Career Ascent - Mid Career Campus

Career Ascent – Mid Career Campus

28^th , 29^th ,30^th January 2011, Rotary Sadan, 94/2, Chowringhee Road, Kolkata-700 020

OBJECTIVE

As a measure to develop employment opportunities for Chartered Accountants, Committee for Members in Industry (CMII) of ICAI has been successfully organizing placement programmes twice a year for Newly Qualified Chartered Accountants, wherein prospective employers and new members interact and explore the possibility of taking up employment careers in various organisations.

Career Ascent is a step ahead as an extension to the same programme but with a different objective. It aims at providing the experienced Chartered Accountants with a platform to assess their potential and refinement in work, which they have acquired during their working tenure.

Career Ascent also provides a unique opportunity to Chartered Accountants who have one year or more of experience.

MEET THE COMPLETE BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS: CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

Chartered Accountants are considered as complete business solution providers in this dynamic business world. They are thoroughly trained practically in all avenues of finance and accounting, auditing, finance and management and information technology. They can undertake responsibilities ranging from carrying out feasibility study, raising financial resources, compliance with regulatory framework, capital structure and planning, organizational development, installation of efficiency accounting, budgetary control, information system apart from giving advice on complex issues such as joint ventures, foreign collaborations, amalgamation, merger, diversification, modernization, product pricing, BPO, KPO, restructuring, etc.

CAREER ASCENT– A GREAT ADVANTAGE FOR CORPORATES

If you are looking for complete business solution provider, then end your search by participating in Career Ascent for experienced Chartered Accountants, wherein you would have access to a vast database of Chartered Accountants.

The event would provide the companies to select Chartered Accountants as per their requirement criterion.

ELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATES FOR CAREER ASCENT

Chartered Accountants fulfilling the following conditions are eligible to take part in Career Ascent.

· having the membership of Institute as on 1^st January, 2011

· who have 1 year or more than one year of Industry experience.

· passed C.A. final examination on or before November, 2009

· The members who have got placements through the placement programme organized by the Institute between 01.01.2010 to 31.12.2010 are not eligible to apply.

Important Dates for Career Ascent
Start Date for candidate registration: 4^th January, 2011
Last date for candidate registration: 14^th January, 2011
Start Date for company registration: 15^th December, 2010

Opening of database for Companies: 17^th January, 2011

Campus Interview Dates

Centre

Maximum No. of companies in any single day

Last Date of Registration for

Companies Upto 05:00 PM

Last Date of Short-listing by Companies Upto11:00 PM

Consent sending by

Candidates

Upto 11:00pm

Interview Dates

Kolkata

18^th January 2011

20^th January 2011

23^rd-25^th January 2011

28^th-30^th January 2011

GUIDELINES FOR THE PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS

Timings of the event: 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

· The companies participating will have to register online on placement portal http://www.cmii.icai.org/ .

· The participation fees should be remitted at ICAI head office New Delhi only. The fee is not refundable.

· Access to the candidate database shall be allowed only after the receipt of participation fee by CMII Secretariat. Fee is chargeable in case a recruiting organization withdraws after confirming the participation and data access has been given.

· The companies can access the database through the placement portal http://www.cmii.icai.org/.

· Participating companies will have to provide the list of shortlisted candidates online on placement portal http://www.cmii.icai.org/.

· Final list of candidates appearing for interview will be available online on placement portal http://www.cmii.icai.org/ one day after consent date by candidate at respective centres.

· Shortlisting of the candidates by the company is restricted to 10 times of the number of vacancies in that particular organization

· Once a company has selected any candidate and the offer is accepted by the candidate it is the responsibility of the company to inform the organizers and providing the offer letter duly signed by them to the and the candidate who had accepted the offer.

· The companies participating have to offer a minimum CTC of Rs.6.00 lakhs to the candidates in the Career Ascent Programme.

· Only one room will be provided to each company for the conducting of Interview process.

· Kindly note that no Written Test/Psychometric Test will be conducted prior to Interview Process on the scheduled day.

· The entire process above would be done online on placement portal http://www.cmii.icai.org/.

PARTICIPATION FEES FOR CAREER ASCENT*

Day of the Career Ascent	For Organisations other than Firms of CAs	For Firms of CAs
Day 1	Rs. 1,50,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%	Firms with more than 10 partners: Rs. 1,50,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%
Day 1	Rs. 1,50,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%	Firms with less than 10 partners: Rs. 1,20,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%
Day 2	Rs. 1,00,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%	Firms with more than 10 partners: Rs. 80,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%
Day 2	Rs. 1,00,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%	Firms with less than 10 partners: Rs. 60,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%
Day 3	Rs. 80,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%	Firms with more than 10 partners: Rs. 60,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%
		Firms with less than 10 partners: Rs. 40,000/- + Service Tax @ 10.3%

Payment Terms: Participation fee shall be payable by way of Cheque / Demand Draft in favour of 'The Secretary, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India' payable at New Delhi and should be sent to The Secretary, CMII, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICAI BHAWAN, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi-110 002 so as to reach on or before 18^th January, 2011.

Kindly also note that the PAN No. of Institute is AAAAT7798M and Service Tax Registration No. is AAAAT7798MST003 (DL-I/ST/MP/R-II/1530/ICA/2006).

The payment may also be made through Net Banking, the details are as follows :

Beneficiary Name THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA

Beneficiary address THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA

'ICAI Bhawan', Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi- 110002

Bank Account no. 055010100242608

Bank Name Axis Bank

Branch address A-13, Swasthya Vihar, Vikas Marg, New Delhi- 110092

Account Type saving

IFSC Code UTIB0000055

Norms for Allotment of Day Slots for participating companies in Career Ascent: Allotment of slot(s) would be based on CTC and number of participants. However, it shall also be based on first come first serve basis.

GUIDELINES FOR THE CANDIDATES
Timings of the event: 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

The candidates have to register online with Placement portal http://www.cmii.icai.org/ .
There is no restriction on the number of interviews a candidate can attend.
Once finally selected by any company and accepting the offer by signing the offer letter, the candidate cannot appear for any other interview or accept job from the recruiting organisation that have interviewed him/her earlier.
The last dates for filling up online application forms for the candidates, shortlising details, consents for appearing in the interviews of the various participating organizations will be as per the details given on http://www.cmii.icai.org/ .
The entire process above would be done online on placement portal www.cmii.icai.org .
Security Deposit: From this time, the committee has decided that a security deposit of Rs. 5000.00 would be taken from the members for registration for placement programme which will be refunded in following cases.

1. Member is not shortlisted by any company.

2. Member is shortlisted by a company but does not give his consent for interview.

3. Member appears for interviews.

Security deposit will not be refunded in those cases where after giving the consent candidate does not actually appear for interviews.

For details contact:

Programme Chairman

Chairman,
CMII of ICAI,

Email: cmii@icai.org

Official Contact

Secretary, CMII
Tel: +91 (11) 30110549/450/491

Email: ssuneja@icai.org
placements@icai.in ,campus@icai.in

Indicative list of sectors from which the prominent organizations participated in the past Placement Programmes of ICAI

1. Auto Ancillaries

2. Auto Manufacturing - Heavy Vehicles

3. Auto Manufacturing - Other Vehicles

4. Banking

5. Business Process Outsourcing

6. Cement

7. Chemicals

8. Consumer Electronics& Durables

9. Courier Services

10. Dairy & Food Products

11. Diversified

12. Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

13. Engineering Procurement and Construction

14. Fertilisers

15. Financial Services

16. FMCG

17. Health Services

18. Heavy Engineering

19. Information Technology - Hardware

20. Information Technology –Software

21. Mining

22. Mutual Funds

23. NBFC

24. Oil & Gas Exploration

25. Oil & Gas Refining

26. Power Generation and Distribution

27. Print Media & Entertainment

28. Shipping

29. Steel & Metal Manufacturing

30. Telecommunication

31. Textile Manufacturing

32. Trading

33. Transport-All Types

Basic Terms:

ICAI does not guarantee that the candidates who have filled in the data will be actually present in the interview or after selection he would join the organization. Disclaimer: The CMII of ICAI reserves the right to change its policy or change the programme at any point of time at its discretion

Annexure ‘I’

Steps for registration of companies for Career Ascent Programme

Step1: Please fill following proforma for participation in Placement Programme and send it to placements@icai.in, mii@icai.in and campus@icai.in

Sl.No.	Questions	Responses
1.	No. of Recruitments to be done centrewise by your organization.
2.	CTC to be offered to the Chartered Accountants *.
3.	Minimum take-home monthly salary *
4.	Break -up of CTC * :
5.	Job Profile to be provided to the Chartered Accountants alongwith likely place of posting in Department.
6.	Working Timing -Whether during the normal working hours or otherwise of the shifts i.e US ,UK or India
7.	Age limit of the Chartered Accountants to be recruited.
8.	Required Cut off for percentage of Marks/attempt in CA Foundation/Inter/Final, if any.
9.	Requirement of Bond, if any-
10.	Source of information about the ICAI Career Ascent (please tick mark) · Based on previous participation · Advertisement in Newspapers · Advertisement in the Chartered Accountant Journal · Advertisement in Trade Journals · Campus Brochure from ICAI · Telephone call/Email from ICAI Officers

Step 2: On receipt of the responses to the above questions, the CMII Secretariat would allot the Day Slots to the organization for the respective centres based on norms of Priority and availability.

Step 3: After the allotment of day slots, the organization is required to remit the participation fees accordingly.

Step 4: The participating entity is required to do the online registration on www.cmii.icai.org and fill up the Proforma & payment Form and upload their presentation in their login for the information of the candidates.

Step 5: On the completion of online registration and the receipt of the participation fees the CMII Secretariat would provide the online access to the database of the candidates for shortlisting.

Step 6: The recruiting entity is required to do the online shortlisting of the candidates within the specified time frame for the respective centres as per the schedule of placement programme.

Annexure ‘II’

Steps for submission of online form for candidate on www.cmii.icai.org for Career Ascent Programme

(start from 4^th January, 2011)

Category 1: Members not registered with www.cmii.icai.org and are eligible for Career Ascent Programme.

Step 1: Initial registration: click on http://www.cmii.icai.org/new_cand.asp?typeofcandidate=S and generate your password.

Step 2: click on http://www.cmii.icai.org/ca_login.asp?typeofcandidate=S and login by giving your Institute Membership Number as user name and password which you have chosen earlier. Fill the registration form which is divided into nine parts.

Step 3: Click on Apply for Job Fair tab and Submit your form after which you will be directed to next page for submission of security deposit.

Step 4: Submit the security deposit through online channel. Also note after filling the form, security deposit may be submitted at a later stage by log in again but before the last date of registration (14^th January, 2011).

Step 5: After the receipt and verification of payment, centre code (CAL-!!!) would be allotted to you within 24 to 72 working hours.

Step 6: After code generation i. e. successful completion of registration for Career Ascent candidates should take the print out of the Print Profile which they are required to mandatorily carry while visiting for the Interviews.

Category 2: Members who have already registered with www.cmii.icai.org and are eligible for Career Ascent Programme.

Step 1: Click on http://www.cmii.icai.org/ca_login.asp?typeofcandidate=S and login by giving your Institute Membership Number as user name and password which you have chosen earlier. Fill/update the registration form which is divided into nine parts.

Step 2: Click on Apply for Job Fair tab and Submit your form after which you will be directed to next page for submission of security deposit.

Step 3: Submit the security deposit through online channel. Also note after filling the form, security deposit may be submitted at a later stage by log in again but before the last date of registration (14^th January, 2011).

Step 4: After the receipt and verification of payment, centre code (CAL-!!!) would be allotted to you within 24 to 72 working hours.

Step 5: After code generation i. e. successful completion of registration for Career Ascent candidates should take the print out of the Print Profile which they are required to mandatorily carry while visiting for the Interviews.