In addressing the low employability rate of north east youth, the Indian Institute of Management Shillong in collaboration with HCL Info Systems Ltd. organized a Round Table Discussion with the North East States’ Representatives on the 21st September 2011 at Brahmaputra Ashok Hotel, Guwahati. Bureaucrats, academicians, industrialists, and other government officials attended the programme. Interestingly, the programme had representatives from all the seven states of north east, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Prof Ashoke Dutta, Director, IIM Shillong gave the welcome address followed by a speech by the President and COO of HCL Infosystems Ltd., Shri. J. V. Ramamurthy. The Chairman BOG, IIM Shillong, Shri. R. N. Datta who was present in the programme addressed the house. The discussion was presided by Shri. R. P. Agrawal, Chairman, IIT Board of Governors and Ex. Secretary of MHRD, Government of India

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Choosing a career is important. But in case you feel like switching job functions/sectoral roles, how will you make the transition into a new industry and a new role?
Keep these things in mind as you embark on your new career path:

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From winning battles to making successful careers, planning is essential for the success of any event. Planning can have varied connotations - the managerial function of planning, career planning, succession planning, life planning or simply mapping your day. This article will deal with the basics of personal planning to reach your short term personal and professional goals. The same rules can be applied to achieve various long-term objectives too.

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The written ability test or the written evaluation seems to have come to find a permanent place in the selection process of most of the IIMs and other institutes like the FMS, IIFT etc.  XLRI and IIFT had essay as part of their selection process for a long time now. In some cases institutes have not entirely scrapped the GD process but have introduced the essay writing or the written ability test as an additional round in the selection for the management programmes. Institutes like the IIM A and B have scrapped the G D process from their selection cycle. Among the IIMs, IIM A was the first institute to set the trend to have a written evaluation instead of the Group discussion. According to their recently released admission policy document the new selection criteria would involve a personal interview and points based on the written test and the academic background of the student.

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Amity Institute of Telecom Technology and Management recently conducted an orientation programme for MBA - Telecommunication Management students. As a part of orientation programme for the new entrants, a guest lecture session was organised by industry experts on "Industry Expectations from young Professionals".

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The earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, revolutions in North Africa and the Mid-East, terrorist attacks—it is an unfortunate but stark reality that in today’s business environment there are ample examples of crises and the necessity of effective crisis management.

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'Time and tide waits for no man' and 'Time is money' are well known phrases referred to by people when they have to explain the importance of time especially in today's world. Each of us has 24 hours in a day with 365 days in a year and so we are always pressed for time when it comes to work or studies. How do we make the most of it? The answer lies in 'effective time management'. Who needs it? All of us do and not just managers/to be managers/students. It is critical however in management. If you happen to be an aspirant preparing for the coming onslaught of entrance exams then time is definitely not on your hands. Time management therefore becomes an important skill that needs to be cultivated early on. Why do we say cultivated? Because time management is a well learned and practised habit that is acquired after constant application and it requires a lot of restraint and discipline. Nobody is born with it

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... says Vikram Pandit, CEO, Citigroup Inc who recently addressed America’s future financial leaders to impart some lessons he has learned. He said that over the last two years, he has also received great education, faced crises and made decisions where most were very difficult, during his talk to University of Pennsylvania ’s Wharton School ’s graduating business students. He said he had to live the American economy and global economics in order to learn more. He told the students that the learning experience was not all fun.

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The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore played host to the first South Asian Youth Conference(SAYC) 2011 organised by the Blue Ribbon Movement team in association with Peace Child International and many other corporate partners and NGOs. The Conference saw a confluence of young entrepreneurial minds from the different SAARC countries with a total of 120 delegates. SAYC is an attempt or a precursor to the Rescue Mission Planet Earth 2012(Rio+20) a global summit to be hosted in Rio de Janeiro.

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Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs (WEP) has announced the 2011 winners of the Wharton Venture Award which is dedicated to financially supporting Wharton undergraduate juniors and first-year MBA students so they can continue development of their venture full-time over the summer in lieu of a traditional internship. A committee consisting of alumni venture capitalists and entrepreneurs bestowed four awards of $ 10,000 each.

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Any MBA aspirant will agree that one of the most important reasons for taking up an MBA is a dream job in a dream company. While your B-school and the MBA experience itself will certainly propel your career upwards, ensure that you project a personal image that your prospective company finds irresistible.

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It is said “Experience is the best teacher”, and studying abroad in a foreign location is an experience of a lifetime. It can be an enriching and eye-opening experience, where learning goes beyond classroom walls.

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A diverse MBA class is a perfect learning environment as it has students with different cultural, personal, and professional backgrounds.

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An expression, word, or phrase usually presumed to be figures of speech contradicting the principle of compositionality. When a speaker uses an idiom, the listener might mistake its actual meaning, if he or she has not heard this figure of speech before. It can also mean an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.

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Australian excellence in education and the opportunity to build global careers through Australian education was showcased at the Australian Education Fair organised as part of the “Australian Education Excellence Showcase 2011” education fair series in Mumbai recently. Organised by the Australian government, the education fair in India showcased the quality, innovation and leadership of Australian education and also drove away the fears about security, which was a major issue for Indian students.

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What is happening these days in the financial markets is by no means new or unheard of. It has happened before and is likely to repeat itself again in another few decades. Yet, the world and every adult individual in it, is appalled at the sheer ease with which the world’s financial house of cards is crumbling. At a speed.

But what exactly is happening? Everyone knows banks are falling down, deposits are no longer ‘safe’ as banks holding them go down themselves, high-flying professionals are scared of losing jobs, companies are cutting spends in anticipation of a drop in business, asset classes across the board are jumping up and down giving ‘volatility’ a new meaning. But what exactly has happened? Not many people understand. But many wish to understand how this has come about, and whether it is likely to repeat itself by sheer logic of cyclicity

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The terms IT, ITES, BPO and Software are used so flippantly these days that it is easy to mistake one type of company for the other or treat IT as a big jump from where one can choose careers. In the January issue, we saw the different positions that one can expect in an IT company as an MBA. This time around, let’s take a walk around the various flavours of technology companies that are available - and there are many of these.

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For various people the word ‘Oil’ evokes different feelings. For some it evokes a pinch in the pocket at the thought of the petrol they fill in their cars. For some, it means the rising cost of vegetable in the street owing to rising cost of transport of the same. For others, it brings up the word ‘cartel’ and ‘OPEC’ in the same sentence. And for some, it simply implies Arabs in turbans living in lavish oil-money-funded palaces.

Every few days we read something or the other related to Oil and it affects us in some or the other way. Some times we blame the government, which in turn blames the Middle East, who in turn blame America! All in all, the average reader is more often than not confused as to what exactly goes on in the world of OIL and how it all pans out and ends up affecting all our lives in so many ways. This article will hopefully set some fundamentals straight and help everyone understand the basics.

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For beginners, a Mutual Fund is an organisation where individual investors pool in their savings and channel them directly into the financial markets. As simple as this may seem, it yields a variety of investment options, ranging from government bonds to technology stocks. Investing in the stock markets is not an easy task, especially if you don’t have the time to go about identifying, researching and monitoring investments. Investors with limited investment means need to look out for professional help and advice. This is exactly where mutual funds come in. A mutual fund is like a place where investors with similar financial goals pool in their money, hire a professional manager to invest that money and monitor the investments...

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