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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...
Posted by Aparna Kalra | 3 comment(s)
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:18 AM

Market Value - Benchmarking MBA Salaries

There is always so much hype around placements at business schools every year. Reporters line up outside the campuses to get as much information about salaries, recruiters, students, etc. Interestingly, there are no studies to benchmark salaries of MBAs...
Posted by Tarun Matta | 10 comment(s)
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Monday, April 20, 2009 9:51 AM

Getting a job during the slowdown

Tarun Matta is the founder of iimjobs.com – an exclusive job portal for MBAs from IIMs and other premier business schools in India. Last month I was in the corporate office of a large MNC for a meeting with one our prospective clients. One of my old buddies...
Posted by Tarun Matta | 5 comment(s)
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:24 AM

Job security or higher salary?

The other day I was meeting a couple of friends at a cafe and much to my chagrin, the conversation mostly veered around job security. One could not have imagined even a few months back that joblessness could ever hit us. Stability was never a concern...
Posted by Rajeshwari Sharma | 3 comment(s)
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:39 PM

Subdued hiring: unlikely to get a booster shot

Industry chamber Assocham was lambasted for making some scary predictions late last year. They had said on 29October that post Diwali, Indian industry would see job cuts as high as 25%. Most newspapers picked it up and ran it prominently on their business...
Posted by Taru Bahl | 10 comment(s)
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:00 PM

Hiring and firing strategies for 2009

As companies sharpen the saw and cut costs, even dispensing with external recruiting firms, relying instead on referrals, it makes sense to relook some of the traditional time and tested hiring strategies. One also has to be blind not to notice the pressure...
Posted by Taru Bahl | 5 comment(s)
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Friday, December 26, 2008 6:06 PM

Jobs: the worst of 2008 and the best of 2009

The son, a fresh grad picked up from college looked pretty smug to see that his company, an FMCG, figured in a sector that is likely to beat the recession. He also realized he was part of a lucky batch that saw campus recruitments at the graduate level...
Posted by Taru Bahl | 12 comment(s)
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:26 AM

Volunteerism high on B-School grads' agendas

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...
Posted by Taru Bahl | 17 comment(s)
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:13 PM

17 years in a company? Gosh, that's so old fashioned!

Last weekend I was at an HR conference where a complete session was devoted to "I am 26, do not count on me to stay in this company". It told you what you already know – how the earplug and G-chat generation puts the grasshopper to shame as...
Posted by Taru Bahl | 18 comment(s)
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:53 PM

Wanted old hands!

The other day my father asked me if I could help him with creating his resume. It was a perfectly normal request but coming from a 63-year-old man, who has been really enjoying his post-retirement life- dividing time between Kolkata and New Delhi with...
Posted by Rajeshwari Sharma | 6 comment(s)
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:57 PM

Move over America...

Every time I read something like the latest executive quiz by The Korn/Ferry Institute, I secretly feel happy about my broken American dream as a 20 something. Those were the days when a great job in the United States meant you had arrived. It’s a different...
Posted by Rajeshwari Sharma | 1 comment(s)
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:03 AM

What's Kashmir got to do with placements and exams?

A lot, actually. While my column today focused not on issues related to workplace or education, two professors I interviewed for the piece (but didn't end up quoting) were downright sorrowful over what the recent violence and curfews have meant for...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 12:08 PM

How to recruit the right person for the job?

It was one of those chain emails that I was about to delete this morning when I noticed the subject line: How to recruit the right person for the job? As a reporter writing on workplace issues, this mail seemed to have the possibility of a story idea...
Posted by Rajeshwari Sharma | 2 comment(s)
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