An aspiring manager asked, ‘I did B.Tech (ECE) and I am having 9 years experience in Software industry. Please suggest good Institute for MBA (Finance) correspondence course. Is it good for my career? Here I am mentioning few Institutions which I know.. 1.IGNOU 2. Symbiosis 3.Osmania University. Please suggest few good Institutes from your side.

Answer: Your thought processes is very good and wish you a great time ahead. All the Institutes you mentioned have a good course curriculum and I have seen people benefited from all these done finance with lot of experience in software industry. The courses pursued seriously by each of the member benefited in working effectively in their jobs back. However, for better exposure and interaction with the external world, explore a part-time course (after office hours) offered by few of the Business Institutes in AP (VJIM and IPE to name few). However in the case of distance more, if you have people around who can help you in understanding the Finance perspective in Business in your current organisation or experts.

Job or MBA after B.Com: Taking positive of not able to do MBA, please do focus on securing a job with your qualification right away so that you get hands on working experience. May be couple of years of work experience you would be able to assess yourself better and based on which decide on doing MBA program with a specialization you have interest.

Where to apply for HR and Finance Jobs: You need to be sure on what is the area that you are interested in and want to focus on. Most of the HR / Finance jobs are filled especially at entry level by Reference. There are a few other jobs related to the Recruiter, Credit Officer etc., are published where you can check through any of the job sites and news paper advertisements. List and spot the companies who have in Hyderabad (other location if you are interested) and review their websites and identify if you know or can get a contact in that company and approach the concerned HR department for a job. Alternatively review the Industry associations like NASSCOM, CII, FAPCI and FICCI etc to understand the industry.

A software employee asked ‘I am a B. Tech pass out; My Visa application for USA got rejected recently. I joined in a Software profession. My salary is less and work is nice in that job. I am thinking I will get good experience in the present company. I like to do M.B.A by writing ICET. Is it good choice for me to appear for ICET? Also please give the list of top Colleges in Andhra Pradesh.’ The answer to this question is… you have mentioned that you have a job and also saying that the work is good. These are the best things you got in these tough times; they are a job and a good work. Even if you would have approved with your US Visa you would have not done any thing greater than this due to the current job situation there. Salary would be the slightest thing on your mind at your career developmental period. Once you become experienced to handle superior order jobs in organisation the salary would enhance automatically.

Ideally speaking, you should have 2-3 years of work experience in doing a good MBA course in a superior Institute. ICET based MBA you would be with many of the freshers around you and your learning may not be as great. Choose MBA (PGDM) at a B-School who takes admission based on CAT with experience would be a good idea where the fellow classmates would add value in increasing your capability. ICET based admissions are done by the University affiliated colleges in AP, in which the University Business Colleges would be a good idea provided you crack the top ranks.