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Mentors for Tepper School of Business and McCombs School of Business
Parul Bansal
Carnegie Mellon University- Tepper School of Business
Parul is currently studying in Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business. Coming from an MCA background, she can specially be of help to students from similar background and planning to apply to US business schools.
Abhinav Mittal
McCombs School of Business – University of Texas & Delhi College of Engineering
Abhinav Mittal is currently pursuing MBA at the University of Texas at Austin- McCombs School of Business. Prior to joining school, Abhinav worked as an IT Consultant with TATA Consultancy Services. IT/ITeS professionals can consult him for applications to US business schools.
Share on FacebookGATE 2010 for IIT IISc Engineering Post Graduate Careers
Posted by sindhu in Examinations on December 5th, 2009
GATE – Graduate Aptitude Test In Engineering
GATE is an all India examination administered and conducted jointly by the IISc and seven IITs on behalf of the National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
Exam Schedule – Here
Test Centers –
ONLINE Examination Cities : Computer based ONLINE examination for papers with codes MN and TF will be conducted at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) only. According to the candidate’s first choice of examination city, he/she will be allotted the corresponding zonal administrative institute as the center.
OFFLINE Examination Cities :
Eligibility -The following categories of candidates are eligible to appear in GATE :
1. Bachelor degree holders in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture (4 years after 10+2) and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes.
2. Master degree holders in any branch of Science/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Applications or equivalent and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes.
3. Candidates in the second or higher year of the Four-year Integrated Master degree programme (Post-B.Sc.) in Engineering/ Technology or in the third or higher year of Five-year Integrated Master degree programme and Dual Degree programme in Engineering/ Technology.
4. Candidates with qualifications obtained through examinations conducted by professional societies recognised by UPSC/AICTE (e.g. AMIE by IE(I), AMICE(I) by the Institute of Civil Engineers (India)-ICE(I)) as equivalent to B.E./B.Tech. Those who have completed section A or equivalent of such professional courses are also eligible.
Exam Structure and detailed information about test paper pattern can be found here.
Application Procedure – Here
Share on FacebookNew Mentors for Advertising & Media careers, Entrepreneurship, CA in Financial Analysis
Tariq Hyder
Tariq Hyder is a Maverick Entrepreneur who founded Ross Fortune Interactive, Ideasonic Studios, Webserve Networks, iMarkets and Green Coalition Network. He is an expert marketer with 10+ years of experience in startups and NGOs. He holds an MBA from University of New Hampshire. His experience as Unit Head of Content for eGurucool.com, PR & Event Manager and stint as an Associate editor all mean that he is the mentor for areas such as Advertising and Communications.
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Alvin Saldanha
Alvin Saldanha’s career can hardly be summed up in two paragraphs of text for his expertise in the field of advertising is insurmountable, in over two decades of advertising experience, he has worked on a significant roster of the best Indian and International brands such as Air-India, TATA Indicom, HSBC, Taj Group of Hotels and more. Starting off as a copywriter and he worked his way up to hold top positions and current serves as CEO with the Watermelon Healthcare Communications Group. To a mentee this translates to excellent mentoring in the fields of communication media and advertising business.
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Rachit Gupta
Rachit Gupta is a CA and a PGDBM holder from IMT, Ghaziabad. If you are looking for mentoring in the field of finance, fianancial accounting and/or stock market, Rachit has a vast range of experience to guide you in the right direction. His expertise (but not limited to) are in the areas of Financial Advisory, Capital Raising, Indian Stock Markets, Financial Analysis & Training,Strategic Finance and Equity Markets. These areas of study are highly beneficial to those pursuing (or those who intend to) MBA. He also excels in giving advice for job interviews and training related to finance.
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Share on FacebookMentorPolis.com featured on The Telegraph
We’ve also been commended for our guidance to mentees for popular Post graduate schools like Harvard Business School, Stanford University, Yale School of Management, Stern School of Business, ISB and IIMs, read on…Oprah Winfrey once famously said, “I don’t think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship.” And rightly so. If you look back, mentors have had a huge role to play in the lives of every legend or celebrity. One of the greatest instances of mentoring is the example of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Socrates was the mentor of Plato, who mentored Aristotle. If Sachin Tendulkar was mentored by coach Ramakant Achrekar, A.R. Rahman is the protégé of maestro Illayaraja. And wasn’t Professor Dumbledore mentoring Harry Potter through all his magical exploits?
Finding a mentor can be a life changing experience. Most of us have had mentors, who guided us through difficult times. If you are still looking for that someone to push you in the right direction try MentorPolis.com. The site connects students who seek academic and professional advice from accomplished mentors.
MentorPolis has on board mentors from top institutions such as the Harvard Business School, Stanford University, Yale School of Management, Stern School of Business, ISB and IIMs. The site currently offers mentor programmes in six fields — MBA abroad, MBA India, engineering abroad, engineering India, entrepreneurship and careers.
The portal has five main sections. The “how it works” section will give you an idea about the basic ethos of the site. There are sample questions asked by students and a sample consultation to show you how a typical communication takes place. Find a mentor is the section which allows you to browse the list of mentors using keywords. The next section, called Learn, is where the real action is. It has modules that allow students to ask questions to mentors, web links to interesting articles and resources, interviews of successful students and online seminars. Besides, there is a link on FAQs and a mentorpolis blog that features articles and news items related to the portal.
Launched in April 2009, MentorPolis is still in its nascent stage. A mentoring site is a novel concept in India and definitely worth a try. The list of mentors is small but interesting. The choice of subject verticals favour the engineering and MBA crowd.
For those aspiring to be in this bracket of specialisation, there is enough dope to keep you hooked. For instance, if you are interested in getting an engineering degree from abroad, you could gain from advice from students who have passed out from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Get tips on the application procedure, admission tests and scholarships. The best part is that all mentors are or have been recent students and should therefore be able to connect with mentees easily.
To reach your mentor you need to follow a five-step process. First, register as a mentee by filling in your biodata. Then browse through the mentor profiles and address your request to a mentor, pay for the consultation and schedule your call. Most aspects of the site are free — that includes creating an account, the webinars, knowledge resources and video casts. But if you decide to call the mentors, the price is a steep Rs 500 per call.
The design is clear and systematic, leaving no space for confusion. The colours used are simple and basic. The language is easy to understand. However, the site can do with a little bit of playing around with design and colours. The content of course could include a lot more verticals — social sciences, design, media, architecture, the wish list is long. But when aspirations meet direction, let the sky be the limit.
New Mentors for Foreign Internships, IIT-JEE, CAT and Engineering
Sukruth Pillarisetti: B.E – Manufacturing & Automation from N.S.I.T ‘07
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Sukruth aced CAT in 2006 with a near perfect score of 99.65% before joining IIM-K. He has a B.E in Manufacturing & Automation from N.S.I.T.
Apart from being able to help you with preparation for MBA entrance tests like CAT, FMS and SNAP especially in areas of verbal and comprehension and on selection procedure to B-Schools, he can also mentor students on career related matters as he has experience with top MNCs like FREUDENBERG GROUP, GERMANY as a summer associate and at HAL (AEROSPACE & DEFENSE).
Gaurav Maheshwari: M.Sc in Statistics & Informatics, Intern Iowa State & University of Rostock, DAAD scholar ‘11
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Currently a senior in IIT-KGP, Gaurav is one of the few students who despite the economic slowdown in 2008 managed to secure a foreign internship while only in his sophomore year of study.
He interned at Iowa State University for two consecutive summers since 2008 and is experienced in the fields of Image processing and Optical Networks. Having numerous internship offers currently in hand he is adapt in the know-how of making it in engineering careers in India and abroad.
His availability for consultation through the weekdays and weekends makes him the apt mentor to choose if you are looking for mentoring on rigorous areas such as undergraduate Internships in USA, Europe and preparation for IIT-JEE.
Prajani KC: IIT-R ‘04, University of Arizona, Eller College of Management’ 10
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Prajani, a motivated mentor who currently is the VP of Website development for National Association of Women MBAs. She holds a B.E in CS & Engineering from IIT-R and will be graduating with an MBA (majoring in MIS) from University Of Arizona in 2010.
Her strong analytical skills, diligence and proven to be an effective mediator between the client and the technical team in her 4 year experience in the IT industry, these skills were apparent in her summer internship in Mexico as a management consultant.
She is the mentor you are looking for if your area of consultation is to pursue an MBA in USA, cracking GMAT. She can also provide valuable insights on Cover letter & Essay Writing.
Share on FacebookMentoring students online – The Hindu Story on MentorPolis.com
The post as it appeared in The Hindu – Chennai and Hyderabad Edition on 31st August 2009.
Hindu MentorPolis Article
“If collegemates meet up, they would probably discuss favourite spots on campus, or talk about their professors, or possibly recall funny anecdotes that their batch witnessed. But this four, who are alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, went beyond.
Anshuman Chaudhary, Avijit Sharma, Anshul Aggarwal and Pratik Aggarwal of IIT-Delhi, who were lucky to have very helpful seniors, realised that not all students had mentors to help them through the challenging decision-making phase that is part of college life.
“While most students follow what others around them are doing, they may be unaware of their true potential and opportunities that exist in the outside world,” says Anshuman, who works from Mumbai, with his other three Delhi-based colleagues.
Thus was born www.mentorpolis.com — a portal that seeks to help students and professionals looking for advice on higher education or career. “Mentors not only help people in identifying the most suitable places for them, they also guide them to reach those places.”
The portal enables visitors to obtain Career guidance from experts in different fields. Course-specific mentoring as well strategy-based mentoring is provided by a panel of mentors representing different academic disciplines and professions.
“When we started, our own IIT seniors and their secondary contacts were the first buyers of idea and were enrolled as mentors. Hence, the starting point was engineering and management,” says Anshuman.
How it works
MentorPolis boasts of mentors from top institutions such as Harvard Business School, Stern School, New York City, Stanford and Yale.
Considering that mentoring is a continuous process demanding systematic interaction and consistency in guidance, it could be a challenging service, particularly when it is offered online.
Aware of this challenge, team MentorPolis employs a mix of web and telephone-based counselling process. A candidate seeking guidance could browse the site and look at mentor profiles. After this, they could select a suitable mentor, schedule communication, pay for the consultation request and subsequently keep connecting with the mentor.
Once a call is scheduled, MentorPolis dials out to both the mentor as well as the ‘mentee’ to connect them on phone. The subsequent follow-up, rescheduling and document transfer, if any, takes place online. “We provide an online collaboration space for the mentor and ‘mentee’ to interact after they are finished with the telephonic consultation. Such a collaborative environment ensures that the ‘mentee’ is in continuous touch with the mentor for any future guidance or doubts.” The team is also working on an offline model to serve people who are not very comfortable with web as a medium.
In a span of three months, over 700 ‘mentees’ have registered with MentorPolis. The users are mostly from the Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities. “Our team has already started the marketing campaign in the Tier-2 cities, as these are the places where our need is felt the most.”
Interestingly, quite a few people abroad have also shown interest in the services and have registered for them.
The young team of entrepreneurs, which has worked out an interesting revenue model, seems quite eager to make sure candidates get the best. ‘Web Seminars’ featuring the mentor panel are also offered free for all registered users. “We want to make the right kind of advice available for candidates when it matters the most!”
MEERA SRINIVASAN ”
You can access this article here.
Share on FacebookWant to go to Harvard? Hire a guide – Mid Day Story on MentorPolis
The post as it appeared in Mid-Day – Delhi Edition on 25th June 2009.
Mid-Day MentorPolis Article
Wish you could get an ex-MIT honcho to help you with your aspirations, instead of that monotonous coaching class? Three young IITians are busy building a stream-specific mentor-mentee nexus
If only foreign studies could be figured on Facebook, and tutors came via Twitter, social networking would’ve lost all the frivolity it’s associated with. But since super-specialised interest groups are still a rarity in the country, there has to be another way to work around it, especially when it comes to education and career. A bunch of young IITians found this way fast, and headed to form a communication channel that brings together achievers and aspirants for career guidance. Called Mentorpolis, their project allows accomplished mentors to hold seminars and consultation sessions with fuchcha mentees, and both the sides can pick people as per their needs and deeds. 
Who’s who
Here’s a clear picture of how the whole thing happens. Mentees are high school students, undergraduates and young professionals looking for authentic information and personal guidance, whereas mentors, in this case, are senior students and professionals who have ‘been in mentee shoes’, have ‘made it’, and thus can suggest solutions to the former segment’s problems. Their current list of the latter includes students from IIT, IIM, Stanford, Harvard and other top MBA and engineering schools. They are armed with enough experience to give you all the gyaan on MBAs in India and abroad, entrepreneurship and engineering. “To begin with, we wanted to concentrate on the most major educational concerns. But less stereotypical subjects will also be taken up gradually. Law and Commerce are coming up,” says Avijit Sharma, co-founder.
The connect
Just a month into operation, the project has already enrolled about 600 students as mentees, and about 60-65 mentors. The latter’s credibility is measured on time commitment (how many hours they can spare in a week), referrals, experiential assessment, academic portfolio and previous mentoring records. Anyone can apply for either category. Once a mentee furnishes his specific needs in the form available on their website, the administrators get busy with matchmaking. “We check backgrounds, and think of somebody who has the same kind of a history; similar circumstances lead to a better connect. Then, we further the filters and see who’s equipped enough,” explains Avijit. Then, the prospective mentor and mentee get to decide if they’re up for each other. If it doesn’t work out, alternatives are arranged for. The service is pan-continental, with its headquarters in the capital. Once a ‘pair’ is made, they interact through Web seminars, telephonic consultation and in-person meetings, if proximity allows.
Fee good factor
At a fee of Rs 500 per session, is the facility worth it? “It’s true that you tend to find mentors in your own immediate circles, but I, for instance, couldn’t find one for entrepreneurship. The problem is pretty rampant in tier two cities, and that’s where we come in. If you’re not satisfied with the counselling, there’s always the option of cashback. A feedback mechanism is also well in place,” Avijit signs off.
You can access this article here.
Share on FacebookMore coverage – Mentorpolis.com in Alootechie
The post as it appeared on alootechie.com page.
A group of recent graduates from IIT Delhi have launched MentorPolis.com, an online platform that aims to connect mentees, who seek academic and professional advice, with mentors through telephonic consultations and web seminars.
MentorPolis.com claims to have currently more than 50 mentors who come from distinguished colleges from India and abroad such as IIT, IIM, Harvard Business School, Stanford university and other top colleges of US and Europe. These mentors offer advice on verticals like engineering in India and abroad, MBA in India and abroad, entrepreneurship and job preparation.
“We had two strong reasons of focusing our effort in education and professional vertical. Firstly, we realized that there is a dearth of competent advice and guidance for most Indian students and professionals. And secondly, good mentors not only help people in identifying most suitable places but guide them in reaching those places as well. Here is where we saw the opportunity,” Avijit Sharma, co-founder and CEO, MentorPolis.com told AlooTechie.
According to Avijit Sharma, MentorPolis.com does not charge mentees for creating an account and for using knowledge resources such as Q&A, web-links and video-casts. “The web seminars taken up by our mentor panel are also free for all the registered users. However, we charge mentees for any personal consultation they request with any of our mentor. A part of the fees is retained by MentorPolis,” Sharma informed.
Launched in April 2009, MentorPolis.com has so far attracted over 500 registered mentees who are primarily high school students, undergraduates and young professionals. According to Avijit Sharma, most of the users are coming from the Tier-I and II cities. “As an interesting trend, there have been quite a few people from abroad who have shown interest in the services and have registered as mentees,” Sharma added.
Thanks to Alootechie.com for their review, you can access this article here.
Share on FacebookMentorPolis.com featured by StartupDuniya
The post as it appeared on the startupduniya page.
Mentorpolis is a new startup by IIT graduates, that hopes to make it easier to search and find mentors. A lot of times, we’re faced with significant dilemmas about what decision to make – be it in your professional life, related to education, job or entrepreneurship. What would help is if we get some guidance from a person who’s ‘been there, done that’. And that’s what Mentorpolis hopes to accomplish.
Briefly put, Mentorpolis is a marketplace for finding mentors. Here’s how it works:
- You search for and explore various mentor profiles on the site
- Select a mentor whose expertise closely matches your requirements.
- Schedule a mutually agreeable time to touch base with your mentor
- Mentors decide their own charges for mentoring sessions. You (the mentee) pay the amount before the scheduled call
- Get in touch with your mentor for personalized advice and recommendations
Some sample questions that you can seek out a mentor to guide you through:
‘I’m thinking on doing my masters in engineering from US. Can you help me find good schools that fit my profile and interests?‘
‘I am very good with web 2.0 technologies but lack the commercial sense of a web enterprise. How do I get started with my idea?’
You can also view a couple of sample mentoring session transcripts here.
Web seminars and online conversations on the site are free of cost. However, each telephonic or in-person session costs Rs 500/-.
I think this is a great idea. Going by the number of young folks who seek out answers to such questions, there is a viable market out there. A couple of suggestions for them:
1) Reach out to sites like NENOnline and bloggers like Rashmi Bansal – they deal with a lot of young folks who are seeking career guidance , education advice and the likes.
2) Rs 500/- may be a bit steep for fresh graduates or those who are still in college. I would suggest making it more alluring to this demographic – introduce a per hour pricing and probably some discount to such young folks. In addition, introduce a ‘free mentoring sessions for the first month’ kinda deal – this will help to get the initial user base on the site.
Do check it out and let me know what you think about Mentorpolis.
Thanks to startupduniya for their review and kind words of appreciation, we would definitely think upon their suggestions for future.
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