Placement Preparation

How I Got Into HUL & Colgate Palmolive From IIM Lucknow, Ft. Niharika Gupta

A top B-school seat doesn’t always guarantee a stellar career ahead. The struggle to find the best opportunities and learning starts the moment you enter those gates. So, how can you make sure that you get to work with FMCG market leaders like HUL and ITC if you are a sales and marketing enthusiast joining a B-school? What are the routes through which you can get into these marquee companies. What are the risks associated with each stage of the placement process and how can you make sure you ensure a conversion through these opportunities? To talk more about the sales and marketing process at a top b-school, we today have Niharika Gupta, an IIM Lucknow graduate who has interned with HUL and is currently working for Colgate Palmolive.

Team InsideIIM27 May 2021

7 Things You Should Do Before Joining A B-School

Congratulations on making it to the B-School of your dreams. When they say that you are up for the two best years of your life, they genuinely mean that. To get you started with the B-School journey, I have listed down 7 key pointers that you could look at before joining a B-School. These tips will not only help you in getting started with your B-School journey but will also help you in preparing for your summer placements.

Samarth Mehta25 May 2021

Virtual Summer Internship Experiences | Ft. HUL, Google, JPMC, TAS, Mahindra

It has been more than a year, and India is still dealing with the pandemic. One of the biggest impacted sectors due to this pandemic is the education sector. Though various new promising ed-tech services have started in the last year which has helped education institutes to continue with their teaching, many students who were supposed to join their internship or job in a physical mode this year are now again forced into working from home due to the second wave of the pandemic. For an MBA student like you who is currently completing his/her summer internship or just joining their job after b-school, it can be a little overwhelming to work from home. Thus we bring you some of the summer internship experiences of your senior batch who had also faced the same issue last year. Read their internship experiences and learn from them on how to adapt yourself to the situation and how you can make the best of it.

Team InsideIIM16 May 2021

9 Tips To Get A Job Off-Campus

If you are an engineer in India, chances are that you are one of them

Team InsideIIM13 May 2021

Domain Specific MBA vs Regular MBA ft. WeSchool

From healthcare to rural marketing to media and entertainment, management has spread its wings to diverse sectors and there are very few institutes that provide all of it under one roof. In this episode, we spoke to five different students who pursued their PGDM programmes in different domains from WeSchool or better known as Welingkar Institute of Management. We went to the Mumbai campus of the institute to have a chat with the students there to understand what has been the experience like for them, how difficult the shift had been during the pandemic, what are the kind of offers they have gotten from the final placements and why WeSchool came as the best suitable option for them in terms of selecting a B-school. *This is a promoted feature.

Team InsideIIM27 Apr 2021

Don’t Chase Money When You Are Entering A B-School, Ft. FLAME University Alumni

At InsideIIM, we believe in diversity. Diversity in ideas, culture, approaches and goals. And with that focus we speak to different stakeholders of varied institutes across the country. One such institute that believes in diversity, not only in the kind of students it ropes in, but the kind of education it provides and the companies who come on campus to pick these students up is FLAME University. We spoke to some of the alumni members of the campus, currently working in companies like Bloomberg Quint, Xiaomi India, AppsFlyer and Atos after spending their fruitful and exciting life at their B-school. A fun filled walk in the past for these alumni members, they talk about the education that shaped up their careers, opportunities they got after their B-school, things that they cherish from their B-school days and how networking helped them in the longer run after their B-school ended. All this and a lot more is discussed in this candid conversation with four alumni members of the Flame University in this video. *This is a promoted feature.

Team InsideIIM23 Apr 2021

What Are The Kind Of Roles You Can Expect After Your B-school Degree, Ft. IMI K Alumni

What are the kind of roles that you can get into once you are done with your B-school degree? This comes quite often in the minds of students when they decide on opting for an MBA from any B-school. Your placements and the kind of roles depend on the B-school you are part of and the companies it attracts on campus. But, is it just about getting the right job at the right time, or there is more to it in the 2 year MBA program from a B-school that helps you in developing your career after your first job from campus. To talk about it more, we have three recent alumni members from IMI Kolkata, who spoke in detail about their B-school life, placement frenzy and what kept them going in their respective roles after their graduation. *This is a promoted feature.

Team InsideIIM19 Apr 2021

Summer Internships Are Like First Dates. Learn How To Score An Ace!

Getting into a b-school of choice is a dream for most people and when that dream comes true, it is often accompanied by a sense of accomplishment and relief. But little do the incoming b-school students know that a myriad b-school world awaits them. It is almost like the first date, when you are clueless about what to expect & even if you know, it always surprises you!

Team InsideIIM17 Apr 2021