Training Program on Planning & Starting Property Consulting Business

In its objective to enhance professionalism in real estate and create a pool of knowledgeable and professionally competent property consultants, NIREM Institute of Real Estate Management has started offering a training program on ‘Planning & Starting Property Consulting Business’ on 11-12 November, 2013 at Delhi.

Through this training programs, NIREM aims to provide a knowledge platform to all those who want to start their own property consulting business. 

In the two-day program, participants are introduced to various aspects of real estate business including the right approach and method to start a property consulting business with a focus on handling customers in the most professional manner.

Few of the important topics are identifying and understanding the real estate markets, legal issues involved in property sales and transaction, coordination with builders and developers, lead generation and management, online marketing of properties, property sales skills, meeting clients’ expectation, quality in service delivery, consumer rights and protection, consultants’ rights and duties etc.

The course objective is to prepare a pool of professional real estate consultants who have thorough knowledge and competency to provide advice to clients about various aspects of property sales, purchase and investments.

Admission in this course is open to all those who want to start their own property consulting business and is offered on first-come-first-served basis. The program is scheduled on 11-12 November, 2013.

Those interested in joining the program may get in touch with the Admission Officer, NIREM at 011.42484988 or mail to info@nirem.org

MBA students see signs of U.S. job market thaw

Thursday January 28, 12:20 PM

By Ros Krasny

BOSTON (Reuters) - Students at one of America's top business schools see evidence that high-technology, start-up and alternative energy companies will hire more actively this year after a difficult 2009 for graduates.

MBA students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School recently took their annual "tech trek," testing out the demand for summer internships for the class of 2011 and full-time jobs for this year's graduates.

Students fanned out across Boston, Silicon Valley and Seattle, meeting with energy and high-tech enterprises. In December others visited six Boston-area biotechnology companies.

And what they found gave them reason to hope; tech outfits are finally seeing demand pick up, energy companies are pushing hard to develop renewable fuels and together the two sectors could lead the way out of a job market morass.

Employment growth in the United States has famously been powered by small- and medium-sized businesses. So far in the fragile economic recovery many small firms have been reluctant or unable to take on new staff.

"Our MBAs are unbowed, and they came back with a lot of gusto," said Sloan adviser Paul Denning, who has made the trek to California for several years. "The general consensus is that things are better, particularly in Silicon Valley."

Last year, Denning said, even tech giant Google, "was really not hiring. Everything had contracted after the financial market collapse." Now, green shoots are popping up.

Google did hire some Sloan graduates from the 2009 class but was not among the top 13 hirers listed by the school.

COMPANIES ARE OPTIMISTIC

Jaclyn Loo, 26, who will graduate in 2011, said she hopes to secure a summer internship in e-commerce or mobile technology -- perhaps with a little guidance from Sloan's robust alumni network in the San Francisco Bay area.

"Overall, the companies were optimistic. The economy is starting to turn around little by little," she said after meeting with firms from computer giant Apple and design consultants IDEO to web reservation firm Open Table.

Belt-tightening during the recession, which started in December 2007, has left many companies with aging equipment badly in need of refurbishment. That is already boosting the results of large tech companies and could trickle down to smaller ones and jump-start a fresh round of start-ups.

This week, a National Association for Business Economics survey showed 44 percent of U.S. companies expect to increase capital spending this year, with much of the investment in computers and communications equipment.

MIT's students are among the brightest in America. In 2009, Sloan was ranked No. 5 among business schools by U.S. News and World Report. Normally its graduates are in heavy demand, many landing six-figure starting salaries at high-profile firms.

But 2009 was a tough year for even the best qualified as the U.S. economy shed millions of jobs, companies cut to the bone and financing for new businesses largely dried up.

Students said many 2009 graduates spent months seeking work, always with the knowledge that a new crop of competitors was coming up behind them.

The class of 2010 senses a change.

"It seems that most of the companies we're speaking to are looking to hire. They're keeping us in mind," said Mike Norelli, 26, who graduates in June.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Sloan students visited Oasys Water, a start-up with seven employees which hopes to redefine the small but growing market for water reuse and desalination using technology developed at Yale University.

Chief executive Aaron Mandel said the company relies on "a lot of consulting, a lot of outsourcing, and a lot of free work." But a recent Department of Energy grant to demonstrate its water purification prototype could propel Oasys' slim headcount into double figures by year-end, he said.

(Editing by Mark Egan and Cynthia Osterman)

IDS NIREM News From Kerala

NIREM launched specialised Real Estate Management course

KERALA NEWS carried a news item about IDS National Institute of Real Estate Management and its One-Year PG Diploma in Real Estate Sales & Agency Management (PGD-RESAM).

Industry leaders have also repeatedly aired their concern over the total absence of real estate courses in India, when the real estate business scenario seems to be improving after a period of recession. In response, IDS National Institute of Real Estate Management (IDS NIREM), www.nirem.org, has launched a one-year distance learning Post Graduate Diploma Program in Real Estate Sales & Agency Management (PGD-RESAM). To Read, complete news please vist: KeralaNews

NIREM starts 1-year Real Estate Sales & Agency Management course

IDS-NIREM announced the launch of a unique course in Real Estate Sales & Agency Management, which is the first course of its kind in India. The PG Diploma course shall provide the industry with much needed Real Estate Professionals with thorough knowledge of and practical skills in developing sales & leasing strategies for different types of properties and managing real estate sales & agency business.

According to the institute, historically, many individuals who work in real estate have acquired their skills on the job. However, as the business of real estate has become more complex in structure and more international in scope, the industry has recognised the need for specialised education in Real Estate. IDS-NIREM’s one-year distance learning Post Graduate Diploma Program in Real Estate Sales & Agency Management (PGD-RESAM), the first in the country, educates men and women in the full range of skills required of real estate professionals today. The course emphasis is on to provide knowledge and create practical skills to plan and execute successful sales, marketing & leasing strategies for different types of properties and to plan & manage real estate agencies.

The PGD-RESAM program, launched by IDS-NIREM, offers both, the fresh graduates who intend to pursue a career in real estate and those in the real estate profession, an unequaled educational growth and career advancement opportunity. To get further information, visit www.nirem.org

Rolling Admission System at IDS NIREM

NIREM follows the rolling admission system for admission in all of its courses including PG Diploma in Real Estate Sales & Agency Management (PGD RESAM). Therefore, potential applicants can apply for admission into any of its course at any time of the year, which is beneficial to both the students as well as the institute. NIREM recently received several queries regarding the actual meaning of 'Rolling Admission System'. Therefore, given below the definition of this system, collected from various sources:

About.com Guide, Karen Schweitzer, Defines 'Rolling Admission' as follows:
Rolling admissions are a type of admissions policy. Business schools that use a rolling admissions policy review applications as they receive them.

How Rolling Admissions Work
Some business schools have multiple "rounds" or deadlines during the admissions process. Business schools with rolling admissions do not.

How to Deal with Rolling Admissions
When dealing with rolling admissions, it is important to remember that admissions committees will be reviewing applications as they come in. This means the decisions will be made and seats will be filled throughout the admissions process.

If you wait until the last minute to submit your application in a rolling admissions situation, there is a good chance that the majority of seats will already be filled.

Bottom Line
It is always better to submit your application early when you are working with a school that uses rolling admissions.

Wikipedia defines rolling admission as follows:

Rolling admission is a policy used by many colleges to admit freshmen to undergraduate programs. Under rolling admission, a candidate is invited to submit his application to the university anytime within a large window. The window is usually over six months long, and some schools do not have a previously specified end date (the window simply closes when all spots are filled). The university will then review the application and notify the applicant of their decision within a few weeks from submission.

Advantages of rolling admission:
Rolling admission is helpful to both students and university admissions offices, because the process is more mellow and applications do not all flow in at the same time, respectively. Students can finish their application anytime between the summer before their senior year and midway through their senior year and can submit it at leisure, taking the time to carefully review their application and not getting anxious about a nearing deadline. The organization receives applications continuously rather than in one or two bursts and is thus able to spend more time on each application individually.

Collegeconfidential.com defines Rolling Admission as follows:
The idea behind “Rolling Admission” is that it enables candidates to receive an admission decision within a predetermined period after submitting an application. Typically, the decision arrives about two months after the application process is complete and often far sooner.

Colleges without Rolling Admission usually have a specific deadline, and no applications are evaluated before this deadline, no matter how early they are received. All decision letters are then mailed to candidates on the same day, which is generally in late March or early April.

When you apply to Rolling Admission colleges, it is wise to ask several questions. Find out how early you can submit an application and if sooner is better when it comes to getting aid, housing, choices of classes or academic program. Find out, too, if these determinations are based on the date you applied or on the date you accepted the offer of admission. Ask also how quickly you should expect to get your news—good or bad—in the mail and when you need to inform the college of your plans.

Thus, if you apply via Rolling Admission, don't forget to ask admission officials how soon you need to respond, if admitted. Those institutions that do not belong to the CRDA group may insist on hearing from you before you have received all admission decisions. If this is the case, find out if you can get an extension in order to wait for all your letters to arrive. If the answer is no, you might want to consider delaying your Rolling Admission application until the notification date coincides with the notification you will receive from your remaining target schools.