team InsideIIM22 Feb 2020