http://www.aspiringminds.in/news.html Aspiring Minds in News en-us Aspiring Minds Assessment Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. http://www.aspiringminds.in/main_images/logo.gif http://www.aspiringminds.in/news.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/madhya_pradesh_first_aspiring_minds_employment_exchange_inaugurated_in_bhopal.html Bhopal, March 21, 2012: : National and state media extensively covered the inauguration of Aspiring Minds Employment Exchange (or AME2) at the Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Management in Bhopal. The exchange is expected to create a common platform for helping youth across the region to seek employability feedback and employment opportunities from across the country. 21 March 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/madhya_pradesh_first_aspiring_minds_employment_exchange_inaugurated_in_bhopal.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/when_the_system_lets_you_down_the_hindu.html New Delhi, March 14, 2012: The Hindu discusses Aspiring Minds employability report on engineers with various stake holders including students, Srikantan Moorthy from Infosys and Dr. Kathir Viswalingam, Dean Engineering at Bharath University. Not surprised by the report's findings, all echo concern and suggest steps to improve the situation. 14 March 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/when_the_system_lets_you_down_the_hindu.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/just_three_percent_engineers_are_job_ready_the_hindu.html New Delhi, March 12, 2012: The Hindu, a prominent national daily covered Aspiring Minds National Employability Report talking about less than three percent job ready engineers for the IT Product sector. The news talks to various academic experts who echo the findings and express concern on the deteriorating quality of education. 12 March 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/just_three_percent_engineers_are_job_ready_the_hindu.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/indian_express_does_a_detailed_story_on_the_engineers_employability_report.html New Delhi, March 8, 2012: The New Indian Express does a detail feature on Aspiring Minds National Employability Report - Engineers 2011. The story discusses various findings in the report including the regional disparities in quality, reasons for the same and quality of women talent in engineering schools. 08 March 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/indian_express_does_a_detailed_story_on_the_engineers_employability_report.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economic_times_announces_launch_of_aspiring_minds_employment_exchange.html Dehradun, March 03, 2012: The Economic Times across its national editions covered the launch of the Aspiring Minds Employment Exchange (AME2) programme. India's leading financial daily discussed the mechanism and benefits of this unique exchange and how it will add value to the community at large. 03 March 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economic_times_announces_launch_of_aspiring_minds_employment_exchange.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_first_employment_exchange_inaugurated_in_dehradun.html Dehradun, March 03, 2012: National and state media extensively covered the inauguration of Aspiring Minds Employment Exchange (or AME2) at the GRD Institute of Technology and Management in Dehradun. The exchange is expected to create a common platform for helping youth across the region to seek employability feedback and employment opportunities from across the country. 03 March 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_first_employment_exchange_inaugurated_in_dehradun.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/HRD_minister_mr_kapil_sibal_unveils_aspiring_minds_national_employability_report.html New Delhi, February 24, 2012: Honourable Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal unveiled Aspiring Minds National Employability Report, Engineers, 2011 at India Education Summit at the Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi. Varun Aggarwal, co-founder and Director while unveiling the report with the minister, described the key findings of the report and emphasized on how both institutions around the country and companies can play a part in bringing opportunity to the large masses of engineers graduating annually. 24 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/HRD_minister_mr_kapil_sibal_unveils_aspiring_minds_national_employability_report.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/national_employability_report_engineers_2011_covered_extensively_by_national_media.html New Delhi, February 24, 2012: Aspiring Minds' National Employability Report, Engineers 2011 was covered extensively by the national media around the country. The Economic Times, Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle, Rediff, The Hindu and others talked about the low employability of engineers for IT services and IT product companies. 24 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/national_employability_report_engineers_2011_covered_extensively_by_national_media.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_features_on_economic_times_front_page.html Bangalore, February 20, 2012: Economic Times on its front page covers the progress of Aspiring Minds as a leading organization in the business of matching talent to jobs in corporates. ET recognizes how Aspiring Minds has weathered the previous recession coming out stronger armed with better products and strong relationships. 20 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_features_on_economic_times_front_page.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/harvard_magazine_recognizes_aspiring_minds_reach_into_colleges_across_india.html New Delhi, February 18, 2012: Harvard Magazine in a recent article talks about how Aspiring Minds has created scale in reaching out to India's vast college going student population evaluating them using scientific assessments for employability and matching them to jobs across the country. 18 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/harvard_magazine_recognizes_aspiring_minds_reach_into_colleges_across_india.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/ET_wealth_discusses_aspiring_minds_success_in_helping_students_get_jobs.html Mumbai, February 13, 2012: Economic Times, Wealth, features the founders of Aspiring Minds in an exclusive story on how Aspiring Minds is taking the benefits of its assessment technology to students across the country helping them learn more about their employability and connecting them to the right jobs. 13 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/ET_wealth_discusses_aspiring_minds_success_in_helping_students_get_jobs.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/over_250_final_year_girls_for_govt_college_sec_14_gurgaon_take_AMCAT.html Gurgaon, February 03, 2012: Govt. College, Sector 14 - Gurgaon, joined hands with Aspiring Minds to conduct the Employability Test AMCAT at their campus. AMCAT was taken by over 250 girls from final year from BA, B Com, BBA & BSc courses. This test will help the students gauge their employability quotient and help them understand their strengths & weaknesses from employability point of view. Dr Ashok Diwakar, Dean of Rajkiya Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Gurgaon said that AMCAT will help the short listed students to get employment opportunities with various MNCs in the IT, BPO & KPO Sector. 03 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/over_250_final_year_girls_for_govt_college_sec_14_gurgaon_take_AMCAT.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/tarun_khanna_mint_wasting_infrastructure.html New Delhi, January 30, 2012: 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. 30 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/tarun_khanna_mint_wasting_infrastructure.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/employability_and_job_profiles_key_focus_in_bhanaswara_rajasthan.html 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. 18 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/employability_and_job_profiles_key_focus_in_bhanaswara_rajasthan.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/employability_test_simplifies_job_hunt_the_asian_age.html 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. 15 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/employability_test_simplifies_job_hunt_the_asian_age.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/national_media_covers_AMCAT_at_delhi_university.html 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. 11 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/national_media_covers_AMCAT_at_delhi_university.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/financial_express_covers_AM_state_wise_employebality_report.html 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. 28 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/financial_express_covers_AM_state_wise_employebality_report.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/low_employability_a_worry_deccan_chronicle.html 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. 27 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/low_employability_a_worry_deccan_chronicle.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/talent_shortage_a_major_constraint_for_startups_business_standard.html 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. 27 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/talent_shortage_a_major_constraint_for_startups_business_standard.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/Jagran_features_a_3_page_story_on_aspiring_minds_employability_report.html 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. 25 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/Jagran_features_a_3_page_story_on_aspiring_minds_employability_report.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/delhi_university_partners_with_aspiring_minds_times_of_india.html 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. 24 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/delhi_university_partners_with_aspiring_minds_times_of_india.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/navbharat_times_features_aspiring_minds_graduate_aspiration_survey.html 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. 20 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/navbharat_times_features_aspiring_minds_graduate_aspiration_survey.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/times_of_india_covers_AM_state_wise_employebality_report.html 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. 17 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/times_of_india_covers_AM_state_wise_employebality_report.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/mumbai_university_to_assess_students_with_amcat.html 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. 16 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/mumbai_university_to_assess_students_with_amcat.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/lovely_professional_university_adopts_amcat.html 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. 21 Nov 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/lovely_professional_university_adopts_amcat.html http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_raises_series_a_funding_from_omidyar_network.html New Delhi, November 10, 2011: Aspiring Minds, an 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. The company did not disclose the funds that it raised. Along with Omidyar Network, D S Brar also participated in the round. Currently, Brar is the chairman of GVK Biosciences, he also served as CEO of Ranbaxy until 2004. He was a Director at Reserve Bank of India until 2007. 10 Nov 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_raises_series_a_funding_from_omidyar_network.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Over_3000_Students_at_MLS_University_Take_Employability_Test_AMCAT.html 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, etc. 20 Sep 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Over_3000_Students_at_MLS_University_Take_Employability_Test_AMCA.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/world_ecomomic_forum_2011_creating_21_century_workforce.html 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. 16 Sep 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/world_ecomomic_forum_2011_creating_21_century_workforc.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Business_Standard_tech_companies_mentoring_grads.html 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. These programme help students become a lot more confident and get a reality check on what is happening in the industry." 25 Aug 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Business_Standard_tech_companies_mentoring_gras.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/over_700_IIT_kanpur_student_take_AMCAT.html 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. 16 Aug 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/over_700_IIT_kanpur_student_take_AMCA.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_co_sponsor_Nasscom_HR_Summit_2011.html 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. 28 July 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_co_sponsor_Nasscom_HR_Summit_201.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/french_financial_daily_les_echos_accepts_employability_report.html 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. 01 July 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/french_financial_daily_les_echos_accepts_employability_report.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_world_cover_story_decline_number_mba_aspirant.html 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." 27 June 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_world_cover_story_decline_number_mba_aspiran.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/leading_UK_magazine_outsource_features_views_himanshu_aggarwal_talent_question.html 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 24 June 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/leading_UK_magazine_outsource_features_views_himanshu_aggarwal_talent_questio.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/financial_express_iit_employability_test_amcat.html 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. 15 June 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/financial_express_iit_employability_test_amca.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/siliconindia_bangalore_most_preffered_it_city.html 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 08 June 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/siliconindia_bangalore_most_preffered_it_cit.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/tarun_khanna_mint_higher_education_system_reshaping.html June 06, 2011: Prof. Tarun Khanna 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. 6 June 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/tarun_khanna_mint_higher_education_system_reshapin.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_enterprises_magzine_features_amcat_employability.html 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. May 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_enterprises_magzine_features_amcat_employability.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_standard_quotes_employability_study.html 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. 21 May 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_standard_quotes_employability_stud.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/hindusatan_himanshu_aggarwal_amcat_swadesh.html 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. 3 May 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/hindusatan_himanshu_aggarwal_amcatswadesh.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/cnbc_huge_workforce_match_hype_unemployability.html April 20, 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. 20 April 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/cnbc_huge_workforce_match_hype_unemployability.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economics_times_unemployability_bug_employability_report.html 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. 7 April 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economics_times_unemployability_bug_employability_report.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economics_times_transition_tests_recruitment_amcat.html 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. 1 April 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economics_times_transition_tests_recruitment_amcat.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/the_smart_ceo_battling_unemployability_matching_problem.html 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. 1 April 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/the_smart_ceo_battling_unemployability_matching_problem.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/indian_express_young_city_bangalore_most_preferred.html 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. 21 March 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/indian_express_young_city_bangalore_most_preferred.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/tarun_khanna_business_standard_institutional_void.html March 07, 2011, : 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, tested and brought into the talent pool for corporates in a very cost-efficient way." 7 March 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/tarun_khanna_business_standard_institutional_void.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/bengaluru_most_prefered_city_for_engineering_student.html 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. 4 March 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/bengaluru_most_prefered_city_for_engineering_student.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/brightest_entrepreneurs_business_world.html 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. 26 Feb 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/brightest_entrepreneurs_business_world.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Only_42_of_India_engineers_are_fit_to_work_in_software_product_firm_computerWeekly.html Feb 1, 2011: CouputerWeekly.com, the official website of the UK's famous IT magazine Computer Weekly 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 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.ently. 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." 1 Feb 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Only_42_of_India_engineers_are_fit_to_work_in_software_product_firm_computerWeekl.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/daulatguru_prof_tarun_khanna_hbs.html 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." 18 Feb 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/daulatguru_prof_tarun_khanna_hbs.html http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/over_2000_student_take_amcat_chandigarh.html 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. 24 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/over_2000_student_take_amcat_chandigarh.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Why_MBA_opted_out_of_campus_rediff_himanshu_aggarwal.html 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. 24 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Why_MBA_opted_out_of_campus_rediff_himanshu_aggarwal.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/varun_aggarwal_business_standard_cat_discloures.html 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. 17 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/varun_aggarwal_business_standard_cat_discloures.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/3000_MBA_candidates_Aspiring_Minds_amcat.html 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. 14 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/3000_MBA_candidates_Aspiring_Minds_amcat.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/career360_himanshu_aggarwal_aspiring_minds_jan_2011_B_school.htm 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. 12 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/career360_himanshu_aggarwal_aspiring_minds_jan_2011_B_school.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/career360_himanshu_aggarwal_aspiring_minds_jan_special_issue_2011_B_school.html 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. 12 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/career360_himanshu_aggarwal_aspiring_minds_jan_special_issue_2011_B_school.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economic_times_startups_struggle_in_race_for_talent.html 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 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/economic_times_startups_struggle_in_race_for_talent.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/nie_covers_am_study_on_how_women_fair_against_men.html 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 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/nie_covers_am_study_on_how_women_fair_against_men.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/varun_mint_signalling_talent.html 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 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/varun_mint_signalling_talent.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/corporate_missing_talent_tier_two_colleges.html Kanpur, Sep 13, 2010: 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, 13 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/corporate_missing_talent_tier_two_colleges.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/gita_bhubaneswar_amcat_event_statesman.html 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 25 28 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/gita_bhubaneswar_amcat_event_statesman.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/siet_allahabad_amcat_event_hindustan_times.html Allahabad, Sep 19, 2010: As the placement season draws near, students at Shambhunath Institute of Engineering and Technology, Allahabad gear up to get their dream 19 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/siet_allahabad_amcat_event_hindustan_times.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/iit_kanpur_endorses_amcat.html 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, 12 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/iit_kanpur_endorses_amcat.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_in_hindu_business.html 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. 13 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_in_hindu_business.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_in_dna_coverage_2.html 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 14 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_in_dna_coverage_2.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_employability_report.html 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. 12 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_employability_report.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/dna_coverage.html 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 23 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/dna_coverage.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_in_economic_times.html 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. 22 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_in_economic_times.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/varun_at_mit_tech_review.html 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. 21 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/varun_at_mit_tech_review.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_the_tribune_jobs_n_careers.html 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. 21 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/Aspiring_Minds_the_tribune_jobs_n_careers.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_in_forbes_india.html 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". 20 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_in_forbes_india.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiringminds_ambala_event.html 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. 19 May 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiringminds_ambala_event.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_wall_street_journal.html 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. 12 May 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/aspiring_minds_wall_street_journal.pdf http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_today_matching_aspirations.html 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. 11 May 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.aspiringminds.in/news_items/business_today_matching_aspirations.pdf