Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

Source : prurgent.com

Forget the slowdown. It is always Hindustan Lever, P & G and Coca-Cola win, that the most luminous talent.

A recent study by the consultancy firm Synovate research shows that, despite the recession, the FMCG sector which remains the preferred choice among students career management across Inde’s first B-schools.

Students in the country Top-20 B-schools, including the Indian Institute of Management (IIMS), Faculty of Management Studies in New Delhi, Symbiosis in Pune, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, FMCG-classified as the first choice of profession.

While 60 per cent of students said they would choose a job in a FMCG company in any other sector.

Banking and finance, computing and collectively, have been assessed as the second choice of profession preferred. These two sectors have a preference score of 58 percent of all students at the School of Management.

Follow-up consultancy firms with a ranking of No. 3, with 55 percent of students say they apply for a job. Advertising was the only other option career of more than 50 percent classified as students preferred profession.

Sectors which does comments below 50 percent contain telecommunications (44 per cent, the first part of their career choice), the use of capital goods (42 percent), cars (36 percent) and media (32 percent).

A career in the health sector was rated the least attractive to the B-students and pupils, with only 10% of students say they would support a work in the industry.

Three sectors, the B-students said they would certainly not apply were for automobiles, media and healthcare.

While 58 per cent students said they would certainly not believe that a career in the health sector, 43 percent said they do not apply to employment in the media sector. And as much as 39 percent of students, said a car was not the preferred choice of a profession.

“Career choice is the Blue-Chip-companies worldwide an attractive remuneration packages. It is the perception of the company and the industry is not providing advice that students in vocational choices” , Said an official of Synovate. So, despite the slowdown FMCG, he focused on the booming sectors such as telecommunications.

Industry officials said gloss varnish assessments of health was the fact that the packages are not attractive remuneration.