November 2008 - Posts - On The Job

November 2008 - Posts

Building a case for the humble, lowly shorthand

Posted by Taru Bahl at 
On a recent field trip I had the chance to meet a young journalist from The Times in London. Every time we interacted with members of the local community, out would come her little note pad. Seeing the scribbly scrawly characters, I asked incredulously, “is this shorthand?” and she said “yes, its handy, isn’t it? While both of us were using digital...

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Analyzing the CAT

Posted by Livemint Community at 
Director Research and Development, Career Launcher, Mr. Shiva Kumar is back on livemint blogs to analyze this weekends CAT. Any confusions, questions, queries or doubts? Field them to him on this space. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!

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Waiting for your Date of Joining?

Posted by Poornima Mohandas at 
As engineering graduates who passed out in June 2008 wait it out for their joining dates, NIT (National Institute of Technology) Calicut seems to have taken a bold stand during this year's placement season. The placement head, professor Suresh Babu told IT companies, "Unless you give joining dates to my 2008 batch you can't recruit from...

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Shiva kumar here:Join me at 2pm for CAT tips

Posted by Livemint Community at 
Hi Everyone It is always good to share my thoughts to help CAT aspirants with the mental preparation at this point of time. I have been a part of Career Launcher for the past 11 years. Ever since it started training students for the CAT. I will share my experience as someone who has been watching CAT with appreciation for the past decade, and also as...

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Crack the CAT on Sunday: Last minute tips!

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Join the On the Job community for a live chat at 2 pm on strategies to crack the CAT. Shiva Kumar, Director Research and Development at Career launcher. Will be talking through test papers (of the last five years) and what to expect. Join us at 2 pm today. Livemint Community Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!

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Volunteerism high on B-School grads' agendas

Posted by Taru Bahl at 
One of the top five questions which B-school graduates in the US and UK are asking potential employers during placement sessions is, "will I get a chance to do voluntary work in your company?" On a three-hour drive from Nagpur to a cluster of villages in Chandrapur district, Rachael Barber, global head, community investment, Barclays talked...

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Wider roads for a bald Bangalore

Posted by Poornima Mohandas at 
Some 600 people got together this morning, marched from Bangalore's biggest garden, Lalbagh to the Town Hall in the heart of the city holding placards and shouting slogans against the indiscriminate tree felling in the name of development. Some 30,000 trees are likely to come under the axe as the city corporation ( BBMP ) goes about widening 91...

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Worried about beind laid off...

Posted by Poornima Mohandas at 
Varied people turned up perturbed about lay offs and curious to learn about worker's rights at the "Know Your Rights at Work" workshop conducted by Bangalore-based BPO/ITES union, Unites Professionals and Switzerland-based, global union for the service sector with 15 million members, UNI today. A former State Bank manager in his late 60s...

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Farewell to Mitra...

Posted by Livemint Community at 
Hi everyone, an instruction: The blogging session occurs on the same space as the comments. Leave your comment, and Mitra will respond. Just a small change in the time: The live discussion will happen from 3 - 4pm today (thats Friday) so you can all say bye to Mitra: Mitra Kalita, who has been such an integral part of Mint for the past two years, leaves...

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Motorola slashes 100 jobs in India?

Posted by Poornima Mohandas at 
While Motorola only wants to confirm lay offs without revealing any specifics in India , market sources say some 50-100 employees have left the company over the last one month after being shown the door. One manager told me how a Motorola employee came back from a business trip to get a pink slip! Here's hoping all these people find other jobs....

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Why are students talked down to in schools?

Posted by Poornima Mohandas at 
Read it 5 times, write it 5 times. This is what every student has grown up hearing in school classrooms across the country as we perfect the art of learning by rote. And sadly nothing has changed in the vast majority of schools since the time you or I went to school, despite the heftier fees and plasma screens. I have seen the same thing as a student...

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Does talent have a chance in fashion where legacies, inheritances and protégés rule?

Posted by Taru Bahl at 
For our latest careers story in Mint, on How do I get my boss to stop taking credit for my work? I got to speak with textile designer Ritu Kumar. To say she is the prima donna of fashion would be undermining the seriousness of her work, especially her research and chronicling of Indian textiles and the classic way in which she has attired our beauty...

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