Count-less choices
The rapidly expanding financial services sector offers innumerable job opportunities, writes Usha Albuquerque
Fifty thousand new jobs expected in the banking, financial services and insurance sector, say the business magazines in their predictions for the year. Enough to make any student with an interest in accounting and finance head straight for a good training programme.

Corporate chat
Jobs adding up fast in finance
Mukul K. Gupta, Chief Financial Officer and Head, Bancassurance, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company, has been part of the core senior management group involved in starting and managing the operations of the life company.

• Many growth avenues for financial analysts

Moving into marketing
Today, successful marketing is the lifeblood of any business. People with strong marketing skills are in demand wherever there is a product, service or even an idea to be sold, writes Roopa Hegde
Mention ‘marketing’ and some people are quick to imagine smooth-talking salesmen in check sport coats with polished, high-pitched voices, persuading customers to buy stuff. Still others visualise marketing as a complicated blend of mind reading and magical wand waving to come up with a winning scheme.

Trendmill
Only 1.6 pc US jobs outsourced to India, China
India and China account for only 1.6 per cent of the total employment of US multinationals by way of outsourcing, government figures have revealed, dispelling notions spread by critics of offshoring that the two countries are swallowing American jobs.

Fortnightly Quiz-239

Career Hotline
Big opportunities behind small screen
Pervin Malhotra
Q What is the work involved in TV production? How is it different from direction?
A Television production incorporates multiple tasks: from managing the entire production process to ensuring that the programme is made within the stipulated budget and time.