Economy
Graduates searching for a job in the current market scenario
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The job market is tough and it’s even tougher for fresh graduates to get suitable jobs in the current market. Normally this leads to frustration and depression and most of the students blame it on recession and how bad their luck is.
However there are few students like David Rowe of Cambridge. A law student who [...]
A must read for job seekers in current economy
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I came across a useful post which gives a list of must read presentations for a job seeker. Applicant.com has compiled a list of 7 presentations from SlideShare.
The first thing to hit during recession was hiring and recruitment and the first thing will pick up would be the same. Economy is already showing signs of [...]
Recruitment post recession – Hiring upswing round the corner, are you prepared?
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The buzz across the world is that the recession is coming to an end and the worst is probably over. You will see this sentiment being reflected amongst most of the people you talk to. All the major news items across the globe carry headlines like “the worst is over” and testimony to this fact [...]
RBI makes it mandatory for banks to provide additional authentication for online shopping
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According to a new ruling, the Reserve bank of India -RBI has made it mandatory for all banks issuing credit and debit cards to provide additional authentication information over and above what is visible on the card. To prevent fraud and to make online shopping safer, the RBI has made it mandatory, from 1st August [...]
Nandan Nilekani and Congress initiate unique identification card project
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On 26th June 2009 times of India carried the headlines “Infy boss to join the government as a cabinet minister.” I am proud of Nandan Nilekani for taking a though call (quitting Infosys) and Congress government making him cabinet minister. Such events are very rare in the Indian context as we don’t see many corporate [...]
Recruitments – India Inc plan to recruit more in Q3 2009
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Being a co-founder at Synergy Solutions (a 40 people HR services company), I have been positively waiting to see early signs of recovery as far as recruitment industry is concerned. The main reason being:
General Sentiments in the market
Economic Recession
Almost freeze on fresh recruitments across sectors
Companies negotiating placement fees due to [...]
Outsourcing to India – Is outsourcing recession proof
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India has always been the first choice for outsourcing due it its geographical advantage, high level education, its capability to work hard and smart and lower cost of operations. Being a co-founder of an IT services company, I am certain that the most critical question for Indian IT and BPO industry would be “Is outsourcing [...]
RPO – Recruitment Process Outsourcing
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This article deals with what really is recruitment process outsourcing and why RPO is the latest buzzword amongst people involved in attracting, hiring, and retaining manpower. In last few years I have been actively involved in the RPO space and would like to share my views via this article.
To me outsourcing of HR services [...]
1474 megapixel image of Obama’s inaugural address
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Here is a photo taken using a a panaroma image capturing device called gigapan created by the carnegie mellon university and a canon g10 camera.
The photographer had to click 220 snaps from that camera to get this complete view of the Obama’s inaugural address. It took a macbook pro [...]
What is Recession?
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This story is about a man who once upon a time was selling Hotdogs by the roadside. He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers. He was hard of hearing, so he never listened to the radio. His eyes were weak, so he never watched television. But enthusiastically, he sold lots of hotdogs. He was [...]
