IIM-A summer placement process starts from today

The premier B-school is all geared up for summer placements for its 2012-14 PGP batch. The cohort-based placement process will begin at Indian Institute Of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Wednesday.

Despite the fears of an uncertain economic environment, students are expecting a rise in stipends by 15 to 20 per cent this year. The expectations for IIM-A students come following continued interests of leading companies, who made attractive offers during final placements in March this year.

The placement this year, like last year, will take place in four clusters beginning November 17. The second cluster start on November 9, third on November 16 and the process will conclude on November 17. Members of the student placement committee opined that given the economic scenario, consulting, ecommerce and technology companies will have more to offer than the banks and other financial firms.

In the summer placements last year, out of 379 students, who took part in the summer placement process, only 42 students got overseas opportunities. In 2011, student's top preference continued to be banking, financial services and insurance ( BFSI) sector, with 112 students accepting offers in this area. The other sectors that attracted students in high numbers included consulting which had 81 students accepting offers, FMCG with 45 students and IT with 31 accepted offers.

Mumbai students forced to pick centres in Haryana, Assam

Chaos reigned on the first day of the registration process for the first ever National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for post-graduate medical aspirants. After the website meant for online registrations crashed several times on Thursday, city students were forced to pick centres in Uttarakhand, Ranchi and Haryana because centres in Mumbai and Maharashtra had filled up fast.

Around 8,000 medical students from the state usually take the PG entrance test. The state test was scrapped and NEET introduced this year. The website mentioned that centres would be allotted on a first-come-first-serve basis. As there were only seven centres in the state and four in Mumbai, students rushed to book their seats online. Students reached the bank from where they were supposed to collect vouchers as early as 4.30 am and waited till 9.30 am for the bank to open.

Since the online test is between November 23 and December 6, students were hoping to get a slot towards the last few days. A student said, "The server crashed at least three or four times while I tried to register. We continued trying to register for three to four hours, but with no luck. It is a three-stage form filling process and the server crashed erratically at any point. When I finally managed to complete the process, city and Pune centres were full."

Another student said, "By 10 pm, most places across the country were filling up fast. With no centres in Gujarat and Rajasthan, I was forced to choose Uttarakhand."

Some students who logged in early on October 5 easily managed to get seats in Mumbai centres. A student said, "Some of my friends who filled the form around 3 am, did get a seat allocation in Mumbai. We have been told that the process was much easier on Friday and students managed to fill up the forms in 15 minutes. Now as per the rule, slots and centres once chosen cannot be rescheduled or cancelled. Why then should the authorities claim that the system worked on first-come-first-serve basis?"

Most of the students who filled it up on Thursday to be on the safe side have ended up with centres in Ranchi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Assam, etc.

Officials from Prometric (who are conducting the online exam for National Board of Examination) remained unavailable for comment. According to a release issued by the Prometric, around 38,000 candidates registered for the test within 24 hours.

Prometric India MD Soumitra Roy said, "Scheduling instructions have been shared by NBE before the start of the registration window, and candidates were reminded at the time of online scheduling. Prometric continues to increase available seating for current test dates to address heavy registration demand. As a result of demand in individual areas, not all sessions may be available and candidates should select another session if their first choice is not available."

Industry performance

The CII ASCON Survey for the period April-June 2012 (estimated) reveals sharp deceleration in the growth of industrial sectors as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, on the expectations of low investment spending , rupee depreciation, elevated inflation, high trade and fiscal deficits, and uncertain global economic recovery. "The ASCON Survey provides industry outlook for the period April-June 2012 compared to April-June 2011. The survey reveals that many industry sectors have shown a sharp deceleration in growth for April-June quarter of 2012 as compared to April-June (2011).
Most of the respondents of the ASCON survey revealed that the deceleration was mainly due to monetary tightening measures of RBI to control inflation and the effect of global economic slowdown which had a dampening effect on the demand. The situation calls for concerted effort from the Government and the RBI to ensure that we have a cohesive economic recovery plan," said Chandrajit Banerjee, director general , CII. The survey reveals that out of the 114 sectors surveyed comprising more than 35000 companies , for the period April-June 2012, 7.2% of the sectors are expected to register growth of more than 20% as compared to 20.7% in the corresponding period of 2011.

Jetking to Go Cloud Way with Its Training Courses !

First of its kind initiative in the computer hardware training segment. 

Jetking Infotrain Ltd, India’s No. 1 Computer Hardware & Networking Institute has done it again ! The institute will soon change its traditional method of training in flagship courses like JCHNE and JCHNP to a digitized and cloud platform in its 100 plus centers across the country. With cloud computing based training ‘JCHNE’ courses become all the more powerful with adapting latest technology.

The Cloud technology based training at Jetking has multiple advantages such as:

• Further improvement in Students’ learning and memory retention.
• Standardisation in syllabus and teaching method in all centres across the country.
• Uniform Curriculum ensuring nothing is missed out.
• Making student the latest technology savvy thus most sought after in the job market.

While commenting on the use of Cloud platform in the training Mr Suresh Bharwani – Chairman & Managing Director, Jetking Infotrain Ltd said “The digital push here aims to go far beyond whiteboards, power points, computers and other gadgets. It aims to transform the very nature of the classroom, turning the teacher into a guide instead of a lecturer, guiding and helping students who learn at their own pace on a digitized platform. Equipped with audio video content along with graphical tutorials makes learning fun, faster and easier. A lot of time and skill has been invested to set up the necessary infrastructure to make the complete transition from traditional method to the Cloud based digitized training. With all the necessary softwares and infrastructure tried and tested we are now fully ready to roll out cloud technology based training in our flagship course ‘Computer Hardware & Networking’at our all centres so that the students joining in this academic year can reap the benefits of it”.

“Jetking’s JCHNE course of a one year becomes all the more powerful and effective in achieving our objective : To create maximum number of employable youths with an exposure to the latest technology like Cloud Computing . This new development has certainly taken Jetking at a different level thereby hopping to attract the cream of the industry during our placement season next year” added Mr Siddarth Bharwani – Head, Marketing at Jetking Infotrain Ltd.

Jetking Infotrain Ltd. listed on BSE is  well-known for innovations and has always been pioneer in adding new features to its courses that make students job ready in the market on the completion of the course, for example JetEdge – Smart Learn English Program introduced two years ago has benefited students immensely in securing the desired jobs. Then added ‘Genuine 100% Job Guaruntee’to its course.

JCHNE course now with Cloud technology based training covers four prime modules:
Module 1: Basic Electronics and Office Tool (138 hours)
Module 2: Computer Hardware (166 hours)
Module 3: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Technician (196 hours)
Module 4: Network Administrator (124 hours).   

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