Students doing social work to make their CVs attractive

Raghav Agarwal, a first-year MBA student at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, runs a free website along with his brother which provides previous year’s exam papers of about 15 Mumbai schools. Aim: To make exam preparations simpler. Tucked neatly within the folds of charity, however, is a hard copy of his curriculum vitae. Agarwal is among a growing number of students who are doing social work to make their CVs look better. Companies in India and universities abroad admit that they do take more kindly to those who take kindly to others. “Giving back to society even when done with the intention of sprucing up the CV is a very positive thing because ultimately every contribution counts,” said 21-year-old Agarwal, who plans to work on completion of his MBA. Education counsellor Viral Doshi catered to over two hundred... [read full story]