TTE takes a ride to B-school

KOLKATA: At first sight, Anurag Verma looks like any other fresher on the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) campus. Tall and stout, the 23-year-old melts easily into the crowd of new arrivals. It’s tough to spot him actually, but when one does so, he is a show stealer. For, Anurag is a travelling ticket examiner [...]

India’s first IIT-IIM MP

Came across this news in the Times of India a few days back:
NEW DELHI: It is Indian education system’s ultimate ticket to the corporate boardroom. According to one study, around 50% of all CEOs in India have those magic letters on their CVs — IIT-IIM. But for all their brilliance and achievement in the corporate [...]

The Career Launcher Page on Facebook

Just created today at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Career-Launcher/103990423161
This will be the destination for people to interact with us on Facebook.
Do login to your facebook accounts and fan us.
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IIT, IIM alumni to contest 40 Lok Sabha seats

The Bharatiya Punarnirman Dal (BPD) – a political outfit floated by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumni – will contest the Lok Sabha election from at least 40 seats across the country, a party leader said Saturday.
“We are all geared to contesting the election. Till now, we have only [...]

Tycoons 2009 – India’s Greatest Youth Leadership Hunt

We are excited to announce the launch of Tycoons 2009 – India’s Greatest Youth Leadership Hunt. With over 3,00,000 participants from over 2,000 colleges, spread across 100 cities of India, this event will be the most sought after platform for the promising leaders of tomorrow to engage in a battle of wits, as they compete [...]

Proximity is key to raking it in

Why do schoolteachers get paid a pittance and bankers get million dollar severances? Why do IIM graduates get higher starting salaries than the salaries earned after 20 years of teaching by the very professors who taught them and made them worthy of being hired in the first place? Will bankers now earn less given that [...]

The grass is green for Karan Bajaj

The IIM graduate’s debut novel, which is about drug culture, has become a hit; now, director Kunal Kohli is keen on buying the film rights of the book
Karan Bajaj, an IIM Bangalore graduate, is a happy man. His debut novel Keep Off The Grass has sold more than 10,000 copies in India within a month [...]

Two Inspiring Stories

Came across these news items last week.
The first one of Anurag Jain – a student from a Hindi medium government school background cracking the CAT in his 3rd attempt and getting a place on the merit list of IIM Lucknow and Indore.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lucknow/Govt_school_boy_bells_the_CAT/articleshow/3006240.cms
And the second one of Gaganbir Singh from Ahmedabad, who got admission calls from [...]

More Advice :) & Fun Videos

Like the new Reliance Mobile ad – advice toh sab log dete hein (which incidentally we like quite a lot :), we thought we’ll spare you a long note on what to do in this last week to CAT in this post.
A few things which do help are:
1. A little revision
2. A lot of relaxation [...]

Fun advice for CAT – Updated!

Remember the last post about what you can do to relax in these last few hours before CAT.
Here’s the second installment. Our advice remains the same:
1. Do some light revision
2. Be confident: Relax and feel good about yourself
3. Make sure all your tools are in place
And here are the videos to help you do just [...]