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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'

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