Tag Archives: career

Letter to an MBA

By Nistha | Published: December 24, 2009
I have to share this. It’s a long yet interesting read on the topic – ‘What to expect and what to aim for as an MBA’. It can be extrapolated along more generic lines of professional success as well. Read the full post here by Jullien Gordon. I am just quoting few punch lines here [...]
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Desperate enough for unpaid internships?

By Nistha | Published: May 6, 2009
Economy is struggling. Jobs are vanishing. Fresh college graduates have nowhere to go: defer graduation, accept any employment (unpaid temporary positions) or use a consultant to keep the visa status afloat. In not so popular fields, students have always gone for unpaid internships in dream of converting them to full-time. But the phenomenon is now [...]
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Witnessing a shift in career visions and realities

By Nistha | Published: April 17, 2009
Few interesting excerpts from NYTimes’s “With Finance Disgraced, Which Career Will Be King?” Today, the financial crisis and the economic downturn are likely to alter drastically the career paths of future years. The contours of the shift are still in flux, in part because there is so much uncertainty about the shape of the economic [...]
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