A unique opportunity for Indian Students to make a difference…….

Teach For India is a movement of outstanding graduates and young professionals who, in the short term, teach low-income group students full-time in under-resourced schools. In the long term, these Fellows will become global leaders and advocate for educational equity across India. There are currently close to 400 Fellows teaching 12,000 students in 130 schools in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi and is expanding to Hyderabad and Chennai in 2012

In the first 3 years of existence, Teach For India has attracted Fellows from top universities such as Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management, Harvard, St.Stephen’s College, St. Xavier’s College, and many more top-notch colleges in India and across the globe. The Fellowship also attracts young professionals from reputed companies such as Accenture, McKinsey, Schlumberger, Tata Group and several more international and Indian companies. The first batch of 80 alumni who graduated in April 2011 are today spread across India and the world, working with organizations such as McKinsey, Leader’s Quest, NIIT Foundation, Akanksha etc. and some are even studying at universities such as Harvard, Chicago Booth, Kellogg and Cornell. To know more, please visit www.teachforindia.org

You could also get in touch with Abishek Maroli who works with the Fellowship Recruitment team at Teach For India and assists applicants from universities outside India. His email address is abishek.maroli@teachforindia.org.

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Time to get you’re hands dirty

Candidates can often have unrealistic expectations about life back in their home country when they return after living in the UK. That was the warning given by Shalini Naagar, the Head of Human Resources with Marks & Spencers Reliance Pvt. Shalini took part in the first employer web-chat for International Futures.

According to Shalini, graduate trainees should expect to work hard and get their hands dirty. This is something that many graduate recruiters in the UK expect too – for example the very well reimbursed Aldi Graduate Scheme requires trainees to spend significant time on the shop floor. This is often seen as being a great way for employees to understand the whole business.

Graduate trainees with M&S India will therefore spend time working their way up to the more strategic positions. But there is a wide range of openings available with recruitment all year round. There are positions in retail in major cities across India. At head office, in Gurgaon, Delhi there are opportunities in IT, Finance, Marketing, Visual Merchandising and HR.

M&S is set to grow in India. There are plans for a further thirty stores to open over the next three years. This could be a great time to get on board. Shalini mentioned that retention rates (i.e., the number of employees who stay on after training) are very favourable compared to other retailers in India.

The recruitment process is similar to the UK with interviews and assessment centres. Shalini wasn’t able to provide details of the competencies used in India but agreed that looking at the UK competencies might help.

You can read the whole discussion online by logging in with your OpenID, Facebook or Twitter account.

Blog credited to the International Futures website.

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Hear from M&S India via live webchat

Tomorrow (Tuesday 12th Oct) at 11.00am Andrew Falconer will be conducting the first live web-chat with an employer on International Futures. Shalini Naagar from M&S India will be online to answer some questions and chat with Indian students / those with the right to work in India.

If you are interested, join in at the International Futures website
and if you can’t make the 11am time slot, an archive of the chat will available from tomorrow afternoon.

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Careers in Asia Recruitment Summit

You might be interested in the following recruitment event being held in London on 19th June 2010 – 20th June 2010 from 09:00 – 17:00.

The Careers in Asia Recruitment Summits allow you to network and interview with leading companies looking to recruit high calibre graduates and professionals across a variety of functions for their operations in Asia. With a single application, you can gain access to this exclusive global network of employers in one venue over two days.

Attendance is by invitation only, so apply now to be considered.

The event features:

- Pre-scheduled interviews with leading companies from across China, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
- Exclusive access to company executives to arrange ‘on-the-spot’ interviews
- Company presentations and career workshops.
- A unique opportunity to network with other graduates and professionals from around the world.
- An excellent chance of receiving a job offer.

For more information log onto the Careers in Asia website.

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Understanding the Growing India Job Market

Despite the talk of recession and daily round of redundancy announcements in the media, there is positive news from India.

According to the Economic Times, India is expected to have 20-30% increase in job growth in 2010. the Technology and Finance sectors are stressed in particular as moving up. More here

If you would like to know more details about the Indian Job Market, key sectors and employers, and trends then please make use of the ‘An Overview of the Indian Economy and Job Market’ from our International Student Resources

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Non-Profit Opportunities in India

Non-Profit Opportunities in India

Careers in the non-profit sector is a previously less travelled road that is becoming increasingly popular amongst graduates and young professionals. One can enjoy more autonomy, variety and challenge in this unconventional career path. There may also be greater opportunities to make an impact in the organisation and India.

Teach for India

Teach For India was formally established in 2008 as a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a movement of leaders who will work to eliminate educational inequity in the country. Teach For India is a nationwide movement of outstanding college graduates and young professionals who will commit two-years to teach full-time in under resourced schools and who will become lifelong leaders working from within various sectors toward the pursuit of equity in education. Their Teach For India Fellowship Program is probably the most challenging and transformational experience of a Fellow’s life.

More about the program , FAQs

 

Asian Foundation for Philanthropy

The Asian Foundation for Philanthropy (AFP) provides a channel for people to contribute to poverty reduction in India. Building on our ethos of inspiring social change, we create an innovative movement of positive action through raising awareness, transference of skills and donating to worthy causes in India. AFP’s work in India and the United Kingdom includes working with partner organisations in the areas of education, livelihoods (income generation) and participation and governance (building capacity of the organisation and increasing their accountability) , running long-term programmes aimed at improving the lives of the poor and inspiring social change.

Current internship and job opportunities

 

Voluntary Services Overseas

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO’s high-impact approach involves bringing people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action, and change lives to make the world a fairer place for all.

VSO partners often require the support of volunteers with special skills to fulfill a specific need in the project.  These placements are usually ‘one-off’ requests and difficult to recruit for, usually because the skill set needed is hard-to-find or the job requires an unusual mix of skills. The placements vary in length and in location. There are 2 vacancies currently posted on their site, urgently required for India and 1 for Nepal. Please click on the link:

More about the positions available.

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