You should do some courses/an mba if you want senior leadership positions. The job market is bad and has been for the last year or so hence they are very particular about candidates exactly matching criteria for any role at the moment. You should be able to do it from isb and get a good placement as well :)

Strategy & Operations

I am a finance professional ICWA (CMA). I was academically brilliant, completed CMA along with graduation. Made the mistake of not doing CA, as someone advised CMA is equivalent. Took up jobs since...

I am a finance professional ICWA (CMA). I was academically brilliant, completed CMA along with graduation. Made the mistake of not doing CA, as someone advised CMA is equivalent. Took up jobs since 1996 and have worked with 4 different companies. Performed on job, rose in designation and salary. Left a good organisation in which I worked for 17 years to take up a CFO position with a pvt ltd company. 

Unfortunately that company was not doing well. I was laid off 1.5 years back. Not able to find another job 

1. Because I am a CMA, I don't get Shortlisted to most CFO openings ( they need a CA)

2. Since my last experience was with a pvt ltd Co, no good listed entity wants to hire me

It's been a frustrating search for last 1.5 years. Pls advise

Senior with good experience, but jobless

Finance Operations

Senior with good experience, but jobless- Grapevine

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Rejected BPO offer from TCS and TechM back in 2017. Sitting for six years at home. Prepared for CAT, XAT , IIFT, SNAP, TISS, XGMT, SRCC, NMAT, CMAT. Didn't secure a good percentile. Stopped preparing for MBA entrances and started preparing for govt exams.  Still not able to clear any.  B.com grad with accounting hon. No int in CA/CS. Zero experience at anything.  Currently depressed to a point that I have no energy doing anything. Need help.

No idea about career.

Founder

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I have a friend who is a CA. She is currently working in Tech but wants to move to more Finance Oriented Roles. However, the problem now is that she has 2 years of Work Experience in Tech in Big 4 and now her profile is not as relevant for CA related roles in other Big4 or for that matter in finance as well. What should be done should she resign now and how’s the job market for CA’s at the moment? Guidance and help please.

CA job market

Consultant

I completed CA articleship in a very small firm . The only work i did was basic accounting in tally, itr filing of individuals, gst returns of shops while my friends were busy doing audits of huge clients. I'm now attempting ca final group 1  4th time . I don't know how i can get a job. What can a student like me do ?

Need some guidance

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Hi peeps,

I am a CSE engineer + MBA from tier 1 institute and have total workex of 6.5 years out of which 3.3 years are in PM role in early phase startups .I got recently laid off and trying hard to get a job from last 1 month but I am not getting interview calls . Is it happening with other people too or am I lacking something ?

Product Management | Market assesment

Product Manager

Hi everyone, would appreciate some suggestion/guidance. 

I, 29F, am a chartered accountant. In the first 3.5 years of my career I worked in a small CA firm where I could get exposure of small clients in all areas like tax, audit and other compliances. 

Later, I switched to a company in transfer pricing field and have been working here for 2.5 years. 

After having worked here, I realize I wish to mak my career in corporate tax and not in transfer pricing. But this would bring about a cut in designation and pay, not sure to what extent. 

Any suggestions on how I can make this transition easier without significant cut of pay?

Confused on career path

Account Executive

I've been looking for a job for a while now and I've applied to numerous companies on multiple job portals. Only 1% to 2% of companies respond to my applications, and even they don't go beyond the initial introduction call, at the end of which I'm told "we'll be in touch" but they never call back. I've tried referrals too but without any luck. I have 4 years of experience at KPMG (the only job I've ever had) as a consultant and I have an MBA from IIM Udaipur. I think my CV isn't terrible either. I've had it reviewed from friends, family, ex-colleagues, and seniors from my college, listened to their advice, made the changes and applied everywhere, but there's no change.

Help me. I would appreciate any and every advice y'all have to offer. Whether it's the bare minimum that I've been blind to all along or a couple extra miles, I wanna shoot a real shot.

What is "going the extra mile" when looking for a new job?

I am currently working as a Senior Auditor in a Big4 with 5 years experience in statutory audit.
I am not a CA, so either I have to complete CPA to become a manager else I have to be in the same designation.
I am looking for an option to switch job.
Any suggestions what role could I be exploring?

Job Options

External Audit

Looking for a job referral. Chartered Accountant with 2.5 years experience in auditing investment management clients with Deloitte. Looking for a job change. Please consider me for any open positions available.

Audit Manager

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Graduated from NMIMS in 2023- BSc Finance. Interned at some marquee IB firms and startups. 

Working at an NBFC in an MD's office role- Strategy Consultant since then.

Having done multiple projects for the company, I now want to switch to a consulting company where I can have a more diversified set of projects. 

But the market being the way it is, I'm not able to find reasonably good opportunities on LinkedIn. 

How do I go about the whole thing then? Would be grateful for any suggestion or referrals.

Looking for some guidance

Heyy folks, 
I am a semi qualified chartered accountant and currently in search of job. It has been observed during various job applications submitted that the resume is not getting shortlisted by the employers. 
I have working experience in mid size CA firms and also worked as a freelancer performing taxation functions. Currently, I want to have exposure of big corporate houses where I can learn more and perform well further.
While applying, it has been observed that I have to face rejection. I am not getting a clear idea about how to modify or make changes in my resume and LinkedIn profile so that employers become eager to know more about my work exposure.
There is a well known saying that don't judge a book by it's cover but while looking for job opportunities, it has been observed that while buying a book, the first of all it's a cover of book which attracts the perspective customer to pick the book and look into it.
I want to know that what a HR basically looks for in a job application of interested candidates.
I also want to redesign my cover in order to increase chances of getting selected.
 It will be a great privilege to get positive response and guidance from the experts.

How to get shortlisted in job application

Hey guys, I'm stuck in an MNC currently without any real world project for almost half an year now. I've been building projects on my own and looking for a switch. Since, situation in the market is a little tight, I'm hardly finding any non internship opportunities for freshers. Kindly let me know of any sources or any suggestions on how to move on from here. Seeing my friends getting fired from FAANG co. and still not get any other offer makes me more disheartened. Please help.

Is anyone hiring freshers(2022 grad)?

Software Engineer

I am 25yr old, Business graduate, CFA L2 with 1.5 years experience in banking and around 2.5 years in family business. Currently looking for a non-tech job. Any suggestions or probably referrals would be highly appreciated.

Looking for a job/job referral

I have close to 5 years of experience in non-tech role (PMO+sales operations) and my CTC is close to 17LPA. My work-life balance was bad during the first 4 years but the learnings were good. Now for the last 1 year, my work has been pretty chill but at the same time I'm not learning anything new and I don't see any growth in this role. I'm in a difficult spot as it's not easy to change role at this point of my career and MBA option doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial standpoint as I'm only able to crack the new IIMs. 
Any suggestions on how I can proactively do something about this situation instead of just enjoying this chill phase of my career?

Career Stagnancy

Analyst

Tl;dr: CV is getting rejected need suggestion around certification/portfolio and recent trend is preference given to Tier 1. 

Overall Experience 6 years 
Account Manager 5 year
PM(Designation Product Specialist) 1 year, internally transitioned after 2 years working as an AM.

CTC 10 Fixed - Highly Underpaid 

Took a pay cut to transition to product role, company policy states team change pay cut because a fresher in new team. 

Not good relationship with current manager because financial issue fucks up mental health which fucks up work as well. So appraisal out of the picture. 

So I am looking for a job,wherever I have applied my cv is getting rejected. I have checked the ATS score and it is >80% 

Have checked with people from multiple companies: zynga, cars24, nykka and the trend is tier 1 college students get preference. 

Cannot pursue MBA now because age is almost 28 and cannot afford the fees. 

Are there any Certifications/exams which can help here ? A portfolio of projects ? 

Someone mentioned ISB PM course as well but gone through reviews on Reddit and it’s not worth it as per them. 

The last resort is upraised.co Bootcamp. Is it worth it when it comes to job placement? 
 
Education background:  MCA from Open university.

CV is getting rejected

Recently received 5 rejections from FMCG and Retail Companies, for roles where I am a good fit and responsibilities which I am already handling in my current role and company. And all 5 of them gave the same reason, that I lack experience for entry level executive roles in marketing? Even though I am about to complete 2.5 years in the industry. I am really frustrated.

Am just sick of hearing 'We are looking for more experienced candidate'

Marketing Associate

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Work culture has become ultra toxic. Managers have started nano managing and literally are a pain in the ass. Product giving unrealistic timelines and leadership agreeing on the same without even consulting the developers and even if the developers are raising concerns, no fucks are given infact they are made to realise that this is how a startup should work. Literally everyone is working their asses off and still unable to meet the deadlines. Empathy is completely lost and WLB is a sham. People including me want to switch but are not even getting time to prepare.

Rant on Swiggy wlb

This is all trickling down from the Leadership, they are trying to cut down costs by any means. Already had one round of layoffs, now they are doing silent layoffs in the form of PIPs. 
  
 Also, Leaders have lost the long term focus and are trying to find out more and more short term projects related to profitability.  
  
 There was always this pressure of work, but in the past 7-8 months this has become unbearable with no empathy in the organisation.

Analytics Manager

To the senior people in the industry I need your advice badly. 

My background: I am a 2023,CSE graduate from NSUT Dwarka (Tier -1) college. I had an offee from company with CTC of 12LPA and that offer got revoked.

Currently I am working in a service based startup with peanuts as sallary. The work I am being assign here is mainly of Langchain and ML(which I don't have much interest in but can do if required).How do you get out of this company and should I stay here just for experience for atleast one year.

please drop your valuable suggestions

Need Help

Software Developer

Hi all! I have 16 years of work ex in Corporate sales and currently working in a leading indian Fintech from last 9 years. I am feeling stuck here with no visibility of growth or even sense of  job security. I didn't take risks in my career  as I am sole bread earner for my family but it was biggest risk I guess I took. Plz suggest me what all I should do to find good opportunities in terms of growth and  job stability. I am introspecting and would really appreciate your valuable feedbacks.

Need serious help

Business Development Manager

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Looking out for job

Marketing Manager

Hi All, would love to hear your thoughts/ideas/strategies on how to switch from a Senior Customer Success Manager role to a Product/ Project Manager role. 
Brief background - Total Work-Ex 9 years (2.5 years in IT services pre MBA + 6.5 years in Sales/KAM/Customer Success post MBA). Recently have switched few companies in search of better roles/compensation and that also reflects in a negative way in resume. Not able to get even an interview call while applying for PM roles. 
All suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

Senior with good experience, but jobless

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