Australian telecom firm to shift 150 jobs to India

Crazy John`s, the Australian mobile phone retailer, will be offshoring 150 jobs to Mumbai, with up to 200 employees facing redundancy after Christmas holidays. The restructuring would happen in the first half of next year, Fox News quoted sources, as saying. After Christmas, jobs will be offshored to Mumbai, where the mobile phone retailer`s parent company, Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, operates a call centre. According to the sources, the remaining Crazy John`s staff to be made redundant ne...
Published about 28-10-2009 | Rated 0

Entrepreneurship emerges as a career choice on campuses

There is more interest shown by students towards entrepreneurship with incubation centers across campuses fostering the young entrepreneurs. His batchmates will be busy wooing and being wooed by recruiters this placement season, but 26-year-old Mainak Chakraborty, who will graduate in 2010 from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), has chosen to sit out the season. Chakraborty wants to start a company that will set up recharge centres for electric vehicles. And he is hoping to i...
Published about 28-10-2009 | Rated 0

Top Ten Recruiting Tips

Finding the best possible people who can fit within your culture and contribute within your organization is a challenge and an opportunity. Keeping the best people, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. These specific actions will help you with recruiting and retaining all the talent you need. Here are ten tips for better recruiting. Improve Your Candidate Pool When Recruiting Employees Companies that select new employees from the candidates who walk in their door o...
Published about 28-10-2009 | Rated 0

Hire the Right Employee

Most of us would not get married after the first date, so why do so many companies hire employees with little knowledge of who they are hiring? Hiring a new employee is really no different than getting married to them, for better or worse. Even though there is no specific contract for employment, in most hiring situations, you are still forming a relationship with the employee that can involve a long and painful divorce if you later decide to terminate their employment. Therefore, it is importan...
Published about 28-10-2009 | Rated 0

Online Recruiting Tips

Recruiting employees online is a whole different ballgame from traditional hiring methods. Instead of a newspaper audience, employers have thousands of Internet-savvy job seekers and passive applicants to choose from. Connecting with the right candidate requires a strategic approach to online recruiting, since it can be difficult to choose the right plan for your company. Here are a few tips to help you best use the Internet to increase your candidate pool. 1. Spruce up your "careers" Web pag...
Published about 27-10-2009 | Rated 0

Now, placement agencies under MEA scanner

Placement agencies in India sending people to various countries on job and studies front will come under the scanner of ministry of external affairs. Taking a serious note on the attack on Indian student in Australia on Monday, ministry’s spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said placement agencies need to be checked. “There are good and not-so-good agencies. The question is about the not-so-good ones,” Prakash said. A 22-year-old Sikh student was attacked in Australia on Monday. He was dragg...
Published about 26-10-2009 | Rated 0

How to restart your job search with new perspective

You’ve been searching for a new job for a long time, but can’t find the right one? Well, perhaps it is time to revisit your approach because finding the right job is not just about having a good resume and applying to various companies. It’s about having the correct approach. Time it “To begin with, find out which companies are recruiting before you apply,” suggests Krishna Mathur, who works as a HR manager at a leading IT firm, “You might want to work with a particular company; ...
Published about 26-10-2009 | Rated 0

Indians among those to get least paid leaves annually: Survey

Indians enjoy the highest number of holidays in a year but they figure at bottom when it comes to the number of paid leaves, says a survey. Employees in India get the least number of statutory annual leaves (paid leaves), while those in Finland, Brazil and France receive the highest, says global HR consultancy Mercer`s 2009 Worldwide Benefit and Employment Guidelines. Canada and China are the two other countries where paid leaves are limited. Employees in India get statutory holiday allowa...
Published about 26-10-2009 | Rated 0

Indian firms witness high attrition rate despite downturn

New Delhi: Despite the economic uncertainty, Indian firms continues to see a double-digit attrition rate, this time of 13.8 percent - the highest in Asia Pacific region. According to the global HR consultancy Hewitt Associates` annual Asia Pacific Salary Increase survey for 2009-10, most Asian companies have continued to experience double-digit voluntary employee turnover rate amid the economic downturn. "The top four markets reporting the highest turnover rate are India (13.8 per cent), Aus...
Published about 25-10-2009 | Rated 0

IIMs to increase IT investments to reduce costs

Kolkata: To return books in the library, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow is planning to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to enable users to "self-check and self-issue" documents at any time of the day as well as return items without library staff assistance. "The hardware for the same is already in place," an IIM-L spokesperson said. IIM-L is just a case in point. All the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are increasing their IT investments to manage th...
Published about 25-10-2009 | Rated 0