After lot of thought and reconsiderations I have made my decisions for electives. On the outset the list or electives may look like I am doing general management, but I have ended up taking all courses related to marketing. I know this is a tough choice to make as i will have to spend rest of my life in this field. I have this crazy ideas about starting a brand consultancy, bpo firm or teaching in a b school. That is something in the long run, may be 10-15 years after i pass out. Many of us say that entreprenuerial spirit may die down if i wait that long, but the hard fact remains same. I need good amount of money to support my family and lead the life in a way i want.
From whatever little talks i had with seniors and other friends I gathered that, marketing career automatically translates into a “glorified salesman” for the first one/one and half years. Since my work experience is not adequate for laterals, i have to sit in final placements and take up an MT role. Ideally i would like to join a company with good training program as i personally believe that i have lot more things to learn before i can start serious work.
Coming to electives and whole 2nd year in general, we have to choose anywhere between 50-54 credits for the whole of 2nd year. There are 3 more courses worth 10 credits in total that are compulsory. Even though we can audit (thus study the course out of interest and not for grades) maximum of 3 courses i dont want to strain myself too much in 2nd year and thus ended up taking one audit course.
I am planning to take,
Finance:
Strategic Finance management
Retial Banking – More because of its marketing undertones
HR:
Negotiations Management – Sales is all about this 😀
IT:
BPR & ERP
IT Strategy – Auditing this
Dataware Housing & Data Mining – New age marketing relies on this
Management of Software Development – The engineer in me wants this
Marketing:
New Product Development – Floating this course, will take up if its really interesting
Retail Management
Customer Relations Management
Sales and Distribution Management
Services Marketing
Advertising & Sales Promotion Management
Consumer Behaviour
Brand Management
B2B Marketing
Strategic Marketing
Operations:
Supply Chain Management
That is the list. Looks exciting, got to wait and see how exciting they sound when i look back next year 😀
Chalo, we have 2 holidays lined up, me has lots of plans. Wait for some exciting posts.
Tada!
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!