Posted on 03/11/2013 7:33:48 PM PDT by Fzob
India’s estimated 3,300 business schools churn out tens of thousands of management graduates each year. But only a small fraction of them are “employable,” or possess basic skills necessary to work in sectors ranging from marketing to finance, according to an unpublished study. B-School graduates are finding out the hard way. Hitesh Kumar, who completed his MBA from a business school in Allahabad, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, earlier this year, has been unable to find a job as an investment banker. ............... Aspiring Minds based its conclusions on a so-called “employability test” it conducted on 32,000 MBA graduates from 220 business schools across India. The test, which quizzed graduates on topics ranging from grammar to quantitative analysis, found that only 10% of those tested had skills that recruiters typically look for while hiring management graduates. The study found that less than half of the students tested had some knowledge of key industry terms and concepts in their areas of specialty. For instance, a third of the surveyed students who had majored in finance, did not know what IPO – short for initial public offering – stood for.
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My brother worked for a Chinese owned company.
They were bad, the Canadians they sold it to were worse, they were even more anal than the Germans that own it now.
“Quite honestly I don’t know what your source for such a claim is.”
He probably just read some of your posts.
“He probably just read some of your posts.”
Oh darn, I was hoping he wouldn’t.
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