Are engineering students being fooled by IT firms?

"Infosys, TCS or Wipro! Somehow I need to have a placement in any of these IT companies," voiced over 400 students, who took admission in a Chennai-based engineering college in 2005. Among all those voices, was a frail, but a determined voice of Raman Sharma, a boy from Chhattisgarh, who studied day and night to get admission in this college. Dressed in white shirt, black pant and leather sandal on the first day of his fourth-year engineering course, Raman thought that he had crossed the firs...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0

5 Things You Can do to Avoid Payroll Mistakes

Besides fines and angry employees, you also want to avoid penalties placed by the government because of mistakes made on your payroll taxes. Unless you outsource your payroll to a payroll service, like a professional employment organization or hire a properly trained payroll person to do your payroll and payroll taxes there are bound to be a couple mistakes. Here are five things you can do to avoid payroll mistakes. 1. Ensure Direct Deposit Info Is Entered In Correctly Are all of your employe...
Published about 25-11-2009 | Rated 0

Top 3 Tips For Hiring in a Soft Economy

Everyone knows we are in the midst of a pretty soft economy. It is not yet clear here in March of 2009 how long it will last. Most bets are it will be a long time. This means a lot of things to business people but it particularly impacts hiring...if you are lucky enough to do any hiring. Pure and simple, a bad hire can put you out of business. Here are 3 tips that help you hire right in a bad economy. Tip 1 - Define Success in Increments This means you need to define what success means in a ...
Published about 25-11-2009 | Rated 0

Top aviation firms to generate 6 Lakh jobs in India

Bangalore: As top aviation companies such as Boeing and Airbus intensify efforts to leverage India as their maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) hub, experts say it will create a large number of jobs for skilled professionals in the country over next 10 years. "With the current fleet size expected to reach 612 planes by 2015 from around 391 currently, these MROs are expected to create 6,00,000 jobs within the next 10 years," said Chethan Kambi, Senior Research Analyst for Aerospace and Defe...
Published about 24-11-2009 | Rated 0

Immediate boss: Indian employees` biggest motivator

Bangalore: Indian employees report higher levels of manager effectiveness, than employees in most other countries. According to a research, immediate managers have influence on their employees beyond their role as delegator, evaluator or motivator. The research has been conducted by the Kenexa Research Institute (KRI), a division of Kenexa, a provider of business solutions for human resources. The results suggest that an employee`s view of his/her immediate manager has a significant impact on...
Published about 24-11-2009 | Rated 0

Have an edge over competitive colleagues

Sparkle that turns the tide in your favour Laziness will take you nowhere; but just hard work may not do much either. Experts tell you how to have an edge over equally good and competitive colleagues. Doing a good job here is like wetting your pants in a dark suit. You get a warm feeling but no one else notices. You may have read these lines in an internet forward and may have put them up on your desk too, partly out of jest and partly because you know it’s your case too, right? Very...
Published about 24-11-2009 | Rated 0

Undergrad nets Rs 32 lakh offer from Deutsche Bank

For someone who aspires for a hole-in-one as an amateur golfer, Adit Mathur has made a Tiger Woodsian debut on the job circuit. The 20-year-old undergrad of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) is now the toast of Delhi University (DU) as he has teed in an offer from Deutsche Bank for an annual compensation package of Rs 32 lakh ($69,000). Mathur, a resident of Civil Lines in Delhi, will be trained in London next year for a plum posting abroad. The size of the offer made to a student from D...
Published about 24-11-2009 | Rated 0

Being a CEO no more fascinating?

Whether it is an established MNC, aggressive start-up, a stodgy family-run business or a new-age retail business, CEO poaching has become the latest game in town, as a burgeoning economic recovery and intense competition turn them into high-value targets. Indian firms saw a staggering 84 percent rise in CEO attrition in just 10 months of the current calendar year. Just one sector, banking and financial services, alone saw its churn rate rise by 74 percent compared with the past year. "The ch...
Published about 23-11-2009 | Rated 0

India`s workforce unskilled? Only 5 percent certified

Pointing out that enhancing the skill sets of the workforce in the country is a challenge, President Pratibha Patil regretted that large chunk of workforce in India did not have skill certification, contrary to the developed countries. As reported by the Indian Express, the President said, "Only five percent of the workforce in India has some kind of certification. This is in contrast to over 85 percent in the developed countries. Encouragement of work-integrated learning followed by examinat...
Published about 23-11-2009 | Rated 0

Firms firing U.S. workers cannot hire foreign tech pros

Seeking to prohibit companies that lay off large number of American workers, from subsequently hiring temporary workers (such as tech professionals) from outside the U.S., two U.S. senators - Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Chuck Grassley have proposed the `Employ America Act`. The proposed legislation, if passed, could severely hit tech companies that had resorted to axing jobs during the economic downturn even as they continued to file for H-1B visas. As reported by Business Line, Ameet...
Published about 23-11-2009 | Rated 0