What did you struggle with the most when you started out as an associate?

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Anxiety

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Asking questions when I was lost! My seniors always acted like they couldn’t be bothered and I was hindering their work, but then I’d be afraid to ask questions and my work would fall behind.

Then I had a senior with the mindset of a teacher and that turned everything around (this was also on my largest client, and my work quickly improved). I would’ve been in trouble otherwise.

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Having a job at all. Having a job just generally sucks in comparison to being a senior in college.

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Hey there 2020. Anyone hiring?

Hey!

I would like to know what is the CTC in Invesco for Legal Associate having 1.6 year of experience.
What is the best number one can quote while negotiating salary.

Hi.

I am an L&D Specialist with 3.3 years of experience.

I am looking for a job change. Any referrals would be really appreciated.

Currect CTC: 6.54LPA
Expected CTC: 10.5 LPA

Preferred Location: Kolkata, Hyderbad, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai

Anyone prepping over holidays? MBB interview here

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Just accepted an offer to join the industry and put in my papers. The notice period is pretty long (2 months), but i love it cause i still get to work on cool stuff with awesome colleagues without all the anxiety and politics. Anyone else in the notice gang?

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Hi Fishes,

I got offer Letter from infosys 2.5 months back, now when I am trying to decline the offer by sending a mail to HR, it was not getting delivered as HR left the organisation 1 month back, I forwarded mail to feedback team of infosys but still got the mail from onboarding team with joining details and WebEx link, kindly suggest how to proceed in this case.

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How's the project manager role in EY GDS?
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Hello All,

I am currently working in India in analytics space and have an offer from a consulting company where I will be posted at client location YOE is 12+ and they are offering me 19k AED per month

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