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  • India's Wasting Infrastructure: Mint
    New Delhi, December 30, 2011: Prof. Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School talks about how India is wasting existing infrastructure in the education and health care setups. Upgrading existing infrastructure might have comparable or better return on investment than building new capacity. Prof. Khanna talks about how Aspiring Minds is working to give better access to first-rate jobs to graduates of India's lesser known colleges increasing the value of the existing infrastructure out there. Read more here.

     

  • Employability and job profiles key focus in Bhanaswara, Rajasthan
    Rajasthan, January 18, 2012: Media extensively covers Aspiring Minds team's seminar with students from across colleges in Bhanaswara and Udaipur. This seminar is one of 100s Aspiring Minds conducts every year across the country. The students and academicians appreciated the efforts of Aspiring Minds in helping students get access to employability diagnostics and opportunity for jobs from around the country. Read more here.

     

  • Employability test simplifies job hunt: The Asian Age
    New Delhi, January 15, 2012: Recognizing the value of AMCAT - A standardized Employability test as a benefit to both students and companies, Asian Age talks to students on how they find AMCAT useful to them. Read more here.

     

  • National media covers AMCAT at Delhi University
    New Delhi, January 11, 2012: Leading national dailies across the country have covered the successful partnership between Aspiring Minds and Delhi University. India's leading varsity in a bid to improve the job prospects of its students has tied up with Aspiring Minds to conduct AMCAT - India's largest employability test. Read more here.

     

  • Financial Express across editions covers Aspiring Minds State-wise Employability Report
    New Delhi, December 28, 2011: Financial Express all daily editions features Aspiring Minds State-wise Employability report. It talks about how some states lack in employability while others do better, exploring the reasons for such disparity. Read more here.

     

  • Low employability a worry: Deccan Chronicle
    New Delhi, December 27, 2011: South India's largest daily features Aspiring Minds state-wise Employability report talking about how the large number of engineering colleges in a state are adversely effecting the IT employability percentage in the state. The report has been widely covered in media across the nation. Read more here.

     

  • Talent Shortage a major constraint for start-ups: Business Standard
    New Delhi, December 27, 2011: Business Standard, India's leading business daily features Aspiring Minds National Employability Studies observations on the lack of quality talent for SMEs and start-ups. Himanshu Aggarwal, founder and CEO of Aspiring Minds sights brand, reach and costs coupled with poor employability as key reasons for the same. Read more here.

     

  • Jagran features a 3 page story on Aspiring Minds employability report
    New Delhi, December 25, 2011: i-Next a leading youth paper, part of the Jagran group has featured Aspiring Minds state-wise Employability report on its first page and put together a 3 page story on the same. The story featured on the cover across 12 editions and reached millions of readers across the country. Read more here.

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  • Delhi University partners with Aspiring Minds: Times of India
    New Delhi, December 24, 2011: Times of India in its recent story acknowledges AMCAT as India's Largest Employability test and talks about the partnership between Delhi University and Aspiring Minds. DU is facilitating all its final year students to take the AMCAT and over 10,000 Delhi University students are expected to take the AMCAT in the coming month. Read more here.

     

  • Navbharat Times features Aspiring Minds Graduate aspiration survey
    New Delhi, December 20, 2011: Navbharat Times, India's leading Hindi daily features Aspiring Minds Research Cell's Graduate Aspirations report. The news talks about the endorsement of the IT and Banking sector by the youth of the country. It also discusses the aspiration of students for different roles in different industries. Read more here.

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  • Times of India covers Aspiring Minds State-wise Employability Report
    Chennai, December 17, 2011: Times of India, Chennai edition on its first page features Aspiring Minds State-wise Employability report. It talks about how Tamil Naidu lags in IT employability while Delhi & Bihar top the list. Other leading media from across the country also covered the report. Read more here.

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  • Mumbai University will assess students to help them get jobs: DNA
    Mumbai, December 16, 2011: Mumbai university partners with Aspiring Minds to conduct AMCAT for its students across its colleges to help them get appropriate jobs. Mridul Nile, Director, Students Welfare, University of Mumbai, talks to DNA, Mumbai's leading daily about the same. DNA features the story on its front page. Read more here.

     

  • Lovely Professional University adopts AMCAT, over 2000 students participate
    Chandigarh, November 21, 2011: Lovely Professional University partnered with Aspiring Minds, India's leading Employability Measurement Company, to assess its students on AMCAT- India's Largest Employability Test. Over 2000 students from the B.TECH, MCA, MBA, MTECH, BPHARMA, BBA, BCA - 2012 batch of the institute appeared for the test, held during the past week at the Lovely Professional University campus. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds raises Series A Funding to Foster Labor Inclusion in India
    New Delhi, November 10, 2011: Aspiring Minds, India's largest employability assessment company, announced it has raised Series A funding from Omidyar Network. Jayant Sinha, Partner, Omidyar Network India, will join the Board of Directors. Mr. DS Brar will participate in the round alongside Omidyar Network. Currently the chairman of GVK Biosciences, Mr. Brar served as CEO of Ranbaxy until 2004. He was a Director at Reserve Bank of India until 2007. Read more here.

     

  • IGNOU moves to connect students with recruiters through Aspiring Minds: LiveMint.com
    New Delhi, October 10, 2011: Mint, India's leading Financial Daily from Hindustan Times, featured Aspiring Minds' MOU with IGNOU on its first page. IGNOU, the world's largest university, has collaborated with Aspiring Minds to launch I - AMPEAR program. I-AMPEAR is aimed towards enhancing the employability prospects of students using India's largest Employability Test AMCAT. The program will comprehensively assess students on their aptitude, provide feedback and suggestions to improve and give them opportunities to get interviewed by various top organizations that use AMCAT scores for short listing. Read more here.

     

  • Over 3000 Students at MLS University Take Employability Test - AMCAT
    Udaipur, September 20, 2011: MLS University's final year students, from diploma, graduate and post graduate courses, left no stones unturned to make sure that they get the most desirable jobs. From 19th to 23rd September, over 3000 students from MLS University took AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test), India's Largest Employability Test, to assess and benchmark their skills in various modules including Comprehension, Quantitative Ability, Logical Ability, Personality assessment, Computer Programming, Electronics etc. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds featured at the World Economic Forum 2011 Meetings, Dalian
    Dalian, Sep 16, 2011: World Economic Forum 2011 Meetings were held between 14-16 September in Dalian(China). During meetings around 'Creating 21st century workforce' a number of prominent political, business and education leaders provided their views and also on 'How can today's education system meet tomorrow's need?'. Aspiring Minds was praised for offering concrete demonstration of value of assessments in leveling the playing field of talent. Read more here.

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  • Tech Companies see value in mentoring B-School grads: Business Standard
    Mumbai, August 25, 2011: Business Standard India's leading business newspaper talks about how and why tech companies forging tie-ups with education institutes to tap talent early in growing. The list of those tech companies includes IBM, Microsoft, Infosys etc. In search for the reason it talks to expert in the field of recruitment. On asking Himanshu Aggarwal, Director Aspiring Minds says, "These programmes are a hit with the campuses as companies run them parallel to their recruitment drives." Read more here.

     

  • Over 700 Students at IIT Kanpur Take Aspiring Minds' AMCAT
    Kanpur, August 16, 2011: IIT Kanpur final year students are leaving no stones unturned to make sure that they get the most desirable jobs. On 12th, 13th and 14th August, over 700 IIT-Kanpur students appeared for AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test), India's Largest Employability Test, to assess and benchmark their skills in various modules including English Comprehension, Quantitative Ability, Logical Ability, Personality assessment, Computer Programming, Electronics, other B-Tech domain modules as well as Financial Services. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds Co-Sponsors Nasscom HR Summit 2011
    Chennai, July 28, 2011: Aspiring Minds co-sponsored the Nasscom HR Summit 2011 at the Le Royal Meridien on July 27th & 28th 2011.The annual summit is a flagship event of Nasscom and attracts the top most HR leadership from the IT and ITeS industry in the country. Aspiring Minds showcased its product portfolio at the company's stall evoked great deal of interest among both the delegates and the speakers. Read more here.

     

  • Leading French financial daily cites Aspiring Minds' employability report
    July, 2011: The first daily French financial newspaper Les Echos in its article discuss the reasons and need for training for fresher Indian engineering graduates. Referring to the employability report of Aspiring Minds it says that only 5.97% of engineering graduates can work in IT product companies and 17.84 per cent for IT service companies without training. It further adds that the reasons for this catastrophic situation are multiple, including far too academic and theoretical education, proliferation of institutes, etc. Read more here.

     

  • Lesser ROI for MBA students, poor job matching: Business World
    June 27, 2011: Leading business magazine Business World in its 27 June cover story, discuss reasons behind the decline in number of MBA aspirant. Recruitment being one of the prime factors, Himanshu Aggarwal, co-founder Aspiring Minds insights on this issue were also featured, "Steep mismatch between student expectation and job offered in Tier-1 and Tier-2 colleges. Mismatch is not only in the terms of salary expected and offered but also in roles. Due to lack of adequate tool to select people that fit their jobs right, companies end up having fairly short fuse in expecting performance." Read more here.

     

  • UK's leading business magazine quotes the views of Himanshu Aggarwal
    June 24, 2011: One of the UK's leading business magazines Outsource features the view of Himanshu Aggarwal, Director Aspiring Minds. It took expert opinion of Himanshu Aggarwal on many vital issues like role of English in making talent in India more effective, fighting elitism of colleges and how customer can be company's best salesman. Read more here.

     

  • IIT students take AMCAT: Financial Express
    June 15, 2011: An article published in Financial Express proofs the increasing need for employability test and soaring popularity of AMCAT. It says that student from technical institutions, even including prestigious IITs and NITs are resorting to external employability tests like AMCAT which help them in choosing their career path. It says that not only tier 2 colleges but most of the NITs too use Aspiring Minds' AMCAT. Read more here.

     

  • Bangalore is the favorite of IT giants: SiliconIndia
    June 08, 2011: Siliconindia in its recent article on best IT city in India, choose Bangalore as a clear winner. It took parameter as climate, supporting infrastructure, pay scale to choose the best city to work in, for IT graduate. But the resource that led to the conclusion was the study done by Aspiring Minds Research Cell. Which says Bangalore is most preferred city and 'Mecca of engineers', while Delhi and Hyderabad holds second and third place respectively. Read more here.

     

  • Reshaping India's higher education landscape: Prof. Tarun Khanna in Mint
    June 06, 2011: Prof. Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, talks about current Indian higher education system in Mint. He says, Indian higher education suffers from inadequate competition among the better institutions, inadequate experimentation, and inadequate measurement of outcomes. But he sees ray of hope in Aspiring Minds and its state-of-the-art measurement and assessment system that dramatically and cost-effectively increases the talent pool accessible to any corporate firm operating in India. Read more here.

     

  • With AMCAT, finding right candidate for job is no more challenge: The Business Enterprises
    May, 2011: The Business Enterprises magazine in its cover story on employability and campus, features Aspiring Minds. It says that with Aspiring Minds' product AMCAT finding right candidate for right job is not a challenge anymore. It says it has helped around 350,000 candidates to understand their employability, assisted 14000 candidate to get their first job in last 15 month. Talking about future it tells, Aspiring Minds is now expanding in new company vertical like insurance, hospitality, healthcare, pharmaceuticals. Read more here.

     

  • Business Standard echos the Aspiring Minds' study on employability
    May 21, 2011: Kalpana Pathak in her recent article in the Business Standard talks about companies complaining that the stock churned out by most business schools is unemployable. She quotes from the study published last year by Aspiring Minds which showed that employability of engineering graduates was as low as 4.22 per cent for IT product companies and 17.84 per cent for IT service companies. Thus, 61.77 per cent students require training in both soft-skills and problem-solving skills to be eligible for any job in the IT and IT-enabled service sectors. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds Helps Thousands of Students to Get Job: Hindustan Dainik
    May 3, 2011: One of the most read Hindi dainik in India Hindustan, features an article on Aspiring Minds saying, it has helped more than 15000 students in India to get job according to their capability by assessing them through AMCAT. It further says that Aspiring Minds founder director Himanshu Aggarwal, after working for 5 years in USA, returns to 'swadesh' to help and guide youth of his country through his company. Read more here.

     

  • India's Huge Workforce Doesn't Match Up to Its Hype: CNBC
    April 7, 2011: CNBC in its recent coverage about Indian workforce tells that quantity has compromised quality and training is a must to make India's college graduates into employable white-collar workers. Giving reference of India's first employability study released by Aspiring Minds, it adds that employability rates vary from just 4 to 30 percent. Read more here.

     

  • Unemployability still bugs Tech Inc: Economic Times
    April 7, 2011: Economic Times in its recent IT industry story talks about how unemployability is hurting IT firms. It features Aspiring Minds Employability Report quoting a variety of statistics and benchmarks. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds launches AMCAT for Graduates
    April 6, 2011: Aspiring Minds launches AMCAT for Graduates, the first employability test for Graduates in India. It is going to be held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai on 9th and 10th of this month. Students from any graduate course (non-engineering) can appear for the test and get a seven stroke report on their employability skills. This endeavour is widely covered and praised by National Media. Read more here.

     

  • 'Transition' tests like AMCAT help grads glide into world of work:Economics Times
    April 1, 2011: Economics Times talks about how AMCAT helps students to get their dream jobs. It also helps large firms in IT/BPO like HCL, Genpact etc., in mass recruitment that saves their time as well as money. It is even heplful to budding companies to get right kind of talent. It further adds that students placed by Aspiring Minds went up from 1000 in 2009 to over 9000 in 2010. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds battling unemployability and the 'matching problem':The Smart CEO
    April, 2011: The Smart CEO magzine features Aspiring Minds co-founder director Himanshu Aggarwal in its latest issue and talks about, how companies struggling to find the right candidate, and candidates struggling to find the right company to work for and Aspiring Minds tries to bridge this gap with its employability tool, AMCAT. Read more here.

     

  • Indian Express backs Aspiring Minds Research Cell survey
    March 21, 2011, Bangalore: Indian Express backs Aspiring Minds Research Cell survey saying Bangalore is overwhelming choice for first time job-seeker engineers. It further says that Aspiring Minds dream city survey accentuates the 'young' city pattern with newer young cities making the cut vying the older metros. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds is a perfect example of filling an institutional void: Tarun Khanna
    March 07, 2011, Mumbai: Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna, in his interview with Business Standard said "Aspiring Minds is a perfect example of filling an institutional void. It has created technological bridge to allow talented people outside the top educational institutes who don't have access to a brand name, to be located and tested and brought into the talent pool for corporates in a very cost-efficient way." Read more here.

     

  • "Bangalore is most preferred job city" - Aspiring Minds survey covered by National media
    March 4, 2011: Aspiring Minds Research Cell in its survey took into account the views of 19,000 engineering students across India and come up with the finding that Bangalore is the most preferred destination to work in as 72 percent voted for it. Delhi came 2nd which was preferred by 32 per cent, while Hyderabad was the favourite among 30 per cent of the students surveyed. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds Founders among Brightest Young Entrepreneurs: Businessworld
    Feb 26, 2011: Aspiring Minds added another feather in its cap, as its founders Himanshu and Varun Aggarwal got nominated for Businessworld Brightest Young Entrepreneurs. It is now among top 15 Indian companies which are 2-5 years old. Businessworld says that Aspiring Minds's business idea now in its infancy can take the world by storm tomorrow. Read more here.

     

  • Computer Weekly affirms Aspiring Minds findings
    Feb 1, 2011: Computer Weekly, UK's famous IT magazine affirms Aspiring Minds finding; 'Only 4.2% of India's engineers are fit to work in a software product firm and just 17.8% at an IT services company'. It also mentions about Aspiring Minds and its product AMCAT. It compares AMCAT with GRE and tells that how AMCAT, the brain child of two techie brothers Himanshu Aggarwal and Varun Aggarwal, is standardized way to test engineering and computer-science students in India. Read more here.

     

  • Prof Tarun Khanna of HBS praises Aspiring Minds endeavor
    Feb, 2011: In his interview Prof Tarun Khanna of HBS gives example of Aspiring Minds to show that even an individual can make difference. He says, "Aspiring Minds, which I have helped recently. It's started by 2 brothers in Delhi, one from IIT, and one from MIT, and is effectively a technology-based employment exchange of sorts, taking the technological task of assessment very seriously. In the first year this company has already delivered thousands of jobs to otherwise economically disenfranchised youth from smaller cities." Read more here.

     

  • 2000 students take amcat in Chandigarh: Hindustan Times
    Chandigarh, Jan 24, 2011: As the placement season has started, students at Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh get ready to get their dream jobs. On 24th January, 2000 students have tested their skill in various modules of AMCAT. The event was widely covered by national and regional media. Read more here.

     

  • Why these MBAs opted out of campus placements : Rediff
    Jan 24, 2011: Rediff.com in its article on 'Why these MBAs opted out of campus placements' features the views of Himanshu Aggarwal Co-founder and Director, Aspiring Minds. On this issue he says, "The mechanism pushes students to appear, contest and accept offers for the job which are not their first choice. When they get an offer from one organization, their access to subsequent organizations visiting campus get sealed." here.

     

  • Varun writes for Business Standard :"CAT methodology disclosure unclear"
    Jan 17, 2011: Business Standard featured an article by Varun Aggarwal co-founder, Aspiring Minds who says that some more hard metrics in CAT methodology disclosure is needed, which could describe the consistency and accuracy of the test. He gives example of GMAT which gives standard error and reliability coefficient along with other metrics which supports its accuracy. Read the complete article here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds To Facilitate 3000 MBA Hires
    Jan 14, 2011: Aspiring Minds plans to bridge the demand-supply gap by conducting its AMCAT- MBA Assessment Drive in India's 50+ cities that will help 3000 eligible candidates get jobs in leading companies in the next 6 months. Read the complete article here.

     

  • Careers360 features the views of Himanshu Aggarwal in its Special Issue on top B School
    Jan, 2011: Careers360, the special issue on India's top B school, covers the changing trends of placements in management sector. The article features the expert views of Himanshu Aggarwal Co-founder and Director, Aspiring Minds. Read the complete article here.

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  • Himanshu Aggarwal shares his views and projections in career360's top B school issue
    Jan, 2011: Careers360 talks to Himanshu Aggarwal, Director, Aspiring Minds, for its special issue on India's top B school, regarding current recruitment scenario and its trends for coming time in India. Read the complete article here.

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  • Start-ups struggle in race for talent: Economic Times
    Dec 15, 2010 Wed: Economic Times talks to Himanshu Aggarwal, Director, Aspiring Minds, regarding challenges faced by small companies in attracting talent which can range from the business model being untested, minimal support systems, modest salaries without perks etc. Read More
     

  • Aspiring Minds study on how women fair against men: NIE, Chennai
    Nov 23, 2010 Tue: The New Indian Express, Chennai edition, recent covers study by Aspiring Minds which shows that women are the better perfomers at computer programming and english than men. Now the question arises, will it lead to the change in the ratio of men and women employed in the IT industry? Read the complete article here.

     

  • Varun writes for MINT: "Signalling talent: Search for the right employees"
    Nov 17, 2010 Wed: Rightsizing - Varun Aggarwal, founder and director, Aspiring Minds recently in a piece for Mint (a financial daily from Hindustan Times) cites inability of employers to identify right candidates for jobs as a critical problem plaguing employers now especially in the IT/ITes sector. According to him having a small pool of employable students is one problem, but the inability to recognize suitable candidates shrinks the pool further and is a bigger problem. Read the complete article here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds study an eye opener - Companies missing on a majority of talent
    Tier II colleges have a large employable talent pool for the IT/ITes sector. A recent study by Aspiring Minds shows that a good percentage of students in Tier II colleges are industry ready - its time companies reached out to them The same was endorsed extensively by National Media including Economic Times, Business Week, Timesjobs.com, Higher Education India, Deccan Chronicle and Yahoo news among others. The articles talk about percentage of engineers of Tier II colleges that are employable in different sectors like IT, ITes, KPO etc. Read More

     

  • G.I.T.A students take the AMCAT: The Statesman
    Bhubaneswar, Sep 28, 2010: As the placement season has started, students at Gandhi Intitute for Technological Advancement, Bhubaneswar get ready to get their dream jobs. On 25th September, more than 350 students has tested their skill in various modules of AMCAT.  Read More

     

  • Students at SIET Allahabad take the AMCAT: Hindustan Times
    Allahabad, Sep 19, 2010: As the placement season draws near, students at Shambhunath Institute of Engineering & Technology, Allahabad gear up to get their dream jobs. On 18th and 19th September, over 500 students of the college appeared for AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test), India's Largest Employability Test, to assess and benchmark their skills in various modules. Read More

     

  • IIT Kanpur endorses AMCAT: All IIT Kanpur 4th year students participate in AMCAT
    Kanpur, Sep 12, 2010: IIT Kanpur tied up with Aspiring Minds to assess employability skills. On 11th and 12th September, over 400 B.Tech. students of IIT, Kanpur appeared for AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test), India's Largest Employability Test, to assess and benchmark their skills in various modules including English Comprehension, Quantitative Ability, Logical Ability, Computer Programming, Electronics and various other B-Tech domain modules. Read More

     

  • The Hindu Business Line: "Employability Redefined"
    Sep 13, 2010: The Hindu Business Line covers Aspiring Minds and AMCAT, its flagship assessment, which uses statistical benchmarking and job-matching algorithms for assessing students.  Read More

     

  • Aspiring Minds delve deep into the 'soul of India' to tap talent
    Sep 14, 2010: DNA, Mumbai's leading newspaper covers how Aspiring Minds help candidates to match their skill sets with job openings using a mechanism called AMCAT. AMCAT assess the cognitive skills, personality and domain skills of a candidate and are invited for job interviews where their profile is a fit. Read More

     

  • Aspiring Minds latest Employability Report gets coverage across National media
    National media like The Economic Times, The Times of India and Hindustan Times among others extensively cover Aspiring Minds employability report. The articles talk about percentage of engineers that are employable in different sectors like IT, ITeS, KPO etc. Read More

     

  • Prof. Tarun Khanna talk about Aspiring Minds filling an important institutional void
    Aug 23, 2010: Prof. Tarun Khanna talks about how assessement mechanism created by Aspiring Minds break down the institutional barriers between the companies that demand talent and all the people who would like to get a job and are often qualified to get one. Read More

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  • Economic Times endorses report on recruitment in North-East India
    Economic Times, Kolkata covers Aspiring Minds' large scale activity across North East. It also features how Aspiring Minds is helping fresh graduates in getting jobs to far off regions- Mitigating the Barriers created by geography and language. Read More

     

  • Varun Aggarwal featured in MIT Technology Review
    MIT Technology Review featured Varun Aggarwal who talks about India's first employability test, AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test) as a solution to the lack of any process to identify employable graduates. AMCAT assesses aptitudes, personality traits, and industry-specific skills to judge the employment suitability as per the cultural sensibilities and business requirements of India. Read More

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  • Varun Aggarwal talks about "On Equal Footing" in The Tribune
    Tribune featured an article written by Varun Aggarwal of Aspiring Minds who says that denying the chance of an interview to a candidate on the basis of the institution from he passed out is unfair and it is the time to weed out this bias. Read More

     

  • Aspiring Minds in Forbes India
    Prof. Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, recognized as "The Finest Minds on the Planet" by Forbes magazine, talks about Aspiring Minds in his article in Forbes. He talks about how Aspiring Minds is helping solve the serious problem of "bringing talent into the mainstream". Read More

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  • Aspiring Minds 2011 AMCAT event gets wide coverage
    Aspiring Minds successful event in Ambala Engineering College, Punjab on 19th May 2010 gets wide coverage across newspapers. It says students are now going towards their self assessment to get better career opportunities by taking the AMCAT test. Read More

     

  • Aspiring Minds in Wall Street Journal
    May 12, 2010: Aspiring Minds, a Delhi-based employment exchange that uses technology to scout out good prospects from thousands of institutes of higher education and match them with companies who are looking to hire thousands of employees a year. We are in the business of economic inclusion. Read More

     

  • Business Today - Matching Aspirations
    Business Today in its May 2010 edition featured Aspiring Minds AMCAT saying that earlier Recruiting Companies were wasting time and money looking for ‘Employable’ candidates among the millions of graduates. But now this AMCAT is helping the companies in fulfilling their needs. Read More

     

  • Business Today features Prof. Tarun Khanna’s new book ‘Winning in Emerging Markets’
    The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu. In Winning in Emerging Markets, these leading scholars on the subject present a decidedly different framework for making this crucial choice. Read More

     

  • Business Standard - Engg College Students not industry-ready
    Business Standard on 15th March’10 featured Aspiring Minds Employability Report in IT/ITeS. This report was based on the results of AMCAT test – conducted for more than 40,000 engineering and MCA students(in final year) in over 12 states. Read More

     

  • The Economist: The Engineering Gap
    The Economist featured Aspiring Minds in an article on January 28th 2010, which draws from Aspiring Minds’ skill assessment report based on standardized assessment (AMCAT) of more than 40,000 technical graduates across India. The report is first of its kinds wherein employability Read More...

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  • ET NOW Coverage on Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT Test
    ET Now (Economic Times Now) recently featured Aspiring Minds. The coverage includes Aspiring Minds core concept, some of its tools and interaction with its clients.
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  • Aspiring Minds’ now among NASSCOM’s most Innovative List
    Aspiring Minds is one of the 6 finalists at NASSCOM’s Innovation Awards 2009 in the Startup Category.  Read More

     

  • Business Week features ‘Aspiring Minds’ in top 25 most intriguing startups
    Business Week Magazine, one of the world’s leading business publications has featured ‘Aspiring Minds’ in its list of 25 most Intriguing Startups worldwide. Aspiring Minds is the only company to have been featured from India in this list of 25 selected companies. The list was released on the 12th of November 2009.

     

  • Ascent Times of India - Assessing Aspirants Amicably
    Times of India’s Ascent on 28th October 09 featured an article saying that Assessment Tests these days are gaining huge momentum in organisations because they need to have good employees aboard who fit the organisational culture and their role perfectly are top priorities. Read More

     

  • Hindustan Nai Dishayein - Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT in Jagannath University
    Dainik Hindustan Nai Dishayein featured Aspiring Minds for conducting Jagannath University’s online exam JUNEE 2009, which gives flexibility to students for online registration and giving test at their preferred location. Read More

     

  • Times of India Education Times - Students Evaluated
    Times of India’s Education Times on 26th October 09 covered Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT event held in BIMTECH saying that this test assesses student’s skills in various areas and provide feedback to students about their skills, strengths and weaknesses and detailed guidance on how to improve their employability. Read More

     

  • English Daily Statesman: Employment made easy
    English Daily Statesman on 20th October 09 featured Aspiring Minds’ Computer Adaptive Test saying that, its mission is to provide feedback to students about their skills, strengths and weaknesses and detailed guidance on how to improve their employability chances. Read More

     

  • EFYTIMES.COM: Key To Ensuring Growth Is To Adapt To Market Dynamics
    EFYTimes.com featuring an article on Aspiring Minds. In a conversation with itmagz.com, Himanshu Aggarwal, director, Aspiring Minds (AM), shares details on the strategies that the company has adopted to keep up its scorching pace of growth, while controlling unnecessary expenditure.[Download ].
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  • Tribune: Assessing talent for job aspirants, employers
    Tribune featured an interview with Aspiring Minds’ Varun Aggarwal on 14th October 09 who tells that conducting highly standardised, multi-disciplinary tests requires a great deal of preparation, persistant efforts and skill upgradation. Read More

     

  • Hindustan Nai Dishayein: Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT goes International
    Dainik Hindustan Nai Dishayein featured Aspiring Minds on 14th October 09 for the AMCAT test conducted in IMT, Dubai for 2010 batch MBA students. Read More

     

  • Dainik Jagran’s Jagran City: Varun’s Aspiring Minds is a hope for educated unemployed
    Dainik Jagran’s Jagran City featured Aspiring Minds’ Varun Aggarwal on 9th October 09 and speaks about the Aspiring Minds and Varun’s message to youth. Read More

     

  • English Daily Statesman: Passage to Total Employment
    English Daily Statesman on 2nd October 09 featured Aspiring Minds’ co–founder Himanshu Aggarwal’s thoughts on the ways and means to crack the ‘inclusive development’ puzzle Read More

     

  • Deccan Herald: Helping students bridge Bharat–India Divide
    Deccan Herald on 1st October 09 featured Aspiring Minds’ Director’s opinion on why multi–dimensional skill assessment of graduates ensure that students from all regions, metros or small towns are judged on the same platform by potential employers. Read More

     

  • Aspiring Minds’ featured prominently in PEOPLE MATTERS edition September–October 2009
    Aspiring Minds has augumented scientific assessment with an innovative large-scale sourcing model analogous to a GRE–for–job concepts. [Download ]

     

  • Hindustan Nai Dishayein: AMCAT held in SURAT
    Aspiring Minds featured in Hindustan Nai Dishayein on 30th September'09 for the AMCAT held in NSIT, SURAT Read More

     

  • EFYTIMES.COM: AMCAT – An ‘Intelligent’ Talent Assessment Tool
    efytimes.com featuring an article on Aspiring Minds’ Amcat on 29th September saying that AMCAT is a test that fresh graduates can take up, any time of the year, to get an assessment of how their skills compare against those required for different jobs in the market.[Download ]
    ITMAGZ.COM: AMCAT is a Talent Assessment Tool That Connects Many Eco-system Dots.[Download ]

     

  • Education Times: Aptitude Test
    Education Times covered Aspiring Minds for its AMCAT held in NSIT, Surat Read More

     

  • Hindustan: Campus Placement
    Hindustan featured an article on 26th September 09 saying that now–a–days corporates are changing their campus selection process and moving towards the employability test. Read More

     

  • Hindustan: AMCAT in CSE
    Hindustan covered AMCAT held in College of Science and Engineering(CSE), Jhansi Read More

     

  • NavBharat Times: AMCAT
    Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT featured in NavBharat Times on 21st September 09 Read More

     

  • Hindustan: Students taking interest in Self Assessment Program
    Hindustan featured Aspiring Minds on 13th September 09 mentioning that Students are now going towards their self assessment to get better career opportunities Read More

     

  • Pioneer Avenues: AMCAT Conducted
    Pioneer Avenues covered Aspiring Minds on 9th September 09 for the AMCAT event Conducted in DIAS Read More

     

  • Hindustan Nai Dishayein: Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT Test
    Hindustan Nai Dishayein featured Aspiring Minds on 9th September 09 for the AMCAT Test held in DIAS and says that it is getting popular among students as well as corporate. Read More

     

  • Hindustan Nai Dishayein: AMCAT Employability Test
    Hindustan Nai Dishayein featured Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT on 26th August'09 saying that it is India’s first employability test which assesses students and helps them to get better employment opportunities.
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  • Hindustan Times Shine: Employability Test Launched
    Hindustan Times Shine featured Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT on 18th August'09 and says that it helps corporates to find the right talent from across the country. Read More

     

  • Lokvani: In Conversation With Varun Aggarwal
    Lokvani featured an article on 13th May showing conversation with Aspiring Minds’ Varun Aggarwal.[Download ]

     

  • Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT is now India’s largest Employability Test
    Aspiring Minds launched India’s first employability test, AMCAT (Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test) for helping corporate find the ‘right’ talent from across the country in an inclusive and scalable manner. This nation-wide assessment test provides statistically-valid multi-dimensional skill assessment to judge the employment suitability of a large pool of candidates. AMCAT has now become India’s Largest Employment Assessment with a reach across 12 states and over 35,000 candidates already assessed. Thousands of candidates take this test every month...
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  • AMCAT conducted at multiple NITs
    Aspiring Minds' flagship assessment AMCAT has been conducted at multiple NITs through out the country. Over 2000 students across multiple NITs (National Institute of Technology) formerly RECs (Regional Engineering Colleges) have been assessed on a 3 hour AMCAT test in 5 different modules. Aspiring Minds will be helping the students of these premier institutes in placements in a variety of small and large companies

     

  • SMEs recruit in downturn, need for innovative models
    Whereas all large IT companies have stopped their campus hiring, small-medium sized enterprises still continue to hire engineering, MBA and MCA students. These companies give interesting opportunities to students to get involved in product development, product design and client interaction...
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  • Aspiring Minds launches AMPI - India’s first personality assessment
    Aspiring Minds Personality Inventory (AMPI) is the latest feather in the cap of Aspiring Minds’ path breaking, superior and scientific assessment products and solutions. Having pioneered computer adaptive assessment with AMCAT in 2008, Aspiring Minds AMPI is India’s first personality inventory designed for entry level positions in India sampled on tens of thousands of entry level job seekers in India.
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