How This Placement Season Is Turning Out For Top B-School Students

Required work experience, check. Aced the entrance test, check. Cracked the discussions and interviews, check. For second-year B-school students, all that culminates in making the cut as companies throng campuses for placements .

But with “starting up” the new flavour of the season, one supported by the government, why aren’t more students eager to take the leap of faith?

BloombergQuint spoke to graduating students of NMIMS, one of the country’s top business schools, to find out why.

Abhishek Murali, a final year student at the business school, says an MBA has given him the perfect platform to nurture the idea of starting something of his own one day. “You have a lot of avenues through which you can explore your entrepreneurial skill-through B-school competitions, case study events,” he says.

“So you may start off in the corporate world as a beginner and you gradually grow in an organisation and get some experience. And then you use that experience to get the confidence to promote yourself or pitch yourself on that platform where you can start your own company, and hopefully someday make it into a unicorn.”

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