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10 Certifications To Be Job Ready In The Post COVID 19 Economy

Deferred internships and PPOs, as well as delayed college terms, mean you have plenty of time to learn something. All and sundry have been telling you to upskill yourself in this COVID 19 influenced lockdown. And that is a great way to spend your time right now, thanks to coronavirus. But here’s the thing. Pursuing random courses may not really help you. What will add value to your CV is pursuing courses in relation to your future career or job profile. Whether it is BFSI or consulting you wish to work in, or sales and marketing, or operations and supply chain management, or HRM, there are some basic skills you can gain through online certifications that can help you show a strong profile. So what are these courses and certification and why should you pursue them? Find out in this article.

Team InsideIIM24 May 2020

To Be Or Not To Be A Consultant Ft. Leaders From BCG. McKinsey, Bain

What does it take to work in some of the most coveted consulting roles in India and the world today? How does a successful consultant think? What makes a great consulting career? If you're hoping to become a consultant in the future, you probably have these questions. Here's some answers from people who have been there and done that. Featuring Seema Bansal (Director - Social Impact Practice, India & Asia Pacific at BCG,) Anirudh Tara (MD & Partner at BCG,) Tejas Dave (Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co.,) this video gives a peek into the highly desirable consultant lifestyle and mindset. Don't forget to check it out!

Team InsideIIM23 Mar 2020

Commonly Asked PI Questions And How To Answer Them

Do you know what will be the most recurring thing you’ll face during b-school admissions and after? Interviews. PIs. Yup! Be it b-school admission interviews, placement interviews or more job interviews in the future, you’re going to face personal interviews one way or the other all your life. But here’s the catch - your interviewers will be interviewing hundreds if not thousands of people at once. So how do you stand out? How do you make sure that you are noticed, and that for the right reasons? First step - prepare and fine-tune your interview questions with model answers. In order to help you prepare, here’s a compilation of likely interview questions and how you can best answer them. Best of luck!

Team InsideIIM03 Mar 2020

Launch Of The XUV 300 Was My Most Exciting Project Ft. Akshay Gupta, XLRI | Miracles With Mahindra

Imagine working in a company wherein less than 5 years you get to be in an HR role, a sales, and marketing role and move to a strategy role. All of this at the very early stage of your career! A taste of different worlds while being at the same organization and learning the nuances of the overall business step by step! This is exactly what XLRI Jamshedpur graduate Akshay Gupta got after joining Mahindra. In today's video, we will meet this miracle of Mahindra, who did not only pick the business fast but worked towards developing his ‘General Management’ capabilities.

Career Services Centre13 Feb 2020

The Finance And Accounting Quiz - Learning IRL BY ABGLP

If finance is your future career path, there's some basics you ought to know. Whether you hail from a pure finance or commerce background, or whether you studied one of the arts, like Economics, or if you are an engineer, you'll need to brush up on your finance and accounting basics. Especially if you want to crack personal interviews and get into your dream finance and consulting companies, you need to know these concepts. Which why, here's your chance. Test yourself with The Finance And Accounting Quiz, brought to you by ABGLP.

Team InsideIIM08 Feb 2020

How Henry Ford Pioneered The Assembly Line | Learning IRL By ABGLP

Interested in an Operations and Supply Chain management career? You probably dream of working with new age e-commerce startups or cloud kitchens among others. One of the key aspects of supply chain and operations management includes production. Before a product reaches the logistics arm of the company, before it is even supplied to distributors, it has to be manufactured. Did you know that the economics of scale - mass production - that companies enjoy today are a direct result of the industrial revolution? And one such example of a process that we use even today in modern industry refers to the Assembly Line. Check out this video to find out what this means and brush up on a basic Ops & Supply Chain Management concept today!

InsideIIM Career Services01 Feb 2020

From Product Manager At Reliance Jio To AVP At CarWale | An IIM A Alumni's Journey

We hear about these mysterious creatures called product managers every now and then. We know they exist, and we aspire to be one of them. But we have no idea who they are and what they do? And forget reading about them in the b-school. In this interview, we were able to catch hold of one such evolved being. His name is Gautam Chaudhari. He started his journey in IIM Ahmedabad (Batch of 2011-13). His first job was with Reliance Jio, where he was the Product Manager of Jio Chat. After the launch of the product, he moved to a growing startup called CarWale. Within his second project, he got promoted to Associate Vice President (Product). He is now a team-lead of 7+ product managers and guides them to a successful future. Read about his full story here.

Team InsideIIM18 Jan 2020

Into Supply Chain And Operations? Prove It - Take This Quiz

If you're thinking of building a lucrative career in the next 5-10 years, one of the best options you have is working in the supply chain and logistics side of e-commerce companies. In fact, the Indian warehousing and logistic market received around $3.4 Bn of institutional capital between January 2014 - January 2018. With more and more companies choosing to go digital, the requirements of these logistics companies too have expanded. But are you ready to be a part of this revolution? If you too want to join the supply chain and operations industry in the near future, you need to know your basics. Here's the chance to prove how well you know your basics. Test yourself with The New Operations & Supply Chain Quiz, brought to you by ABGLP.

Team InsideIIM17 Jan 2020