Verghese, who is Keralan, joined Hindustan Lever as a management trainee with an M.

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She had been at Chemical since 1981, joining as a management trainee.

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His first job, in 1957, was as a management trainee with ICI, but after five years he joined the BBC in Newcastle on the "Look North" news magazine programme.

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After spending two years as a management trainee at Crompton Greaves, a maker of products related to power generation and transmission, she joined ICICI Bank in 1986, starting out in merchant banking.

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He likes to tell people how, in his first job as a Mars management trainee, he learnt that the best way of sweeping up Maltesers from the factory floor was first to step on them.

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As recruiting creeps into the early days of the school year on many campuses, interviews for elite consulting, finance and management trainee positions begin just a few months in schools have less time to train students on interview etiquette or the art of the thank-you note.

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After leaving university in 1987, he worked briefly as a management consultant before becoming a trainee reporter with the Times newspaper.

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Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avantha's electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a silver pot.

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AKB48's management office said Minegishi had been demoted to a trainee team as punishment "for causing a nuisance to the fans".

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