Talerang - Placement

Talerang is committed to solving the work-readiness crisis that students and organizations face through a unique transformation model researched and developed at Harvard Business School. Talerang is hiring! If you are interested in applying for any of the roles below, send your resume to talerang@talerang.com. If interested, we will conduct 2-3 rounds of interviews with our team / board before we roll out an offer. Compensation is competitive and the opportunity to grow and develop is immense!
Talerang is looking to build capability and add to the start-up team. The roles below all present an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to play a critical role in a new and innovative organization that aims to create a generation of leaders who will transform the effectiveness of India’s work-force. We have a 70-30 structure, where team members work largely on a specific role but also contribute to 1 or 2 additional verticals depending on their skills.

• Strategy analyst: Support and work closely with Talerang’s CEO on a variety of special projects,
  business planning and other strategic initiatives across the organization.
  
• Marketing analyst: Handle communication for Talerang through social media, the website, and
  
• Training coordinator: Support selected training sessions and ensure the effective rollout of
  
• Student engagement associate: Build partnerships with key colleges across India for Talerang,
  driving our brand and presence at leading schools in the country. Help oversee and manage student recruitment campaigns, including engaging with Talerang’s campus delegate network, presenting at key colleges and speaking with high potential students.
  
• Corporate engagement associate: Manage all aspects of corporate relationships, including helping to place students at corporates for internships, monitoring their performance.
  
• Student engagement manager: Build partnerships with key colleges across India for Talerang, driving our brand and presence at leading schools in the country. Help oversee and manage student recruitment campaigns, including engaging with Talerang’s campus delegate network, presenting at key colleges and speaking with high potential students. Manage a team of 3-5 associates.
  
• Expansion / partnerships manager: Lead Talerang’s expansion and set-up of operations in new cities as well as oversee the rollout of new verticals and products. Help develop customized training programs for our corporate and college partners.
  
• Senior manager, communications: Develop a presence for Talerang with key corporate, colleges and stakeholders across India, driving our brand and presence at the top 100 corporates, colleges and other relevant institutions in the country.
  

Desired experience and profile:

• 0-1 years of work experience for Analyst/Coordinator roles, 1-3 years of total work experience for Associate roles and 2-4 years of experience for a Manager role (ideally in management consulting, investment banking or at a leading global corporate)
  
• Desire to work with talented and passionate young leaders from across India
  
• Self-starter with an ability to get things done
  
• Strong written and spoken communication skills
  
• Ability to build relationships, work in and manage teams
  
• Experience living and working in India is a plus
  Values and mindsets: Making sure you fit with Talerang’s values is essential to you succeeding at our
  organization. Before you apply, please see: Talerang Values Location: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore or Pune
  Compensation: Competitive / premium to other education start-ups
  HOW WE BEGAN
  Talerang was initially developed as a project at Harvard Business School and launched in October 2013. Our research showed that corporate India was unhappy with entry-level talent, making hiring one of the most difficult aspects of running any organization no matter the industry or scale. To further confirm this, students at top undergraduate institutions (>60% of students) attested to feeling completely unprepared and anxious for their first jobs despite being academically sound.
  WHAT WE DO
  Talerang trains students (selected from the best colleges across Mumbai and Delhi such as IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, St. Stephen's College, LSR College, SRCC and St. Xavier's College) in what we call work- readiness skills, essentially the skills that corporates look for but colleges do not teach. The experiential curriculum uses HBS cases and includes leadership, communication, time management, etiquette, excel and PowerPoint, problem solving and creative thinking. Post class-room training for 6 weeks (alongside college), students transition to Talerang partner organizations for paid summer internships at which time they have the practical exposure that completes their training and makes them work-ready. In the first year, Talerang has trained over 2000 people to be work-ready. We also have placed close to 50 students with our corporate partners where they have completed defined projects and been called back for full-time hiring opportunities.
  
  
  

  PARTNERS
  We have a board with strong advisors such as Sanjeev Bikhchandani (CEO, Naukri.com), Ashok Kurien (Co-Founder, Zee TV), and Ashish Dhawan (MD, Chrys Capital and the Ashoka Foundation) amongst others. We have ~30 corporate partners including the Aditya Birla Group, the Godrej Group, DSP BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Teach for India, Technoserve, Audi and Zodius Advisors.
  TEAM
  

  • CEO and Founder Shveta Raina is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Brown University. She has previously worked on the start-up team of Teach For India as the Director of Recruitment, Marketing and Selection, and as a consultant at McKinsey’s New York City office. Her research on the work-readiness crisis at Harvard Business School led to the business plan for Talerang.
    
  • Head of Business Operations Raunaq Sabharwal is a graduate of D.J. Sanghvi, Mumbai, where he studied Production Engineering. Prior to Talerang, he worked as an investment banker with Kotak.
    
  • Training and Content Manager Apurva Damani is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, USA where she studied International Politics and Economics. Prior to Talerang, she won a grant from the Davis Projects for Peace to implement an after-school program for high school children.
    
  • Curriculum Lead Sinhali Deshpande is a veteran in the development of transformative training modules. Her clients include several multinationals ranging from Pepsi to Citibank. She has been involved with Talerang since January 2013, and has fleshed out the final curriculum.
    
  • Design Lead Kinjal Dedhia is a graduate of the J.J. School of Arts. She has worked on various free-lance design projects, and also full-time as the designer at Teach For India. She developed the logo and brand template for Talerang and is working on its initial marketing materials.
    
  • Associate Ankita Trehan has done an MSc from Warwick Business School, where she studied Finance and Economics. At Talerang, she is working on college and corporate partnerships and student outreach for Delhi.
    
  • Student Engagement Associate Jay Motani is a graduate of IIT Bombay. He was the research intern during Talerang’s initial phase as an Independent Project at Harvard Business School. He is currently a Business Analyst at AT Kearney. He is developing Talerang’s college outreach plan.
    
  • Student Engagement Associate Rohan Parakh is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and a consultant for Techno-serve. He is working closely with students to recruit delegates at target colleges.
    
  • Expansion and Strategy Associate Paritosh Agarwal is a graduate of Symbiosis, and has worked with D.E. Shaw, Teach For India and McKinsey and Company. He leads the financial modeling and business planning for Talerang.
    

  • Curriculum Associate Shivanee Sen graduated with distinction from UC Berkeley, USA where she studied Psychology. She is an Assistant Counselor and Program Coordinator at the Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
  For more information on Talerang and the impact we have made please visit our website
  http://www.talerang.com/