Websites to find Internship opportunities in India

Most of my Juniors are worried about their internship, which is required to be completed by them as per their course curriculum. The major disadvantage is often faced by the people who, opt for the specialization other than Marketing, because very less companies visit the campus, for the role of a intern, for specialization other than finance.


The reason behind is very simple....


For the people opting marketing, any company is ready to take them, as the company just want them to do sales of its products and services. But for the people of other specialization, its very difficult to get a good project during the internship.


I am writing below about some of the ways to seek internship, hope would be useful for the readers....

Below are some of the websites, which turns out to be useful for seeking the internship opportunities.

 Twenty19.com:

Twenty19  offers students and companies a platform to connect for internships and projects.This website also provides information on a plethora of opportunities that students can take part in to gain practical exposure and enhance their profile. The portal is absolutely free of cost for the students as well as colleges. Twenty19 has a range of student opportunities like internships, projects , tech-fests, scholarships, business plan contests, cultural and symposiums, conferences, volunteering opportunities, summer internships etc.

Letmeknow.in:

 If you want to know about all the scholarship you can apply too,or college and their fest or competition and contest you can take part in or fellowship or workshop, here is a portal which will help you.Let Me Know covers latest internships, scholarships, competitions, conferences and events in the fields of business, technology, entrepreneurship, arts, culture and social innovation

Indianinternship.com:

 This website provides internship details for MBA Internship, BE / BTech Internships, MCA Internship, Graduates Internships, Summer Internships, This portal offer free registration and contain thousands of internship opportunities to choose from .

Hellointern.com:

  HelloIntern ,launched by some IIT Bombay folks in year 2006, this website helps interns find the right apprenticeship opportunities with companies. The portal provides information about internships at various location in India and also shows the stipend offered. 

10internship.in :

 This is another website which has thousands of internship opportunities from various sectors like engineering,management,medicine etc.Although it is not so famous among students and designing is also not attractive but it is worth giving a shot when you are desperately looking for some internship opportunity in India because many times there are internships that you won't find anywhere else.

In my next post, I would also tell what you should seek as a project in a company and how to go for it.

Difference among CV, Resume and Bio Data

Often I had a doubt about what is a difference between CV, Resume and Biodata. On a broader note I know the difference between Biodata and Resume, but CV and Resume was difficult.

Finally I got to know the difference among three and I am sharing the same with you all.

Difference among CV, Resume and Bio Data

People use the words RESUME, C.V., and BIO-DATA interchangeably for the document highlighting skills, education, and experience that a candidate submits when applying for a job. On the surface level, all the three mean the same. However, there are intricate differences.

RESUME

Resume is a French word meaning "summary", and true to the word meaning, signifies a summary of one's employment, education, and other skills, used in applying for a new position. A resume seldom exceeds one side of an A4 sheet, and at the most two sides. They do not list out all the education and qualifications, but only highlight specific skills customized to target the job profile in question.

A resume is usually broken into bullets and written in the third person to appear objective and formal. A good resume starts with a brief Summary of Qualifications, followed by Areas of Strength or Industry Expertise in keywords, followed by Professional Experience in reverse chronological order. Focus is on the most recent experiences, and prior experiences summarized. The content aims at providing the reader a balance of responsibilities and accomplishments for each position. After Work experience come Professional Affiliations, Computer Skills, and Education.

C.V CURRICULUM VITAE

C.V is a Latin word meaning "course of life". Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) is therefore a regular or particular course of study pertaining to education and life. A CV is more detailed than a resume, usually 2 to 3 pages, but can run even longer as per the requirement. A CV generally lists out every skills, jobs, degrees, and professional affiliations the applicant has acquired, usually in chronological order. A CV displays general talent rather than specific skills for any specific positions.

BIO DATA

Bio Data the short form for Biographical Data, is the old-fashioned terminology for Resume or C.V. The emphasis in a bio data is on personal particulars like date of birth, religion, sex, race, nationality, residence, martial status, and the like. Next comes a chronological listing of education and experience. The things normally found in a resume, that is specific skills for the job in question comes last, and are seldom included. Bio-data also includes applications made in specified formats as required by the company.

A resume is ideally suited when applying for middle and senior level positions, where experience and specific skills rather than education is important. A C.V., on the other hand is the preferred option for fresh graduates, people looking for a career change, and those applying for academic positions. The term bio-data is mostly used in India while applying to government jobs, or when applying for research grants and other situations where one has to submit descriptive essays.

Resumes present a summary of highlights and allow the prospective employer to scan through the document visually or electronically, to see if your skills match their available positions. A good resume can do that very effectively, while a C.V. cannot. A bio-data could still perform this role, especially if the format happens to be the one recommended by the employer. Personal information such as age, sex, religion and others, and hobbies are never mentioned in a resume. Many people include such particulars in the C.V. However, this is neither required nor considered in the US market. A Bio-data, on the other hand always include such personal particulars.

Student Suicide: The Last Option

Recently, my younger brother has appeared for his 12th class examination, after he had completed his papers, I had a word with him and he was very much worried about his Mathematics paper as many of his question were not correct, as per his analysis.


Few days back I was just watching a video describing "Student Suicides". Without watching the video, I recalled in my mind, how people can share such videos on such public sites but then I watched the video and found something very interesting in it.


Here is the video for you all, and a small write up regarding reasons for "Student suicides" and how we can help them to avoid.

Student Suicide: The Last Option

EDUCATORS in India are worried over an increasing figure - that of the rising suicide rate among adolescents. Its main cause? The pressure to do well in school, said a Times of India (TOI) report. And the pressure is not from teachers but from parents,the report added. 


India has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and recent studies suggest about 40 percent are adolescents. At least 125 people aged 29 years or below are committing suicide every day and 51 per cent of the total suicide victims are graduates, college students or younger.


In several cases, students commit suicide after failing exams, according to local newspaper reports. In Mumbai alone, 25 students have taken their lives since beginning of the year, leaving parents, teachers and officials struggling to understand the reason behind the deaths.


High marks, college admissions


Mr Mahesh Poddar is one such grieving parent as his daughter, Mini, committed suicide in 2001 when she was 15 years old. She was distraught about college admissions and had just missed out on getting into the college of her choice.


Union human resource minister Kapil Sibal said that the sudden spike in suicides among students is a result of the growing parental pressures on the child to beat his peers, said TOI.


In many cases, the trigger appears to be academic pressure, said a report in CNN.


India's education system is based on rote learning, or memorisation, with a strong emphasis on scoring high marks. Authorities are organising counselling sessions, said Mr. Sanjay Kumar, education secretary of Maharashtra state, in which Mumbai is located.


The suicides were a wake-up call for educators, said Mrs Sangeeta Srivastava, principal of Sardar Vallabhai Patel Vidyala, a government school in North Mumbai. Though none of the recent suicide cases in the city involved students from her school, she is worried.


Recently, a student from her school ran away from home before exams. She said: "As teachers, we have a lot of effect on the students, even more than parents have."

What we can do?

Improvement in studies 
Analyze the cause of student's failure in examination. Most of the students fail in the examination because they do not study effectively. If the rate of failure is reduced then automatically the rate of suicide also comes down. The students, parents and the teachers should induce a proper methodology of studying. The students also should be aware that if they do not study effectively, they fail in the examination. If they fail in the examination they are unable to bear such a failure in life because they become answerable to their parents and society. If the students are well-aware of the future consequences then they shall take an initiative step to study effectively. The board should take some initiative step at the same time to reduce the rate of failures.

Induce the right values and ethics 
The students today are not seriously taught the importance of ethics and values in life. The students become materialistic too early because they only view the splendors and riches of life and are lured. They should obviously know the techniques that is introduced in the market and should be updated with all the latest information from all sources. But they should not forget the values and ethics of life. Usually if the parents are not particular about the values then the children cannot realize the importance. The parents may only realize the importance when the children undertake a drastic step in life. Most of them are today not aware about the importance of human life. If you are not born with our own wish then how do we have the right to take away our own life? This concept should be inculcated in the minds of children. The children can learn such values only when they are taught the importance of spirituality.

Introduction of holy texts as a subject in school 
The scripts of holy texts teach the people about the wisdom of life. Many people misinterpret that the holy texts deviate the children from the real life but on the contrary the Geeta teaches the people the game of life. The children learn to solve life's problems when they are introduced with the subjects like Geeta. Although they may not understand the meaning at such a tender age but the parents become aware after viewing the books. The children can understand the language of the holy texts when they grow up. The teachers should properly explain how the holy texts play an important role in day-to-day life.

Conducting workshops about solving problems 
The school or the board should take special initiative to arrange programs in school to teach the lesson about solving problems. The workshops should demonstrate that how the students should tackle the life's problems easily and the tactics to solve life's problems. They should also explain how to deal with failures in life very easily. The students must be benefited by the workshops.

Special counseling for failed students 
The teachers or school counselors can specially call the students who have flunked in the examination and provide counseling individually with personal care. This session can be conducted after the unit tests or preliminary tests are conducted. These sessions cannot be conducted after final examination because the students are not available in schools. The counselors or the teachers can counsel the students in such a way that even if they fail later on they must be able to manage their failure.

Role of the parents 
The parents should be co-operative to their children after they fail in the examination. Some students commit suicide due to the fear of parents. The parents should never take any severe step after the child has already failed. They cannot change the destiny of the students after the child has already failed. The parents should be made aware that they should be stricter with their children before the period of examinations. Let the parents prevent the rate of failures instead of punishing them when they fail in the examination. If the parents can punish so severely after the children fail then let them question themselves that if they have taken any step to prevent failures? If the child is depressed due to failure in exam, then they should console them to relieve them out of depression. The child really needs you if he or she is depressed with the failure. You must teach the children to become bold and face the problems in a better way.

The students should be thoughtful 
The students should console themselves before feeling depressed. If they have already failed in the examination they have not failed the game of life. They shall come across several exams and several tests of life in the future. They should also realize that the door to opportunities are open in the future and make use of it. They should realize that failures are the stepping stones for success in life and believe themselves. 


Sources:
1. http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/138518-How-prevent-suicide-rates-students-who-fail.aspx
2. http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100205-196894.html

Choosing the MBA Specialization

I am in a deli ma and some of my friends are also in a deli ma about which specialization we should choose, I tried to search out for this answer and finally I got this which I think can help some of us 


Solve this puzzle. How to choose your specialization?

Heres your answer: Marketing is for those who can talk well. Finance is for those who are good with numbers. Operations are for those (who are good with numbers plus) with a manufacturing background. HR is for those who can handle the touchy feely stuff - or those who are bad at maths or non engineers, if you want to be politically incorrect. There is always MBA in IT that is available for those who came from an IT background or those who want to go to an IT company. End of puzzle.

That is the common street talk on the specializations on the MBA circuit. Add minors and majors to the mix and you can think of yourself as a person who has a major ability to talk well and a minor interest in IT, therefore you pick up a Marketing - IT combo. Now, if you can see for yourself how absurd this is, you will know what I am driving at.

What is important to remember is that none of the specializations are mutually exclusive in real life. Which is obvious, considering business is not meant to be mutually exclusive. Anything and everything in an organization and real life is interconnected.

Second, as a human being, who has cleared various tests and reached the doors of the MBA, your ability to learn and pick up any specialization is also a given. Which means, if it was about passing exams and gaining a specialization, you can clear an MBA with flying colours in any specialization. Don't agree. If could you could do so in graduation, why not in post grad?

And then, there are trends. Or call them fads. Organizations see demand going up or down for certain specializations depending on what state of the business cycle they are in, the economy (of their target market) is in. If you wish to cash in on that, don't. Trends will come and go, but both your passion and your qualification will remain.

So, how does one approach specializations?

Many years ago, at an interview for one of Indias most recognized automobile companies, was a line up of eager students, including me. One of us walked out post interview and as it happens, we were eager to know what did they ask him. He said, much to our surprise, 'they asked me about the fielding positions in cricket and I was able to do it instantly'. Instantly, one of the students in the room drew up a sheet of paper, grabbed a friend and having jotted down the positions, started memorizing the fielding positions in cricket. After all that appeared to be the trend. What he did not realize was that the company was basically looking for the level of passion of the engineer when they asked him what his favourite sport was. (Needless to say the guy who drew the cricket fielding positions made it.)

Very often we tend to approach specializations in the same way.

Heres one example. Let us say that you are a Chartered Accountant. So, your grounding in accounts is impeccable. From here, can you become an IT requirements consultant in Finance? Check. Can you move onto marketing financial services or working with potential overseas investors? Check. Can you handle operations in a BPO or a Bank with an added MBA degree? Check Or you are deeply passionate about HR? Check.

Replace CA with any other degree and you will find that it is almost impossible to justify why anybody with any qualification should or should not take up a particular specialization.

Heres a thumb rule. Remember, that the MBA is an addition to your 15 or 16 plus years of what you have already done. So, if you are an engineer or an economics student, the MBA is just the icing on the cake - the cake is what you already have - the sum total of your studies and your experience. Now take a second look at those specializations. And then take a long hard look at your interest and strengths. What do you like to do will answer the former while what you are good at will answer the latter. A combination of these three should ideally lead you to the specializations. If you are in doubt or in a fantasy about the nature of jobs after acquiring the said specialization, please meet a few people who are in the kind of job you long to do and ask them exactly what they do. Beyond jargon, beyond the gloss, beyond the job description, ask them what is the exact work that they do and if that interests you.

So, once again, think about why are you in the race for an MBA. At the end of the MBA what would you want to become and why? It is important to like what you are into, regardless of what your friends are into. It is equally important to be good at your job. By no means does that mean that you can be ignorant of other specializations. And as you work in organizations, you will realize that many are.

So, if you are in for a regular specialization, it is self evident. (If it is not, talk to people you have worked with or know you well or with a professional counsellor - they will help you.) If you have the choice of two, use that choice wisely. Just taking the hottest two together may not be the best message you convey to a potential recruiter - it will not help you masquerade as "either". Think Icing, think Cake.

Now, for the second part of an often asked question. Does it matter?

The answer is a tough one, though I would take a stand here that does not really matter in the long run. Heres why.

Once you enter into a company, the only thing that matters is performance. So, if you a finance specialist, if you perform you get to move higher. If you don't, the person who does, gets to move higher. As you gain in the years, it is important that you broaden your perspective as you go along. And what that means, knowing how the different parts of the business interplay and ensure success. Strategy means holding the different levers like the reins in a chariot so that your business runs smoothly in the right direction. Is that possible for a one trick pony? No.

Heres an exercise. Take a look at a sample size of CEOs (or whatever else is your goal) across industries. Find out what their education/specializations are. Do you see a correlation? Then, into this mix, ensure that you include a mix of large corporates, SMEs, neighbourhood businesses, start-ups in it. See that data again.

My bet is that there will be no correlation (indeed there will not even be a correlation of basic qualification or MBA or anything else).

And if there is, you know which specialization to take...