rediffGURU Patrick Dsouza, founder of Patrick100 offers advice on how to optimise your preparation for CAT 2025.
In a bid to expedite the processing of initial public offerings (IPOs), the markets regulator will now seek additional information from lead managers (LMs) when they file draft documents. Last week, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) sent a letter to bankers, listing over two dozens of new disclosure requirements. The average time Sebi takes to clear the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) - a document companies must file before accessing public funds - has dropped to less than three months in 2024 (until May 31).
Rishab Pant's return to peak fitness following his car crash have been nothing short of remarkable this season
Of the total 381 summer placement offers at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 24.4 per cent roles were offered by financial and banking services.
Certain educational institutions under ministry of human resource development have reported that campus selection has gone down this year to some extent, minister of state for HRD D Purandeswari told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The University Grants Commission is providing grants to universities for establishment of career counselling centres.
With the lateral placements (for students with at least a year's experience) underway and final placement (for freshers) season round the corner, institutes expect this year's placements to be one of the best ever.
Realigned training modules. Better automation and coding tools. Internal contests and more.
rediffGURU Anu Krishna offers advice on how to deal with complicated situations in a relationship.
'Students of Tier-II and Tier III engineering colleges in the south may find 2023 to be one of the toughest years for getting jobs.'
As many as 30 students of Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB), seem to be bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and are likely to skip the ongoing placement drive. Most of them are eyeing opportunities in areas like travel, education and use of clean technologies.
To further ensure employability of students, IITs are encouraging students to positively accept more number of pre-placement offers and not wait till final placement season
Online pharmacy player Portea, which has reportedly raised $46.5 million in two rounds, has been blacklisted for one year for revoking an offer.
'These are the two core skill sets that are required for any job, in any profession.'
On the back of the global economic slowdown last year, most management institutes had to take steps like extending their final placement week by a few days and inviting more companies to campus to ensure better work opportunities to their students.
Late Ratan Tata always ensured employees are taken care of along with the well-being of their families across the Tata Group companies, which shaped a number of leaders across the conglomerate, and there really was no one like him, Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Monday. Recollecting his association with Tata (86) who passed away last week, in a post on networking platform LinkedIn, he wrote, "Anybody who met Mr Tata came away with a story about his humanity, warmth, and dreams for India. "There really was no one like him."
Final placements at IIM-Ahmedabad start this Saturday, while IIM-Indore and IIM-Lucknow will begin the process next week. IIM-Bangalore (IIM-B) and IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) will start their final placements from March 4.
It is that time of the year when fresh business school graduates try their luck at placements.
Billionaire Gautam Adani-led group's power transmission unit has raised $1 billion through a share sale, the first public equity raise by the conglomerate since a damning Hindenburg report, which wiped away billions in shareholder value. Adani Energy Solutions Ltd raised the funds through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) issue, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The QIP, which opened on Tuesday, was oversubscribed three times with demand of about Rs 26,000 crore - making it the largest transaction in India's energy space.
The economy is yet to recover and it's evident at management institutes where the pre-placement scenario is still sluggish. It's nearing the end of July and time for Indian B-schools to start getting pre-placement offers or pre-placement interviews from companies.
'Both campuses and talent should brace for a low-velocity campus hiring season that might extend into the off-campus period.'
Irrespective of demonetisation and GST blues, IIM Lucknow has been able to successfully place their batch of 459 students.
Mr Pradhan's understanding of realpolitik and organisational dynamics makes him the ultimate party man, notes Aditi Phadnis.
With America's fourth largest investment bank Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch being bought over by the Bank of America, placements at the Indian Institutes of Management will be affected.
It is not clear whether the drop in offers is a fallout of demonetisation.
Those three wickets for six runs, in a manic final 15 minutes of the day's play, undid all the good work that had gone before, asserts Prem Panicker.
Most offers are coming from regular recruiting firms and sectors led by consulting, analytics, IT and finance.
Nearly 150 companies visited the campus this year.
Public-sector lenders Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) and Uco Bank are likely to raise funds through qualified institutional placement (QIP) next month. Punjab & Sind Bank is likely to follow suit later this financial year to meet the public shareholding norm of 25 per cent. When a public-sector unit raises funds through QIP, the money goes to the company because it involves issuing new shares whereas in the case of offer for sale (OFS), the money raised goes to the government because its shares are sold.
Capital markets are becoming more prominent in India's growth story, with an expanding share in capital formation and investment landscape on the back of technology, innovation and digitisation, according to the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in Parliament on Monday. Further, Indian markets are resilient to global geo-political and economic shocks, it added. "Despite heightened geo-political risks, rising interest rates and volatile commodity prices, Indian capital markets have been one of the best performing among emerging markets in FY24," the Economic Survey said.
In the first Chennai Test against Bangladesh, Pant scored a magnificent century and returned to Test side with a bang.
Top consulting firms like McKinsey and Co, and Bain and Co along with others in the investment banking industry, such as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, have extended fulltime offers to students who interned at IIM-A.
Images from Day 3 of the first Test between Australia and India in Perth on Sunday.
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Industry majors keen to hire freshers based on their performance during summer internships.
Alps Industries Ltd okayed a private placement of shares.
