People at Work & Play

~ Being Successful at Work& at Play

Tag Archives: alumni

An Alum Is For Ever

23 Tuesday Sep 2008

Posted by Prem Rao in A Step A Day

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

A Step A Day, alumni, Chicago Graduate School of Business

An alumni network is not only for meeting from time to time and exchanging yarns about the good old days. It can be a strong pillar to fall back on when the chips are down.  Like me, I am sure you know of many cases where the alumni network has helped people get jobs, settle down in foreign and nearly alien surroundings and in medical emergencies.

In business schools, career offices play the part of helping students start off on their professional careers as also helping organisations get the talent they seek. We in India are more familiar with “placement” as a term for such offices in business schools. In some schools these have been very effective. They have helped the school gain an enviable reputation for the quality of its alumni. In others, they are more mechanical- aided perhaps by the big demand for talent which makes their work much easier, anyway. In yet others, the old joke goes that they have to be woken up from their slumber as the end of another year -and the time for a new batch to pass out- draws near.

Continue reading →

Advertisement

Prem Rao

Blogger: Prem Rao

Author, Book Reviewer, Coach, and Social Commentator based in Bangalore, India. View B P Rao's profile on LinkedIn
April 2023
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
« Oct    

Categories

  • A Step A Day
  • Best Employers
  • Blogs
  • Books and Authors
  • Careers
  • Communication
  • Compensation
  • Cricket
  • Employee Engagement
  • Employee Productivity
  • Employee Satisfaction
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Events
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Effectiveness
  • Executive Health
  • HR Function
  • In the News
  • Indian Economy
  • Numbers
  • Organisations
  • People
  • Personal
  • Personal Finance
  • Quotations
  • Sports
  • Technorati
  • Tips
  • Trends
  • Uncategorized
  • Work Life Balance
  • XLRI

Catch My Tweets

  • My latest podcast is a review of, "A Prince Amongst Patriots- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose" by Maj. Gen. M K Paul, In… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • The job of the SC is to give judgements on points of law. Not to make appointments! I hope Govt acts -otherwise why… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 weeks ago
  • My podcast on, "No End Save Victory" edited by Robert Cowley. A fascinating collection of essays on the Second Worl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
Follow @premrao

Prem Rao, Story Teller

Prem Rao, Story Teller

Recent Posts

  • Tapering Off
  • India at Rio: 2016 Olympics
  • Do We Indians Protect Law Breakers?
  • A Phenomenon Called Rajinikanth
  • Dr. Raghuram Rajan

People At Work & Play

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Archives

Blogroll

  • Bob Sutton
  • Dan McCarthy
  • Daniel Goleman
  • David Maister
  • Ed Batista
  • Gautam Ghosh
  • It Can't Be You by Prem Rao
  • It Can't Be You on Facebook
  • Looking At Life
  • Marci Alboher
  • Mark McGuinness
  • Marshall Goldsmith
  • Penelope Trunk
  • Rachael Silverman
  • Tom Peters
  • Writing To Be Read
  • XLers Blog Spot

Blog Stats

  • 402,434 hits

RSS From My Writing Blog

  • Blog Moves To “Prem Rao, Story Teller.”
  • More on Querying
  • “Devnaa’s India:Delicious Vegetarian Home Cooking & Street Food”
  • “Christmas Mysteries”
  • The Best of American Magazine Writing
WriteUp Cafe - Together we Write

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • People at Work & Play
    • Join 156 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • People at Work & Play
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar