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IIM students skip campus placement, but return to recruit juniors

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That the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has underestimated the talent of its own students cannot be better judged than by the fact that the very same students who had opted out of placement session last year to start their own venture are back on the campus, and not to seek jobs — for which they anyway have an open invitation from the institute in case their venture failed to take off — but to recruit students.

With several students opting out of placement to start their own venture, the institute had declared last year that it would welcome students to sit for placement even a year after they had left the institute, in case their venture failed to take off. The idea was to encourage more students to start off on their own.

Vishal Prabhukhanolkar, Devashish Chakravarty, Vineeta Singh and Bhushan Dabir, who had passed out of the institute last year had opted out of the placement session and instead launched their own venture in the form of a website that would prepare students for the CAT examination. The website, www.ten-a-day.co.in; http://www.ten-a-day.co.in — not only have 23,000 users till date, it has also branched into a comprehensive website offering online preparations for engineering and medical examinations. It has now been formally incorporated into a company named, Quetzal Online, and is preparing to offer more in the coming days.

More : expressindia.com

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