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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:23 PM

Some jobs require Facebook, Twitter experience

My last post on Facebook and productivity made me unpopular in office despite my protest that I wrote being on Facebook increases contacts/ability to strike deals for some. But here's some amazing stuff: it seems there are jobs in advertising, marketing...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:58 PM

IT: preferred career for engineers but not b-school grads?

Nielsen, in a survey of 151 engineering schools released today, said engineering graduates continue to prefer IT as a career. This is in sharp contrast to what is happening in business schools. Placement data for the Class of 2009 collected by coolavenues...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:56 PM

The IIT coaching debate

The IIT-JEE results are out, and the Times of India has reported a drop in the number of students who took help from test-preparation companies to make the cut. Is that a good or a bad thing? Reporting with Mint took me to Kota, where Bansal Classes has...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 1:36 PM

The best jobs ever...

Alerted this morning via Twitter on an American website that lists the best jobs in technology in the U.S. The latest one is Bobby Johnson's. He works at facebook, which, hold it!, 200 million people use. Now, this made me think of India and what...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:42 PM

Analysis of the IIT-JEE exam

Test preparatory company Career Launcher, whose owner Mint covered as part of its Education Czars series , has analysed the IIT-JEE exam held on Sunday. The 3.75 lakh candidates who sat for the test may please send us their agree/disagree comments, simply...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:48 AM

Complete this sentence: My best teacher was...

... a journalism instructor in high school named Mrs Bonnie Blader. She was nurturing but blunt, idealistic but practical. It is because of her encouragement that I went anywhere with words. Nobody in college came close, except for one history teacher...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:15 PM

One Dollar Curry

There was a time when American dreams were like the stuff Bollywood is made of. Almost every one I knew or did not know aspired to be in the promised land. Among my friends and a huge cache of acquaintances, many got into premier engineering or medical...
Posted by Rajeshwari Sharma | 5 comment(s)
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