Human Resources magazine recently published a list of HR's 100 most influential leaders. Check this link for the Top 50
For the remaining 50 click here
Monday, June 12, 2006
Saturday, May 06, 2006
PF and PPF - Informative link
Link to an article that describes the difference between PF and PPF. Worth a read.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Indian techies never had it better! - A rediff link
Check this article on the current trend in indian IT. Click here">
Monday, March 13, 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
Banglore techies earn the highest in India
Banaglore techies rake in the moolahs, a survey shows Bangalorians the highest pain techies in the country. Check this Link. I don't know though how long this trend will continue....
Monday, February 20, 2006
Manpower survey shows worldwide "talent shortage"
"Across North America and Asia, the top three talent shortages are identical - sales representatives rank number one, followed by engineers and technicians," - Manpower's CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Joerres said in a statement.Read this Yahoo news item
Friday, February 17, 2006
The Indian Aviators
The Indian skies it seems are getting clogged.
Most carriers do an hour of taxing before landing at the Delhi and the Mumbai airports.
Praful Patel, the Indian Civil Avialtion Minister was recently quizzed by Prabhu Chawala ( Associate Editor – India/TV today) on Seedhi Baat. I never found ministerial speeches inspirational; however Mr. Patel seems to know what he is doing, a visionary, currently fighting and trying to give the Indian welcome ports a makeover.
Just in case you aren’t aware:
1) India was the largest buyer of Aircrafts in 2005
2) 5 more Airlines are entering the Indian skies in 2006
3) Aviation Industry will be one of the largest employers in the country.
With the privatization of two major terminals - Delhi and Mumbai, acquisition of Sahara by Jet, Indian Airlines calling itself “Indian” the best days of Indian Aviators are round the corner.
Most carriers do an hour of taxing before landing at the Delhi and the Mumbai airports.
Praful Patel, the Indian Civil Avialtion Minister was recently quizzed by Prabhu Chawala ( Associate Editor – India/TV today) on Seedhi Baat. I never found ministerial speeches inspirational; however Mr. Patel seems to know what he is doing, a visionary, currently fighting and trying to give the Indian welcome ports a makeover.
Just in case you aren’t aware:
1) India was the largest buyer of Aircrafts in 2005
2) 5 more Airlines are entering the Indian skies in 2006
3) Aviation Industry will be one of the largest employers in the country.
With the privatization of two major terminals - Delhi and Mumbai, acquisition of Sahara by Jet, Indian Airlines calling itself “Indian” the best days of Indian Aviators are round the corner.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Friday, February 03, 2006
Wal-Marting in India
To have a Wal-Mart experience in India will be exciting. Known for its ruthless business initiatives and for changing the retail landscape in USA, Europe, China by selling for less, Wal-Mart is now eyeing India and currently making rounds of the PMO trying to persuade the government to allow them to open their retail stores, India currently do not allow FDI in the merchandise segment and Wal-Mart hopes to change this rule.If they fail,Wal-Mart will have to marry one of the Indian companies to enter India.I am pretty excited about Wal-Marting in India, Look forward for a retail makeover. I do wonder though, where will the goods then be imported from?
GM's Outsourcing Deal
Indian firms have been sharing a chunk of the pie for quite sometime, the most recent case has been of Wipro, eating a $300 million piece of GM's 5 year $7.5 billion mega outsourcing contract awarded to EDS, HP, IBM and Wipro.
The day isn't far when pureplay indian companies will play with billion dollar contracts.
Check this
Link.
The day isn't far when pureplay indian companies will play with billion dollar contracts.
Check this
Link.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Top 10 blunders Job Seekers make : Observations and Remedy
As a gatekeeper to a technology company, I have spent number of years browsing thousands of unsolicited and solicited "résumé's" - the most important sales pitch we make.However, what bothers me is the laxness and mediocrity job seekers take refuge on using their résumé.
Here are few of my observations
1) 80% of résumé's come with a blank email Or without cover letters.
2) 90% job seekers have only a generic "one size fits all" resume'.
3) 50% or more do not use basic word tools such as "spell check" "formatting" etc.
4) 70% never even follow up.
5) 70% will not remember they had applied.
6) 90% of the résumé's come in standard templates with unwanted information.
7) 50% or more will come with weird email addresses such as coolbird@yahoo.com.
8) 20% of job seekers tailors their profile to the open position.
9) 50% will do homework on the company.
10)80% does not take this "life altering" event seriously.
Having a good profile is not enough, you should be able to attract the attention of recruiters and hiring managers and get the "call".
Remember, you will not get a SECOND chance to make the FIRST impression.So,next time you are in between jobs, make an effort to write a professional document that is a snap shot of who you are, what you have accomplished and contributions you can make in the company . When writin your resume', you may want to try using a creative format, a format that reflects your personality and yet keeps the professional image of the document intact. Below are few heads that you may want to use.
1) Summary of qualifications
2) Area of expertise
3) Career progression
4) Accomplishments and highlights
5) Education
REMEMBER, your résumé is the first ever document the Company will look at,so take your time to craft and create it. Once you are done, show it to couple people who you think can critique and help make it better.
When applying for a position, understand the requirement, write a cover note responding how you match up and where you fall short. Honesty works. Use your network to spread the word of your availability, ask friends and colleagues to introduce you to hiring managers of companies that interest you. There's a saying
" Luck is your preparedness to grab a passing opportunity", all your efforts will go waste if you fail at the right time, so BE PREPARED.
Wear a smile, think and do good, be positive, have a great attitude and most important, be grounded. Finally, follow up and never forget to send a thank you note to your interviewer.
Best wishes for your new assignment.
Here are few of my observations
1) 80% of résumé's come with a blank email Or without cover letters.
2) 90% job seekers have only a generic "one size fits all" resume'.
3) 50% or more do not use basic word tools such as "spell check" "formatting" etc.
4) 70% never even follow up.
5) 70% will not remember they had applied.
6) 90% of the résumé's come in standard templates with unwanted information.
7) 50% or more will come with weird email addresses such as coolbird@yahoo.com.
8) 20% of job seekers tailors their profile to the open position.
9) 50% will do homework on the company.
10)80% does not take this "life altering" event seriously.
Having a good profile is not enough, you should be able to attract the attention of recruiters and hiring managers and get the "call".
Remember, you will not get a SECOND chance to make the FIRST impression.So,next time you are in between jobs, make an effort to write a professional document that is a snap shot of who you are, what you have accomplished and contributions you can make in the company . When writin your resume', you may want to try using a creative format, a format that reflects your personality and yet keeps the professional image of the document intact. Below are few heads that you may want to use.
1) Summary of qualifications
2) Area of expertise
3) Career progression
4) Accomplishments and highlights
5) Education
REMEMBER, your résumé is the first ever document the Company will look at,so take your time to craft and create it. Once you are done, show it to couple people who you think can critique and help make it better.
When applying for a position, understand the requirement, write a cover note responding how you match up and where you fall short. Honesty works. Use your network to spread the word of your availability, ask friends and colleagues to introduce you to hiring managers of companies that interest you. There's a saying
" Luck is your preparedness to grab a passing opportunity", all your efforts will go waste if you fail at the right time, so BE PREPARED.
Wear a smile, think and do good, be positive, have a great attitude and most important, be grounded. Finally, follow up and never forget to send a thank you note to your interviewer.
Best wishes for your new assignment.
Culture
While reading an article on HR, came across this definition of Culture by Schein " Culture is the way people solve problems". Just loved it! its crisp, clear and defines it beautifully in 6 words.
Intuition in recruiting
Recruiting is intuitive, although its a specialised skill, what differentiates the great from the good,in my opinion is the intuitiveness of the recruiter. You may not get the butterflies but you will get the next hire.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
No Room for complainers in this German company
Forwarding this link referred by a good friend, somewhat bizzare but a real case of how a company stays away from whiners by enforcing it within via contract. Check this
Link
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The Three Boxes -
Think of everything you do in your organisation and put it into three boxes: Managing the present (Box 1), selectively abandoning the past (Box 2) and creating the future (Box 3),that's what Professor Vijay Govindarajan quotes from his book on strategy titled "Ten Rules For Strategic Innovators - From Idea To Execution", during a recent release in India. If you haven't heard of VG, check this News article
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Why foreigners love to work in India
With the increase in outsourcing work to India, suddenly the country finds itself a destination for a few foreign workers, who've decided to make India their temporary home. Read this rediff article
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Work/life or Both
A personal observation: Employees with a good & happy family life are not only productive and effective at work but also very balanced in their thoughts.Most organisations fail to encompass the family concept in creating employee policies because they use work/life concepts only as an advertisement to attract talent. Unless organisations live these concepts and employees take benefit of it, not only it will lead to burnout but also attrition. Work/life concepts such as job sharing, telecommuting, flex schedules, alternate work arrangements are superb tools to bind talent to orgnanisations by giving them the flexibility to balance their work and life.
Are you the chauffeur of your "car"eer
For majority of Indian software techies, a lure of an overseas assignment is enough to create sleepless nights. The brightest of the techies in the block will give a second thought to a sales pitch that has overseas written in bold. There's nuthing wrong, Overseas assignments are a great opportunity for personal and professional development if used to leverage empoyability.However I have observed that a majority places "overseas assignment " as career objective and once attained, complacency,location addiction, charishma of being in a foreign land puts their "real" career objectives in their back seat which I think is suicidal.The last thing you want is your Toyota/Honda in control of your career.
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