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Old 21-02-2019, 10:52 PM
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Thanks very much for sharing, I appreciate that.

Would you be able to share some insights why they decided to re-brand this year as specifically for people with 2-3 years of work experience?

Are mature candidates better in any way?
It's not re-brand . New MA programme is basically same as GA programme which is for fresh graduates. You choose one of the 3 groups right from the start and do your rotations within that group. So if you choose for example CBG your rotations are only within CBG. Current and past MA programmes you do not choose any particular group and you are rotated across groups. 4 rotations. So after the 2 year programme you would have experienced both IBG and CBG and maybe even tech and ops. It's a more broad based programme which certainly helps you to choose which group you want to be posted to.

The reason for the change given by HR is because of the high attrition rate of the current MA programme. Asking for working experience is because there is already the GA programme for fresh graduates. The difference is GA programme is 2 years and the new MA programme is 1.5 years with just 3 rotations. Current and past MA programmes have matured candidates as well.

The failure of the company to recognise the true reasons for the high attrition rate has resulted in changes to the programme the past years. And this time they decided to completely changed the programme - extend the GA programme to graduates with working experience and called it MA programme. The 2019 batch will be the guinea pig batch.
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