Career Options

Where are the MBA jobs? Finance

• Risk Management
• Equity Research

Finance
11% HR
2%

IT
Sales & Marketing • Technology Consulting
• B2C IT • Pre-Sales
Sales &
• B2B 25% • Analytics
Marketing
• Product Management • Business Analyst
56%
• BFSI
• General Management
Operations
6%
Operations
• Supply chain management
• Service Operations

13/03/20 May not apply to top 10-15 MBA programmes in India

 How to choose a career?
Competence – what am I
good at?

Intent – what do I want to do?

Availability – are there

opportunities in my grasp?

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Careers in IT

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IT
Roles Available Competence
• Technology Consulting • Business Modelling • IT Pricing Models
• Report Writing • Proposal Writing
• Pre-Sales
• Technology awareness • JIRA/ Visio etc
• Analytics (Cloud/Blockchain/RPA/IOT/ • R/ Python/ Tableau
• Business Analyst AI/ML/Big
Data/Platforms/ERP)
• Product Management • Presenting a case well
• Industry Awareness
• Attention to detail
• Number orientation
• Scrum, Dev Ops

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Technology Consulting
What do you do on a daily basis Designations, companies & availability
• Work very regularly with clients • Analyst, consultant
• Identify business problems and apply technology solutions • Typical campus role offered
• Prepare roadmaps for technology enablement for the next few • All IT companies (Infosys, TCS, MindTree, CTS etc.) and
years consulting companies (KPMG, EY, Deloitte, Accenture, PwC etc)
• Identify specific business processes that can be improved using • Highest growth in the consulting area
technology
• Understand existing client IT architecture and suggest suitable
technologies
• Bring in best practices and latest trends in technology into
client environment
• Provide CBA for using technologies
• Work with implementation partners/ program manage
engagements to achieve tech outcomes
• Train business users and evangelize the new systems in client
organization

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Pre-Sales
What do you do on a daily basis Designations, companies & availability
• Support sales activities and bid teams • Analyst, consultant
• Write proposals, solutions overviews and value • Typical campus role offered
propositions for proposals that clients ask for
• All IT companies (Infosys, TCS, MindTree, CTS
• Work with the solutions architects, delivery etc.) and consulting companies (KPMG, EY,
teams, consultants and sales/ account Deloitte, Accenture, PwC etc)
managers
• Keep abreast with latest improvements in
technology areas
• Conduct market research to understand what
competition is doing
• Provide analytics and insights to improve
proposal success rates
• Work with sales and account management
team to identify areas to grow the account

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Analytics
What do you do on a daily basis
• Work very regularly with clients
• Identify business problems and apply
analytics solutions
• Use R/ Python/ Tableau for delivery
• Covers entire spectrum of AI – from basic
stats to high end alogrithms
• Play one of these roles
• Data Visualization
• Data Scientist
• Business Analyst
• Lot of roles in Digital Marketing need to
use Analytics
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Designations, companies & availability
• Analyst, consultant
• Typical campus role offered
• All IT companies (Infosys, TCS, MindTree,
CTS etc.) and consulting companies
(KPMG, EY, Deloitte, Accenture, PwC etc)
• Specialized companies like Mu Sigma,
Fractal, Absolut, Tiger etc
• Highest growth in IT area
Business Analyst
What do you do on a daily basis Designations, companies & availability
• Work closely with delivery, consulting or • Analyst
pre-sales teams • Typical campus role offered
• Create detailed business analysis, • All IT companies (Infosys, TCS, MindTree,
outlining problems, opportunities & CTS etc.) and consulting companies
solutions (KPMG, EY, Deloitte, Accenture, PwC etc)
• Work on budgeting and forecasting
• In delivery, provide inputs to planning and
monitoring – define & deliver reports
• Create financial models for the business
• Conduct variance analysis to assess
leakage, utilization etc
• Provide inputs to pricing decisions
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Product Manager
What do you do on a daily basis
• Identify potential products
• Conduct market research
• Generate product requirements and
determine specifications
• Identify pricing models and options
Designations, companies & availability
• Analyst, product manager
• Starts as an a analyst and grows into
product manager role
• All product companies – Google,
Microsoft etc.

• Develop marketing strategies • E-commerce companies – Amazon,

Swiggy, PayTM, Ola, Flipkart etc.
• Product testing to ensure compliance
• Convey technical requirements to
development team
• Work with sales teams and channel
partners to grow the business
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