Some career news

I’ve quit my job of over a year. Nothing went wrong, but nothing went seriously right either. As of now, I’m in the market looking for a job. Actually not just yet – I plan to take some time off to think about myself, life, and everything that comes with it. Perhaps in a few weeks I’ll freak out about unemployment, and get serious about the third draft of my resume. In the meantime, Chi has more time to dedicate to his blog :-)

Placements at IIMI, the Chronicle version

A friend of mine forwarded me this article from Central Chronicle about placements at IIM Indore: http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070303/0303102.htm

Here is Chronicle's version of the companies that came visiting IIMI:

This year several renowned companies visited here to offer placements to the students; some of them are Macancy, Assenger business consultant, ... Deloty consultancy, ... Lehmen brothers, Goldman Saches, Duche bank, ... City group, ....

Some IT companies include .. Cognijent, ... Kotek Mahindra and Kevonsis etc.

:-)

PM on the steel industry

Excerpt from the PM's speech at the IISCO steel plant, Burnpur, West Bengal. Here's a link to the story on NDTV.

Why does Lakshmi Mittal or Ratan Tata have to buy foreign companies to establish a global presence and expand steel capacities when our per capita consumption of steel is so low and when there is so much opportunity here?

Let me see if I understand the PM's statement correctly. Is he suggesting that:
1. Mittal & Tata should not be establishing a global presence? OR
2. Mittal & Tata buy only Indian companies to establish a global presence? OR
3. Mittal & Tata should match their companies' production capacity only to match domestic demand, which currently happens to be low, but could rise in the future?

Maybe we should just stop attempting to make sense of ambigous statements made by politicians and assume they're playing to the crowd.