EVENT REPORT - Leading The Way

In today’s knowledge-based corporate scenario, the call for organisational greatness is greater than ever before. And the role of a good leader has become of prime importance. Career News found several more learnings were derived at a recently held HR events.

Aleadership crisis looms. Trust in leaders has tanked, new business challenges have sprout up virtually overnight and experienced leaders are in short supply. Moreover, there’s a pitched battle for employee talent. Today’s management leaders must be able to see their team members as "whole people" - body, heart, mind and spirit - and manage and lead accordingly.
Franklin Covey South Asia in association with Ascent online presented their training programme - "Leadership Summit Series 2011" at J.W. Marriot Hotel in Mumbai recently. The programme was led by Michael Simpson, global director, FranklinCovey and Columbia University's Executive Coaching Program along with Rajan Kaicker, executive chairman & MD, FranklinCovey India & South Asia. More than just a training event,
Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results
(a part of the Leadership Summit Series) helped leaders discover ways to inspire trust and build credibility with their people, define a clear and compelling purpose, create and align systems of success and unleash the talents and energy of a winning team. The programme took a process-oriented approach to developing great leaders who learned how to:

• define their team’s purpose and their "job to be done".

• create a strategic link between the work of the team and goals of the organisation.

• connect the work of the team to the organisation’s economic model. Kaicker said, "There is a huge talent crunch in the market today. Organisations that want to retain their best and brightest must have leaders who understand the radically new paradigm from which the knowledge worker operates." Simpson said, "India has become a hugely important force in the global economic environment. This programme addressed the core need for businesses today - effective leadership, as participants gained the ability to inspire trust, as well as the knowledge to identify and address the chronic problems that undermine success."

courtesy : ascent

Bank Up The Entrances for Cracking Masters Degree in CS

The Master of Computer Science is a postgraduate program in Computer Science. The aim of the MCS course is to provide the aspirants training in all the finer features of Computer Science. In this issue of segment Career News ringing the bells of executing preparations for masters degree in computer science; have a look.

There are many colleges in India that offers undergraduate, postgraduate and Diploma programs in MCS. An entrance exam is carried out by the respective universities for the admission of the students. List of some of the entrance exams in India is provided below.

List of Entrance Exams
* Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
* Pune University MCS entrance exam
* Lucknow University MCS Entrance Exam
* Garward College, Pune Entrance exam
* Bharathiya Vidhyapeeth University Pune, All India Entrance Test
* Manipal University MCS All India Online Entrance Test
* Siksha o Anusandhan University MCS entrance test
* Indira College of Commerce and Science MCS Entrance Exam
* Andhra University MCS Entrance exam
* Sinhgad College of Science, Pune MCS Entrance Exam
* Institute of Technical Education and Research MCS Entrance Exam

Eligibility Criteria
Candidates who have finished their graduation in the related background can apply for this exam.

Career Prospects
Candidates who have finished their course in MCS can find jobs with web developing companies, information security and computing management. Candidates can also find employment with mobile companies. In this field, candidates can develop quicker and improved ways of communicating. Online security is also another job prospect. Information security is applied here with consideration to privacy management, Internet banking as well as online shopping. In India, the initial salary for candidates will earn as much as Rs.8, 000 – Rs.25, 000 a month. Professionals in the field will have a salary of approximately Rs. 50, 000 each month. Students of MCA who have passed out from reputed institutions may have an income of 10 Lakhs or more a year. The income of the candidates depends upon their qualification, work experience and proficiency as well as the type of the company that hires them.

ARTSAKE - A Story of An Artist of This Generation

Art is an essence of rejuvenation of your soul. It involves color, texture design and lots more materiel to implement an idea from the world of virtual to real. It helps to give birth of artists and sculpture, altogether a creator. Career News found an eminent creative artist and his art-house, an nondescriptly enormous and lucratively sophisticated.

ARTSAKE Studio was build in early 90's. Let Kasinath Pal started his studio in the north Kolkata (old Calcutta) with five of his artist-students. The studio was initially named as 'ART CARE'. His son, Kasinath paul was like a saga of enormous creativity of good knnowledge of painting and unique cuts of sculpturing.

Kishanu pal, the fresh blood, started his father's work with new services and enriched his father's dream with the touch of management. The clients from abroad and the consultancy firm brought the studio culture more enhanced. The outcome became much perished and the satisfactory client services also really appreciable. Presently His studio engineered many creative brains.

Krishanu, the ambicious art-consultant, renovated the 'ART CARE' with a new name of 'ARTSAKE'. ARTSAKE serves art consultancy, sculpturing, clay modeling, interior decoration and many other art services.

Change Your Career Dimension with Management Education

These are times of change. Management education is at cross roads. Mr Soota, Executive Chairman of MindTree, once said about Ethical behavior should be a habit that is ingrained into the management culture. Career News finds the new horizon of career with management courses. Ride up!

These habits are to be nurtured all along and management education is one of the defining stages in this development. SDM Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) is the place to be if you are looking for an institute that moulds competence with character.
SDMIMD,nestled at the foothills of picturesque Chamundi hills at Mysore, is the flagship of the forty odd educational institutions run by the illustrious Dharmasthala Education Trust.The institute is a “Mini India”with students from nineteen states of India from J& K to Kerala and Assam to Gujarat and becomes a good training ground for students who would be working in situations of diverse culture which is the hallmark of globalised work place. The students are taken in through a rigorous intake procedure which considers CAT /XAT scores, consistency of academic record, performance in the essay and personal discussion that is a part of the admission process and work experience.The highest CAT percentile in the 2010-12 batch is 98 and the average is 86.