CAREER


G Venkatesh 07 May 2012
You can’t select a candidate just because he was an outstanding performer in his previous job. Neither can you reject one because of mediocre performance in his last role. Are companies thinking creatively? Amol Kale (not his real name) is devastated. A star-performer in a well-known...

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Left to himself, Ratan Tata would have been working as an architect in the warm climate of Los Angeles. From being a reluctant apprentice, not knowing what to do on the shopfloor of Telco at Jamshedpur, thanks to several quirks of fate, he found himself heading the Tata group in 1991. When he...

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Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran has said that there is no unemployment in the sector. However, AEPC claims that nearly 4 lakh jobs have been lost in the industry since April last year Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran has denied that there is unemployment in the textile...

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Reliance Foundation is planning to set up a world-class university in the country and it may be headed by Nita Ambani Refinery-to-retail giant Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to set up a world-class university in the country, marking its foray into the education sector. The...

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Salary increments are likely to improve relatively, albeit conservatively in 2010, compared to the single-digit hikes seen across hierarchies, functions and performance levels last year Driven by scarcity of talent and increasing competition, India Inc is expected to hike salaries in the New...

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Ms Usha Thorat, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India said, “People are not aware of the right questions to be asked. Financial literacy and education can ensure that people are armed with the right questions. Financial literacy is an essential part of financial inclusion. Unless we are able to...

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Lorain Viegas 18 December 2009
After the fiasco, CAT will be subjected to forensic testing. However, experts believe that this move would just be another futile attempt to come out of the mess The computerised Common Admission Test (CAT) will now be subject to application of psychometric expertise and forensic testing to...

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A fresh test will be held in mid-January 2010 for registered students who could not take the test earlier due to technical glitches. The IIMs have decided to continue with computer-based testing in future. This year's computerised Common Admission Test (CAT), which was marred by technical...

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Lorain Viegas 10 December 2009
CAT 2009, the qualifying test for entry into India’s best B-Schools has left thousands of students unsatisfied with their performance. Some students say they may seek legal recourse if they fail to clear the test Thousands of B-School aspirants who could not take the computer-based Common...

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From next year, workers in the IT category will need to have one year’s experience with their employer instead of six months at present, before they can be transferred to the UK Britain has tightened immigration rules from January 2010 for Indian information technology (IT) professionals...

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India has once again emerged as the most optimistic nation in terms of hiring plans for the next three months and the recruitment pace is expected to return to the pre-recession level in 2010, said global staffing services firm Manpower. "There is no more 'cautious optimism' among employers any...

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The CAT 2009 has been extended to accommodate, within this year's testing period, all the registered candidates to whom the test has yet to be delivered as scheduled The first computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT), which has been disrupted by virus attacks, was toady extended by a day...

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Computer glitches resulting from viruses continued to disrupt the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 for the third consecutive day on Monday amid indications that the exam could be extended beyond the 7th December deadline.  According to media reports, two viruses namely 'Conficker' and 'Nimda'...

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After two disastrous days of technical problems and pathetic coordination between the country's prestigious management schools, the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 finally had a smooth run on Monday, which is the third day of the staggered model that has been adopted. CAT, which determines...

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While the teachers of the high-profile Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management are demanding performance-linked incentives and allowances for qualified senior faculty, there is trouble brewing at many other institutions of international repute. One such place is ISI,...

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In its effort to profile potential future employees, Tata Consultancy Services has conducted a survey of India's youth which covered their educational interests and usage of technology along with information access and social networking preferences. It has identified the youth in four...

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My friend had an interesting question for me the other day as I was grappling with this column deadline. He said, you have been writing for so long, but do people really take career advice seriously? His point was that opinions of experts are acceptable as long as they are convenient, but make...

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Here is an example of how employees initiated change. Why can’t we do this at broader levels? This piece is inspired by the poor voter turnout in the recent elections in Mumbai, the centre of commercial activity, India’s financial capital. Even accounting for the fact that elections coincided...

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What to do when the work culture suddenly deteriorates Recently, a friend was telling me about what goes on at her office. She works with one of the larger global companies. The company has been, and continues to be, successful. However, in the struggle to stay afloat, it has compromised on its...

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Values-based workplace will emerge In my previous article, I talked about the possible changes in industry and culture as the outcome of recent events and circumstances. My key perception was that all the transformation that the world is witnessing today is a result of what happened in the...

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