myAmcat :: Aspirations Volume 7

ASPIRATIONS Vol-7

Featured Article

Go Kiss the World
"I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine."
Says Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting.

Featured AMCAT Module

Marketing Module
The marketing module, based on the curriculum taught in 2 years of MBA, would help discriminate candidates who have only theoretical knowledge vis-a-vis someone who understands the theory as well as its application.

Featured Sector

The Hospitality Industry
The hospitality industry consists of a broad category of fields within the services industry that includes lodging, restaurant management, event planning, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry.

Employment News

Nasscom cuts hiring target, says salary raise to be muted

Cisco Systems to raise India staff by 60% over next four years

Hiring activity stabilises across major industries

Recent Updates from Aspiring Minds

Aspiring Minds Launches Machine Learning Competition
Aspiring Minds has launched a Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence) Competition for young engineers across the world. Being the first of its kind, the competition provides a real world problem regarding meritocracy in jobs, which students have to solve by developing their own innovative algorithm.

Aspiring Minds Partners with Rajasthan University
Rajasthan University, with Aspiring Minds has launched AMCAT for its 2012 & 2013 year passing out students of various constituent and affiliated colleges. The university's Students Advisory Bureau is organizing this employability test to know the standing of its students as far as job readiness is concerned, and to provide batter job opportunities.

Aspiring Minds in NEWS

Employability test simplifies job hunt: The Asian Age

National media covers AMCAT at Delhi University

Employability and job profiles key focus in Bhanaswara, Rajasthan

ASPIRATIONS Vol 7

	Go Kiss the World
	Marketing Module
	Featured Sector: The Hospitality Industry
	Aspiring Minds Launches Machine Learning Competition

AMCAT Database

Engineers

5,42,655

MBA's

69,779

New Clients

	V R Expert
	Pack Print
	OSTPL
	Investors Clinic

Region Wise Spread

ASPIRATIONS Polls

Which method do you primarily rely on to reach out to the potential employers?
	Referrals through Friends/Colleagues
	Email on Company website
	In-Person Campus Visits
	Job Portals

Last Poll Result

About 49% of the people who voted in the last poll believe that Communication Skills are of utmost importance for an entry level job. A striking observation is that creative thinking (24%) and analytical skills (16%) received significant number of votes as compared to domain skills which received only 7% of the total votes.