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Doing a master’s or another graduate degree with a specialisation has its advantages. It teaches you more about your favorite subject. It helps you build upon the knowledge and skills that you acquired during your undergraduate course. It may open up more job opportunities. It may even bring you more respect.
For Software / IT engineers, a Product Management career after an MBA would be a good track to consider. If you’ve read our earlier posts on Product Manager Job Description (A day in the life of a product manager) and Product Management Syllabus in MBA, you may have seen the overlaps already. In order to … Read more
As Indian professionals, we are a funny bunch. We don’t mind locking horns with the auto-rikshaw driver or the vegetable vendor for demanding one extra rupee. But when it comes to bigger (life-changing) amounts, like salaries and compensation packages, we rely on the benevolence of head-hunters & HR professionals to throw at us what they … Read more
While Biomedical engineering has been getting a lot of interest, the field of biomedical sciences remains largely esoteric and unexplored. In this post, guest blogger Tanmoy Ray talks about the discipline (and how it differs from biomedical engineering), the kind of jobs and salaries you can get, courses & degrees needed to crack into the … Read more
The battle between humans and machines isn’t just happening in movies. If you are a job hunter with an account on any online job application system, you are playing that game right now without being aware of it. And in all probability, you have been losing it and getting increasingly frustrated about losing your CV … Read more
A generation back, when ‘one job for life’ was pretty much the accepted philosophy for the conservative working class, a career change at 30 or 35 in India was taboo. Unless there was a lay-off (another less frequent phenomenon), Indians employees wouldn’t even be thinking of a career change after 30. The benevolent company ensure … Read more
No matter what your qualifications and capabilities are, if you are a woman, the roadmap is more or less pre-defined for you. After marriage, you’d be expected to settle down. Which indirectly translates to – give up your career and take care of your husband and kids. Ranjini Shankar takes us through her thought process … Read more
In this guest post, Aditya Singhal shares job hunting tips and ideas on how to improve your chances of getting a good job after college.
As thousands graduate globally from the hallowed grounds of the programs of yore, we were curious to check where they are headed in terms of job opportunities. Among the huge list of career options, we’ve examined a lot of different MBA jobs and careers one can take after graduating from international business schools.
In our ongoing attempts to uncover and present unconventional jobs and careers, this time we focus on careers in the music industry. Jobs like music composer, arranger and producer can be creative and rewarding. After completing his engineering degree in Computer Science, like a good, obedient IT professional, Vijay Krishna worked in software jobs for … Read more
If you have been scouring the net for international MBA related information, you’d know that a huge number of applicants from India have B.E, B.Tech, M.Tech degrees and several years of work experience after completing their engineering course (Read MBA in Canada after Mechanical Engineering). You don’t see a similar trend in other professions such … Read more
It has been several years since I left my corporate job and I thought it was a good time for an introspective post on why I took a decision that appeared to be a big risk at that time (more from the perspective of folks who were concerned about my well-being). Many have asked me … Read more