As the interview rounds come closer, candidates are often left wondering what questions could be shot at them during the interview, how they would tackle questions they wouldn’t know the answers to, and what could possibly be indicators of success during the interview.
If you’re an MBA student hoping to get into an HR career, now is your time. Because HR or Human Resources has never been so interesting or relevant as it is today. Thanks to a global pandemic, organizations had to come up with sure-fire ways to make their employees feel comfortable, safe, and understood. And just like that, the role of HRMs became super important. And of course, who can forget the importance of HR professionals as recruiters! The MBA ecosystem thrives on placements, and HR professionals play a pivotal role. But that’s not all there is to an HR career, is it? If you’re wondering what kind of HR Career paths open to you post MBA in HR, find a list of options and resources here!
One of the major highlights from the week gone by has been the completion of the final placements process at some of India's elite business schools. IIMs Bangalore, Kozhikode and Lucknow completed their placement process for the batch of 2021, while XLRI completed the process in a span of just two days! IIM Ahmedabad and other business schools have also commenced their final placements process. Here's more on this and other headlines in the latest episode of News From The World of MBA.
SPJIMR Mumbai has successfully completed the final placements process for the PGDM batch of 2021. A total of 131 recruiters participated in the final placements process including brands like BCG, Bain & Company, HUL, P&G, Amazon, Flipkart, TAS, and Mahindra GMC amongst others. More than a quarter of the batch received offers equal to or more than ₹30 lakhs a year. Here are the key highlights from the final placements process for the PGDM batch of 2021 at SPJIMR Mumbai.
In 2020, the Fortune magazine published its well-known Fortune 500 rankings of companies, which is essentially "the ultimate business scorecard" of the top five hundred largest American businesses based on their total revenues for their respective fiscal years. The 2020 rankings, which were the 66th edition of the Fortune 500 rankings, showed an interesting observation: the number of women running America's top corporations hit a record-high. Yet, the big picture is less than encouraging, since only 8.0% of the 500 CEOs on Fortune's list were women, which itself was an improvement over the 7.2% figure in 2019. In the week leading up to the international women's day, we explore how many women in India and the US have made it to the top at the world's largest companies.
At InsideIIM, we believe that one day isn’t enough to celebrate women which is why we present #SheInspiresMe Women’s Month — an entire month dedicated to women.
It was 26th April 2019, I was sitting at one of the benches in my huge office campus with a clutter of thoughts that came as bombardment all at once and pushed me to a verge where I had a tear or two in my eyes.
The Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay has successfully completed the summer placements process for its MBA batch of 2020-2022! A total of 41 firms participated in the summer placements process. Top recruiting brands on campus included Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, P&G, Nestle, and Flipkart amongst others. 16 first time recruiters also participated in the summer placements process at SJMSoM, IIT Bombay. Here are the key highlights from the official placement report.
