Saturday 6 July 2013

How To Choose ISB Essay Tips for 2014-2015 Batch

As far as ISB essay tips are concerned, the first thing required of an aspirant is to know the process of ISB Application thoroughly and the kind of essays he has to attempt successfully.

Overall the ISB application consists of two standard essays and a third essay that allows a candidate to write such information that is vital to his candidature for ISB PGP.

The essays have to be rounded and balanced in terms of being informative, unique as an expression of the true personality of the candidate. The candidate is also expected to highlight his achievements and interests in the essays.

Some Tips

When we think of ISB Essay tips for 2014-2015 Batch , application essays continue to be a critical part and candidates need guidance to achieve the desired level of confidence. They cannot falter in any department.

Decide Yourself

Now the onus is on the candidate. Do you want to apply for ISB in 2014-2015 programme and a bit? Your points of concern can include,

How much time and effort required to compose outstanding application essays?

Where to get professional assistance in drafting the application essays?

Coaching Centres

All ISB aspirants must feel happy that are many reputed consulting agencies dedicated for ISB essay review and coaching. They include names like General Education endowed with experts and seasoned consultants ready to offer informative tips and essay analysis.

As has been said, only practice can make you perfect. So, take liberal help from these experts and successfully secure admission in the coming ISB batch. Many of these coaching agencies have I SB application review service from top notch ISB alumni working as application consultants.

How to Crack?

In ISB Essay No 1, the idea is to find the real USP of a candidate and how he distinguishes himself from others. They can be knowledge, attitude and skills. The question “Why should ISB take you?" aims the same thing. Here caution must be exercised not to trumpet achievements but draw on the various abilities to build a strong case. The ISB wants to identify candidate’s skill sets acquired over a period of time and how it differentiates him from other applicants. So mention must be made of attitude, skill sets or knowledge that can add value to the peer group at ISB.

Brainstorm

One way to handle the first essay is to sit for a brainstorming with a friend and ask him what all characteristics he/she thinks are unique to you. After you have a list, ask yourself whether these characteristics are really unique or at least uncommon. Applicants coming from diverse domains such as Energy or Supply chain or Commodities can harp on their domain knowledge in these streams.

Clarity of Goals

In the second essay the focus moves to short term as well as long term career goals. This is important from the point of view of a candidate’s level of motivation in doing an MBA and using ISB as a tool in achieving those goals. So he can portray his career growth graphically till date and express the goals as aligned to your arguments.

ISB's one year post-graduate programme in management (PGP)



The ISB YLP essays are an important component of the YLP application. The essays are seeking to be the vehicle to derive factual information that can convey a message about who you are.
The Essays seek
·       Description of past experience that shaped the candidate as of today. (300 words)
·       Valid but critical information that can significantly boost the chances of considering a candidate to the ISB. (300 words)
·       An expression of the career aspiration of the candidate immediately after graduating from the ISB? (300 words)

The ISB YLP Program is conceived as a foundation programme for outstanding undergraduates from various disciplines to get a great head-start in their careers YLP gives an opportunity to seek pre-admission to the ISB's one year post-graduate programme in management (PGP).
In the last two years about 132 candidates have been selected for the YLP programme. Admissions for 2013 are open and can be applied by logging onto the website.
The eligibility for admission into YLP is that a candidate must be in his/ her pre-final year of graduation in whatever discipline.


Tuesday 18 June 2013

Hire Executive Search Firms to Get the Best Talent for your Company



An Executive Search company is like a third-party provider or a consultant usually hired by a corporation to study the availability of suitable candidates who might be working for its competitors or allied industries.
In India there are a large number of executive search firms working internationally and across many industry sectors.

Main Functions
After spotting possible recruits who match the client's requirements, an executive search firm usually plays the role of an intermediary to woo the candidate to a new employer. In the process the search firm also carries out the candidate screening, his demands, arrange negotiations on remuneration and finally leading to the employment contract with the new client.

Why Executive Search?
Talent is very scarce in the corporate world and when MNCs are looking for people to fill top positions demanding high experience and niche expertise, only an Executive Search company can get it done . Spotting candidates and putting the best offers is how Executive Search Consultants outshine others. In recruiting, there are many methods and style too.

Corporate clients
These days, many corporates retain several Executive search firms to locate the most suitable candidates to fill roles on a paid basis. This is mainly for senior-level jobs where a limited pool of qualified candidates exists.

Benefits for companies
Companies using executive search firms benefit for various reasons. A key factor is the firm's knowledge and access to a particular sector in an industry or its grip on the pool of candidates.
Search firms organize their domains on the basis of practice and function, with focus mainly on experts from finance or human resources. For companies hiring search agencies mean absolute discretion, and an external perspective and doing away with time constraints.

Wooing Candidates
Search firms have the expertise not only to find the best candidates for a position but also to convince candidates on new offers on the basis of good packages and get them on board even if they may not have been looking for a sudden career move.

Tuesday 11 June 2013

Quality Preparation for ISB Interview




Before preparing for ISB interview, you need to know about the interview panel, which comprises of 2 or 3 interviewers. The panelusuallyhas an alumnus or two and an admission committee person. Professors are not a part of the panel. The interview is completely focused to weigh one’s leadership qualities, team skills, analytical skills, clarity of thoughts, and most importantlythe communication skills. Theseare the necessary qualities an applicant should prepare for before going for the ISB interview.


Analytical Skills
The applicant should prepare for the “case based question”for enhancing the analytical skills. Some of them are very general, but quite interesting to analyze, like number of book shops in India, number of television sets sold in current year, ratio of different income groups, age groups, and gender groups in India. You may also be asked for the approximate population of India. Thus, it is very clear that there is no perfect or unique answer to these questions, but it is just asked to observe your analyzing power. You should prepare to give a logical answer, which could perfectly match to the interviewers understanding.