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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 ”
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Share on FacebookRoadmap to Online CAT 2009 – 2nd MentorPolis Webinar
Posted by admin in Web Seminar on June 20th, 2009
Delivering on our promise of creating more value for our mentees at every stage, following are some pointers from our mentor—Arnav Sinha
Before any of you get all worked up because of the change in format of CAT to an online one from this year, please realize that the fundamental areas that CAT has been testing applicants in would not change. The candidates will still have to prove their aptitude in mathematics, English language and reasoning and data-interpretation. If you understand that, you’d realize that the pattern of preparation really does not change too much.
Basic Preparation Tips for the next 3-4 months:
RC
- 1. Speed-read through moderately long passages on a variety of topics (including ones that you don’t find interesting) and evaluate how much you are able to retain at the end. Try to improve on it everyday.
2. Reading through online editions of magazines like Economist or Time would help in terms of developing comfort with reading text on the screen.
VA
- 1. Do not waste time mugging up the GRE word-list.
2. Converse in English as much as possible, maybe start writing a blog regularly on topics you find worth talking about, avoid use of SMS-English while writing – essentially develop familiarity with the language.
QA
- 1. If you haven’t done it till now, do cover the entire mathematics syllabus from the course material provided by any of the standard coaching classes. You could also spend some time with the relevant textbooks from school, if there’s any area you are finding particularly difficult.
2. While analyzing a test paper always try to think of a shorter method to solve every question, even the ones you got right in a few seconds.
DI/Reasoning
- 1. Get comfortable with a variety of ways to portray complicated data. If you keep yourself from getting intimidated with some weird looking chart or table in the paper, you would realize that in most cases the scarier the data looks, the easier the questions are.
2. Even for genuinely difficult case-lets, try to identify one or two of the easier questions, which can earn you some valuable marks.
a. For all these sections, practice using sectional tests, rather than solving the entire paper all the time.
b. Do not take more than 3-4 tests in a week. It’s important that you don’t get bored with the process.
c. Join at least one (and one is generally enough) of the national-level test series that are held simultaneously across India every weekend. The rest of the tests during the week can be old papers that you can get from a senior, buy from a coaching class or anywhere else in the market.
d. Analyse. Analyse. Analyse. Spend at least 4 hours or so, preferably on the same day, analysing a 2 hour paper. Mark all the careless mistakes you made and lost marks pointlessly in (including not attempting a question just because it looked difficult or was from an area you are scared of). Find shorter methods of solving questions. Ensure your mistakes aren’t repeated the next time.
e. As far as reading material is concerned, the stuff given by any standard coaching class is good enough.
f. Finally, enjoy the process. Treat a test paper as an extended form of a puzzle – a crossword or a sudoku – that you would solve for leisure while reading a newspaper.
And, goes without saying, please feel free to get in touch with me or other mentors available at Mentorpolis for any clarifications or help.
New Mentors for Foreign Student Internships, MBA – INSEAD, CAT Preparation
Arpit Chaudhary: Integrated B. Tech. + M. Tech Mathematics –Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ’09
Arpit has a rich experience of student internships across Europe during his studies at IIT Delhi. According to him it requires very systematic and organised efforts to find an intern and it can work wonders when someone applies for a job. He also thinks that it is not necessary for someone to be from good college to find a top internship abroad.
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Bhaskar Deol:B.Tech. – IIT Madras ‘03, INSEAD ‘08
Bhaskar can provide useful insights for GMAT, MBA program application and Interviews for your application in INSEAD. His five year strong experience in Semiconductor Manufacturing can also be useful for someone looking for a career in the semiconductor industry.
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Bhupesh Pangti: B.E. – NSIT ’05, PGDM – IIM Calcutta ‘10
Bhupesh’s success and experience with CAT and GMAT helped him gain thoughtful insights into the application and interview process of B-schools both Indian as well as International.
He worked for a period of three years in the 3rd Generation mobile telephony space and could be useful for someone aspiring for a career in telecommunication.
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If you also know somebody who can be committed mentor and has a distinguished academic record, do refer him to MentorPolis.
Mentorpolis Team
New Mentors for MS in Management US- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CAT preparation
Abhinav Sharma:B.Tech. Mechanical Engg. – IIT Delhi ‘07, IIM Bangalore ‘09
Abhinav Sharma had a JEE rank of 415 and a CAT percentile of 99.93. He has been involved in mentorship at entrance for IIM level and resume making programs at IIM Bangalore both formally and informally for the past two years, and before that with a lot of students for IIT JEE preparation as well.
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Manya Ranjan: B.Tech. and M.Tech. – IIT Delhi ’06, S.M. – Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘12
Manya currently is working in the field of Energy at the MIT Energy Initiative. Master of Science (S.M.) in Management is an advanced professional degree combining the course requirements of the more widely-known MBA degree with a formal S.M. dissertation.
He worked for a consulting firm for couple of years before deciding to go to pursue his engineering interest. Thus he has a deep understanding of careers in consulting and technology and can help mentees find the right career path.
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Prashant Agarwal: B.E., Mechanical– Delhi College of Engineering ’03 , PDGM – IIM Lucknow ‘09
Prashant has a rich experience in various industries verticals such as careers in Automotive, IT and now career in FMCG. He went to IIM Lucknow to do PGDM in Finance. He could also be very useful for someone who is looking for career in supply chain management.
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If you also know somebody who can be committed mentor and has a distinguished academic record, do refer him to MentorPolis.com
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Share on FacebookNew Mentors for MBA US–Yale School of Management, MBA – FMS Delhi and CAT preparation- IIM
Geetika Gupta:B.Tech Chemical Engg. – IIT Delhi ‘07, IIM Ahmedabad ‘11
Geetika scored 99.7 percentile in CAT 2008 and will be joining IIM Ahmedabad this year. She got calls from all 6 IIMs and successfully converted all of them. Alongside preparing with the IIMs, she was working with the coveted Lehman Brothers. Her experience can therefore help people who face difficulties preparing for the exam along with work.
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Prabhjot Sodhi: B. Tech Civil Engg. – IIT Delhi ’09, MBA – Yale School of Management ‘12
Prabhjot is one among the eight undergraduate students, all without full-time work experience, to have secured a spot in the MBA class of 2011 at the Yale School of Management. Prabhjot scored a 99th percentile in GMAT and has helped several juniors and peers prepare for the test.
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Joydeep Mukherjee: M.B.A – Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)’08
Joydeep has a deep understanding of the dynamics at play and challenges while appearing for top MBA colleges of India. He was also involved with IMS and CareerLauncher as part-time faculty for Quantitative and Data Interpretation classes. He currently works for SAP Labs India, Consulting and Value Advisory Services (VAS).
Read more about Joydeep.
If you also know somebody who can be a committed mentor and has a distinguished academic record, do refer him to MentorPolis.
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Share on FacebookNew Mentors for CAT preparation- IIM, MS US – Stanford University, MBA US – HBS, Ph. D. – Oxford University
Reaching out to people for the cause of mentoring is picking up pace. Wherever we approach mentors, we see enormous interest towards the idea and great enthusiasm to be a part of it.
In past few weeks we have got new additions to our Mentor team. As promised they come from diverse backgrounds with different set of experiences and expertise areas, thus increasing options and perspectives for you.
Nipun Dave: IIT Bombay – Dual Degree Electrical Engg., Stanford University – MS
Nipun has secured admission for MS at Stanford University from fall 2009. He was Gold medalist at the Indian National Chemistry Olympiad and also represented India at the International Robocon Competition in Beijing in Aug 2005.
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Mallory Dwinal: Northwestern University- BA Spanish, Economics, International Studies & Oxford University – Ph.D., Harvard Business School – MBA
Mallory is an exceptional education profile and is the only Rhodes Scholar accepted to Harvard Business School’s first 2+2 MBA cohort. She scored in the 93rd percentile of the GMAT, has been accepted to HBS 2+2 and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar to get her Ph.D. in International Education Policy. She has also been accepted to Teach for America.
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Ankit Gupta: Punjab Engineering College – B. Tech. Mechanical Engg., IIM Ahmedabad – PGDM
Ankit attained 99.75 percentile score in the 2007th edition of the exam. Additionally, he also tasted success in various other parallel exams like XAT, SNAP and NMIMS. He has also been actively involved in reaching out to the aspirants for their CAT Preparation, through both informal and formal levels.
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We receive many recommendations for mentors, so if you also know someone who could be an excellent mentor please refer him/her to MentorPolis.
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