Career Launcher kicks off its mega edutainment event Tycoons

The event plans to rope in lakhs of participants across the country and crown a Tycoon at the end of five rounds of grueling competitions. The final of the multi city event will be held on February 18-20. Tycoons is a Career Launcher and jaagoindia initiative.

Talking about the objective behind the launch of the initiative, Mr Sharad Awasthi, COO, Career Launcher said: The objective of Tycoons 2008 is to identify the leadership potential among todays youth. It is an opportunity for future leaders to prove their mettle in a broad spectrum of intellect, organizing skills, teamwork ability, communication proficiency etc.

The event programme is divided into five rounds, with elimination at each stage, informs Career Launcher. The first one, the College Round would be held across 2000 colleges in 100 cities. Top two participants will be selected from each college on the basis of their performance in the Aptitude Test on general and business awareness. There is an online round as well, comprising an Aptitude test and writing an essay.

The City Finals, which will have an extempore, and a business quiz will follow the College Round. Top two finalists from each city will move on to the Regional Finals. In this round the candidates will be judged on the basis of a debate and micro presentation on various topics.

According to Career Launcher, 60 aspirants will be selected for the grand finale. They will be judged on ad making, press conference, case studies etc. 16 top candidates from this round will qualify for the final round where the winner will be crowned the first Tycoon of India.

Tycoons promises to be a good opportunity for the participants to gain name and fame. Says Career Launchers Awasthi, Besides the grand prizes, the participants get a reality check on their leadership and people skills. It is journey to self awareness which will stand them in good stead in future.

The winner gets a full paid scholarship to any higher education course in India, an edu-pilgrimage to a foreign university, a chance to meet the bigwigs of the industry from sports, business and cinema, cash prizes and more.
Career Launcher says that Tycoons is striking a cord with Indias aspiring managers and young professionals. Says an upbeat Awasthi, Tycoons has been planned to be the grandest edutainment event of its kind in the country. Since the announcement, we have received registrations via SMS, on the Tycoons website as well as through phone calls at our centers nationwide. I must say I am extremely encouraged by the response so far.
Media Partner for Tycoons is The Times Group, Print Partner is Outlook, Technology Partner is Intel, Aviation Partner is Kingfisher -Air Deccan, Knowledge Partner is ITM Business School, Incubation Partner is Indus World School of Business, Liberal Education Partner is FLAME, Content Partner is Management Compass. The event is supported by TIE.

Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com is the Official Management Portal of Tycoons 2008.