 As the largest hirers of B-school graduates this year (about 450) and introducing various business courses at its corporate university in Mysore, IT major Infosys is reinforcing its management talent pool, right at the entry level.
On whether such initiatives would eventually lead to the setting up of a corporate management school, Mr T. V. Mohandas Pai, Member of Board, Director, HR, Education, Research and Administration, Infosys, said: "We are not starting a B-school, but have started management training courses at our corporate university and doubled our intake of B-school grads."
The company will hire close to 450 management graduates from across all the IIMs, XLRI, TISS and Symbiosis in the next few days. "We have decided to do large investments in consulting and enterprise solutions for which we need this talent," said Ms Nandita Gurjar, Senior Vice- President and Group Head, HR, Infosys Technologies.
The two profiles that are coming in would be in consulting and sales, she added.
Last year, Infosys hired 200 B-school grads and has doubled the number this year. "About 50 of these would be for HR," she added. Campus-offer conversion rates across both B-schools and engineering colleges have touched 93 per cent this year against 70 per cent last year, Ms Gurjar said.
Infosys is also visiting half the number of engineering colleges (500) as compared with the previous years, to hire over 15,000 students.
The company has increased its training days for freshers from about 140 days to 180 , she said.
Infosys has one of the largest corporate universities in Asia located at Mysore training 30,000 new recruits every year. The Infosys Leadership Institute trains executives and managers in the company.
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 The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, announced on Saturday that the CAT 2009 result declaration has been deferred to the end of this month, drawing hundreds of comments criticising the examination process from candidates on various online forums for MBA students and aspirants.
IIMA’s corporate communications manager Ishita Solanki said the announcement was made to keep communication channels open, and the initial tentative timeline of the third week of February has been shifted by another week.
She said that no dates had been finalised yet adding that the “change of the system of examination” could have been part of the reason for the delay, without elaborating.
CAT 2009 was the first online CAT examination conducted in India, and about 2.15 lakh candidates had appeared for it. CAT convener Satish Deodhar, a professor at IIM-Ahmedabad, could not be reached for comment.
One of the major problems is that with the results of admission tests of other institutes being out, candidates are in a dilemma regarding the next step. They are unsure whether they should take admission in these institutes or wait for the CAT results.
“I heard the CAT tests would be evaluated according to the difficulty level of each slot, and that makes it very hard to predict my percentile,” Manonit Kaur said. Kaur has been shortlisted for admissions in SIMC and is worried about what she should do next.
Neeraj Bangalorakar, who took the exam at the Thakur Polytechnic Kandivali, Mumbai, told The Sunday Express, “I personally feel the IIMs have goofed up the results. The tests were online anyway, so the results should not have taken more than two weeks to come out.”
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 All school boards across India will have a common curriculum in science and mathematics for Classes 11 and 12 from the 2011 academic year to give students a level playing field and help them in competitive examinations, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announced in New Delhi on Tuesday. "Today is a historic day for all students. There will be a core curriculum in the science stream (both
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 Integerated Common Entrace Test 2010 by the Andra Pradesh for admission into various MBA and MCA colleges of the Andhra Pradesh state. The ICTE notification has been issued for the examination in 2010 which is scheduled at the 27th May 2010. The candidates / students who wants to takeadmission into various colleges in MBA or MCA courses will need to apply and appear in the ICET 2010 examination by Andhra Pradesh Government. Candidates can search the official website which is given below by using various keywords like ICET 2010, ICET 2010 Important Dates, ICET 2010 Notification, icet 2010 application forms, icet 2010 online applications, icet 2010 notification details, how to apply icet 2010, icet 2010 application details,icet 2010 Visit the website for application details and notification of ICET 2010: http://www.icet2010.net/
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After the Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission to top business schools in the country, some Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) conducted their post-graduation entrance examination - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - for two papers online. "Indian Institutes of Technology at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Roorkee and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore successfully conducted online GATE 2010 for two out of 21 papers," a human resource development ministry official said Tuesday.
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 Asish Tilak, a software programmer with Jindal Saw, says his job is an art that’s slowly fading out. He sees fewer students with the wherewithal for programming — the once-coveted MCA, or master of computer applications course — apply for interviews these days. The three-year degree course has been upstaged by short-term, job-oriented certifications in an uncertain economic climate. “Students these days opt for short-term certification programmes like .Net, Oracle or Cisco which provide good jobs,” he says.
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