Professional Etiquette At Work
This post is part of a bi-monthly series bought to you by Ayushi Mona for InsideIIM called 'Headstart'. This is the fifth post in the early career series.
This post is part of a bi-monthly series bought to you by Ayushi Mona for InsideIIM called 'Headstart'. This is the fifth post in the early career series.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) recently completed summer placements for its Flagship MBA (IB) Programme, batch of 2020-22 with the largest-ever batch of 401 students placed across 123 companies including 46 new recruiters with an average stipend of 1.61 Lakhs for two months, while the median stipend stood at 1.50 Lakhs. IIFT managed to retain the highest stipend of 3.2 lacs for two months despite a 20% increase in batch size compared to last year. The top 100 students of the batch received an average stipend of 2.37 lakhs for two months with 70% of the batch receiving a six-figure stipend.
We've been watching men pave their way to corporate success for years now. But this is only one part of the story. What goes into building a corporate career if you're in the other half of the population? Is the corporate experience different for an Indian woman from what it is for a man? What are things a woman must know before stepping into your post-MBA corporate job? We've invited four women professionals from four different domains to talk about all this and more in a live video today 7 PM on the InsideIIM Youtube Channel. Not only would they share their experiences and learnings with you but also take up your own questions during the live. Guest Profiles: Tanya Naik - Ex - Citibank, Paypal | Finance Anusha Rani - Ex - TCS, HUL, TAS | Sales & Marketing Harshita Choudhary - Ex - Cadbury, Colgate, Nestle | Human Resource Ankita Rajan - Ex Encompass, Seventy Media | Operations Join Us For The Live Here
Today's news bulletin is dedicated to highlights the most recent happenings in the fields of Marketing, Finance, and Operations. We will be discussing the recent move by Google to stop selling user-targeted ads and how will this impact the digital ad industry. Further, we will discuss the impact of PLI schemes for MSMEs and manufacturing sectors and will also touch upon the acquisition of DHFL by the Piramal group. We shall look at the implications of each of the topics in detail. Read on to find out!
In another short clip from the Varun Sridhar interview of CXO Central we did a couple of weeks back, Varun talks about the importance of investing and how people in India are everything, but good investors. Varun talks about the importance of knowing the world of finance and how you can arm yourself with the right financial education and multiply your earnings. He further talks about how he is trying to empower the Indian investors and why this is the best time to invest in India. All this and a lot more in this interesting clip, where the PayTM Money CEO and MD, Varun Sridhar decodes the fallacy of investing in India.
The past week has had some interesting headlines from the world of MBA and business. In today's episode of News From The World of MBA, we will talk about placements at IIM Ahmedabad and MDI Gurgaon, an interesting new program that has begun in Australia, and a survey that has revealed what women really think of gender bias at the workplace. So let's dive in!
IIM Shillong has successfully completed its summer placements for the 2020-22 batch, the largest batch in the institute's history with 250 students. The highest stipend was INR 3.00 lakhs, and the average stipend stood at INR 1.38 lakhs for two months, which witnessed an upward movement of 5% from last year. The top 20% and top 50% of the batch secured an average stipend of INR 2.38 lakhs and INR 2.11 lakhs, respectively. A whopping 56% of the batch secured a 6-digit stipend, and the average stipend of the top 50% of the batch witnessed an increase of 27%. The summer placement season at IIM Shillong witnessed participation from 70 recruiters, spanning across several domains such as Consulting & Strategy, Finance, General Management, Human Resources, IT & Analytics, Operations, and Sales & Marketing. Sales & Marketing continued to be the most sought-after domain this year, with 40% of the total offers made to the participants, closely followed by Consulting & Strategy. The number of offers in the General Management and HR & Operations domains saw an enormous increase of 71% and 90%, respectively. Further details will be shared in the institute's official placement report, which will be released shortly.
We are thrilled to bring to you the first episode of India's Most Inspiring Women Managers with Shailaja Gupta. Shailaja is currently working at Stride Pharma in the CEO's office as the Analytics Manager to spearhead digital transformation in the company. She is an alum of IIM Indore where she was in the top 5 percentile of the batch academically. Her wide array of experiences span across Project Management, Team handling, Project Execution, Strategy, Consulting and Alliances & Partnerships for analytics projects.