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  • Thursday, August 20, 2009
    Posted at 4:48:00 PM
    Every once in a while I notice the doodles around the red,blue,green and yellow all too familiar logo of Google and wonder what's special today. Google puts out those doodles celebrating artists and scientists, historic days and the like. Today Google has announced a doodle contest open to all school kids. The winner's drawing will appear on the Google India homepage on November 14, childrens' day. The world's largest internet search engine will also give out a laptop to the winner and a technology grant of Rs 1 lakh to the winner's.
  • Wednesday, August 05, 2009
    Posted at 11:25:00 AM
    Mumbai-based, art auction house, Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art is set to start a 1,000 hour course on art, cinema, popular culture and cultural management . This marks Osian's foray into education targetting anyone with an inclination towards arts and culture, right from students, private banking professionals to diplomats. The faculty will include artists like Gieve Patel and film makers like Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap . The course, which will start on 1 November in Mumbai and on 1 December in Delhi, will cost anything from Rs 10,000 to.
  • Thursday, July 30, 2009
    Posted at 1:00:00 PM
    India's largest staffing company, TeamLease Services Pvt Ltd analysed more than 500 resumes across different levels, job profiles and industries in July to find 90% of them had some error or the other, grammatical or spelling. A few samples: - Areas of Strength: My background to date has been centered on grooming myself as a well-rounded person. - I am Quietly forceful, original and sensitive. - Family details: Father – Death - Languages Known: English (Good), Malayalam (Native), Hindi and Tamil - Weakness: Fresher - Biography: Marital Status.
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  • Wednesday, July 15, 2009
    Posted at 9:50:00 PM
    A rising tide raises all boats but the same doesn't go when the tide ebbs. Companies, big and small, aim to be in ship-shape in anticipation of the good times and hence "continue to invest in critical talent as there is an increased fear that competitors may try to lure valuable employees," says a report released today by audit *** consulting firm, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd . While cutting back on regular training expenses, 70% of companies are investing heavily in building a strong leadership pipeline, right from identifying.
  • Tuesday, July 14, 2009
    Posted at 5:06:00 PM
    Finished high school and wondering what course and stream to pick? Here's one more site that promises to guide students post high school - studytimes.com . The website aims to disseminate information about colleges and courses both in India and abroad with a database of 25,000 colleges and 4,00,000 courses, about half of which are in India. So how is studytimes.com different from Amitabh Nagpal promoted, studyplaces.com and shiksha.com from the stable of naukri.com? "While studyplaces.com is focussed on education abroad, shiksha.com is.
  • Thursday, July 09, 2009
    Posted at 4:30:00 PM
    Job site, Monster.com is planning to offer its recruitment services over direct-to-home , Dishtv service to reach out to people who do not have internet access. Users will be able to search for jobs and avail of resume writing services through "MonsterJobs Active" using just their television sets by end of July. Dishtv is currently doing an internal pilot for the same. However there are a few gaps in hooking up the tv through the internet; only one way messaging is possible. This means the television set can show you messages but you can't.
  • Monday, June 22, 2009
    Posted at 11:06:00 PM
    There seems to be little good news from the job market. The job index computed by job site, naukri.com continued its slide touching 664 points in May down from 677 in April. The index slid over 14% over the last seven months. Hiring activity has declined in May vis-a-vis April across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, says Naukri.com's latest monthly survey, An Index of Job Opportunities, May 2009 . While recruitment activity in the auto sector is picking up, the software and telecom sectors are moving southwards while industrial.
  • Saturday, February 14, 2009
    Posted at 5:41:00 PM
    US companies announced over 200,000 job cuts just in the month of January 2009 with corporations like Boeing, Pfizer, Microsoft, Caterpillar scaling back jobs. Are these well thought out job cuts or more of a herd mentality to trim costs? While selling machinery or office space may be cumbersome, handing out pink slips may be the easiest thing to do and what's more it often brings cheer to the stock markets as well. The argument becomes interesting with the sticky wage theory, where traditional economists have argued that while prices of shirts.
  • Thursday, February 12, 2009
    Posted at 6:47:00 PM
    United Airlines which cut 1,000 jobs last month in the US, recently announced its plan to plough back 165 jobs out of India where it has call centres in Gurgaon and Bangalore. Is it a case of insourcing which seems to be gaining coinage for various reasons ranging right from raising cash to maintaining sentiment? To read more about insourcing - Insourcing and the Impact of Recession a whitepaper by Tholons , an outsourcing advisory. So why is United Airlines talking about quality and customer care now, after over three years of operations in India.
  • Thursday, February 05, 2009
    Posted at 10:02:00 AM
    While some schools like IMT Nagpur and Goa Institute of Management are looking for consultants hoping to find more doors and opportunities there are many who disagree with the idea. N.D. Sharma placement coordinator *** registrar at KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, is one of the them I came across while reporting a story. "We have direct access to companies. Consultants are a paid service." As of end January KJ Somaiya had placed about half its batch of 300 students and is not keen on consultants. Will consultants.
  • Friday, January 30, 2009
    Posted at 10:59:00 PM
    Note to readers: The following post features several comments from Mr. Pratik Kumar , Corporate Vice President, Human Resources at Wipro Ltd . These comments while made by Kumar, have however been taken out of context. The post has omitted to mention that Mr. Kumar's statement on job reset was contextualised as follows: "in the light of global scenario if salaries of technical and management campus hires are reset it will help in companies hiring more." The misleading portions of this post have been struck through. B schools school.
  • Thursday, January 29, 2009
    Posted at 10:57:00 PM
    Crystal gazing, Naukri Survey: Hiring Outlook for 2009 & Job Index: Dec 2008 paints an overall rosy picture for 2009 across sectors -- IT, ITES, retail, banking & finance, real estate, pharma, telecom -- with new job creation albeit with job losses. Highest lay offs are anticipated in real estate and IT. It's good news for teachers as they will be chased although demand for the number crunchers --accounts, finance and banking professionals-- is set to slip.
  • Thursday, January 29, 2009
    Posted at 11:09:00 AM
    Predictably the Teamlease Employment Outlook Survey Jan-Mar 2009 is galore with gloomy indices and blue business outlooks all down from the previous quarter. But there is a silver lining. If you are in middle or senior levels you might just get lucky as companies are showing an increased interest in hiring at those levels. Meanwhile the International Labour Organization has released some alarmist forecasts; job losses in 2009 could be anything between 18-50 million. To read more
  • Tuesday, January 27, 2009
    Posted at 8:26:00 PM
    When does an IT services firm need a bench? When there is pipeline of deals. These are people who are in suspended animation waiting for a project to work on. In the case of tainted, Satyam Computer Services , which is even losing its present customers , the deals in the pipeline would have more or less disappeared ever since the over Rs 7,000 crore scam surfaced earlier this month. So what is the need for a bench which is estimated to be nothing less than 10,000-12,000 people that too for a company which needs about Rs 500 crore a month just to.
  • Saturday, January 24, 2009
    Posted at 1:55:00 PM
    Mood: Remarkably upbeat Location: a golf resort in the outskirts of Bangalore Event: Knowledge Conclave - Universities of India 2008-09 "I've been to many events lately but the mood was glum everywhere. This is the only one in which people are talking of investment...The people in this room are indeed lucky," said a head hunter who was a panelist at the event. Education and healthcare are some of the few safe spots in any downturn. People have to send their kids to schools and will continue to fall sick. Almost makes one wish one were.
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