Placement Criteria for MBAs

1. Compiled by AQME (Association for Quality in Management Education) Selection Criteria of Corporates for MBAs?

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3. How companies select MBAs? Good companies don’t select anyone for having MBA as ‘just another degree’. More than knowledge – selection is based on ‘Attitude ‘ and ‘Skill’ ‘Brand image’ of the institute plays crucial role in initial selection. “Industry Ready” students are preferred because it saves lot of money on training

5. Industry needs ‘Team Player’ and not ‘Hero’ who is happy with one’s own success .

7. Focus on entrepreneurial approach (to treat organization as one’s own )

8. Train students to get jobs based on their MBA qualification and not that of graduation degree.

10. Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy

12. 1990 to 2000 – Very Good

14. Performance during Summer Internship Programme (SIP)

15. Pre MBA Qualification {Quality of graduation degree (BA, B. Com, B. Sc., B.Tech etc) & brand value of institute offering the same) }

16. Quality of Experience (before joining MBA Course)

17. Performance in campus interview (Knowledge, Skill and Attitude)

20. Multitasking & High Performance Focus

21. Ability to change complexity into simplicity

22. Prioritisation (Pareto principle - the 80-20 rule)

23. Care and concern for all ( Proper understanding of people, place and time)

24. Financial Intelligence with focus on details

25. Differentiation and Diversity management (basic approach of creativity, commitment, camaraderie & Team Spirit)

27. Ability to work in teams

28. Willingness to push the envelope (willing to go beyond what is defined)

29. Willingness to take risks and innovate

30. Ability to research and analyse data

31. Voicing and being able to stand up for your opinions (http://getahead.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/aug/26/slide-show-1-career-what-hiring-managers-wished-you-knew.htm)

32. A Survey of the Harvard Business School “Class of 1949” Qualities of MBA Executives When asked what advise they would give to young people who are starting their business career today, 1. “Putting the ethical side ahead of everything else“ was one of four pieces of advice at the consensus level (i.e., urged by more than 80 percent of all class members). The other three were: 2. “Learning to read and write effectively", 3. “Depending on yourself and not on your employer for security" and 4. “Learning a foreign language." http://www.danyankelovich.com/hbr49.pdf

34. Innovative approach to problems

35. Successful relationship building and networking

36. Professional credibility

37. Finding goodness in others

39. Who has patience and doesn’t react

40. Who has no likes and dislikes (region, religion, colour, caste and creed, gender)

41. Who believes in ‘giving’ and not ‘getting’

43. Leader must have a passion to transform the vision into action.

44. Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path

45. Leader must know how to manage success and failure.

46. Leader must have courage to take decisions.

47. Leader should have nobility in management.

48. Every action of the leader should be transparent.

50. Describe

51. Analyze

52. Predict and

54. Learning to take care of the details

55. Learning to work across cultures

56. Learning to make use of the gift of judgement and intuition

57. Using failure as a stepping stone to success

58. Learning a new, more holistic definition of success http://www.adityabirlascholars.net/aditya_birla_group/b_school.aspx

60. Success in life can be measured with level of happiness, kindness, peace of mind and love.

61. Academics may be poor predictor of workplace success. (This hardly implies that good academics are a guarantee for workplace failure.)

62. To get academic success (good grades) one need to do everything alone but in workplace success one need to get everything done through other people (team work).(Based on article by Mr. Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, Teamlease Services - The Times of India, Bangalore - Monday, November 24, 2008)

63. As per Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Founder, The Art of Living) A Business leader has to be… ‘Samadarshi’, one who sees everyone as being equal; ‘Satyadarshi’, who moves with the Truth; ‘Paradarshi’, who is transparent in action; ‘Doordarshi’, being broad - minded and a visionary; and ‘Priyadarshi’, embodying love and compassion.

65. Allows risk taking

66. Makes workplace a fun

67. Respects team members’ opinions & views

68. Believes in equity, fairness and justice

69. Permits team members to experiment and learn from mistakes & failures

71. Meet with Your People Individually

72. Set Objectives

73. Make a Memorable Gesture

74. Have a Department Plan

75. Develop Each Person (Including Yourself)

76. Recognize Your Limitations

77. Cultivate a Mentor

78. Build Bridges with Other Departments

80. Be an Example

81. Energize

82. Treat Them Like Adults

83. Care About Them Personally

84. Keep Out Emotion

85. Delegate

86. Provide Ongoing Communication

87. Be Consistent

88. Reflect on Your Employees(http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/10/1008_first_time_managers/1.htm)

90. Analytical power

91. Magnanimity

92. Good sense of humour

93. Self Motivation

94. Effective Communication

95. Care and concern for others

96. Creativity & Innovativeness ‘Out of Box Thinking’ – going beyond existing rules & norms

98. Take the time to share your experiences and insights

99. Tell it to employees straight, even when it’s bad news

100. Manage up … effectively

101. Take the heat and share the praise

102. Delegate responsibility, not tasks

103. Encourage employees to hone their natural abilities and challenge them to overcome their issues

104. Build team spirit

105. Treat employees the way they deserve to be treated

106. Inspire your people (http://www.bnet.com/blog/ceo/10-things-that-good-bosses-do/5868)

108. Earn your happiness

109. Nothing succeeds like failure

110. Nothing fails like success

111. There has to be a better way

112. Respond, not react

113. Remain physically active

114. Never compromise on your core values

115. Play to win

117. To create hope about a better future for the organisation

118. Enhancing trust to create an environment where each person feels secure enough to be able to disclose his or her mistakes, and resolves to improve.

119. To create an environment where any employee can disagree with , without fear of reprisal.

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