Getting Ahead of the Curve: 10 Things to do Before Joining a B-school

MBA, as a degree, comes with a lot of baggage. The exhaustive nature of the course notwithstanding, there is a lot of prep work which needs to be done before setting foot in a B-school. While a lot many of us land up with our under-graduate degrees by default (given the compulsive nature of our education system), the choice of a post graduate degree is mostly voluntary, done after taking into account a lot of factors.

 

Opening the Pandora’s Box: Placement Process at B-schools

The choice of which B-school to choose for that coveted management degree might perhaps be the most critical decision that we take in the early part of our professional career. The amount of investment that goes in terms of cost (both actual and opportunity) and time is big enough to give sleepless nights to most while making that choice. Terms like ROI (Return on Investment), assets, collateral etc. no longer remain unknown jargons and we are forced to quantify them to our lives. It’s not for nothing that we have a plethora of forums that try to make it easier for the candidates by providing them any and every kind of detail that they might require to make that decision.

 

Reservation – A Necessary Evil In A Diverse Society

‘Reservation’ – one word that never fails to evoke reactions across all the segments of our country. Everybody who is anybody has some opinion or the other on the topic of reservation. While reservation has been known to exist since the time of independence, the topic usurped national conscience in 2006, when the government passed the OBC quota bill, giving 27% reservation for OBCs in central educational institutes.

The passage of the bill was followed by huge backlash, with student protestors making their presence felt throughout the country. Both, the ones beneficiaries of the bill as well as the ones at the receiving end of it had their opinions to share which, most often than not, were not in the kindest of tones to the opposing parties. The backlash is such that even till this day, whenever the results of an all India level exam like IIT-JEE, AIPMT or CAT is declared, we still find a few students raking up the issue again and blaming it for not being able to clear the exam or getting the college of their choice.