If you are aiming for the food service business, check out the Kendall School of Culinary Arts:- …………. Some jobs are here to stay. Slowdown or no slowdown, the hospitality industry is full of activity. More so the restaurant business. Fast food joints, five-star fine dining, theme restaurants — there are so many options today [...]

Turn your passion for wines into a rewarding career. Life is short, and the list of things to do long. But Magandeep Singh is happy that he has been able to do what he’d fancied all along. “It was my dream to be able to speak fluent French. My passion for the culture also led [...]

Institute Approval :- What’s more important — a degree from an approved institute or a job-ready course? Smitha Verma seeks an answer Shubhro Bhattacharya has a piece of advice for students queuing up for B-schools — if the institute imparts quality education, little else matters. “Go for it if you see it has a good [...]

European firms, unlike US ones, have tried to sustain both employment and a cutting edge,as reports NELSON D. SCHWARTZ . The soaring glass and iron Siemens factory in Berlin opened almost exactly a century ago. At first, it churned out electricity turbines, then munitions during World War II before being looted by the Soviets, which [...]

Management institutes in India are sharpening their focus on the social sector. Surbhi Bhatia reports on two independent initiatives. …. The Indian Institutes of Management have a mandate to contribute quality manpower for nation building. However, over the years they have come to be perceived as institutes that churn out managers who merely aspire for [...]

The biggest beneficiary of economic liberalisation in India has been the financial services segment, which is commonly referred to as the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) segment. Liberalisation has brought in new products, new services, new players — all of which have resulted in multiple choices for financial consumers. While more choices leave consumers [...]

More men than women have lost jobs in the recession, pushing the latter into the majority in the workplace, reports CATHERINE RAMPELL . For the first time in recorded history, women outnumber men on America’s payrolls. This benchmark is bittersweet, as it comes largely at men’s expense. Because men have been losing their jobs faster [...]

Will outsourcing news lead to a loss of objectivity and credibility, wonders RICHARD PEREZ-PENA News comes from more and more outlets, about which readers know less and less. …………. Publishers and broadcasters have always called on freelance journalists. But a generation ago, if they used material from another organisation, it was usually limited to a [...]

India must have ‘job shadow’ days that will allow students to learn about workplaces by ‘shadowing’ professionals in fields they like. ……………………… Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in the US and Canada on February 2. According to tradition, if the groundhog sees its shadow while emerging from his burrow, he will take to ground [...]

………………………………… • Set small, achievable and realistic targets. Chalk out an effective schedule which you can follow. Understand your potential, limitations and then  formulate effective strategies to work on them. • Effective time-management through proper planning is essential. Thus, study early in the day whenever possible and use the late evening for revision. Revise difficult [...]