Posts Tagged ‘recession’
HR: A Mandate for Nation building
It was a meeting with a difference. If most of us recruiters in Hyderabad thought we were meeting an old pal, and catching up with the past, we were in for a rude shock! For it wasn’t too long before the guest, in his very unassuming story-telling way, made us reflect and even feel ‘vulnerable’...
March 23rd, 2010 | Blog, Government, 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
A resume tsunami expected??
A recent headline caught my fancy!! The Deloitte report is an interesting one, (you may visit here for a glimpse of the details!) expects HR professionals to have concerns about building up of a resume tsunami-which may hit once the economy turns and employees begin to consider new opportunities, even...
August 7th, 2009 | Blog, Jobs | Read More
Chasing the Eclipse
Earlier today, I logged off the television after watching the solar eclipse, acclaimed as the largest one in the 21st century . Unfortunately, for the thousands of people including scientists, researchers and astro -tourists who converged to a Taregna village in Bihar , adjudged as the best place to...
July 22nd, 2009 | Blog, Jobs | Read More