‘May’ is a month I hate. It brings forth a day in life that I am never prepared to face. ‘Results ’! That day of your life, when your fate is in the hands of ‘Sharmaji ke Bete.’ I can bet on it that there was a part of our school and college life that we all hated; it was known as ‘Study.’ Academics as the grammar Nazis around here might coin it. But was there ever an escape plan possible? Does a life without academics exist?
Management Trainee programs are by far the most tailor-made jobs, especially for MBA freshers. There might be quite a few companies on campus which offer MT roles, but naturally, the quality of the program varies due to the resources at the organizations’ disposal and its growth stage. The main identifiable markers of most MT Programs are:
AB InBev is the world’s largest beer brewer & the second-largest in India and their mission is to bring people together for a better world. THE BUD CHALLENGE – an inter B-School business challenge allows students from all specializations to compete and showcase their brilliant ideas to help solve key business challenges spanning across the domains of Marketing, Strategy & Sustainability.
There comes a time in your life when you are confused about what you are doing. About how the effort vector is not adding up in the right direction. You might be an engineering student looking for that management flair in your life, a person lost in a job that you don't find interesting, someone looking forward to an exciting experience which also adds value to your skillset or whatnot. IIM Calcutta is the right fit for every single one of you. Want to know more about life in IIM C? Read this article to know more.
Summer placements can be quite stressful for students like you. Once the placement interviews begin, the environment suddenly becomes tense. How do you crack your interviews? What do you do during the GD round? How can you get a good summer placement? Everyone wants to get accepted into a top company, and everyone wants to know what it takes to get into one. The stress doesn’t end there. Once inside, how do you manage to bag a Pre Placement Offer (PPO), or a Pre Placement Interview (PPI)? Get tips on cracking your summer internship interviews in this video featuring Nimish Puri, IIM K student who bagged a PPI from Flipkart.
Richard Adams once wrote, “You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there, you find it’s not that simple”. There's this point that inevitably arrives during that part of our MBA when it feels like you don't know what the future holds, but at the immediate present, everything is just right. That oblivion doesn’t extend towards life after MBA, and even though we are aware of it, we just don't realise what it means in its details. The intent of this story isn't to portray a world of negativity outside after your MBA, but to show you the thoughts that didn't occur to me then, but do now.
This is not a story about my CAT prep. There are plenty of stories out there, and the template they lay out is good enough. To get into an IIM, you really need to just execute your CAT preparation the right way.
The only good thing about being average is that you're as close to the top as far you're from the bottom!
‘May’ is a month I hate. It brings forth a day in life that I am never prepared to face. ‘Results ’! That day of your life, when your fate is in the hands of ‘Sharmaji ke Bete.’ I can bet on it that there was a part of our school and college life that we all hated; it was known as ‘Study.’ Academics as the grammar Nazis around here might coin it. But was there ever an escape plan possible? Does a life without academics exist?
Management Trainee programs are by far the most tailor-made jobs, especially for MBA freshers. There might be quite a few companies on campus which offer MT roles, but naturally, the quality of the program varies due to the resources at the organizations’ disposal and its growth stage. The main identifiable markers of most MT Programs are:
AB InBev is the world’s largest beer brewer & the second-largest in India and their mission is to bring people together for a better world. THE BUD CHALLENGE – an inter B-School business challenge allows students from all specializations to compete and showcase their brilliant ideas to help solve key business challenges spanning across the domains of Marketing, Strategy & Sustainability.
There comes a time in your life when you are confused about what you are doing. About how the effort vector is not adding up in the right direction. You might be an engineering student looking for that management flair in your life, a person lost in a job that you don't find interesting, someone looking forward to an exciting experience which also adds value to your skillset or whatnot. IIM Calcutta is the right fit for every single one of you. Want to know more about life in IIM C? Read this article to know more.
Summer placements can be quite stressful for students like you. Once the placement interviews begin, the environment suddenly becomes tense. How do you crack your interviews? What do you do during the GD round? How can you get a good summer placement? Everyone wants to get accepted into a top company, and everyone wants to know what it takes to get into one. The stress doesn’t end there. Once inside, how do you manage to bag a Pre Placement Offer (PPO), or a Pre Placement Interview (PPI)? Get tips on cracking your summer internship interviews in this video featuring Nimish Puri, IIM K student who bagged a PPI from Flipkart.
Richard Adams once wrote, “You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there, you find it’s not that simple”. There's this point that inevitably arrives during that part of our MBA when it feels like you don't know what the future holds, but at the immediate present, everything is just right. That oblivion doesn’t extend towards life after MBA, and even though we are aware of it, we just don't realise what it means in its details. The intent of this story isn't to portray a world of negativity outside after your MBA, but to show you the thoughts that didn't occur to me then, but do now.
This is not a story about my CAT prep. There are plenty of stories out there, and the template they lay out is good enough. To get into an IIM, you really need to just execute your CAT preparation the right way.
The only good thing about being average is that you're as close to the top as far you're from the bottom!
