Top blogs related to MBA jobs, salaries and careers
Jobs for international master’s degree holders, particularly in the US, is a lottery. International students who want to stay on and work in the US for more than a year after graduation are at the mercy of a H1B lottery visa system.
Goutam Gurha wrote this post earlier describing the Life on the ISB Mohali campus. He concludes the 2-post series with insights on how the placement process works at the ISB Mohali campus. It’s a good way to understand the story before the employment reports are created. Read ISB Placement Success Stories ISB Mohali Campus … Read more
Increasingly, business majors and future managers and CEOs are looking at a curve of diminishing returns relating to the relevance and practical applicability of the MBA degree. Should or shouldn’t young and aspiring future business leaders sign up for a program that is billed to carry the ultimate credentials for a career in business management?
Why can’t I get multiple job offers in international business schools abroad when I can get them easily in IIMs? If I come back to India after my MBA, will the degree be recognized? These are the top MBA placement related questions that Sudershan ‘Suds’ Tirumala (Regional Director, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) addresses … Read more
Vibhav Agarwal, who wrote this article on Career Change from Software IT to Product Management after MBA, is back with another article. This time he goes back to the basic question that many aspiring product managers have, about the relevance and necessity of an MBA degree in a product management and marketing career.
International business schools proudly display statistics about high MBA salaries in USA and success stories of career changers who managed to change their role, industry or geography after completing their MBA abroad. However, as with most statistics driven marketing campaigns, the 3-D pie-charts in the MBA placement report often reveal only half of the story.
The most popular way to get a foothold in the hyper-competitive management consulting industry is via a top MBA program. But it isn’t easy when more than half your classmates, who are equally capable and ambitious, are also vying for the same role. ISB grad, Kanav Sharma, who has successfully navigated the consulting recruitment maze, … Read more
What is it about Wall Street that turns well-educated men into a$$holes? It’s no secret that the world of high finance is one of the most offensive working environments for women. As for women on Wall Street, well, some say you have to be almost masochistic to choose a career where sexual harassment comes with … Read more
The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows foreigners to be employed by U.S. companies in specialty occupations (Top H1-B Visa Sponsors). Students who go to the US on an F1 visa have to go through the gruelling task of having to find companies/employers ready to sponsor their H-1B so that they can continue working … Read more
What does a news portal do when it sees a potential competitor starting up? Snip.it in the bud, of course! That’s exactly what Yahoo did in 2013, when it forked out $10 million to snap up content curation website, Snip.it, founded by Stanford graduate Ramy Adeeb.
A key driver of growth in many economies, entrepreneurship is definitely the flavor of business right now. This second wave is built on the lessons of the first – the dotcom boom – when tech start-ups dominated the entrepreneurial landscape at the turn of the century. Now hordes of young men and women, each one … Read more
Many who sign up for an MBA program do so with an eye specifically on one goal – international work experience. It’s a great career move for many reasons. One, considering the astronomical sum spent on acquiring an MBA degree in, say, the US or Europe, it makes good financial sense for Indians to find … Read more