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Business Analyst
Placement Process Review&Strategy
By Shivgan Joshihttp://stockcreditfinancecfa.blogspot.in/
Confidential
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Content
Selection Process
Personals involved
Criteria of Selection
Colleges Involved
CAT/MAT exams vs. Selection Process
Proposed Solution
List of Institutes
Our Strength
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Disclaimer
I have taken data from internet which might
not be accurate
I have not rechecked these slides so thingsmight be blunt/wrong at places
Made in a positive and constructive way
Suggestion does not mean that things are notdone or something is missing, it might means I
failed to observe or are less important
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Selection Process
Written (20040)
GD(4020)
PI (puzzles, fluency, ethics, analytics, etc)(2084)
Final call letter being given at their office
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Personals Involved
Mr. Supportive (quite helpful person, Age 45+)
One Villain (like Roadies Anchor, and talked
rough, asked ethical question) One humble Lady
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Written Exam Details
All questions are online, same questions askedfrom all
30 questions in 30 minutes1. Data interpretation and Data Logical Reasoning:
8+4 questions
2. Verbal: Assumption, sequence, Vocabulary,
Match the columns : 6 questions3. Maths: Geometry, profit loss, series: 12 hours
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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
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Puzzles
Number of trains
Length of roads
Water in 3L and 5L bottle and to measure 4L etc
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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
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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
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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
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Aptitude Test Strategy
Maths questions are distributed from all areas
Quantum CAT by Arrihant Publications is a
good book to do Target of50 questions per week or a 2 hr test
of math and analysis
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Some Solutions 1
Collaborations in areas like SAS
In house training for all soft skills
Introducing Optional training on analytics ingreater 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 MrGaurav or others)
More tests in general every 2nd week on Finance
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Some Solutions 2
Group presentations on Sector analysis /
Company Analysis: of ANY BIG ONE
This profile is for analyst kind of job hence istechnical things but it might not be relevant in
other areas like Analec / Equity
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Recruiters 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
institutes infrastructure for placed students
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Targeting Small Financial Research
Collaboration with new entrepreneurship
ventures Startups for exchange and placement
Financial Jobs at Mumbai
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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
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Collaborations
SAS training: 8-12 thousand INR for 60-100
hrs, duration: 1 month
SAS base is programming based Statisticalexam 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
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Build your own Strength
Study CFA L1+L2 which no other institutesdoes vs. other MBA is university syllabusbased
CFA L2 treated as equal to MBA and will beespecially 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
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References
Interview Exp at pagalguy.com
Salary are taken from Pagalguy so can be old
IIMjobs website, naukri.com
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Find Number of metro trains in Delhi
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Length of Roads in Delhi
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Measure water with two beakers of5L
and 3 L
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sqrt of .9
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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.
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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'