We are thankful to the national and international media who have regularly recognized and supported Aspiring Minds efforts towards employability and efforts to create a level playing field for all.

  • Gurgaon-based Aspiring Minds ushers into a new talent ecosystem: ET
    Delhi, May 12, 2013: The National Capital Territory Region, especially Gurgaon has emerged as the most favored destination for some of the country's most promising as well as intriguing start-ups. And the story of Aspiring Minds too coincides with this epic growth, says the Economic Times. Read more here.

     

  • Digital agency roles need strong English language skills: Afaqs Reporter
    May 2013: Digital, the new 'new' media has elicited abundant interest among job seekers in recent past. However, it's observed many who grab jobs with enthusiasm in this industry, also jump the ship with equal haste, says the Afaqs Reporter magazine. Covering the expert comments from Aspiring Minds CEO Himanshu Aggarwal in its cover... Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds - A venture of the future: TOI
    Gurgaon, April 29, 2013: Numerous start-ups have dotted India's corporate skyline, but few came to be rated as ventures of the future, not just for their innovative ideas but also for the impacts they have made. Profiling Aspiring Minds as a venture of the future, the Times of India says the assessment firm's business concept of making... Read more here.

     

  • Recession forces just-in-time hiring in IT industry: Business Line
    April 26, 2013: The IT industry, once the poster boy for thousands of job-seeking software engineers, is undergoing a paradigm shift. Smarting under the ongoing recessionary pressure, the industry has significantly downsized the net addition to its workforce. In some cases, reduced business requirements have forced it not to take... Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds' assessment solutions widely covered by Careers 360
    April 2013: Notwithstanding the hoopla around India’s education sector, a constant worry remains the industry-readiness of the students it produces. A degree under the current dispensation, in most cases, is found inadequate to bag a job, let alone a blooming career in a specific sector, says the Careers 360 magazine based... Read more here.

     

  • Higher salary and employee benefits comes before job security: Business Line
    Bangalore, April 19, 2013: Amidst continued global economic uncertainty, job security may be weighing heavily in the minds of employees, but not for a majority of the workforce in India. Quoting a 2013 survey report by staffing and HR services firm Randstad, Business Line has said a good 47% employees prefer better salary and benefits... Read more here.

     

  • Hundreds throng to take AMCAT at Rohtak’s Vaish College
    Rohtak, April 12, 2013: As corporates increasingly focus on raising the quality bar of their human capital, placement-conscious campuses are exploring every option to reap the best placement opportunities for their students. Like scores of premiere institutions, Rohtak’s Vaish College has opted to take the route of online employability tests. Read more here.

     

  • More corporate efforts needed to bridge talent deficit: Business India
    March 31, 2013: The average Indian will be 29 years by 2020, says an IMF report.  Along with this growth-friendly demographic dividend comes the bigger challenge of making the huge young workforce industry-ready. Regardless of efforts from both government and corporates to train-and-deploy talent, unemployability of Indian graduates remains... Read more here.

     

  • AMCAT-takers fast catching up: BS
    New Delhi, March 28, 2013: With the unemployability of Indian graduates being a major concern in industry corridors these days, universities and progressive campuses are taking corrective steps to make their students more industry-ready. Realizing that all employability-related skill gaps cannot be addressed in the final year ... Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds Launches Mass Media Campaign: Mediavataar
    March 14, 2013: Educational qualification and a glorious CV are no longer the credible differentiators. Both aspirants and corporates are adopting novel mechanisms to match 'people' to 'opportunity'.  At the forefront of this, AMCAT, India's Largest Employability Test, has launched its first TV commercial as part of its mass media campaign... Read more here.

     

  • AMCAT hits a million, now on National TV
    March 7, 2013: With the first AMCAT TV commercial going alive on the national and the regional television, Aspiring Minds has crossed a major milestone in its journey to take AMCAT directly to the youth of the country.  AMCAT now directly touches One Million students, those in quest of their dream jobs, in over 3000 colleges spread across 25 states. Read more here.

     

  • IndiaEducation interviews Himanshu, CEO, Aspiring Minds
    New Delhi, March 6, 2013: The quantity of graduate talent in the country is on a big rise. However, there is a spreading concern about the unemployability of Indian graduates, be it in the field of engineering, management, or otherwise. Himanshu Aggarwal, CEO, Aspiring Minds, in a tete-e-tete with IndiaEducation talks about Aspiring Minds'... Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds announces National Employability Awards 2013
    New Delhi, February 25, 2013: Aspiring Minds has announced National Employability Award 2013 for engineering colleges among the top 10% engineering campuses nationally or in their respective state. The purpose of the awards started in 2012 by Aspiring Minds is to recognize those colleges whose students are highly employable by the industry. Read more here.

     

  • Varun Aggarwal advices on improving MBA grads' employability: Mail Today
    New Delhi, February 12, 2013: Lack of jobs for management graduates is often blamed at fluctuating market conditions. In an exclusive thought column to Mail Today, Varun Aggarwal, CTO and COO, Aspiring Minds, presents a very different point of view: that there are always vacancies for deserving and employable candidates. Read more here.

     

  • India should put thrust on quality of teaching: WSJ
    New Delhi, February 07, 2013: Although in recent years, the Indian education industry have registered notable traction in terms of capacity expansion and success in checkmating national dropout rates, the quality of education imparted remains a key concern to be addressed by Indian policy makers, says the Wall Street Journal. Read more here.

     

  • NEC expresses concern over unemployability of engineers: Mail Today
    New Delhi, February 05, 2013: Although our academic factories are churning out a record 5 lakh engineers every year, a very little fraction of this talent pool is employable, says Mail Today. The newspaper featured the Delhi chapter of the National Employability Conclave organized by Aspiring Minds. Read more here.

     

  • Aspiring Minds receives Star Partner Award from HCL Technologies
    Bangalore, February 01, 2013: Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability solutions firm was honored with the Star PartnerAward by HCL Technologies. The award given at the HCL Technologies' Strengthening Partnership Conference, held at The Zuri on February 1st, 2013, recognized Aspiring Minds' efforts to work closely with its clients ... Read more here.

     

  • Small Enterprise India interviews Himanshu, CEO, Aspiring Minds
    Bangalore, January, 2013: In an exclusive cover story, Small Enterprise India magazine features an interview with Aspiring Minds' CEO Himanshu Aggarwal. Himanshu dwells on the challenges facing Small and medium enterprises and how AMCAT, the highly sophisticated assessment instrument from Aspiring Minds is helping to take care of... Read more here.

     

  • Lucknow University rolls out AMCAT for its students: HT
    Lucknow, January 30, 2013: Lucknow University, like many other educational centres of note, is all set to conduct online employability assessment test to help its students bag jobs as per their choice and ability. The versity has taken the AMCAT route to enable students gain access to a career in the corporate world. Read more here.

     

  • Delhi chapter of NEC stresses on placement preparations from 1st year: TOI
    New Delhi, January 29, 2013: National Employability Conclave, a one-of-its-kind of initiative by Aspiring Minds, has been held at the Royal Plaza in the capital to a rousing response from the industy as well as the academia. Read more here.

     

  • India's demographic dividend, an asset or a liability? ­ India Knowledge@Wharton
    January 09, 2013: India's burgeoning population, once considered a liability by many, is now touted to be the country's greatest asset. This is when India is growing younger as the world is aging. Read more here.

     

  • Prof. Tarun Khanna discusses Aspiring Minds at Rotman University
    Rotman University, Toronto: Increasing growth of skilled talent across the globe has aroused a bigger challenge –  the challenge of bringing the available talent to the right points in the growth wheel.  The demand supply gap in terms of availability of skilled talent is a big institutional void in emerging nations like India. Read more here.

     

  • Commitment to talent transforming global business: Tarun Khanna
    December 28, 2012: Commitment to talent has been transforming businesses worldwide. Be it IBM or Samsung, Teva or the indegenously grown Tata Group, raw talent is deciding the rules of the game in the world of business today, says Prof. Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School in an exclusive thought column to Business Standard. Read more here.

     

  • India Brand Equity Foundation talks to Himanshu, CEO, Aspiring Minds
    December 27, 2012: Himanshu Aggarwal, Co-founder and CEO of Aspiring Minds, makes a brief presentation to India Brand Equity Foundation, which is specially put up for the Davos World Economic Forum 2013, on the four-year-long eventful journey of Aspiring Minds, the company's prime attainments, interests and goals and areas of operation. Read more here.

     

  • Prevalent skill gap among engineers, a concern for recruiters: LiveMint
    Mumbai, December 26, 2012: India may be churning out lakhs of engineering graduates every year but the issue of employability remains a major concern, says LiveMint. It seems the technology treadmill moves at a speed that is too fast for colleges to keep pace with.
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  • Can private universities lift India?  – Asia Times Online
    December 19, 2012: As India and China vie for supremacy in Asia, quality education has emerged the most crucial driver to skill building in this big-power game.  To queer the pitch for India, a gaping "research deficit" in India's higher education sector has sent India's share of global research output tail-spinning to a meager 3.5%. Read more here.

     

  • Engineering Watch interviews Varun Aggarwal, COO and CTO, Aspiring Minds
    December 18, 2012: Studies after studies have brought out the gaping skill gap in Indian engineers but they have met with little initiative from the authorities to improve the quality of engineering education in India. In an exclusive tête-à-tête to Engineering Watch, Varun Aggarwal, Co-founder and Director of Aspiring Minds, makes a strong... Read more here.

     

  • Less than 10% of Indian MBA graduates are Employable: WSJ
    New Delhi, December 12, 2012: An estimated 3,300 business schools across India churn out tens of thousands of management graduates each year. But only a small fraction of them are employable, or possess basic skills essential to work in sectors ranging from marketing to finance, says the Wall Street Journal. Read more here.

     

  • National Employability Conclave kick-started in Pune
    Pune, December 12, 2012: The much-awaited National Employability Conclave has kick-started in the picturesque city of Pune. A unique initiative from Aspiring Minds, the five-city events are being presented by Dun & Bradstreet. Attended by HR leaders from top corporates like...
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  • Speakers at NEC unanimous on basic skill training to students from 1st semester: TOI
    Hyderabad, December 12, 2012: After the huge industry response to the Pune chapter of the National Employability Conclave, it was Hyderabad's turn to play host to the five-city events. The event at Fortune Park Vallabha was greeted with a roaring attendance from leading corporates like IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects, CA Technologies... Read more here.

     

  • Employable talent crunch stares Indian IT product sector in the face: BS
    New Delhi, November 29, 2012: As a country keen to play a major role in developing IT products, the IT products industry fights the bigger challenge of acute skill shortage. Quoting an Aspiring Minds report, business daily Business Standard says this skill gap is expected to impact traction in the product vertical. Read more here.

     

  • Employability Quotient, not college names should decide hiring: Mail Today
    New Delhi, November 27, 2012: Come the recruitment season and the recruiters flock the top campuses in their quest for the 'right' managerial talent. If you are a recruiter, here is a reality check. Citing an Aspiring Minds report, Mail Today states that in reality 40% of the employable talent pool lies beyond the top 1000 management campuses. Read more here.

     

  • Is CAT a Valid Test? – Business Standard
    New Delhi, November 22, 2012: Lakhs of management aspirants throng to take the famed Common Admission Test (CAT) every year. However few might be aware that the test that has been the gateway to India's top B-Schools may not be a fair and valid test. Read more here.

     

  • MBA grads have dismal employability rate: DNA
    New Delhi, November 19, 2012: Notwithstanding the thumping success in capacity addition in management education in India, the supply of employable talent among MBAs is abysmally low across specializations. Read more here.

     

  • Nationwide media coverage for upcoming National Employability Conclave
    Pune, November 16, 2012: The upcoming National Employability Conclave 2012-13, a unique initiative by Aspiring Minds and presented by Dun & Bradstreet, has been extensively covered by the national and regional media. Read more here.

     

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