MBA Jobs: Skills that matter in management placements during COVID-19

NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken to control it have impacted and changed much in education, including how formal business education is delivered. Institutes are now using technology for learning, teaching, evaluation, and community-building online. The MBA admission process and the evaluation parameters for exams also had to be revamped.

Although indirectly, the pandemic has affected MBA placements as well with the prolonged lockdown and restriction on movements impacting several sectors that typically recruit from business schools. Recent data from the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) revealed a 23% dip in management-school placements over 2019-2021. Besides, the pandemic has also thrown into sharp relief the wide disparity in placement records between top and middling-to-poor B-schools even within the overall decline.