TCS iON CCQT: An Undergraduate’s Best Shot at Landing a Job with 130+ Corporates

By CL -

February 21, 2019

CCQT, or the Common Corporate Qualifier Test, is of late carving a niche for itself. Conducted by TCS iON across all major cities in India, it is a 2-stage assessment for college students to qualify and get their profile shared with 130+ corporates.

Academic excellence is no guarantee for placement
The end goal of any college-going student, who has the ambition to make a name in the corporate sector is to land a job with a top corporate through campus placements. However, academic excellence does not always ensure one ends up in their dream company. A lot of factors can come in the way. For instance, the student’s college might not have a placement cell, or the company he/she may want to work in might not necessarily visit their campus for placements.
In such a situation, what are the options left for the student?

Enhance your chances for placements
Besides the fact that not every company visits every college for campus placements, not all students get offers during placement drives. Ask around, and you will find that securing off-campus employment is no piece of cake. This is why on-campus placement is taken very seriously.
To improve their chances of getting job offers during these placement drives, students need to boost their credentials. This is where CCQT plays a crucial role.

130+ corporates use CCQT to shortlist recruits
From the perspective of a college student, CCQT is the ticket to their dream job and a corporate career. Over 130 top recruiters, including Taj, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bajaj, RBL Bank, ICICI Lombard, Asian Paints, Bridgestone, Kirloskar, Eureka Forbes, TATA AIG, and Go Air, among others have partnered with TCS iON. This means these corporates will now use CCQT to shortlist new recruits. So, it makes sense for you to take the test!

Preparing for CCQT
CCQT is conducted in 2 stages. Stage 1 is further subdivided into a Mandatory section and an Optional section (on IT). The Mandatory Section involves a 90-minute test of 120 questions and 120 marks.
Career Launcher offers an exclusive training program on the Mandatory section to help accelerate your corporate journey. Give yourself the best shot at landing a job with top 130+ corporates by enrolling for Career Launcher’s online coaching program for TCS iON CCQT — the only certified CCQT training provider.

Manngailun Zou
Marketing Executive, Career Launcher

Why Non-tech, Non-management Undergraduates should take the CCQT Seriously

By CL -

February 21, 2019

Leading companies in India are on the lookout for the best and brightest of college students for employment. Campus placements are on the rise, with major MNCs taking the effort to source fresh talent from college campuses itself. However, there is an unfair bias in terms of placement opportunities, with the best packages being offered those who have a professional degree in either tech or management.

Where does that leave non-tech, non-management undergraduates?

As a non-tech, non-management college student, with your whole life ahead of you, how do you align your personal interests with the right career? How do you come in contact with the top employers in your chosen field? How do you distinguish yourself and grab the attention of top employers? How do you carve a niche for yourself and announce that you are just the right fit for them?

You do that by taking charge of your future and making the most of existing opportunities.

Take CCQT seriously
The future can seem bleak and scary for a regular undergraduate student, who has not studied management, or finance, or economics, or tech, or a field of study that sees maximum placement offers. TCS iON’s CCQT (Common Corporate Qualifier Test) pre-qualifies you for corporate hiring, thereby giving you the best shot at being recruited by top companies. More than 130 corporates, including Taj, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bajaj, RBL Bank, ICICI Lombard, Asian Paints, Bridgestone, Kirloskar, Eureka Forbes, TATA AIG, and Go Air, among others have already started using the CCQT as a selection criterion for their hiring process.

Don’t get left behind.

After all, the earlier you start working with a top company, easier it will be for you to climb the corporate ladder.

Take charge of your future today with Career Launcher’s online coaching program for TCS iON CCQT — the only certified CCQT training provider.

Manngailun Zou
Marketing Executive, Career Launcher

Machine Learning for Students

By CL -

February 20, 2019

As the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) progresses, the more immediate impact is in its ability to analyze and bring meaningful insights and predictions from the vast stockpiles of data available to companies today. The sub-domain of AI that deals with this field is Machine Learning (ML). The biggest differentiation going forward for businesses will be in their mastery of the possibilities and limitations of ML.

Just as one cannot, in this day and age, function without being able to read and write, in tomorrow’s world ML will become the new literacy. According to the World Economic Forum, in the next five years over half of the jobs in the world will be impacted by AI; and many of those people will need to be re-skilled.

Along with the great advances of ML, has come its democratization. A vast array of powerful tools is available for everyone; and they are free to use, free to take apart, learn from, and improve upon. No longer is it solely the domain of the upper echelons of mathematicians and computer scientists.

So, not only can anyone learn machine learning, in fact, everyone should learn it. The Machine Learning Program for Students is an initiative of Career Launcher to bridge the skill gap that exists in the country, in terms of shortage of ML professionals. The Program seeks to benefit students in their pursuit of an industry-relevant profession that is here to stay.

Career Launcher offers two programs in Machine Learning for students:

1. Machine Learning Fundamentals

2. Advanced Machine Learning

The Machine Learning Fundamentals Program is an introductory course, which will prepare you for the highly charged data-driven world by equipping you with the right skills. You will work on sets of data provided by Career Launcher’s partner companies; be taught the techniques that are used to build machine learning models; and get real-time exposure to employment-relevant hands-on projects which will help you become proficient in the understanding—and application—of ML.

The Advanced Machine Learning Program picks up where the Fundamental course ends, and covers boosting algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks, building APIs, search engines, and much more.

With the completion of this course, you will become proficient in the language of ML, be able to build your own ML algorithms, and be in a position to fluently understand data sets as you will now be competent in making use of data.

In short, this program holds the promise of transforming you into a skilled professional, well-skilled to land any Data Science-related job.

Why you should choose Career Launcher’s Machine Learning programs:
1. Internships & placements: Guaranteed internships and placements at CL Educate and other partner companies as a Data Science & Machine Learning professional is the key take-away.

2. Real-time exposure and industry-relevant projects: As part of the program, you will directly work on data sets provided by partner companies. What’s more, you will also get the opportunity to work on real-world business problems which are closely related with what a Data Science professional is actually expected to deliver at the workplace. This exposure will provide a much-valued boost to your CV.

3. Hands-on, distraction-free classroom learning: While there are lots of free ML courses available online, nothing beats the guidance that comes with offline classroom courses. In a classroom setting, not only are you able to better absorb what is being taught, but can also directly ask and get answers to your queries on-the-spot.

Want to know more about our Machine Learning Programs? click here

Manngailun Zou
Marketing Executive, Career Launcher

Beaches, Golf, and (Machine) Learning

By CL -

February 19, 2019

A Hands-on Skill Building Program for CXOs

CXOs, VPs, Directors, and top-level managers are critical assets in ensuring success for their organization. However, in today’s rapidly evolving world, it is vital for them to be not only business smart, but also tech savvy.

The demand now is for business leaders with a tech-driven mindset, who can harness the potential of cutting-edge technology like Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to make sure their organizations remain agile, flexible, and, adaptive to change.

It is with this objective in mind that Career Launcher is organizing a two-day, 13-hour, Machine Learning Retreat for Top Management from a diverse set of companies. An intensive, hands-on practical introduction to ML, the retreat has been designed in a way that even those from a non-programming background can enjoy and learn.

Why should you join this Retreat?
It is an ideal opportunity for you to gain an insight into how prediction problems are solved; understand how Artificial Neural Network implementation is helping industries; learn how to enable voice tech for your customers; and see how sales can be increased using ML, among others.

Dates: February 17 (Sun.) & 18 (Mon.), 2019

Venue: Azaya Beach Resort, Goa

For more details on Career Launcher’s Machine Learning Retreat for CXOs, please click here.

Manngailun Zou
Executive Marketing, Career Launcher

Rate Cut, Inflation, and Food Prices

By Academician -

February 19, 2019

Ashish Agarwal
Founder, India Business Analysis | IIT Roorkee, IIM-C alumnus

The Monetary Policy Committee’s recent decision to cut rate by 25 basis points does not come as a surprise, since CPI inflation has fallen from 3.4% in October 2018 to as low as 2.2% in December 18. However, a closer analysis of different price components reveals that the Committee may have taken the bait, which was not called for. It would not be surprising if RBI goes back to monetary tightening a few months from now, whenever crude prices record a sudden, sharp jump or food prices emerge from the current deflationary trend!

A rate cut just six months after increasing it, and a change of stance from “calibrated tightening” to “neutral” — having moved the other way round just four months ago — gives a sense of the highly volatile price environment and policy challenges being faced currently.

While the Committee has decided to aid growth, as inflation appears under control, the actual inflation condition is not so benign. More worryingly, the three different groups, namely, food, fuel, and items excluding food & fuel (broadly, core inflation) are showing highly divergent trends. While food inflation has fallen sharply (with about 30% of the items showing deflation), inflation of fuel group stands at 4.5%, which, as against inflation of 8.5% in October, implies a huge respite.

However, core inflation, the most important of the three, stood at 5.6% in December, 2018—down from 6.2% in October, but still extremely high and close to the upper-end of the stipulated inflation range of 4% +/- 2%. This remains a serious concern; and should have been the determining factor, rather than the decline in other prices. Even though the Committee, and the economy, might be drawing comfort from low food prices, it is not a good sign; and is, in fact, an important reason for the current distress in the agricultural sector. The prices need to be supported through government measures (may be by incentivizing exports, and so on).

Whether a rate cut can provide any support to food prices is difficult to visualize. Indeed, the ability of a rate cut (or increase) to impact CPI inflation itself is not clearly established. It is estimated that a rate cut impacts the economy only after 12–18 months. Thus, the last rate cut of August 2017 should have increased inflation in the last few months. However, inflation has actually come down—that too, sharply, in the past six months.

An interesting aspect of the current monetary policy environment is that inflation is falling consistently below projections. The August 2018 policy review projected inflation to be 4.8% in H2 FY’19. The projection came down to 3.9–4.5% in October 2018 policy and 2.7–3.2% in December review: over 2 percentage point correction in just four months!

Against the projections, actual inflation has come to be 2.6% in the third quarter (Oct.–December, 2018); and is expected to remain at this level during Jan.–March, 2019 also. The current low inflation trend may give hope that this would be the beginning of a benign rate environment. However, it is difficult to visualize that, considering the existing pressure on core inflation and the uncertainty around both food & fuel prices.

JEE MAIN 2019: PERCENTILE, SCORE & RANK

By Team CL -

January 25, 2019

All You Need to Know

This year, JEE has changed the pattern for recruiting the best minds from across the country for the prestigious IITs & other government & private engineering colleges. JEE is being conducted by the newly formed testing agency, NTA (National Testing Agency). Instead of marks, the structure of assessment has shifted to a percentile-based system, where the percentile of best two subjects is considered out of 3; and the best of two exams is picked up while collating the scores and ranks.

This process has been put in place to ensure that those students who get a tougher set of questions are also able to secure ranks that will make them eligible for admission into prestigious institutes in the same capacity as their peers. According to experts, this year, the test-takers got the same paper, but the sequence of questions was different. Even the multiple-choice questions were jumbled up.

The JEE Main 2019 ranks are based on the percentile scores achieved by the students in both the sessions. This process, known as normalisation, leads to a better chance for students to crack the examination and score higher. It denotes the percentage of candidates, who have scored equal to, or below, that particular percentile in the examination.

So, the 15 toppers are students who have all got the highest score(100 percentile) after normalisation in their respective sessions. The marks obtained in between the highest and lowest scores have also been converted to the relevant percentiles.

A predefined formula for normalization is used to prepare the merit list of JEE Main. To understand it better, candidates should know few terminologies, like raw score, percentile score, subject percentile score, overall percentile score, and merit list first.

The NTA will calculate raw scores on the basis of the JEE Main marking scheme. For each correct answer by a candidate, 4 marks are allotted, and for each incorrect answer, there is a penalty of 1 mark. The goal of this exercise is to have a rational & transparent system of scoring to help students perform better.

PATTERN OF EXAMINATION

The paper has been divided into two parts, i.e., Paper 1 & Paper 2. The first paper is a computer-based test, while the second is a mix, with some of its portions to be attempted in pen-paper mode.

The NTA has released the JEE Main results for Paper 1, based on which admissions to graduate programs of B.E. and B.Tech. would be initiated in engineering colleges.

The results for Paper 2 will be used for admission in B.Arch. & B.Planning; and will be announced later.

WHAT IS PERCENTILE SCORE?

The percentile score in JEE Main results indicates the percentage of candidates who have scored equal to, or below, that particular percentile in that session. The formula to calculate your score is mentioned below:

Percentile Score of a Candidate = 100 X[No. of candidates who secured a raw score (or actual score) equal to, or less than, the candidate) ÷ (Total no. of candidates who appeared in that session)

WHAT ARE RAW SCORES?

The marks obtained by each candidate for all correct answers for each subject (Maths, Physics, and Chemistry) will be summed up to arrive at the raw score.

HOW TO CALCULATE YOUR RANK?

To understand, let us consider the January session of JEE Main 2019. As per the results statistics declared by the NTA, 8,74,469 students appeared for the exam across four days, with two sessions each (making it a total of 8sessions). Thus, the formula for calculating JEE 2019 rank for the January session is:[(100-NTA percentile score) X 8,74,469]÷100. For example, if the NTA percentile score is 90.7 then the JEE rank will be [(100-90.7) X 8,74,469]÷100=81,325.

JEEMAIN 2019: SESSION PLAN

The first attempt has been conducted in 4 sessions in total, with one session daily, divided into two shifts through which the raw scores & percentile scores would be collated. The final NTA score will be compiled using this data for preparing merit list/ranking. The scores are based on the relative performance of all those students, who appeared for the examination in one session.

To know more, access the PDF released by NTA here.

The next online application for JEE Main April 2019 exam will start from February 8; and will remain open till March 7, 2019 for the computer-based test (CBT) scheduled between April 6 and 20, 2019.

You can check your results here.

Syria, a playground for Big Powers!

By Sherry A Singh -

January 25, 2019

Syria,a playground for big powers! — Precarious situation in Syria.

Syria, known for prolonged civil war, blatant use of chemical weapons, irreparable loss of life and property with growing number of migrants each year is nothing more than a playground for big powers involved. The rules of game are subjective to each country leaving the people of Syria at the mercy of the power-game.

The Big Players

Russia, USA and Turkey aggravated the social crisis to gain political advantage in this significant country by deepening the inner strife, all at the cost of the innocent lives of many. Now, that the USA has decided to quit the country depicts nothing more than a capricious behaviour governed by whims and fancies than rationality.

Turkey and Kurds

Turkey which shares immediate border with Syria is wary of Kurds for their demand of autonomous Kurdistan. Kurds are ethnic population present in south-eastern Turkey, north-western Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. Of lately there has been stronger demand by the Kurds for their own independent land.Interestingly, they played a vital role in wiping out the terrorism from Syrian soil by providing support to American army. But USA seems to be in no mood to repay the Kurds with peace, stability and freedom.

Turkey, which considers Kurds as a potential threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity is keeping an eagle’s eye to pounce on Kurds as and when the time is ripe.

Russia chose to be mum on this issue. This silence is adding to the woes of Syria.

A distant dream

Peace, progress and security is still a distant dream in Syria where inner socio-cultural fractures are paving way for the demons to find a place to dwell and thrive. So, Syria as country or nation has lost its sovereignty, integrity and nationality. Even after the end of civil war the condition is crucial and pathetic.

Those who have misused this piece of land for their own vested interest must now realise the significance of peace and security in this region. More chaos would do excessive damage to not just Syria but to other countries as well. Therefore, in order to establish long lasting stability, it is germane to take actions which are welfare oriented not interest driven.

Top MBA colleges in the world

By CL -

January 18, 2019

Thousands of business schools around the world offer management degrees. The great news is that, many MBA schools out there only mean more options to choose from. But again, this also means choosing the right/perfect one for you could be tricky and exhausting.

Among many, there are selective few that delivers faculty of quality. And because management degrees aren’t easy on the pockets, you deserve to get the best of best that is absolutely worth the tuition fees.

Having first-hand information about the best institutions you wish to enroll in can result in a good final outcome. Hence, here is a list of top 20 B-Schools around the globe in attempt to help you in your decision while seeking admissions for business management degrees.

1	Stanford University	Stanford CA	United States	https://www.hbs.edu/Pages/default.aspx
2	Harvard Business School (HBS)	Boston	United States	https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/
3	Wharton School	Philadelphia	United States	https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/
4	London business school	London	United Kingdom	https://www.london.edu/
5	MIT (Wharton)	Cambridge MA	United States	https://mitsloan.mit.edu/
6	INSEAD	Fontainebleau Singapore	Multi campus	https://www.insead.edu/
7	HEC Paris	Jouy-en-Josas	France	http://www.hec.edu/Access-map#
8	Chicago University	Chicago IL	United States	https://www.chicagobooth.edu/
9	IE Business School	Madrid	Spain	https://www.ie.edu/business-school/
10	Columbia University	New York NY	United States	https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/
11	UCLA Anderson	Los Angeles	United States	http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/
12	University of Oxford	Oxford	United Kingdom	http://www.ox.ac.uk/
13	ESADE	Barcelona	Spain	http://www.esade.edu/en/
14	Northwestern Kellogg	Evanston	United States	https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/
15	Michigan Ross	Ann Arbor	United States	https://michiganross.umich.edu/
16	Yale University	New Haven	United States	https://www.yale.edu/
17	Haas School of Business	Berkeley	United States	https://haas.berkeley.edu/
18	IESE Business School	Barcelona	Spain	https://mba.iese.edu/events/
19	Imperial College London	London	United Kingdom	https://www.imperial.ac.uk/
20	Duke’s Fuqua School of Business	Durham NC	United States	https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/

*Career Launcher is not liable for the information provided

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