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Top 20 Guesstimate Interview Questions & Answers: 2025 Edition

Guesstimate questions have become a key part of management interviews. These questions require you to estimate something with little or no data, like how many cups of coffee are consumed daily in a city or calculate the number of books in a school library. Employers

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30 BCA Project Topics for Final Year Students in 2025 | Unique and Innovative Ideas

When you are approaching your final year as a BCA student, you should choose the right project to showcase your key skills effectively. This is going to help you launch your future career and get discovered by potential employers. The tech landscape is going to evolve rapidly in 2025. Hence, you need to pick a final-y

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Top 15 Career Options After 12th Arts: Job Scope & Qualifications

The arts stream in India has been garnering increased popularity. With the Indian education landscape increasingly recognizing the importance of arts streams and career opportunities, we witness a surge in aspirations to pursue careers in liberal arts and creative fields.

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Why Software Engineering is Among the Highest Paying Careers in India

Everything around us is becoming digital. From online shopping to digital banking, technology powers most of our daily activities. Software engineers are the driving force behind this, making their skills highly valuable and in demand. Businesses rely on technology, creating a huge demand

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Top 20 Highest Paid Jobs in India in Commerce Field [A Complete Report]

Don't you think the commerce field is one of the most lucrative sectors in India, offering a diverse range of career opportunities with excellent growth prospects? Over 44.08 lakh students are currently enrolled in commerce disciplines, comprising 47.2% females and 52.8% males.

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28 Career Options After 12th Science PCB: A Comprehensive Guide to High-Salary Courses

Making an informed career choice after completing 12th grade with PCB subjects is crucial. It’s a pivotal moment that can shape your future. With so many PCB career options after 12th science, you can sometimes feel overwhelmed. This is the time to assess your strengths — whether it's problem-solving skills, how to dev

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Top 10 Short-term Job Oriented Courses in 2025 Which are In-Demand

Are you aiming for a rewarding job switch or a career boost? Short-term courses might be the perfect answer. According to some recent studies, many learners see an average salary hike of 21% when they pick the right short-term job-oriented courses to boost their skills. That’s a pretty good payoff for a course that usually wraps up in a

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15+ Commerce Project Topics and Ideas for Students in 2025

Commerce in India is growing fast, with around 48% of commerce graduates securing jobs in 2024 alone. You notice this shift when you scan a QR code at your local shop or read about instant digital payment updates. These everyday moments show that practical knowledge carries real weight. Clearly, there's a growing demand for fresh ideas –

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7 reasons to watch UpGrad Talks today

There is really no secret sauce for success.Provided you have had the opportunity to view the exclusive online tete-e-tete sessions brought to you by

25 Nov 2022 | 6 min read

CEO Speak: Union Budget 2017 and What’s in it for Education

This article was originally published in HuffPost India and

25 Nov 2022 | 7 min read

Post Budget Reactions – How Did the Education Sector Fare?

This article was originally published by the Huffington Post, India. It has been authored by Mayank Kumar and Apoorva Shankar.

25 Nov 2022 | 6 min read

Why The Growth Of Higher Education In India Hinges On The Private Sector

For the sake of simplicity, let’s say that the public sector’s role in education can be identified as a three-fold one. Firstly, it is tasked with universalizing access to education. Its next responsibility would be to regulate the sector and finally, to ensure quality education for all.In the context of the access provider role, estimates show that just in terms of physical infrastructure,

25 Nov 2022 | 6 min read

The Idea Called UpGrad: Why Education is Serious Business

This is the first of a three-part series written by Co-Founder and CEO, UpGrad, Mayank Kumar. The needle moves… When I visited the campus of a higher education institute, somewhere in Noida region of Delhi NCR. I saw a building, inside which there were about five or six students and the guard at the gate had no idea what was

25 Nov 2022 | 5 min read

When & How to Follow up After an Interview? 4 Key Points To Keep in Mind

You have completed a certification, let’s say from upGrad’s courses, and you have landed an interview. The interview day comes, and you have nailed it. But what if you don’t get a response from the interview for a few days or weeks. Does that mean the position is filled up and your ap

25 Nov 2022 | 7 min read

Infographic: What After IT? Top 5 Transitions You Can Make

India’s beleaguered $150 billion IT services industry is facing an existential crisis. This is due to the erosion of its competitive edge by automation and robotics.However, on May 18, 2017, NASSCOM, the IT industry’s trade association, decided to clear the air and set the record straight. Indian IT does face significant

25 Nov 2022 | 3 min read

Interview with Ankit Tomar, Co-Founder & CTO, Bizongo

We recently met with the Co-Founder and CTO of one of India’s leading online B2B startup – Bizongo, Ankit Tomar. Ankit is an IIT-Delhi graduate and worked for 3 years with Microsoft before founding Bizongo in 2015. Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace founded by three IITians. They specialise in supplying packaging material to medium and large businesses. Offering a simple, scalable and

25 Nov 2022 | 5 min read

Interview with Farooq Adam, Co-Founder, Fynd

Following up on our series of co-founder and CTO interviews, we met Farooq Adam, Co-Founder of upcoming online fashion retailer, Fynd. An IIT-Bombay graduate, Farooq has worked for four years with the leading analytics company Opera Solutions before starting Fynd with two other fellow IIT-Bombay graduates, in 2012. Fynd is an online portal that helps users discover and buy fashion or lif

25 Nov 2022 | 6 min read

What Does UpGrad’s Content Team Look for While Hiring?

In a growing organisation like UpGrad, hiring is one of the biggest challenges. It is important to hire a lot of people, but there should never be any compromise on the quality of the team you are looking to build. We are currently l

25 Nov 2022 | 4 min read

Building the Largest Online Program Content in India

It was a mildly hot Saturday afternoon of late March 2016, when my phone buzzed. It was a LinkedIn notification that Mayank Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of UpGrad had viewed my profile. Half an hour later the phone buzzed again – Shehzia, the Program Director of the Data Analytics program, UpGrad had viewed my profile. She also left a message that they were looki

25 Nov 2022 | 8 min read

Why I Quit a Fortune 500 Company for a Startup

I loved video games as a kid. I loved playing video games. I loved reading about video games. I loved video games so much that I loved watching other people playing video games. Yes, in case you are wondering, I had a problem. With all this said, I was predestined to study computer science, learn to programme, and ultimately get a job as a software engineer making v

25 Nov 2022 | 5 min read

What Makes UpGrad Come Up with Awesome Content?

It’s been some time since my first day at UpGrad. After my first stint post MBA at ZS, I was all fired up for my new stint here at UpGrad. Yes, I had preconceived notions as I had worked in a content-based role in an online education firm before but how was I supposed to know that those notions were going to be busted big-big-time? To be honest my life at Test

25 Nov 2022 | 4 min read

Having a Mentor has a Deep Impact on our Lives

“Chachu, I want to become an Astronaut when I grow up,” Said my 6-year-old nephew, while he was playing with some toys. His words put a smile on my face. I looked at my brother who was sitting on the opposite side of the dining table and could see a similar smile on his face too. I could feel the happiness that was radiating out of my brother. Any paren

25 Nov 2022 | 6 min read

Does your Workplace Value your Opinion?

Having worked in three different sectors (aviation, education, and telecommunication) and four different organisations, working at UpGrad came to me as a cultural shock. Most of the big companies have a set hierarchy, rules and instructions. You have a lot of resources at your disposal, which according to me, limit your learning experience as you don’t learn by doing things. If you have

25 Nov 2022 | 4 min read

A Week in the Life of a Student Mentor at UpGrad

All of us have looked up to that one person for advice or have sought help to plan the way ahead, make critical decisions or generally to get by during the tough times in our lives. This person whom you seek out is typically a Mentor. A role played by different people at different stages of our lives. It could be a friend, parent, spouse, colleague or senior. When I think abo

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