Career counseling-cum-mobilisation programme

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India, will be collaborating with iDreamCareer. com, one of the largest career counseling social enterprises in the country for skilling the youth. The agreement between NSDC and iDreamCareer will offer scientific and informed career guidance to students and youth, which would lead to more informed enrolments for vocational courses.

In a pilot project, iDreamCareer will implement a hybrid model of engagement and get the students to enroll basis their psychometric assessment results and one-on-one career guidance. The company is creating an online enrolment application system via which counseled students will be able to apply to any vocational courses offered by any training partner from one single platform. The enrolment management system will use big data intelligence to recommend students the courses and institutes that are a right fit for them basis their psychometric and counseling data points. The system will ensure in mobilising right-fit students for respective courses.

Big Data Analytics course

SAS India, a leading business analytics software and services firm, announced its association with Goa Institute of Management (GIM) for a two-year full time residential post-graduate management programme in Big Data Analytics (PGDM BDA). It is the first post-graduate management programme in the country focused on the exciting field of Big Data. The programme is designed to address the new paradigm of fact-based decision making associated with the advent of Big Data. The main objective of this programme is to prepare future ready managers who are well versed with Big Data and Analytics. The program will cover the entire gamut of Big Data ecosystem and will impart hands-on training to students in data visualization, advanced analytics, machine learning, along with “Generally, Analytics MBA students are taken as quasi data scientists with some idea of management to be trained by companies in their line of business and are relegated to staff functions in companies.

We wanted to break this trend by preparing our students to be front-line managers fully equipped for companies and decide how the data would be used, for what purpose and with what technologies”, added Prof Anand Teltumbde, Head of the BDA Programme.

Eligibility: The students will be admitted on the basis of their CAT/GMAT/CMAT score and aptitude in Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning.

The course: The course is divided into six terms. In the first term, the students are provided a perspective of management along with an introduction to Analytics. The next two terms will focus on learning languages like SAS, R, Python and various emerging technologies all through problem solving with live data sets in a Data Lab. The students shall thus be readied to take up industry assignments in a company during their summer internship.

Students looking to acquire these skills can find more details on: https://www.gim .ac.in/content.php?name=ABOUT-PGDM-(BDA)&id=134