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These regular press releases are aimed to keeping our clients, partners and media updated on the activities, achievements and research of the Aspiring Minds team.
- "Students Should Begin Preparation for Placements in First Year" – National Employability Conclave, Bangalore
Bengaluru, Jan 31, 2013: In Bengaluru today Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability measurement firm, held the National Employability Conclave (NEC) in collaboration with world re-knowned Business Intelligence firm, Dun and Bradstreet. The NEC provided a rich interface between Training and Placement Officers (TPOs) from more than 100 institutions and recruiters from reputed institutions such as HCL Technologies, Accenture India Limited, Deloitte, IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Limited and CA Technologies among others.
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- "Students Should Begin Preparation for Placements in First Year" – National Employability Conclave, New Delhi
New Delhi, Jan 29, 2013: Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability measurement firm, held the National Employability Conclave (NEC) in the Capital today. Held at the Royal Plaza, Connaught Place, the NEC provided a rich interface between Training and Placement Officers (TPOs) from more than 100 institutions and recruiters from reputed institutions such as HCL Technologies, Accenture India Limited, Sapient, Deloitte, IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Limited and CA Technologies among others. Read More [ Download]
- National Employability Conclave organised by Aspiring Minds and Dun and Bradstreet
Hyderabad, Dec 11, 2012: Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability measurement firm, held the National Employability Conclave (NEC) in collaboration with Business Intelligence firm, Dun and Bradstreet in Hyderabad today. Held at Fortune Park Vallabha, Banjara Hills, the NEC provided a rich interface between Training and Placement Officers (TPOs) from more than 100 institutions and recruiters from reputed institutions such as HCL Technologies, Accenture India Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deloitte, IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Limited and CA Technologies among others. Read More [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds Collaborates with Dun and Bradstreet to Launch National Employability Conclave
New Delhi/Pune, Dec 07, 2012: Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability measurement firm, launched the National Employability Conclave (NEC) in collaboration with Business Intelligence firm, Dun and Bradstreet in Pune today. Held at Court Marriot, Pune City Centre, the NEC provided a rich interface between Training and Placement Officers (TPOs) across more than 100 institutions and recruiters from reputed institutions such as HCL Technologies, Accenture India Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deloitte and more. Read More [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds and Dun and Bradstreet Launch National Employability Conclave
New Delhi, Dec 04, 2012: India's leading employability measurement firm, Aspiring Minds in collaboration with Business Intelligence firm, Dun and Bradstreet is organizing National Employability Conclaves (NEC) across Pune, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata. NECs also mark the launch of 'Career Guru' awards, a unique honour to recognize the efforts of Training and Placement Officers (TPOs) in ensuring greater employability of students. Over 500 colleges across India are expected to participate in the conclaves. Read More [ Download]
- Skills Gap Remains a Worry For over 1200 IT Product Companies
New Delhi, Nov 26, 2012: As India braces itself to emerge as a leading provider of IT products, a recent report by Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability assessment company, highlights the skills gap faced by the sector. As per the report, although India produces more than five lakh engineers annually, only 2.68% meet the skill requirements of theIT products sector. Read More [ Download]
- Employability of MBA Graduates at Dismal Low
New Delhi, Oct 4, 2012:: National Employability Report – MBA Graduates, Annual Report 2012 cites low employability of MBA graduates across specializations. The report on the graduate class of 2011, covers data of 32000 students from 220+ MBA schools, is a first such broad based study ever done in India.The study has been done using AMCAT India's Largest Employability Test conducted by Aspiring Minds. Employability of MBAs was lowest in Business Consulting, followed by analyst and functional roles.
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- Over 550 Students at Poornima Group of InstitutionsTake AMCAT, India's Largest Employability Test
Jaipur, Oct 3, 2012: Gearing up for the placement season, premium institutes are leaving no stones unturned in getting the best jobs. Over 550 students of B.Tech, MCA, took AMCAT, held at Poornima Group of Institutions in partnership with Aspiring Minds, India's leading Employability Measurement Company. Read More [ Download]
- Over 475 Students at IIT - Roorkee Take AMCAT, India's Largest Employability Test
Dehradun, Oct 3, 2012: Gearing up for the placement season, premium institutes are leaving no stones unturned in getting the best jobs. Over 475 students of B.tech, M.tech, MCA , Msc., Integrated Msc. and B.Arch took AMCAT, held at IIT Roorkee in partnership with Aspiring Minds, India's leading Employability Measurement Company. Read More [ Download]
- MindTree Collaborates with Aspiring Minds to Locate Top Quality Talent Nationally
Bangalore, September 18, 2012: MindTree Limited, a global IT Services and Product Engineering Services Company, is scouting for engineering talent across Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-3 colleges and cities.MindTree is upbeat about talent beyond a select few colleges, and will use an adaptive assessment tool from Aspiring Minds—AMCAT to standardize their hiring procedure.
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- Over 1050 Students at Thapar University Take AMCAT
Patiala, August 16, 2012: Gearing up for the placement season, premium institutes like Thapar University - are leaving no stones unturned in getting the best jobs. Over 1050 students of B.Tech, MCA, MBA, Bio-Tech, M.Tech took AMCAT, held between 13th – 16th August at the Thapar University campus in partnership with Aspiring Minds, India’s leading Employability Measurement Company. Read More [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds Launches Assessment Suite for the Hospitality Industry
New Delhi, August 29, 2012: Aspiring Minds India's leading employability solutions firm launched AMCAT-Hospitality- a first of its kind assessment for hotel management students. The assessment is relevant and caters to the high demand for talent within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries sized at US$ 55 billion. Read More [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds unveils English Learning Levels Engineers Graduates Report
New Delhi, July 24, 2012: 'Absurd' it may sound, but this word is not understood by 50% of the engineering population in India. Aspiring Minds, employability measurement and recruitment firm,released the English Learning Levels, Engineering Graduates on how employability is affected by English language. The report analyses the English skills of over 55000 engineers in India. Read More [ Download]
- Lovely Professional University adopts AMCAT, over 2000 students participate
New Delhi, November 21, 2011: LovelyLovely 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 [ Download]
- 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 [ Download]
- 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, are leaving no stones unturned to make sure that they get the most desirable jobs. From 19th to 23rd September, over 3000 students from MLS University will appear for AMCAT. The test is open to all students in the Diploma, Graduate (Except BE/ B Tech) and Post Graduate Courses of MLS University. Read More [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds Launches AMCAT–Life Sciences for the Biotechnology And Pharmaceutical Industry
August 24, 2011: Aspiring Minds, a leader in employability assessments, in association with ABLE (Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises) has launched AMCAT-Life Sciences. AMCAT-Life Sciences is an adaptive skill assessment which would enable fresh graduates to know their industry-readiness, diagnose gaps and provide a detailed feedback so that they can improve themselves to become employable. Read More [ Download]
- 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 [ Download]
- 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 Méridien 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 [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds participates in Biotechnology conference in Bangalore
Bangalore, 6 May, 2011: Aspiring Minds had been invited to participate in the recently held conference on Biotechnology in Bangalore. The conference was held from 4th May 11 to 6th May 11. Varun Aggarwal, Co-founder & Director at Aspiring Minds was a part of the panel discussion at the conference. The topic of the panel discussion was "Challenges while recruiting 'industry ready' workforce". Read More [ Download]
- Bangalore is the Most Preferred 'First Job' City: Survey by Aspiring
Minds Research Cell
Bangalore, 20 Feb, 2011: Survey conducted by Aspiring Minds Research Cell come up with finding that Bangalore is most preferred job city for engineering students as 72 percent student surveyed 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 [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds Launches AMCAT – MBA Assessment Drive to Enable
Recruitment by Merit
New Delhi, 14 Dec, 2010: Bridging the demand-supply gap, Aspiring Minds, ‘India's leading Employability Assessment firm’, has launched an AMCAT- MBA Assessment Drive in India. Under the initiative,Aspiring Minds will hold AMCAT, the largest employability test, Read More [ Download]
- Over 330 Students at HMR Institute of Technology, Delhi assess their skills on AMCAT as the placement season draws near
New Delhi, Nov 13, 2010: As the placement season draws near, students at HMR Institute of Technology, Delhi gear up for placements and preparing for skills required in a job. On 13th Nov, over 330 students appeared for AMCAT(Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test), Read More [ Download]
- Companies are missing out on large set of employable students
New Delhi, Oct 28, 2010:According to a study conducted by Aspiring Minds, a recruitment assessment co., it appears that Tier II colleges have a moderate pool of employable talent, which is often ignored by companies and therefore creates an artificial dip in employable talent pool. Read More [ Download]
- National IT/ ITes Employability Study
New Delhi, Oct , 2010:The report is an attempt to study the employability skills of students in colleges vs tier 2 colleges. which fall in the top 100 campus list (according to various credible surveys) were segregated and their employability was compared with the rest of the Read More [ Download]
- Over 350 Students at Gandhi Institute for Technological Advancement, take Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT
Bhubaneswar, Sep 27, 2010: As the placement season draws near, students at Gandhi Institute for Technological Advancement, Bhubaneswar, gear up to get their dream jobs. On 25th September, over 350 students of the college appeared for AMCAT... Read More [ Download]
- Over 500 Students at Shambhunath Institute of Engineering & Technology, take Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT
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 at of the college appeared for AMCAT...Read More [ Download]
- Over 300 Students at IIT Kanpur, take Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT
Kanpur, Sep 13, 2010: As the placement season draws near, students at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur gear up to get their dream jobs. On 12th and 13th September, over 300 IIT-Kanpur students appeared for AMCAT... Read More [ Download]
- Regional Bias Cause Lower Campus Placements across Colleges In North East India: Study
Kolkata, Aug 20, 2010: In a study conducted by Aspiring Mnds, it has emerged that regional bias may be the cause and effect of lower campus placements in engineering colleges in North East A
comparison revealed that... Read More [ Download]
- Only 4.22% graduates fit for a job in IT Product: Study by Aspiring
Minds
New Delhi, 17 August, 2010: Employability with regard to IT product companies is as low as 4.22 % reveals an employability study conducted by Aspiring Minds. Employability with regard to IT services companies is 17.84%... Read More [ Download]
- 150 STUDENTS OF AMBALA APPEAR FOR AMCAT, THE NATIONAL EMPLOYABILITY TEST
Ambala, May19, 2010: Students getting appeared for AMCAT, the National Employability test on the 19th of May. Over 150 students in Ambala appeared for the test to screen their employability and skills. By taking AMCAT, students can assess their personality... Read More [ Download]
- Aspiring Minds now among NASSCOM’s most Innovative List
New Delhi, December 18, 2009: It has been a dream run of sorts for Gurgaon based Aspiring Minds. After achieving the stature of being the only Indian company in Business Week’s list of Most Intriguing Startups globally, Aspiring Minds ... Read More [ Download]
- AMCAT conducted at Saveetha, Chennai
New Delhi, December 18,2009: Riding high on the wave of being included among the finalists of NASCCOM’s Innovation Awards 2009, Aspiring Minds has continued to spread it’s presence across the country. The... Read More [ Download]
- AMCAT conducted at SGSITS, Indore
New Delhi, November 29, 2009: Aspiring Minds has a growing list of institutes being assessed through it’s flagship product AMCAT. The latest institute to be assessed is Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology & Science... Read More [ Download]