Most of the recruiters and employers have quit traditional methods of searching for a perfect candidate. No longer do they spend all their time going through job portals but they also search for interesting candidates on social media sites, blogs, forums and professional networking sites.

LinkedIn is one great way of letting recruiters know about your talents, testimonials, profession, friends, business networks and much more. LinkedIn has over 35 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the world. A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of LinkedIn members are outside the U.S. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members and have listed their entire profile including roles, responsibilities, previous experiences, education and their business network details. Continue Reading

Things are moving from bad to worse! It’s time parents lose their pride that they made their kids an engineer. After all these engineers who paid heavy college donations and spent their teen life as a book worm end up in a BPO. And all that you need to join a BPO is good communication and basic computer skills; well not a degree!!

It was bound to happen but not so soon!! Hundreds of fresher’s who got their offer letter from Wipro were asked to join BPO with half the salary!! Sudip Shah who was designated as a project engineer was given a revised salary which was half the amount and asked to join its BPO division. “I was offered Rs 2.85 lakh/year as CTC. Now I have been asked to join as a BPO staff with 1.3 lakh/year. Why is this so? This is unfair!” said Sudip of an Engineering college in Kalyani.

Campus recruitments and great on spot offers have become a distant dream. These fresher’s were offered a job last year and were assured by Wipro of job placement by February 2009 once they pass out of college.

In the letter to the candidates on November 25th, Wipro had stated, “You would be aware of the current economic environment across all industries including the IT sector. IT analysts and experts claim this scenario is likely to prevail for a while. We have looked at various options to absorb you without much delay. The nature of job is that of a “technical helpdesk engineer” instead of “project engineer” as promised earlier.”

Students later protested in front of Wipro office in vain. With Wipro and other top software companies sacking Managing Directors to top Project managers without any reason, handling these freshers would have been easy job. But looks like these fresher’s haven’t understood what’s happening in the market now!! They protested, “We have told the HR that we will accept a reduced pay structure! But will not change our designation that was offered to us last year!”. Hey fresher’s, come to terms!! There are engineers out there with years of experience who struggle to get a software job! The industry is not so simple as you think!! Getting a job itself is a miracle!

The dissenters later mentioned to Wipro that they are ready to wait even for six months but not to withdraw the appointments if they did not join BPO. It should be noted that Wipro had clearly mentioned that it would place them in BPO only. If the engineers were not to accept the BPO position, they would not be considered for any other position.

BPO is not an industry where everyone can get a job. Today’s BPO requires excellent communication and technology skills to excel. BPO skill sets has become tough nowadays and even an engineering degree would not be considered if you do not have good communication skills

Below is a list of top ten Indian Universities where you can pursue your studies. These universities generally require a higher percentage of marks in public board exams and have to clear tough entrance exams. The entrance exams would have questions pertaining to communication, analytics, logical answering, mathematics and general knowledge.
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Massive job cuts in the name of reorganizing and handful of recruitments to coverup the decrease in revenue has now become a everyday story. L&T Infotech, the country’s largest engineering company has started requesting employees to resign across its Pune, Chennai and Mumbai centers. It is surprising to know that L&T Infotech even with most of its clients in manufacturing industry is facing the market slow down. Continue Reading

A job at Google is anyone’s dream come true. Working at Google means you need to be creative, talented, principled and hard-working. And not all of us fit the bill.

With Google starting its offices in Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon and Hyderabad, there have been a number of openings lately. Before you apply for a vacancy, it is advisable to go through the below links so you are better prepared and aware of Google’s expectations, guidelines and preferences.

Hiring Process

Hiring Process differs depending on the job type. A telephonic interview would assess your technical skills and proficiency while an onsite interview would analyze your coding, algorithm development, data structures, design patterns, analytical thinking skills.
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Preparing Your Resume for Google

Resumes can be submitted in PDF, HTML, MS Word document or even a text format in English alone. Make sure you add your contact information and avoid including your gender, age, family status, DOB or your personal identification numbers. Learn more >>

Preparing for your interview at Google

Be prepared to answer the basic questions in any interview like; Why Google? What are our products? Algorithms and Analytical Questions. Be prepared to answer in detail anything that you have mentioned on your resume. If you are doubtful, its better you remove it.
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Working at Google means you have fun while working hard and get treated for your hardwork. Likewise, you are expected to perform more than you think you can. And when you perform, you are valued and respected. All the best in becoming a Googler.

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Are you looking out for a SEO job? Have you been selected and requested to do an SEO report for their company to analyze your capability and skills? PLEASE STOP!! They are just cheating you.

Recently, a number of companies are asking SEO job seekers to create a detailed report on how SEO can help the company increase product sales and details about how the SEO job seeker would do it. Some even ask the directories where they would submit. Once they get your report, they are done with you. They no longer need you as you have provided them all the information they need to do it themselves.

Below is one such mail from a company called Softbrands in India:

Assignment:
Work on creating a campaign to increase SoftBrands Hospitality online presence, please be specific when it comes to the directories you are referring to

This company wants you to create a campaign and even asks you to provide in detail the directories where you will post. Its high time SEO professionals have to be clever not just in increasing the search rankings but also tackle such mean companies who get all that they want from you for free and just dump you in the end.

Anyone else who experienced the same please do share it with us along with the company details to help the SEO community.

HP has announced that it would be eliminating 24,600 of its employees. HP, in one of its Security Analyst Meetings stated that is a part of its global restructuring plans.

Many companies in the software, ITES or the EDS industry have been in a ramp down spree recently owing to inadequate projects, global slowdown and high competition. Companies have been showing the pink slip to employees in the name of performance issues. The economic slowdown has affected large companies.

HP’s plan to eliminate 24,600 employees is a huge and sensitive move for the organization. Mark, in one of his updates stated, “By far the hardest part of this effort is restructuring our global workforce and today we are announcing the elimination of 24,600 positions. There is no way to downplay the magnitude of this. The restructuring impacts people, families and communities, and we undertake it with gravity and deliberation.” He also added, “We have the well-being and futures of more than 300,000 employees to consider, and we owe it to all of them to create a business that is healthy, strategically sound and growing.’

The huge amount of eliminations shows the state of the company and the seriousness of employees without projects. Companies are no longer able to hold on to an employee if he/she is not billable even for a month.

The situation has been wide spread among all similar service companies. Industry experts feel that the same heat wave would prevail for further months. Hope we see the light soon in the end of the tunnel.

Satyam Computers, one of the leading software companies in India has joined the list of companies who are in a rapid down-sizing due to inadequate projects.

Satyam has reportedly shown the pink slip to 400 engineers and associates in Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Pune.

Most of the employees who were sent off had 2 to 5 years of experience. The employees in a state of shock were aware that things were not so good recently. Many of its employees were in bench for months as Satyam fell short of projects.

Following this, Satyam had been requesting [well, you can even say forcing] employees to get into a contract instead of a permanent employee status in the name of performance issues. Quite obviously, employees did not prefer this option.

After preparing enough reasons against its employees, Satyam showed the way home to 400 employees and associates in its so called ‘S’ band. Employees who have 2 to 5 year experience fall under ‘S’ band in Satyam.

Joining the league of layoff companies, Global Head, HR came up with the same boring answer. He stated to The Hindu that ‘we do this as a matter of routine employee evaluation and development.” He also added one that we are quite used to hearing recently, “We are to hire 12,000 to 15,000 people for 2008-2009″. Can you please stop joking?

Were there performance issues only with the ‘S’ band? Why did Satyam send such a large number of employees only this year? Does that mean they did not have any performance issues last year? If you are going to send off 400 experienced employees and recruit 12,000 more, does that mean that these 400 cannot perform or are good for nothing? Or can we say that you don’t have suitable projects to see their performances?

Can’t these HR come up with a different answer? Obviously, even a dummy will know the real reason. “INADEQUATE PROJECTS”

Madras University 2008 Institute of Distance Education [IDE] Results.

Madras University is one of the largest Universities and has one of the highest number of students in its Institute of Distance Education. Distance Education centers are wide spread across India helping working professionals earn a degree while they work.

Even though the University has been popular, the services are poor. If you are not in Chennai and you wish to find out the date of results or the status of results, you would have a hard time. The contact phone never works. Even if it works, the assistant never receive the call. On repeated calls for several weeks, you would land up with an assistant who does not know or understands English.

A recent visit to Madras University put me in a state of shock. The building looks haunted. You can see chewed leafs spitted all across the steps and on walls. Take a look at the ceiling and you would know that they are ruled by large spiders for many decades.

The gates open at 10:00 am but to meet a person you have to wait till 11:00 or possibly after 1:00 pm. Is it not possible for the education board to take care of these simple things? The response is poor when you speak to them and you get an answer as though they are appointed for free.

The results are delayed every time. This can hinder the employment or further education plans by the student. You would not be informed about the exam dates by the Madras University. It is up to you to find out when the exams are and when the Madras University results would be displayed. Even the distance education centers are not aware of the dates.

The responsible council UGC has to take stringent steps to bring in discipline implement plans for improvisation and maintain standards. It is high time that the UGC wakes up from its bed and starts to realize why they are for.

To know your Madras University Results try one of the links below:

South India Results

Square Brothers Madras University Results

Webulagam Results

24/7 Customer on a phased ramp down

After software companies, its now BPO companies who are on a slow down. 24/7 Customer one of India’s leading BPO firms have informed that they would carry out a phased ramp down of their offshore call center partnerships in India.

24/7 has planned to reduce 450 employees in Gurgaon and would also assist the employees to find employment opportunities outside their company. More than 70% of its employees are already on a lookout for other opportunities.

But as all companies say, the company also claims that it will increase its workforce from the existing 7,500 to 10,000 employees by May and it is already hiring in India, Guatemala and Manila. These claims have become common with most of the companies to cover their real skin.

President of New services and Global Chief of Risk and Infrastructure stated that they have taken all necessary steps to help employees pursue careers in other centres.

Industry analysts feel that the current slow down in the market can no longer help companies afford having employees in bench. They do have to ramp down employees in the name of performance review and cover their real cause with news about increasing work force.

The BPO has its head office based in California with its Indian call center operations in Chennai, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Hyderabad.