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  • Saturday, January 24, 2009
    Posted at 1:24:00 AM
    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 with employees in India. And why would that be when your economy is growing at a robust and companies jostling with each other to hire you. A slowing global economy has however changed all that. Most conversations within workplaces or outside now are tempered with concerns about jobs. This is what an.
  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
    Posted at 9:21:00 AM
    Google India has terminated the jobs of some 30 to 40 employees from its finance department, according to at a Googler and a recruiter familiar with the development, who did not wish to be identified. The terminated staff, comprising financial analysts and chartered accountants among others, are largely contractors or temporary workers and some Googlers. In a response to a query on layoffs, Google spokesperson said, "We have been reducing our dependence on contractors for over a year across locations. In rare cases, where restructuring impacts.
  • Monday, December 22, 2008
    Posted at 5:36:00 PM
    I almost had a feeling of déjà vu when I was speaking to chief executive officers who admitted that employees often know better about wastages in the organization than executives at the top. Many years ago, in 1988 to be precise, my maternal grandfather rebuked my uncle when he tried to hush my aunt when she was trying to suggest ways to reduce expense. “Our women know better than all of you,” he snarled. It was one of those post-dinner meetings where grandfather would break news, thrash out issues brought to his notice, resolve differences and.
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2008
    Posted at 7:53:00 PM
    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 my mum for company, was a bit of a shock. Before I could fully recover, dad shrugged his shoulders and said: "I basically want to check out what job options do I have at this age and with my kind of experience." Soon I discovered that the germ of this idea came from his insurer ICICI Prudential.
  • Thursday, September 11, 2008
    Posted at 7:57:00 PM
    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 story that I am far from arriving (please don’t read this as a job in the US but career in general) and the way things look, I never will. Anyways, coming back to the Korn/Ferry release, which is based on perceptions about international career options by business leaders from more than 70 countries.
  • Monday, August 25, 2008
    Posted at 12:08:00 PM
    Among various things that my mum keeps tabs on include the stories that I work on. This weekend while enjoying her masala dosa at a restaurant, she asked "what's your story this Monday?" I replied disinterestedly "It's an interview with a management guru." What does he teach?, she dug further. I definitely did not want to go on with this conversation but I still said, well…he teaches Lean principles. "What's is Lean principle?" I was about to ramble some management jargon when I stopped eating to think how.
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008
    Posted at 3:15:00 PM
    A lot of things have changed in the last six to eight months in our lives. Among many things, unending battle with flab has become more challenging, bills have gone up for the same amount of stuff purchased, payouts made to maid and cleaner have risen, and most importantly calls from recruiters have disappeared like they never came in the first place. Seems like just the other day when the ball was in an employee’s court and she was literally calling the shots. A slowing global economy, rising inflation and input costs have clearly spoilt the party.
  • Monday, August 11, 2008
    Posted at 1:03:00 PM
    How much is too much? This is one question which kept coming up during my conversations with human resource managers and executives from background screening agencies while working on today’s story published in Campaign . Most of them agreed that it is easier to tell black from white (detecting misrepresentations of facts and figures and taking appropriate actions against it) than grey (deftly puffed up resumes). Recruiting managers say they find it very tough to see through the latter. A HR head of large pharmaceutical company recounted this instance.
  • Wednesday, August 06, 2008
    Posted at 11:36:00 PM
    It's one thing for a firm to be in the pink and another to be able to make it in PINK. No, we are not discussing the colour pink or a company's financial health for that matter. We are talking about global recruitment firm Manpower Inc being named one of PINK magazine's 2008 Top Companies for Women. PINK's annual ranking, which has been issued for the second time this year, recognizes the prominent role of women in companies, particularly in leadership roles. The US-based magazine evaluates firms on parameters including the number.
  • Monday, August 04, 2008
    Posted at 12:48:00 PM
    There was a time when a human resource manager was more a name than face. The only people who could put a face to the name were people in the HR fraternity and lifers at workplace. For most employees the HR manager was a person one probably met (during interview) once or perhaps never, only sending that occasional mail or making that call if some compensation related matter needed to be escalated. One bore the image of HR managers as the ones wearing boring suits/saris and speaking a language that could give you enough material to write a book on.
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    Posted at 1:43:00 PM
    May be now we have some explanation to why friends, acquaintances and some colleagues including me are complaining about rising bills more than folks in Mumbai. The only plausible reason that came to my mind was the parwaah nahi attitude of Mumbai professionals. People in Mumbai whine less, I told myself. But that’s not the case it seems. Living in New Delhi has actually become costlier than ever. According to the latest Cost of Living study for cities around the world by global human resource consulting firm Mercer all cities in India rose in the.
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  • Thursday, July 17, 2008
    Posted at 7:36:00 PM
    Shortage of skills is what human resource managers are most rueful about. Last year, at a prestigious HR conference, an HR head of a real estate company was talking about how difficult it was for his team to find masons, carpenters etc let alone find enough civil engineers for a new project that the company has undertaken. Somebody in the audience asked if the company was doing anything about training people in masonry or other related skills. The HR manager said they didn't have the time to do so given the number of projects they were handling.
  • Tuesday, July 15, 2008
    Posted at 7:32:00 PM
    Suddenly, companies have become very selective about who they are hiring even at the entry level. This is not so much because of change in recruitment strategy but largely because firms are going easy on adding people in these tough times. Obviously, companies are spending more time getting the right person on board since they are not in a hurry. Secondly, they cannot afford to have a wrong hire as the expense owing to replacement only defeats cost-cutting measures. As selection processes have become more stringent, cracking a campus placement interview.
  • Thursday, July 10, 2008
    Posted at 5:59:00 PM
    Sure, there has been a paradigm shift in companies- from viewing diversity as a nice-to-have feature to need-to-have factor . As businesses wake up to the imperative of tapping this huge talent pool, they are increasingly looking at promoting a diverse and inclusive culture at workplace. Still, the proportion of women in the workforce is under representative. According to Rajesh Kurup, associate vice-president and research services director, eTechnology Group, IMRB International , a leading market research firm, there are about 10% women professionals.
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