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  • 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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    • The article in ‘The Economist’ [Download ]
    • National Employability Study IT/ITeS Read

     

  • 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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