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Business Analyst Placement Process Review &Strategy

By Shivgan Joshi http://stockcreditfinancecfa.blogspot.in/

Content
Selection Process Personals involved Criteria of Selection Colleges Involved CAT/MAT exams vs. Selection Process Proposed Solution List of Institutes Our Strength

Disclaimer
I have taken data from internet which might not be accurate I have not rechecked these slides so things might be blunt/wrong at places Made in a positive and constructive way Suggestion does not mean that things are not done or something is missing, it might means I failed to observe or are less important

Selection Process
Written (200 40) GD(40 20) PI (puzzles, fluency, ethics, analytics, etc) (20 8 4) Final call letter being given at their office

Personals Involved
Mr. Supportive (quite helpful person, Age 45+) One Villain (like Roadies Anchor, and talked rough, asked ethical question) One humble Lady

Written Exam Details

All questions are online, same questions asked from all 30 questions in 30 minutes 1. Data interpretation and Data Logical Reasoning: 8 +4 questions 2. Verbal: Assumption, sequence, Vocabulary, Match the columns : 6 questions 3. Maths: Geometry, profit loss, series: 12 hours

Group Discussion
Be good in pronunciation Patience and posture Do not be over aggressive And other common things like be point-to-point, say answers in point, be technical things, right balance in qualitative and quantitative My GD topic: KPOs in India Other topics: Marriage, boss, etc

Puzzles
Number of trains Length of roads Water in 3L and 5L bottle and to measure 4L etc

Criteria for this Company (estimated)

Oral Communication 70% Analytical Just like CAT & puzzles 25% Ethics/Body language 4% Finance 1%

Bit tilted towards engineering students, 25% questions in Electrical Engineering to see my communication & explanation skills

Requirements (Implied and not stated)

Breadth of knowledge (English and Puzzles) Market Analysis basic techniques Predicting markets and movement of business in new regions Patent-IP, market survey, technology, data analysis Company needs CFA/FRM/SAS certified people Need poor but serious students Bond makes it clear that they have high attrition rate

CAT vs. Placement

Very same Written as described Same GD Same Interview like MBA with various rounds Same puzzles in interview Puzzles can be found in books of interview prep

Aptitude Test Strategy

Maths questions are distributed from all areas Quantum CAT by Arrihant Publications is a good book to do Target of 50 questions per week or a 2 hr test of math and analysis

Some Solutions 1
Collaborations in areas like SAS In house training for all soft skills Introducing Optional training on analytics in greater details (advanced excel, Macros & VB) Weekly test on Aptitude (taken by Ms Shimayla) and mock interview at real companies Weekly GD on some topic (moderated by Mr Gaurav or others) More tests in general every 2nd week on Finance

Some Solutions 2
Group presentations on Sector analysis / Company Analysis: of ANY BIG ONE This profile is for analyst kind of job hence is technical things but it might not be relevant in other areas like Analec / Equity

Recruiter s support Cell

In house training for better placement where institute helps to train students for companies specific needs (which cuts their cost) Teacher and industry people can train and use institute s infrastructure for placed students

Targeting Small Financial Research

Collaboration with new entrepreneurship ventures Startups for exchange and placement Financial Jobs at Mumbai

SAS institutes
SAS is a tool for statistical data management and analysis (sas.com) Training Institutes ATI (Has labs and life time validity to attend same course) ww.analyticstraining.in IISASTS(one man takes care of it all): www.iisastr.com

Collaborations
SAS training: 8-12 thousand INR for 60-100 hrs, duration: 1 month SAS base is programming based Statistical exam and costs 180 USD English course: 3-5 thousand/month, 2 hrs/daily (60-100 hrs) 5-8 SAS training centers exists in NCR 8-15 English institutes

Build your own Strength

Study CFA L1+L2 which no other institutes does vs. other MBA is university syllabus based CFA L2 treated as equal to MBA and will be especially by KPOs whose client are US based Incorporate SAS/Advanced Excel/FRM Charter prep which companies need Do interview prep, soft skills training to become better than most of MBAs

References
Interview Exp at pagalguy.com Salary are taken from Pagalguy so can be old IIMjobs website, naukri.com

Find Number of metro trains in Delhi

Length of Roads in Delhi

Measure water with two beakers of 5L and 3 L

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 two ropes of uneven thickness that burns completely in 1 hr. how to calculate 45 mins. ans. burn both ends of 1st rope and one end of second rope. in 30 mins 1 rope will get burnt completely, and the 2nd rope will get burnt half. at tht instant burn the next half of the 2nd rope.

 Greece situation to qs like 'How would calculate the number of ties being worn in India at present.' and ' Name 5 uses of a stapler without staple pins'