Is work experience of working in coaching classes considered

hi friends, I have completed my engineering in 2004 and got admission in some B-schools like ICFAI(hyd), SIIB, FORE. But presently i am working with a coaching class. I want to know if experience of working in coaching classes considered. Please…

hi friends,
I have completed my engineering in 2004 and got admission in some B-schools like ICFAI(hyd), SIIB, FORE. But presently i am working with a coaching class. I want to know if experience of working in coaching classes considered. Please help me .Its urgent.
As long as it is full time work experience and you were a full time member of the faculty it should be considered. There seems to be no reason why it would not be considered. You have been working. You have been gaining exposure. The field is irrelevant.
Galahad.Threepwood Says
As long as it is full time work experience and you were a full time member of the faculty it should be considered. There seems to be no reason why it would not be considered. You have been working. You have been gaining exposure. The field is irrelevant.


No, my friend!!!! thats not the case with me...In my IIML interview, for work -ex when i showed my work-ex in TIME institute, they didnot accept it.They said that if u take coaching from any institute, u can easily get a fluke work-ex certificate from that institute and it will not be considered.
But, this appened only in my L interview. In all other interviews , they accepted (atleast nominally infront of me....).But , they will really consider it or not is a matter of speculation.
A college senior of mine rejected the s/w job offers that he was getting and joined a coaching instt in pune as a faculty and right now, he is in XLRI (BM).
If you go through the profile of students in MDI or IIT Delhi, you would find a lot many from various coaching instt.
But I haven't seen anyone joining IIMs.
B'coz as subhramaiyam mentioned, coaching instt can give a certificate of employment to good instt without any fuss at all.
Also, in my opinion its not gonna help as in the work ex group of aspirants, there are so many who are from different fields (specially IT field), that work ex as a faculty will only create a negative impression.
But in the end everything comes down to your preference. I have seen people who have converted IIT Delhi and may be XL (its results are out today) while they were not doing anything after college. i.e. dropper.
So if you want IIMs (symbiosis instt also dislikes people from coaching classes) then play safe and find some other job (a marketing kinda thing will also count good) and leave the faculty thing.

I see you have put this question up on more than 1 threads. Also your question itself is incomplete. But I reckon you are asking from a MBA adcom perspective.

There are a lot of things I myself learned over the years I was a faculty with IMS and CL at Baroda. A lot of things that have helped me in my "real" job now. A lot of things I possibly could not have learned programming in MFC on VC++.

Its how well you tell your story than a piece of paper certificate that matters at the end of the day.

Arun

hi friends,

thank you for your suggestions but i am still confused. Anyways i am handling the marketing, administration and also working as a faculty in the classes. Maybe this will help you in having a better view of the problem. Please help.

Which place in Baroda ?

I know the place like the back of my hand.

Arun

hi friends

all those who read this thread. just pour in some views. whatever you think.Its urgent. Please help.

Along with the work experience letter , if you can show them the Pay slips , it would be a good proof of genuine work experiece. Coaching institutes may give fake work ex letters but i dont think they can afford to provide fake pay slips.

krishh Says
Along with the work experience letter , if you can show them the Pay slips , it would be a good proof of genuine work experiece. Coaching institutes may give fake work ex letters but i dont think they can afford to provide fake pay slips.


I agree ... can't see why coaching class work-ex won't be considered if all the documents are in place and you are able to justify your role/responsibility if questioned ...

By the way, I know of a faculty member at CL in Mumbai who took CAT and, if I'm not mistaken, has a final admit to SP Jain ...

All the best! 😃
I agree ... can't see why coaching class work-ex won't be considered if all the documents are in place and you are able to justify your role/responsibility if questioned ...

By the way, I know of a faculty member at CL in Mumbai who took CAT and, if I'm not mistaken, has a final admit to SP Jain ...

All the best! :)


My friend!!! One think i came to know in IIM-L interview is that these IIM interviewers are blatantly against these coaching institutes....They even said that to neutralize the effect of these coaching institutes , they have changed the pattern of CAT.. When i said that i taught in TIME institute for 3 months and then got a job in WIPRO and so left it, they said that they will consider the WIPRO workex but in no way accept the TIME work ex..
So, what it means is if u say work-ex , they r expecting it from a company and not from any coaching centre (esp..CAT coaching centre).. That is they r not going to give extra marks for that work-ex..

As of ur friend getting final admit in SPJAIN, he would have got into it without even considering work-ex..may be just thru CAT score, GD and PI..

Work ex in a coaching institute., though technically is work exp, no company will regard it as relevant work experience. So doubt if the interviewers would either. Nice way to earn easy money, but teaching tricks to crack CAT/XAT does not really count as corporate exposure..

There are quite a few opportunities available nowdays for relevant pre-MBA work exp. Infact, I remember an ad in Times Accent where Merrill Lynch was offering roles in equity research (?? not too sure .. it was sometime back).. for undergraduates.. Dont believe you will get a better grounding to get into a good school land a good fin job..

Reuben

Work ex in a coaching institute., though technically is work exp, no company will regard it as relevant work experience. So doubt if the interviewers would either. Nice way to earn easy money, but teaching tricks to crack CAT/XAT does not really count as corporate exposure..

There are quite a few opportunities available nowdays for relevant pre-MBA work exp. Infact, I remember an ad in Times Accent where Merrill Lynch was offering roles in equity research (?? not too sure .. it was sometime back).. for undergraduates.. Dont believe you will get a better grounding to get into a good school land a good fin job..

Reuben


On what basis do you claim that a faculty just "teaches tricks to crack CAT/XAT" ? Is that the only thing that you guys think a faculty does ? If that is just what your faculty did, then you guys went to the wrong place.

(1) Verbal, specifically speaking skills need to be more than just "good"

(2) Ability to relate to experiences from people with diverse backgrounds

(3) Knack to "listen" and understand the problem from the students and thereby "mentoring"

(4) Spontaneity to answer questions, presence of mind to deal with situations and to take 2hour presentations at a very short notice (sometimes 15mins)

(5) Do internal marketing by talking to students and many a times give "gyaan" session over a smoke at the parking lot.

(6) Understand the logistics of running a center. You probably don't know the details of the operations management that go into the whole exerciese everytime you walk into a class and you find the material for that session ready or every mocktest that runs like a swiss watch.

.................

Time permitting I could have gone to list a dozen more qualities a person needs to have.

Arun

Fine.. point taken... I was not aware of the .. um.. complexity.. involved..

If you can speak about it as elequently in an interview.. you and use it to your advantange..

But would like to re-iterate.. I dont think a company will not give you a lateral position based on this experience.. they tend to be picky about things like these..

Reuben

hey indra
u may manage to get past interview panel in some institutes but it is certainly not the "relevant work ex". as sm1 rightly pointed out marketing job is much better.
best of luck anyway




hi friends,
I have completed my engineering in 2004 and got admission in some B-schools like ICFAI(hyd), SIIB, FORE. But presently i am working with a coaching class. I want to know if experience of working in coaching classes considered. Please help me .Its urgent.

I double tht opinion. it surely does nt count as relevant work-ex.

Hey friends.
I think workx as a faculty definately counts as a workX.I had rejected offers from TCS and joined PT(Prof. Tutorials) in raipur as a faculty.And i have converted XL,SJSOM,IITD and other results waiting.And i can recall a long discussion about my workX in all those institutes.

So,I guess all kind of workX(Almost all kind ) is acceptable provided you can justify that.

My friend!!! One think i came to know in IIM-L interview is that these IIM interviewers are blatantly against these coaching institutes
they said that they will consider the WIPRO workex but in no way accept the TIME work ex..

That is they r not going to give extra marks for that work-ex..


As they say that any full-time paid work counts as work-ex, i dont see why they can disregard this as work-ex. For all u know, they just tell u in ur interview that they're not gonna count ur work-ex as a means to stress u out. I know panelists even tell people who're workin in family businesses that they dont count that as relevant work-ex.

But ur last point is probably true. If there are points for what kind of work you've been doing, faculty members dont score too much.

Go through the profile of PGP I at the IIM Indore site. You will find two people(Niharika and Rahul) with work experience in coaching institutes.
In IIMK website have a look at the profile of Malini (PGP I). It mentions Career Launcher as her last employer.