Flipkart Defers Joining Of IIM Graduates By 6 Months - The Implications
By now, most of you would know that Flipkart has deferred the joining of new hires to December 2016. Graduates from across top schools in India are furious. Placement Committees across IIMs are seething too.
Five Best Practices To Hire Competitive Technical Staff
When managers and human resource professionals are assigned the task to recruit IT personnel, many may be stumped especially in an industry that moves with the speed of advance technology. If they know what to look or in a technical support staff while keeping future perspectives of the organisation, recruiters can tap the appropriate sources and it won’t require a degree in rocket science either.
Summer Placement Report – IIM Visakhapatnam
The Summer Placement process for the PGP class of 2015-17 of the Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam (IIMV) was concluded with 33 companies recruiting 48 participating students from the batch of 49.
Goa Institute of Management | Placements 2016
Goa Institute of Management is proud to have astounding 100% placement for the Class of 2016. This is considerably notable especially because of a rise in the first time recruiters and the faith entrusted by recruiters in the quality of our students.
Final Placements - IIM Ranchi - Class Of 2016
IIM Ranchi, once again, reinforced its status as one of the best B-Schools in the country with the successful completion of the Final Placement process for the batch of 2014-16. This was the 5th year for its flagship PGDM programme and the 3rd year for a one-of-its-kind PGDHRM programme. A total of 171 offers were made on campus by the regular as well as the 35 new recruiters who visited IIMR this year. The number of PPOs and PPIs went up by 40%, indicating an exemplary performance by the students during their summer internships.
Are B-schools Becoming Nothing But Glorified Placement Agencies?
Sunil Kumar, a 25-year old engineer from Pune, is disappointed after a dismal show in CAT 2015, the entrance exam to the top tier business schools in India. He is one of the 200,000 plus aspirants vying for a seat in the top b-schools in this nation of 1.25 billion. When asked why he is inclined to do an MBA, he replies, somewhat irritated- “How else am I going to get a better job, I am stuck in the same profile for 3 years.” This is one of the myriad examples among the Indian youth, to whom a management degree has become an elixir guaranteed to ensure a rewarding career. And somewhere in the maze of these aspirations, the essence of studying management for the love of learning something new is on the way to becoming extinct.







