The IIM tag is earning for army officers what it regularly earns for students straight out of college: big bucks.

Over 90 per cent of the officers who made up the first batch of the Directorate-General of Resettlement-sponsored business management certificate course for the armed forces at IIM Calcutta were placed before completing the six-month course.

And the average salary was about Rs 13 lakh-plus per annum. Some got offers of more than Rs 20 lakh per annum for senior management positions, including those of chief operating officer.

Over 20 companies from various sectors — from retail and marketing to construction, information technology to banking — recruited from the campus. The companies included the Sharaf Group, ITC, ICICI Bank, Cummins, Wipro and Apeejay Group.

“The officers have immense manpower management skills and are extremely target-driven, which makes them ideal for corporate positions. But we are surprised by the response from companies,” said Prafulla Agnihotri, the programme director.

The second batch of army men expects the companies to queue up when their course ends in September. For many of the participants, who are between 27 and 55 years old, the course is an opportunity to break out of a mould.

“There is a notion that former armymen are best suited to jobs in administration or security. But army officers are capable of much more,” said brigadier Atul Mishra, a part of the second batch.

The 55-year-old wants to put into practice in the corporate world what he has learnt during his 34 years in the army. “Management is what we have been doing all our lives though we did not have formal education in the field.”

Major Biju, a member of the first batch, felt that it helped him get acquainted with the “terminology and technicalities” of the corporate world.

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Come May and Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) is a certificate program in network management (Linux), in conjunction with Nettech, Bhubaneswar-based network engineering companies for students.

More than 250 of technocrats Orissa, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other northern states, participating in the program. Companies located in Bhubaneswar, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with XLRI the implementation of the training.

Head of the XLRI? No information systems department, Ashish Kumar Pani, is also the coordinator of the program said? The programme aims to build a base of technical know-how with regard to Linux and Linux-based solutions available on the market. There is a lack of adequate training opportunities for Linux in the country. The XLRI-Nettech tie-up would certainly be in favour of engineering students.?

Pani said candidates for the certificate course is to pay Rs 6000 and should have been online for simulated laboratory examination, the real test of skills and capabilities to Linux, an operating system advanced computer.

With the Directorate General of Resettlement, a wing of the army, near Indian Institute of Management (IIM) from Calcutta to negotiate management techniques of ex-soldiers who joka Campus is a new group of students, from 9 April.

“We have 24 weeks for certification, of course, the ex-soldiers, taking into account the need to improve employability in companies,” said Sushil Khanna, President of the Board and management of the programme development.

The milestones for retirement and service short Commission officers are divided into four modules, three of the seven weeks and one for every three weeks. After Khanna, the program modules are available in the fields of finance, marketing, organizational behavior, in collaboration with other courses such as economic and legal framework in the management aspects. Participants must also undertake the project.

“Our officers learn management skills, while the force, but they must be some formal training and, to some extent the resolution of conflicts in civilian life,” said a spokesman of the armed forces.

The fee for the certificate course is Rs 1.4 lakh, which participants must pay 56000 R and the rest is supported by the government. Although the Institute of placement may help some, the primary responsibility in finding a job is among students.

The Branch has 75 participants - 51 of the Army, 12 Air Force and 12 Navy - for the program.

The directorate has also closely linked to other B-schools, as the IIMS in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Lucknow and Indore.

“If officers are insured, the colony to a decent life after their service in the army, more and more qualified people are attracted, services,” says Khanna, adding that the Institute has made plans for the implementation of the certification program twice a year.

It’s a Sunday afternoon and class time for 39-year-old IT worker Seema Shetty. Her feet curled under her in a swivel chair, she sits in front of a computer monitor, adjusts a set of headphones, and scribbles in a notebook. Shetty, who works for consulting firm Mastek in Mumbai, is in a virtual classroom in the Vile Parle suburb, where a dozen computers link students to some of India’s elite management institutions. Today’s class is a three-hour general management lecture, part of the online education course conducted by the Xavier Labor Relations Institute in Jamshedpur, in the remote northern Indian state of Jharkhand.

A consultant for various industries from insurance to banking, Shetty signed up for an online certificate course to “learn more about my clients’ business requirements,” she says. By enrolling in the 14-month, six-hour-per-weekend online course, at a cost of $4,600, she can further her education without having to take a two-year career break to get an MBA. Learning online, says Shetty hopefully, “will definitely boost my job prospects.”

Shetty is part of a growing tribe of working professionals and students in India who have enrolled for online education certification. While it’s difficult to determine numbers of students, the online education market in India today generates about $200 million in revenue, and industry experts expect it to touch $1 billion by the end of the decade. The winning proposition: Getting knowledge from top-notch professionals without disrupting fast-track careers.

Mumbai, May 17 - The training required by some countries of the mega-sized call centers are so large that educational institutions, pushing package of services specific customer for the new chance.

At least two required training - NIIT Ltd and the Centre for Management Excellence, research and development of Mumbai-South India Education Society (Sies) - have signed a memorandum of understanding with Reliance Infocomm for Call Center Training . A portion of training for the immediate needs of Reliance Infocomm, but it seems that training for primary Corporate Call Center for future subcontracting and outsourcing activities.

“This means that for managing call centers like many others. In any case, they plan a global player in the field of outsourcing. So, we are also going to the training of Call-Center Director and Head exploitation. indeed, Program Manager, we are developing is the lead to a diploma or certificate course, “said Professor K. Neelakantan, director (Call Center and training) on Sies Centre for Management Excellence. “Call-Center employees must develop and we are growing their career and management skills, it can not grow unless , To acquire management skills as well.

The Centre of Excellence for the management of call centres is undergoing training for training Reliance Infocomm employees, “said Professor Neelakantan.

Former trainees would be borne by the Institute of Sies-Run-colleges in Mumbai, for a class, and increasingly be picked up by Reliance Infocomm. Reliance itself currently operates recruitment and sends its employees in the center, said Professor Neelakantan.

Recruits are soft skills training, product knowledge, telephone etiquette, attitudes and the general development of Customer Relationship Management. 21 days of a Call-Center-learning programme is the point. During the period ahead, the centre is the development of training programmes for all Reliance Infocomm-Call-Center-frame, “said Professor Neelakantan.

Reliance’s Call-Center capacity of 5500, while the actual number of employees is more than 3200

A spokesman said in NIIT The company has concluded an agreement with Reliance Infocomm for the necessary training. “But we can not offer moredetails,” he said.

Call-Center-Training is an almost virgin territory and a few establishments in the country have taken courses or training programs certified. There will be no time before other training institutions in the country development programmes Call Center Management. “We belong to one of the earliest birds, that’s all,” said an official with the group Sies.

Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi said that the training and experience of defence, while officials at the service not to provide good jobs in companies worldwide, unless their skills are new and parameters are cast according to the needs of the economy. He spoke for six months to open a Certificate Course in Business Administration army officers in the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon today. Air Chief praised the efforts in this regard by the Directorate General of Resettlement (DGR), was recruited the support of the management of renowned institutions in the country to implement such courses.

At the beginning of his speech, the Director General of Resettlement, Major General KS Sindhu stressed the need for such courses for defence and officers, it is preparing in the economy after the retirement from active service.

The DGR of the newly created chair for the ex-soldiers of prosperity, Ministry of Defence has taken the initiative in the direction of sanitation officers to retire empanelling reputed institutes, for example, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, MDI Gurgaon, and Narsee Monjee Institute for Economic Research, Mumbai, to run “Certificate Course in Business Management” of six months, only for officers of the army, navy and air force. This course is structured so that encapsulate the needs of the economy and industry, while parallel to the great diversity of experiences and menus officers of service and therefore upon arrival the best combination.

Two of these first courses were MDI Gurgaon and IIM, from 1 Lucknow at 17 September 2004 and February 2, 2005 At January 16, 2005 June 2005. Prices have been a phenomenal success because the desire of all officers of safeguarding jobs in the corporate sector, were very good places. This course MDI Gurgaon is the third of the series and is about fifty officers.

Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi said that the training and experience to the defense, while officers in service is not providing good jobs in businesses around the world, unless their skills and attitudes are now trained to Meeting the needs of the business community. He talked about the opening of a course of six months Certificate Course in Business Administration for Armed Forces Officers in Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon today. Air Chief commended the efforts made in this regard by the Directorate General of Resettlement (DGR), has been successful in recruiting assistance from the institutions renowned management of the country for the implementation of these courses.

Elders in his speech, the Director General of Resettlement, Major General KS Sindhu underlined the necessity of such courses for the Defence Officers, it prepares and reflect the company in the sector after the withdrawal from active service.

The DGR chair of the newly created for the former Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence has taken the initiative in the direction of the improvement of the retired officers by empanelling renowned institutions such as Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, MDI Gurgaon, and institutes Narsee Monjee of Management Studies, Mumbai, to run “Certificate Course in Business Management” of six months, only to the officers of the army, navy and army ‘ air. This course is structured in such a way to encapsulate the needs of business and industry at the same time, and with the wide range of experience in service for officers and arriving at the best combination.

Two of these courses were first MDI Gurgaon and IIM, Lucknow, from 1 At September 17, 2004 and February 2, 2005 January 2005 until June 16, 2005. Both courses have been a phenomenal success, as all the officers Wishing to safeguard jobs in the sector of the company were very good places. The current level courses MDI Gurgaon is the third in the series, and at the fifty officers.

Authors line: Akhel Mathew, correspondent

A school for training fighter Keralite offers abroad will be opened on March 5 in the commercial capital of Kerala’s Kochi.

“The new school is in Kochi and is a joint venture between the non-resident Keralites Affairs Department (Norka) and the School of Communications and Management Studies (SCMS) Aluva,” said President of Roots Norka MM Hassan.

Norka-Roots is an autonomous state government provides that, after all matters relating to the NRKs.

Hassan said Overseas Indian Affairs Jagdish Tytler, Minister for the inauguration of the school.

There are about 1.7 million Keralites working abroad, of which nearly 90 percent in the Gulf region.

It offers vocational training for the growing number of nurses are going to the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Australia.

“During the next year, nearly 164000 are nurses in the United States, Britain, 27000, 32000 and 33500 in Germany and Australia. Finish This school is very helpful because the necessary infrastructure, such as teaching laboratories equipped Available “, said Hassan.

Courses include the CGFNS and N-Clex, both a must for nurses seeking employment in the West.

In addition, English Certificate course as TOEFL and IELTS is also of value.

Chennai, Nov. 7. THE Rural Network, in association with the Management Development Centre of LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration), Chennai, will conduct a short-term part-time course in rural marketing and communication.

To be conducted over the weekends at LIBA’s campus in Chennai, the three-month certificate course - starting January 17 - is aimed at middle and senior managers operating in the marketing or management space, said a press release.

Apart from lectures and case study presentations, the programme - which is priced at Rs 12,500 - includes planned visits to villages, based on which the participants will be expected to present a project report, adds the release.