How to help your child pick the right subjects?
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Musicians, Film makers, animators, art producers and designers – technology companies offer opportunities to participate in creative processes, as well as many jobs, attractive salaries and growth options. Here is a sampling of some creative jobs within technology firms (read art-based jobs because of course, developing software, too, is creative). I have picked a sampling […]
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This article was first published in the Hindu on January 15, 2022. Be it the Ivy Leagues in the U.S., Oxbridge in the U.K., the University of Toronto in Canada or Ashoka University in India, top colleges get thousands of applications for their few hundred seats. However, their admission processes look beyond marks and standardised […]
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What is Economics all about? What are the career options in this field?
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on October 18, 2021. Being a career and college counselor means signing up for a lot of anxiety. We deal with anxious parents, students on a roller coaster of exams, grades, pressure and deadlines. Not to mention hormones. And then we have the performance anxiety of making it […]
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This article first appeared in The Hindu on August 15, 2020. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” said Winston Churchill during World War II. While entrepreneurs, business leaders, teachers and financial wizards manage to make the crisis work for them, many students are attempting to make the most of their “gap year”. However, […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on August 14, 2021. As a country, we are obsessed with grades. According to data from the Ministry of Home Affairs, around 2,500 students commit suicide each year; most due to exam failure. So good and bad grades in Classes 10 and 12 affect mood, self-esteem and future […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on May 22, 2021. It is now clear that we are hurtling towards a new world. While Engineering and Medicine continue to explode with possibilities, here are some other career options that are becoming important. This list has been put together after exploring job sites, reports from consulting […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on November 13, 2020. Technology, globalisation and digitisation have opened the doors to many exciting opportunities “Why Vice-President, why not President?” This hilarious meme of an Indian parent in the wake of Kamala Harris’ historic win made me laugh but it’s also a reminder of the pressure caused […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on December 19, 2020. Does what you do matter? Or is one job as good as the other? How does it matter what you do? Just find the job that pays you the best; as long as it is legal. In fact, why work at all? The luckiest […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on February 13, 2021. Here are 10 interesting and exciting interdisciplinary courses from across the world. Interdisciplinary is the thing. This pandemic has led to the almost-demise of the already tenuous boundaries between regions and between job roles and careers. This is the age of the expert who […]
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As a student, you have an opportunity to attend any lecture in any department. This means you could be listening to a Geography lecture one day, and on another day, attending a lecture by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. Most faculty members follow an open-door policy and I have found it very easy to approach almost every single professor that I come across.
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Companies who generally hire engineers are reluctant to hire CS graduates, therefore I did a 4th year to be more at par with the engineering students. In your last year, you can start applying for jobs. Ashoka was quite active in applying for jobs for students. They do help you through the process of getting a job, making the CV, polishing your interview skills.
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The simple point I am making is that many successful dropouts dropped out to handle their growing careers, not to escape dreary lectures. They no longer needed a college degree – a compelling path to success was laid out to them and college was, in fact, a minor inconvenience to it.
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Psychology is a game changer in all fields today – be it business or international relations, artificial intelligence or advertising. Machines can analyse thing better than humans, but it takes a human being to make sense of them.
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Money is in for a real makeover this decade and finance careers are changing faster than you can say Bitcoin.
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Armed with technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing, modern-day designers are changing everything about the-world-as-we-know-it – what we wear, how we travel, how we bring up our children, how we have fun and how we relate to others…
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The Economic Times 40 Under 40 list for 2018 gives us a look at contemporary leaders from inMobi, Oyo, Puma India, Hindalco, Endemol Shine India, Bira, Lowe Lintas, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Mobikwik, Zomato, Jabong-Myntra and Bain & Co. And the colleges they went to include IITs Kanpur, Kharagpur and Delhi, Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University Bihar, Maharishi Dayanand University Rohtak, SIBM Pune, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Mumbai University, Indian Law Society’s Law College Pune, Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya Bhopal and Presidency College, Kolkata. The list is a testimony to the caliber of these people themselves and not a listing of India’s Top Colleges – barring a spattering of IITs.
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