Most often, when we hear success stories of people-we get inspired. It seems the protagonists of these stories work hard, get into their dream b-school and waltz under the sunlight.
Do you want to step out of a b-school and straight into one of the top talent management programs in India? Do you want to be felicitated by industry stalwarts on national TV?
ABC Consultants. Yes, you heard me right. It’s the premier placement agency in the country and it does exactly what the IIMs of the country do! Under the garb of education, our premier B-Schools have become nothing short of placement agencies! From the moment you get the coveted admission letter to the moment when you step on the dais with Mr. Modi to receive your Diploma (Read: Farzi Education Certificate), the only thing you are ever asked is “Placement hogai?” Not one time will someone ask you “What did you study there? What did you learn? How did the journey help you grow as in individual? What values did you imbibe in yourself? Nope! Sorry, sir. The purpose of education at supposed premier b-schools of your GREAT nation is not imparting knowledge, it's definitely not teaching a human being to be Humane and it is cent percent not teaching him to be humble. The purpose is to land a good job. And given that being the goal, let us then compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges! Let us now do simple math:
In the days after CAT, I read a lot of nonfiction to cover up my opinions with relevant facts. Facts, which were useless, when all you needed was to convince them of your convictions by answering the same question repeatedly.
“If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.” I can’t seem to agree more with this quote of Randy Pausch except for the fact that sometimes it’s not just confined to two, but can very well be many, for both cultures and worlds! There are not many real – life examples of this but the foreign exchange program of a b-school that typically takes place during the term 5 of any two-year MBA course.
Customer co-creation is one of the building blocks of the interactive, participatory and collaborative information distribution web model ‘Web 2.0’, which is being exhaustively used by marketing firms to empower their consumers to share their personalised experiences on the web and hence, democratizing the online content and harnessing the need for social affiliation among them. This CRM strategy allows the end-users to actively research, compare and review products and services as part of firm’s business model and enables both the positive and negative customer experiences to be shared on the public forum as a ‘social proof’. Not only this co-creation leverages the customer engagement by providing more customised services but also taps the users’ creativity & feedback for increasing purchase or consumption rate.
We, the E.L.I.T.E. Management Batch of 2017, entered the Capgemini Hyderabad Campus on 12th June 2017 to be a part of the inaugural Capgemini E.L.I.T.E. General Management Program – a multidimensional, leadership journey with rotations across a variety of high value assignments. The nineteen of us found ourselves welcomed into the organisation and the program with a meticulously designed and smoothly executed on-boarding program peppered with insightful interactions with Capgemini’s senior leaders.
In a few weeks’ time, resume verifications, placement preparations and panicking for the same will start. You may need to compose video resumes for certain Consulting and General Management profiles. In this story, I will talk about what your prospective employer looks for and how are you to meet those expectations.
Most often, when we hear success stories of people-we get inspired. It seems the protagonists of these stories work hard, get into their dream b-school and waltz under the sunlight.
Do you want to step out of a b-school and straight into one of the top talent management programs in India? Do you want to be felicitated by industry stalwarts on national TV?
ABC Consultants. Yes, you heard me right. It’s the premier placement agency in the country and it does exactly what the IIMs of the country do! Under the garb of education, our premier B-Schools have become nothing short of placement agencies! From the moment you get the coveted admission letter to the moment when you step on the dais with Mr. Modi to receive your Diploma (Read: Farzi Education Certificate), the only thing you are ever asked is “Placement hogai?” Not one time will someone ask you “What did you study there? What did you learn? How did the journey help you grow as in individual? What values did you imbibe in yourself? Nope! Sorry, sir. The purpose of education at supposed premier b-schools of your GREAT nation is not imparting knowledge, it's definitely not teaching a human being to be Humane and it is cent percent not teaching him to be humble. The purpose is to land a good job. And given that being the goal, let us then compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges! Let us now do simple math:
In the days after CAT, I read a lot of nonfiction to cover up my opinions with relevant facts. Facts, which were useless, when all you needed was to convince them of your convictions by answering the same question repeatedly.
“If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.” I can’t seem to agree more with this quote of Randy Pausch except for the fact that sometimes it’s not just confined to two, but can very well be many, for both cultures and worlds! There are not many real – life examples of this but the foreign exchange program of a b-school that typically takes place during the term 5 of any two-year MBA course.
Customer co-creation is one of the building blocks of the interactive, participatory and collaborative information distribution web model ‘Web 2.0’, which is being exhaustively used by marketing firms to empower their consumers to share their personalised experiences on the web and hence, democratizing the online content and harnessing the need for social affiliation among them. This CRM strategy allows the end-users to actively research, compare and review products and services as part of firm’s business model and enables both the positive and negative customer experiences to be shared on the public forum as a ‘social proof’. Not only this co-creation leverages the customer engagement by providing more customised services but also taps the users’ creativity & feedback for increasing purchase or consumption rate.
We, the E.L.I.T.E. Management Batch of 2017, entered the Capgemini Hyderabad Campus on 12th June 2017 to be a part of the inaugural Capgemini E.L.I.T.E. General Management Program – a multidimensional, leadership journey with rotations across a variety of high value assignments. The nineteen of us found ourselves welcomed into the organisation and the program with a meticulously designed and smoothly executed on-boarding program peppered with insightful interactions with Capgemini’s senior leaders.
In a few weeks’ time, resume verifications, placement preparations and panicking for the same will start. You may need to compose video resumes for certain Consulting and General Management profiles. In this story, I will talk about what your prospective employer looks for and how are you to meet those expectations.
