Essential Guide To Careers In India

The definitive guide to choosing the right career

The Essential Guide to Careers in India brings together both volumes of the best-selling Penguin India Career Guide, specially revised and updated for this edition. This comprehensive guide gives a sweeping and thorough overview of careers in business management, engineering, financial services, information technology, media, medicine and the travel industry. Usha Albuquerque examines each career separately and gives detailed information on the qualifications and personal attributes required to succeed in the chosen field, as well as the nature of the job, the pay scales and the prospects. This is supplemented with an exhaustive list of institutions at which students can train. Meticulously researched and written in an accessible style, the book is recommended for all those on the threshold of a new career.

The best single volume edition available; and from the top name in the field
Careers include: actuarial science; advertising; biotechnology; business management (including consultancy, human resource development, marketing and sales); design (including fashion design); engineering; entrepreneurship; environmental science; financial services (including banking, chartered accountancy, company secretaryship, stocks and securities); food services (including food processing, hoteliering, nutrition and dietetics); information technology; law; mass communication (including radio and TV broadcasting, film-making, journalism and public relations); medicine (including paramedical services and physiotherapy); and the travel industry (including travel and tourism and civil aviation)