: Does Work Experience Help in IIMs Common Admission Process? Alumni Answer #IndiaNEWS #Education The Indian Institute of Ahmedabad (IIM-A), on December 8, released the official answer key for the Common

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Does Work Experience Help in IIMs Common Admission Process? Alumni Answer #IndiaNEWS #Education
The Indian Institute of Ahmedabad (IIM-A), on December 8, released the official answer key for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2021, attempted last month by as many as 1. 92 lakh candidates across the country.
These MBA aspirants, who are also allowed to access their recorded responses till 5 pm on December 11, have been assessing their probable CAT percentiles even as the prestigious management institute is expected to declare the final results by the second week of January next year.
While each of the 20 IIMs differs in the specifics of its selection criteria, there is much ambiguity regarding the weightage allotted to candidates’ work experience in the Common Admission Process (CAP).
Is it mandatory? Does it help? Is there any such thing as too much work experience? Quora users and other experts discuss:
According to Quora user Rohan Jain, an MBA graduate from IIM-A, the significance of work experience can be summarised in three categories — admission process, understanding lectures at IIMs and its placements.
“Many IIMs give extra points to candidates with work experience. Sometimes, this is mentioned explicitly in the admission criteria, and sometimes, it is not. Those who have some prior work experience can grasp some of the concepts and courses better than the freshers,� he wrote. “They can better relate the theoretical concepts taught to real-life [experience]. However, I have also observed that freshers can work harder because they are more used to academic life. For all practical purposes related to placements, people with work experience of fewer than two years are almost treated similarly to freshers. �
Another user Renith Regi said that freshers who are admitted to IIMs are usually not allowed to attend its lateral placement process. “The objective of lateral placement is to place students with extensive work experience at levels commensurate with their relevant experience. Typically, nearly half the graduating class has work experience of over one-and-a-half years. A separate lateral placement period outside of the regular placement week has been designated for the placement of these candidates,� he wrote.
“Companies, in the past, have found it advantageous to use the lateral placement period to recruit candidates for middle management positions before the placement week commences. Freshers are however preferred by many companies for their leadership programmes,� he added.
A video by StudyBuzz, an online MBA preparation portal run by Delhi-based Saurabh Kothari, who has received IIM-interview calls seven times, also opines that experienced candidates have a strategic advantage over freshers.

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