About B-School Express (BSE)
- India is home to more than 4500 B-Schools, Management Institutes and MBA Colleges. Every year over 500000 students pursue management courses, for quality education and a bright career. However, the appalling reality is that only about 30% of the total MBA graduates are found to be employable.
- There is a pressing necessity to bridge the gap between academic and practical requirements in the management education space. As management Institutes are doin their best in addressing the challenge, one such platform that can partner with he institutes in bridging thins gap would be of great advantage.
- B-School Express (BSE)- The only MBA-exclusive Ed-Tech platform has been meticulously designed to address various challenges in Indian MBA education space and serve as a strategic partner to the management schools in India.
- BSE is an exclusive MBA college Aggregator and Service Delivery Platform that offers a host of immensely value-adding services to the MBA institutes in India.
- BSE’s services are offered in 4 categories - Information Services, Knowledge Services, Talent Services, and Assessment Services.
- Under the 4 service categories, BSE caters to a wide array with modules such as placement preparation services, employability assessment tests, business news, faculty recruitment services, L&D (MDP/ FDP) Calendars and many more.
- The core team at BSE has a cumulative experience of more than 60 years of understanding B-Schools. The team understands the entire spectrum of needs of management institutes and offers appropriate solutions for a wide range of requirements. For more information, take a deep-dive into each of the service offerings shared below/ on the home page of www.bschoolexpress.com.
Information Services
1) B-School Roundup
- Each Institute, out of the more than 4500 Management Institutes in India, witnesses over 150 important events and developments every year.
- Such events include Fests & Cultural Events, Contests & Competitions, Seminars & Conferences, Guest Lectures & Keynote Speeches, Convocations & Alumni Meets, Awards & Felicitations, Prints & publications, Promotions & Appointments, Placements & Internships, Accreditations & Recognitions, Tie-Ups & Collaborations, Social Activities & Philanthropies, and many more.
- Each of these events contributes to the reputation of the institutes. Unfortunately, most of those go unnoticed due to a lack of a universal and exclusive platform to publish.
- B-School Roundup is a publishing platform, to capture the B-School events exclusively. This platform reaches out to Corporates, Alumni, aspiring students, Accreditation bodies, and all the relevant stakeholders.
- Subscription to B-School Roundup is free of cost.
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2) B-School L&D Calendar (MDPs/ FDPs/ SDPs)
- Management Institutes offer learning programs to the Corporate Executives, Faculty Resources, and the Students i.e. Management Development Programs (MDPs), Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) and Student Development Programs (SDPs) respectively.
- BSE’s B-School L&D Calendar aggregates the L&D offerings by the Management Institutes i.e. MDPs/ FDPs/ SDPs, and allows learning enthusiasts to choose appropriate programs from various offerings across the schools.
- B-School L&D Calendar organizes the training programs within broad domain categories, so that the seekers of learning can choose the programs of their interest.
- Through BSE, Management institutions can ensure that their learning offerings reach a broader audience. By subscribing to B-School L&D Calendar service module on www.bschoolexpress.com, institutes can reach corporates and academic audiences with ease.
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3) Expert Views
- The experiences and words of wisdom from an accomplished business leader can immensely inspire the budding minds of management students.
- BSE’s Expert Views is a repository of hundreds of interviews that share the views, perspectives, and experiences of accomplished business executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders in various management domains.
- These interviews help the students in relating the academic knowledge with the real world business applications.
- These interviews are organized along the major management domains viz. Finance, Operations, Technology, HRM, Marketing, and Strategy.
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4) The Outliers
- The Two-year journey of Management education (MBA) is about learning, assessments, goals, performance, and securing the students their dream job.
- The two years ask for immense efforts, careful planning, sharp focus and personal discipline. While the curriculum teaches the recorded best-practices from the industry, students would also benefit from the strategies employed by senior students who have successfully secured the jobs of their desire. The personal experience of such students can be a rich source of learning and guidance for the current students.
- BSE’s The Outliers captures interviews with these successful students, wherein they share their winning stories about their planning, strategies, learning sources, learning styles, time management, preparation methods etc.
- These stories of the strong grit, resolve and discipline offer immense value to the future batches of MBA. The stories help the students in planning efficiently toward securing their dream job on campus.
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5) India Business News
- Knowledge of current business news could be a game-changer for students of business management. They are expected to know the various dynamics and developments in the current business world.
- IPOs, Technologies, Start Ups, Fundings, New Products, M&As, Regulatory Affairs, Markets, Government, and many more aspects define the constantly changing dynamics of the business space, which the students must stay aware about. This helps in relating the academic concepts to the real business world.
- BSE’s India Business News presents handpicked news from various authentic sources. The news is collected and segregated sector wise, so that the students can access it in a structured and methodical manner.
- India Business News assures a regular dose of relevant and reliable business news to the students.
Knowledge Services
6) B-Store
- B School is Express is a Edu-tech platform with a strong emphasis on research and development in the domain of management. Students of management and the B –Schools are its primary target patrons.
- As a part of its research activity, BSE periodically comes up with various research-based products like books, reports, papers etc. B-Store showcases all the research based value-adding products of BSE. The B-schools/ students can purchase these purchase these immensely value adding products.
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7) High Potential Interview Questions
- Placement Interview is one of the most crucial events for the students of MBA. The students cannot afford to take a chance in the preparation for the placement interviews.
- A student can crack a placement interview with advanced planning, methodical approach, and insightful preparation.
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BSE’s High Potential Interview Questions (HiPoIQ), presents an exhaustive database of over 30000 questions that were previously asked in the MBA placement interviews (along with answers). HiPoIQ strategically organizes the questions into various management domains.
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HiPoIQ offers an unmatched advantage to the students for preparing and predicting possible interview questions, thereby enhancing their chances to crack the interview successfully.
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8) Case Manager
- Case-Based Teaching is, globally one of the most popular and widely practiced methods to bring in the practical aspects of business to management lessons.
- Many Indian Management Institutes are, however yet to embrace this method effectively. With BSE’s Case Manager, it is easier than ever.
- BSE’s Case Manager presents a catalogue of more than 60000 case-titles, stored in the global case repositories, strategically classified into various management domains. Each case has been mapped to a certain teaching topic for the faculty’s convenient pick.
- This domain-based strategic classification allows the faculty to simply identify the relevant case-studies with the help of the topic key words. Identifying and securing a case-study has never been this easy.
9) F-Connect
- There are about 2 lakh faculty, making intellectual contributions through teaching, research and publishing across about 4000 management institutes in India. These faculty are spread across major management domains viz. Finance & Economics, Marketing & Strategy, Operations & IT, and Human Resources Management.
- However, all these intellectual resources work in silos, preventing them from forming the communities-of-excellence in respective domains.
- BSE’s presents F-Connect, a database of over 2 lakh faculty strategically classified into various management domains (Finance & Economics, Marketing & Strategy, Operations & IT, and Human Resources Management).
- This allows the faculty resources to contact, communicate, connect, collaborate, and synergize towards various professional engagements like research, workshops, seminars, conferences etc.
- F-Connect is a powerful networking platform that encourages the management faculty to reach out to fellow thousands of faculty resources and form communities-of-excellence through various professional collaborations.
Talent Services
10) Opportunity Knocks.
- Indian Management Institutes employ more than 400000 resources in various capacities, including teaching, non-teaching, administrative, and technical staff. With an average attrition rate of about 15%, the talent hunt is a challenging aspect faced by the management institutions in India.
- Opportunity Knocks is an employment portal, which caters exclusively to the talent needs of B-Schools and Management institutions in India. Opportunity Knocks, is a common employment window for job seekers and employers across the Indian Management Institutions.
- Management institutions can advertise Job Advertisements on Opportunity Knocks. Management institutions can also access the talent repository, which has hundreds of resumes from teaching and non-teaching resources across the Management institutions in India.
- On Opportunity Knocks, the job seekers can access hundreds of job opportunities advertised by management institutions in India. The job seekers can also post their resumes/ profiles to the B-School talent repository on Opportunity Knocks, which the Management institutions can access anytime.
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11) I am Tested
- About 400000 management students graduate every year in India. While talent is spread across the campuses, there is no dedicated method of accessing all the campuses for employable talent.
- ‘I am Tested’ is a one of its kind talent showcase platform that shares the information about the employable talent across the management institutions in India.
- I am Tested showcases the MBA students along with their employability scores and certificate, displaying their domain, subjects selected for the test and the score.
- I am tested organizes the talent based on various parameters viz. Domain (Finance/ HR/ Marketing/ Operations/ IT etc), and the employability scores.
- The Corporates (prospective employers) have free access to I am tested. Employers can contact candidates through the profile information, based on their requirements.
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12) Off campus Opportunities
- Indian is home to more than 4500 Management Institutions, with over 400000 management graduates passing out of campuses every year.
- Less than 10% of the campuses enjoy the privilege of campus selection process. Lakhs of students across remaining campuses are in constant need of employment opportunities.
- BSE’s Off-Campus Opportunities is a job portal for MBA students, which showcases thousands of job opportunities for freshers.
- Off-Campus Opportunities organizes thousands of jobs based on relevant parameters like domain ((Finance/ HR/ Marketing/ Operations/ IT etc), location, job description etc.
- The students can access these jobs with just a click and apply for the jobs even before they finish the course towards a successful career.
Assessment Solutions
13) Faculty Aptitude Test
- Faculty recruitment is one of the most important events for Management institutes. Faculty Aptitude Test (FAT) is exclusively designed to assess the faculty applicants, being considered for the teaching positions.
- FAT is a customized assessment, wherein the test taker can select the subjects of their interest, from various domains (Finance/ HR/ Marketing/ Operations/ IT etc).
- On finishing, the test shares a report card that captures the essential details like the subjects chosen, the scores against each subject and over-all score on a scale of 10.
- Motive of FAT is to assist the employers (B-Schools) towards selecting the deserving candidates for the teaching profiles. FAT is expected to add immense value to the selection process by making it a transparent, evidence-based and competency- based process.
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14) BSE’s Employability Test
- BSE’s Employability Test (BET) is a customized employability test for the students of MBA. The test is based on a repository of over 50000 questions spread across about 70 sobjects from the 6 management domains (Finance/ Accounts/ HR/ Marketing/ Operations/ IT).
- BET allows the students to select the subjects of their interest and design their own test. The 150-questions test examines the test-takers’ employability levels.
- On completing BET, the student can secure an employability report, which automatically gets added to thousands of profiles show-cased on ‘I am Tested’, the B School talent showcase platform by B-School Express.
- These thousands of profiles, which have undergone BET and are showcased on ‘I am Tested’ are accessed by the corporates/ prospective employers, who could contact the talent/ students based on their requirements.
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15) Mock-BET
- Mock BSE’s Employability Test (Mock-BET) is a customized employability test for the students of MBA/ Management courses. The test is based on a repository of over 50000 questions spread across about 70 sobjects from the various broad domains (Finance/ Accounts/ HR/ Marketing/ Operations/ IT etc).
- Mock-BET allows the students to choose the subjects of their interest and design their own test.
- Mock BET, as the name suggests, is a practice test before students gear-up for BET.
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16) BizWhiz
- Daily Business-News reading is an essential habit for MBA students. As future business management professionals, students need to be informed and aware of various developments in Business world.
- BizWhiz- is a weekly online business quiz- by B-School Express, that presents current week’s business events as a quiz.
- The 50-MCQ quiz captures important current business events like M&As, JVs, IPOs, startups etc. that took place in the previous week.
- With over a 100 B-Schools as its subscribers, BizWhiz has been offering immense value to the MBA students, towards the placements. The quiz can be taken by any number of takers.
- The quiz takers can secure the scores and the correct answers to the incorrect responses, instantly at the finish of the quiz.
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17) My Specialization©
- Choosing a specialization in MBA is a career-deciding move. A wrong choice may result a square-peg-in-a-round-hole.
- B-School Express presents My Specialization©- a statistically validated, psychometric test - that offers a scientific approach towards identifying the most appropriate specialization.
- My Specialization©is a research-based, profiling tool based on personality traits that mapped to management professions like Finance, HR, Marketing, and Operations & IT domains.
- My Specialization© is based on 16 personality competencies mapped to the 4 major management domains (Finance, HR, Marketing, and Operations & IT). The test report offers a score against each of these 16 personality competencies.
- B-School Express fervently recommends My Specialization© to the MBA students before they make a choice of their specialization, as this offers a clear perspective around a very important career decision.
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