IIM Ahmedabad has started their Summer Placement Process on 6th November and the process will go on till 12th November, 2017. IIM Ahmedabad follows a cluster cohort placement process wherein companies offering similar profiles are grouped into cohorts, and several cohorts are invited to the campus in a particular cluster. The schedule for placements this year is as follows:
“I don’t know. We apologise and will get back to you.” Those words would have gotten me out of the most challenging and intense presentation I have ever given. The 'clients' even walked out during the presentation. But for some reason, I couldn’t bring myself to say them. Honestly, they barely even crossed my mind. In trying to save the presentation, I caught myself running in quicksand with every response digging us slightly deeper. Now, you may have noticed the word 'clients' was in inverted commas. Fortunately, this entire presentation was part of Capgemini’s Consulting Skills Workshop set up to prevent exactly something like this from happening when the stakes were higher. It was the culmination of 3 intense days (and a couple of weeks of preparation) which honed our presentation skills and client facing ability.
I updated my LinkedIn profile that I’m interning at National Stock Exchange (NSE). My friends called me, confused, and asked how can I get an internship in the first semester itself? Don’t I have classes to attend? With a sense of pride, I then explained to them what Fieldwork Internship is.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.”
Once Arjuna asked Krishna: ‘Why Karna is known to be more liberal than me?’
An organisation cannot be successful without good Human Resources. HRM as a subject is the fairly new concept which evolved in early 18th century but HR has been omnipresent ever since the humans came into existence.
In a b-school you are expected to work in groups, this is done to ensure that you get a real taste of the world post M.B.A, and to develop your teamwork skills. Thus starts from day one the process of making the best group, the ideal fit for your intellectual skills and work-ethic, sadly this group is seldom found. There are several types of people in these groups broadly falling in the below-mentioned categories -
