Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Anticipating the revival!
It is over a month since I updated my a blog! ( Must admit, twice I attempted to write posts..but didn’t get to complete them. Now that they are no longer contemporary -I decided to change them with a couple of fillers-on the importance of knowing where to source from , and the mechanics of...
June 5th, 2010 | Blog, Jobs | Read More
Recruiting- the battle for talent!!
In my earlier posts, over the past couple of years, I have touched upon different tactics adopted by some hiring specialists across the world! Well..the market is waking up. Want to know what all is happening? Some companies like GE farmed talent . A bunch of Indian companies widened their net to...
June 5th, 2010 | Blog, Jobs | Read More
2010: Salaries in India- Wake up time??
In the general “feel good” factor of the extended holidays and celebration time, amidst all the hopes of a great year ahead, I am probably going out to put the spanner in the works by addressing a sensitive topic such as salary increments!! It is partly triggered off by 1.this blog post...
January 1st, 2010 | Blog, Jobs | Read More
A year later- A recruiter’s perspective
Today is September 15 th .It was exactly a year back that the Lehman Brothers collapse-triggered off an awareness of a global economic downturn. Soon there after, the events that unfolded were to usher in a lot of uncertainty, despair, gloom, doom…. As we look back, all theories of BRIC nations...
September 14th, 2009 | Blog, Jobs | Read More
Reference checking – An art or a science??
Many years ago, (in the late eighties!!) when I first started interviewing candidates as a hiring manager, I was given a mantra by my superior. He said, ” Let’s try and reject as many as possible. ” So reject we did, for various reasons. “this resume is a cyclostyled one’,...
September 14th, 2009 | Blog, Jobs | Read More
Wimax auction in India -and opportunities!
I was in a time warp at the “6th International Wimax conference’ in Delhi on Aug 21st!! For a person who grew up in an age where telephone (read landlines) were a rarity in the neighbourhood, and one had to wait for hours to get connected ‘via trunk calls’ to make long distance...
August 30th, 2009 | Blog, Jobs | Read More