Use your network for all it’s worth. That should actually be your only channel for finding a job : ……………….. The UK financial and business services sector is likely to shed 1,10,000 jobs in 2008-2009, says management consultants, the Hay Group. In the US, the epicentre of the crisis, things are worse still. “It’s expected [...]

Build a rewarding relationship with your team for greater fulfilment at work Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster and do it with no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same [...]

HR managers should conduct job interviews with a certain degree of respect. ………………………………. Have you ever appeared for a walk-in interview? Have you been the victim of a serial interview where you are shunted from table to table, spending just a few minutes at each? Or, for that matter, have you kicked your heels outside [...]

New age networking and old-fashioned brown-nosing can help you keep your job. ………… Best effort: Stretch yourself that extra bit to make sure that your boss wants to keep you at any cost No more wishful thinking — it’s time to prepare yourself for a grim job market. Even a top-notch performance may not be [...]

Imposing Your Will On Others The right to make your own choices is a precious one. We grow when we have the freedom to decide our own paths and determine what makes us happy. Yet there are those who are inclined to try and control others. They may be driven by insecurity, envy, fear, or [...]

Image via Wikipedia Choosing the best B-school …………………… Ankit Gupta is tense every time there is a mention of the approaching Common Admission Test (CAT), which determines admission to most business schools, on November 16. But that in no way has dampened his spirit. The 24-year-old is determined to complete his masters in business administration [...]

Image via Wikipedia Two IIM, Lucknow, students share their experience of taking the exam CAT is an exam that requires you to optimise and not maximise returns. I can’t be sure that after reading the above line you’ll treat the exam differently, but I can promise that unless you start thinking of it as a [...]

Nanyang Business School in Singapore takes the CAT scores of Indian students into consideration, says Arjun Jindal …. Think big: Keeping in mind the emerging market in Asia, an MBA from Nanyang will stand you in good stead If you have got through CAT but would prefer to do an MBA abroad, don’t think your [...]

Image via Wikipedia It’s just another exam. . Have you been up all night, fretting about the future? Then you must have been struck by a new epidemic in town. It’s called CAT, or the Common Admission Test, the gateway to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). But experts insist that you have nothing to [...]

… Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad Scouting for good MBA options but don’t know where to go? Not to worry. Check out the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad. Founded in 1980, not many know that it is among the older management institutes in the country with alumni like well-known adman and award-winning Bollywood lyricist [...]