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CAREERCATURE
by
Sandeep Joshi
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He is lazy, dull-headed and good for nothing. Won’t politics be the best career for him?
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Serving
the needy a rewarding
job
A natural disaster, like
the recent tsunami, fires the people’s desire to do social service.
For a few weeks or, may be, months. But not many take up social work for
a lifetime, or for a living. The presence of flush-with-funds NGOs is,
however, making social work not only a rewarding career option but also
a paying one, writes Inderdeep Thapar
THIS
is one field which is a blind spot as far as career consciousness is
concerned. Social work is generally perceived either as a voluntary
service area or a low remuneration field. The proliferation of study
programmes in social work in recent years, however, belies the above
notion.
BITS AND BYTES
IIM-B tie-up
for management courses
IIM
Bangalore has entered into a formal partnership with Hughes to offer
long-term programmes for working professionals, according to a Press
release. Students can benefit from this tie-up and the availability of
these programmes at the DiRECWAY Global Education classrooms, as they
can now take advantage of these two programmes without traveling to
other cities.
INTERVIEW INTELLIGENCE
"Be confident,
not cocky"
A
student of the Class of 2003-05 in the University Business School,
Panjab University, Anuj Puri has an engineering background. He was
recently selected as a management trainee by HDFC Bank. He offers tips on
preparing for and taking an interview:
SMART SKILLS
Head for healthy growth
in paramedical services
Usha Albuquerque
TANYA
was extremely disappointed when after a 92 per cent in Class XII she was
unable to clear the Pre-Medical Test for a seat in a medical
college. While preparing for yet another attempt at the PMT, Tanya
enrolled for a B. Sc in Physiotherapy too. A year later, she is finding
her course in Physiotherapy so interesting that she has given up trying
for the PMT.
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