43% of India's brightest minds will NOT Vote : InsideIIM Lok Sabha Opinion Poll Survey Results
There are two things we love at InsideIIM.
There are two things we love at InsideIIM.
My mother is an artist. She paints, sews, carves, crochets and does all kinds of very creative things that, as a child, I used to look up to with eyes of awe. I wanted to become as adept at all things artistic as she is. But, the day I picked up a crochet needle (or whatever that instrument is called!) for the first time, I knew that the particular gene has skipped a generation. Never mind, life still went on for me. I studied, scored good marks, studied more, scored better marks and kept adding to the length and dimensions of my CV. Later in my life I started drama, painting and writing as proxies to the creative legacy of my mother but neither could I be as good as she was, nor a natural as some around me were. I always wondered whether it was realistically possible to be equally good in studies as in arts. Anyways, life has its own ways, those highly creative people went to schools of art that hardly anyone ever hears about while I went to schools that makes everyone take a note and this complex of mine (about not being naturally creative) was covered up by a certain superiority complex.
People, don’t sulk. I know it’s a tedious job for professionals (majority, exceptions are always there) to take in new jargon and that too a financial one, in an already overcrowded market, creates a higher degree of pain. But don’t worry, I will try my best to simply the noun which making the rounds of late. I will be elucidating it in a questionnaire/FAQ format, so that an uncluttered view is generated which will help the mango people to comprehend better.
FMS is still smarting under perceived slights from InsideIIM last year. They said they have taken a unanimous decision not to have any relationship with InsideIIM. They said that in our reporting, we have been biased against FMS and favoured IIM L and XLRI. We would like to once again reiterate that we are not biased in favour of any B school. Our placement reports always focus on the achievements and the positive aspects of the placement season. Our other research like alumni reports also does not discriminate against B schools. Our portal sees more enthusiastic participation from some B schools than others, but that is not in our hands. We certainly hope they would change their mind at some point, and start co-operating with us. Without their co-operation, we are left with little option but to look for information from public sources. We introduce this report with the caveat that the data is not verified, and readers are requested to act with caution while making decisions based on this information.
In the first week of April, we thought we had broken the deadlock with the JBIMS Placement Committee. However, we are back to square one. JBIMS sent us data but it had names of companies that didn't recruit but may have 'participated' or 'confirmed participation'. We do not allow those names to be put as this practice is highly misleading. JBIMS says it is against their policy because it spoils relationship with recruiters. That is a very strange logic because - if recruiters were indeed desperate to be part of JBIMS' placement report, they would have actually recruited and made offers. How plausible is it that a company will decide to end/spoil a relationship (if it exists in the first place) with JBIMS because they didn't mention the name of the company in their report on insideiim even though they haven't make a single offer?
Time flies and it flies like anything. The Second Batch of IIM Udaipur, the Class of 2014 is slated to graduate this month with the convocation ceremony to be held on 31st March, 2014. The students who have been the driving force of the academics and the culture of IIMU for two years would be passing out from their Alma Mater and will be joining the leagues of brilliant managers in the corporate world. The students departing from the institute will definitely be missed and to part them on a cheering note, the Batch of 2013-15, PGP-1 students joined hands to give them a grand farewell on 12th March, 2014.
What motivates one for a corporate job? I asked myself introspecting over my years passed in engineering college. Lucrative job, attractive salary, luxurious life and the respect in the society and among the peers are some to count. Perhaps these are the parameters deemed to lead a happy life. But the question is if happiness is mere a function of these factors. Let’s analyze the degree of veracity it holds.