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What To Do If You Don't Get A Company Of Your Choice

While it is true that the best companies come to b-schools for summer and final placements, it is also true that some of the best and motivated students come to these colleges. While ambition and competition is a good thing, it does invariably result in many people missing out on their company or sector of choice. Given that an MBA is one of the few sure shot chances of changing sectors or applying to a few select jobs, a lot is at stake for students. Not to say anything about the very high fees. So how do you deal with an inability to land in your preferred company during summer placements?

Niranjan Jha23 Nov 2018

An Open Letter To A Younger Me - From An IIM Grad To An MBA Aspirant

Hey buddy, how are you?

karan kakkar23 Nov 2018

'People Behind The MBA' - Prof. Sankalp Pratap, IIM Trichy

The Greek philosopher Aristotle once said “Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach”.

Apurva Sharma22 Nov 2018

Why Campus Placements Aren't Always Happily-Ever-After

Life is unfair: if you are part of the 1.3 billion Indians who hustle it out everyday in this highly overcrowded and competitive country, you must have heard these 3 words a million times. You know it’s true. But in the same breath as life-is-unfair, you are sold a bunch of lies about how to succeed at the game of life.

Anonymous Writer22 Nov 2018

Strategies To Equip Yourself With While Preparing For CAT - Raghav Panchanathan, IFMR GSB

I got 90.90 percentile in the Common Aptitude Test in 2017 and that was the result of the hard work and the effort I had put in in the months leading up to the exam. CAT is not something that can be taken lightly and it requires some serious amount of preparation. Only people who are really keen on it will take it up and try to do well in it.

IFMR Graduate School Of Business, Krea University21 Nov 2018

Things To Keep In Mind On The Day Before CAT

It is that time of the year again. The most dreaded and the most important entrance is just a few days away. We have all been there. Those days were an experience of a lifetime. That is why we thought that it would be the right time for us to help the aspirants with some tips on how to tackle these stressful days with a special focus on the last day. We understand that this will turn out to be an important time of your MBA journey and you would probably want to make the most of it. But it is also important to enter that hall with the right frame of mind.

IIM Rohtak21 Nov 2018

On Career Options After An MBA

An MBA can help you pick the required skill set. What is that skill set? Depends on whatever you want it to be. Your options range from opening a startup to managing a sports team to looking at a Bloomberg Terminal for the foreseeable future and earning huge trading commissions. Let’s look a brief picture of various domains and the work you will be expected to do. However, this is not an exhaustive list and you should feel free to start that band and take the stage by fire.

Vani Vivek21 Nov 2018

Will Kunal Be Able To Bell The CAT?

Behind every successful IIM story, there are countless hours of struggle. Here, we have ANKUR PARMAR, an alumnus of IIT BHU and IIM Kozhikode share the story of ‘Kunal’, his friend who appeared for CAT last year. Will Kunal be able to bell the CAT? Read on to find out.

Akshaykumar Sirsalewala21 Nov 2018