Students throng career fair

KOLKATA: Do differential equations give you the jitters? Perhaps you should study mass communication. Or if you are the sort of person who dislikes taking orders - why not stand on your own feet as an entrepreneur?
Questions about aptitude and attitude were thrown at successful professionals at the Education Times Career Scope 2003, which kicked off at the Park Hotel on Friday.The Career Scope is being organised by The Times of India in association with Career Launcher. The two-day career fair was inaugurated by academician Nabaneeta Deb Sen, who observed, “We did not have opportunities like these when we were young.
Today’s youngsters have to plan out their careers much in advance.� Hundreds of keen-eyed students from the city’s premier schools made a beeline for the career fair to get a idea of emerging career options in the challenging new millenium. Annie Singhal and Bhavna Khemka of La Martiniere for Girls, who have just appeared for their ISC examinations, flitted from stall to stall in search of information on prospective careers. While Annie wants to go in for an MBA, Bhavna wants to do her graduation in English honours.
But the question uppermost on their minds is the career they can charter out later. Animesh Mukherjee, an engineering student from Bhubaneswar, feels that a management degree will improve his chances. “I’m looking forward to meeting Roopen Roy of . Successful professionals provide the right direction to prospective career seekers like us,� Mukherjee added.