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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.