Does attire define a woman?
A fantastic Op-Ed in ‘The Hindu’ today. A very relevant article when we consider the high influx of people from the North East in various sectors in South India. I wish I had the insight and the talent to write such a powerful Op-Ed….kudos Rebika.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article3364929.ece
What lies beneath
An interesting piece written by my ex-colleague, Dr Tanvi Gautam. In the coming years there is bound to be more and more of telecommuting, and the observations in this blog are going to be of primary importance to get the best out of flexible schedules !
http://peoplematters.in/articles/focus-areas/managing-talent/what-lies-beneath
Outsourcing Vs Captive centers
Many companies would have gone through this dilemma at some point during their growth – to Outsource or to establish a Captive centers. Lets examine both the options in detail. We need to understand why a company is outsourcing before we try to find out which of the options is better for them.
Companies outsource for a variety of reasons, given below are three of the major reasons More…
LinkedIn, Twitter beat Facebook in job recruiting
Good to see this research article ! this corroborates with something we have been believing at Mint all the time.
Even though we did not expect this result, Facebook, in our experience, did not drive the expected traffic to the jobs sections we ran. Instead we had more traffic coming in from LinkedIn and twitter.
Read on this interesting piece of research article.
(courtesy : www.zdnet.com)
LinkedIn, Twitter beat Facebook in job recruiting (infographic) | ZDNet.
4 tips to write a compelling job description
During the past few years I have seen various interactions between the jobseeker and the employer. Some of them are brilliant, while others are thought provoking and definitely I have a bunch of those which are hilarious. The job seeker’s side have a lot of catching up to do in terms of how to apply for a job; there are a variety of them in my ‘just for laughs’ folder.
Come to think of it, even though the employers have a much organized team with professional HR people handling the talent acquisition division, it not that very often we see well written job descriptions. More…