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How to be a CEO:
Becoming a CEO doesn't happen overnight. CEOs work their way through the ranks and rise to the top, thanks to a combination of hard work, perseverance, and traits and qualities that make them a top-notch business leader.
Read the steps below to learn about the path to becoming a CEO, and the steps CEOs take to stay successful:
Get educated- If you want to be a CEO, you need to perform well in school. Ideally, you should complete both an undergraduate and a graduate degree. Focus your studies in an area that will be relevant to the industry you hope to enter, but keep things general enough that you can be flexible if you don't snag your dream job right out of the college. Many CEOs complete an undergraduate degree first, work for several years as an employee, rise through the ranks, and then return to an MBA programme to earn a graduate degree. You don't need to put off joining the workforce just because you don't have all the education you want yet. The larger the company you're hoping to one day rise to the top of, the more important it is that you attend (and graduate from) a school that has some cachet attached to its name. Obviously, some CEOs never even graduated college, but by the numbers, your best chance is to have a prestigious name on your degree.

One factor that usually makes an IIM interview difficult to prepare for as compared to a job interview is that they could ask you anything, from the origin of your name to the latest technologies pertaining to your field of study/work. The interview could be a stress interview (to see how candidates react to unusual circumstances under pressure), may test your knowledge in your field of study/work or just test your communication skills, your knowledge in current affairs and your intelligence. The interviewer could be looking for many things in a candidate. The level of knowledge, general awareness, academic competence, clarity of thought, confidence, communication skills and all those qualities that could make someone a great manager.

Basic Eligibility Criteria. According to the IIM admission criteria 2018-20, candidates appearing for CAT must have a Bachelor's Degree with at least 50 per cent marks (for General category) and 45 Percent (for SC, ST and PWD category) or equivalent CGPA from any recognised university. All the Iims usually follow a two-step selection process. First, short-listing on the basis of CAT score and then What and PI rounds for the short-listed students. Common Admission Test (CAT)
Written Ability Test (What) and Personal Interview (PI)
Candidates who fulfill the first stage of the admission criteria CAT are called for What and PI rounds. Different Iims as per their admission criteria offer admissions to the selected students. Most of the Iims give maximum weightage to Personal Interview and CAT score for admissions. However, factors like academic cut-offs, past academic performance, relevant work experience, gender diversity etc. Also play a major role in the admission process. Each IIM has its own admission criteria which they release after the official announcement of CAT. The old Iims and some of the new Iims have released admission criteria for 2018-20. As compared to previous year, there has not been much change in terms of CAT cutoff or selection procedure and criteria of the Iims. Iims do not conduct any common counselling process. The six new Iims conduct Common Admission Process (CAP) which includes common What and PI rounds. However, the participating institutes declare separate merit lists. The recent Iims, IIM Sirmaur and IIM Jammu, both mentored by IIM Lucknow do not conduct What-PI rounds and declare merit list based on CAT score, past academic records, work experience and diversity factors.