Existentialism Simplified

Well the mercury is rising everyone…CAT is just a month away! Lately I have been thinking that although we talk a lot about the reasoning and verbal section of CAT, we focus hardly on the most ubiquitous section in CAT English i.e.Reading Comprehension.We know different terms like eclectic reading ,nuances of reading,mind mapping et al but truly speaking hardly a few must have seriously done any of these. I call RC your best buddy in CAT because you can rely on it even if you have not put in a lot of effort. Over the years,CAT has had comprehensions from various realms like philosophy,history,religion,psychology etc.The passages based on philosophy are the eyesore of everybody as the pressure of the CAT environment doesn’t let anybody concentrate and get to the crux of the matter.My suggestion would be to skip such passages but you should have a little insight on them , in case you have no better option.

EXISTENTIALISM. Existentialistic ideas came out of a time in society when there was a deep sense of despair following the Great Depression and World War II. There was a spirit of optimism in society that was destroyed by World War I and its mid-century calamities. This despair has been articulated by existentialist philosophers well into the 1970s and continues on to this day as a popular way of thinking and reasoning.

Film-makers to train management students

Guess who will come down to teach management students next? Bollywood stars and filmmakers.

After successfully wooing Lalu Prasad and APJ Abdul Kalam to address their students, premier B-school the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, will rope in Bollywood greats to elucidate the nitty-gritty of the film industry.

Global meltdown eases IT companies effort to rope in IIM grads

The global meltdown of the financial institutions are proving advantageous for the IT firms as India’s elite class of B-schools, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) are fervently exploring employment opportunities in this field. Infact, the companies shall be given the Day 1 slot for recruitment, once the placement scene kicks off.

One of the HR of a reputed IT firm said, “The last couple of years we have hardly recruited anybody from the senior IIMs because by the time we got to them, there were hardly any good candidates left. On day zero and one itself the cream of the crop would have been picked by i-bankers and consultants.” However, with the continuous crash downs in the banking sector, the institutes are depending on the IT firms which till date have given the secondary preference to the sector. The rates of contacting the companies have also increased, for instance IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) contacting 22 firms for the upcoming placements in November as compared to 12 firms participating last year. The list of those contacted includes Google, Amazon, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, TCS and IBM. Even IIM-Bangalore (IIM-B) has contacted around 15 firms while last year it was between 5 and 10.

Summer of discontent at IIM-I as slump bites

The global economic slump has affected the summer placement at IIM, Indore.

Some students from the institute, which was the first business school to organise summer placements, failed to secure internships during the placement that ended on Monday. And those who have managed to get one have not got lucrative packages.

The highest package was bagged for a two-month international internship with Vega Foods for Rs 1.15 lakh. The highest domestic offer stood at Rs 50,000 for a similar internship with Coca-Cola. The highest package last year was the double of this.