Career Tips For Freshers

Below mentioned career tips for freshers can be applied for positive results -

• Prepare an impressive cover letter as it is going to make great difference amidst scores of other job applications. Develop the right connections for better prospects as proper networking can open doors which you would have never thought about.

• Carry a professional attitude within you so that you become goal oriented in the long run of success. Get prepared for group discussions and deliberate conversations. Stand by your decisions and try to make decisions correctly for gaining a credible repute.

• Develop the right connections for better prospects. Proper networking can open doors which you would have never thought about.

• Take risks to learn new paths in the field of your choice. Do not shirk from trying new ways, methods and avenue as only risk takers can explore further and meet success. Avoid job hoping for it is going to put you in wrong light.

Career Tips For Freshers

It is necessary to work coordinated and in an effective manner. You must have professional attitude within you so that you become goal directed in the long run of success. 

Try to enhance your professional and learning skills by learning more and more. Always be goal directed and target on your dreams. Take risks to learn new paths in the field of your choice and develop the right connections for better prospects. 

Whether you are someone who is looking for mid-life change in career or a fresher, any third party guidance and advice can be very helpful. Having clarity over your professional goals will help you a great deal in building your career excellently. 

Check out your work quadrant so that you don’t land yourself in such a work profile that doesn’t interest you. Always grab opportunities relating to your interest so that you can have job satisfaction.

Career Tips For Freshers

While apply for your first job, prepare an impressive cover letter as it is going to make a whale of difference amidst scores of other job applications. Be prepared with all the intricate details and information of the employer company. 

Use these bits of information to your advantage by showing that you are genuinely interested in serving the company. Be yourself and do not ape any other associate at your workplace. You must have professional attitude within you so that you become goal directed in the long run of success. Try to enhance your professional and learning skills by learning more and more. 

Develop the right connections for better prospects. Proper networking can open doors which you would have never thought about. Be pleasant in your behavior and attitude and carry a go-getter outlook towards your professional life. Avoid job hoping, especially for the sake of higher pay packet. 

Ali Reckons Setting Up Educational Institution To Address Education Woes

While expressing her views on Bharat Bhagya Vidhata,  a  Zee Media initiative, Subhashini Ali  stressed on the quality of education for yielding desired results in the accomplishing the goal of  free and compulsory education. 

Subhashini is the member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She said that surging education costs, inadequate infrastructure, dipping pupil-teacher ratio and acute shortage of jobs involving skills are the key factors attributing to the dilapidated state of education in the country. She said this during an interview on Zee Media’s Ek Naari Aisi Bhi. 

The programme is another flagship product under the initiative of Bharat Bhagya Vidhata. The President of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) furthermore reckoned the need of setting up more educational institutions in rural areas to promote the higher education of girls in these areas. She added,” It is unfortunate that many girls from the rural areas leave schools after completion of their primary education due to unavailability of options for higher education and many can’t afford to go to cities.”

Alumni From Top Notch Insti Launch SmartQuo To Aid Market Against Job Crunch

India job market is going through its worst ever phase due to a dwindling economy giving rise to a grim employment scenario. Thus, need based hiring is the talk of the current job market. 

According to the survey statistics of a report, the employment scene has dropped by 20-25% that has severely affected the entry ad middle level positions hiring quite hard. To aid youth with the hiring process and ease up their entry to the job market, alumni from elite b-schools viz,  IIM-A, NMIMS, IRMA, and ISB have initiated a programme called the SmartQuo in order to promote employability in students and prepare them for job oriented action. 

The workforce engaged with SamrtQuo is highly experienced and have an in-depth perspective of the Indian job market and its ways, thus contributing significantly to the job hopefuls and employers with skill based training, coordinating placements for internships and permanent employment.

BSNL, MTNL Enters Agreement To Share Services And Infrastructure

The local telecom operators viz, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) entered into an agreement to share their infrastructure and deliver collaborative services to its corporate clients. 

Between these two, BSNL delivers mobile, landline and internet services throughout the country with exception at Delhi and Mumbai, MTNL on the other hand, operates only over these two states. 

According to the proposals of the agreement, the two companies mandate to share infrastructure encompassing buildings, mobile masts and international long-distance phone networks. The BSNL Chairman and Managing Director R K Upadhyay said,” In the NCR (National Capital Region), leaving Delhi, where BSNL customers is on roaming, he is not charged for roaming. 

We would like to enlarge that area individually on pan-India basis so that mobile customer does not pay any fees for roaming.” 

Broadband To Play Crucial Role In Sustainable Growth

The collaborative effort of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO, Broadband Commission for Digital Development has launched a latest report as regard the varied aspects of broadband and it’s after effects on individuals, environment and society at large. 

The task force that put forward the report was lead by the president and CEO of Ericsson, Hans Vestberg. The report entitled,”   “Transformational solutions for 2015 and Beyond: the report of the Broadband Commission Task force on Sustainable Development”  primarily analyses the national broadband plans of approximately 138 countries and highlights the best government plans, compels government to act instantly and include the broadband services in its national growth agendas. 

Not only this, it also proposes a number of other supporting recommendations. The Secretary General of the ITU, Hamadoun Touré said,” Through this work the Broadband Commission would like to encourage the international community to recognize the need for transformative solutions in the post-2015 development agenda; and this report makes the case. “

America Dreads An Economic Doom Ahead Of Fallout In STEM Graduates

A bad news lines up for the American economy as the number of STEM graduates( science, technology, engineering and mathematics) have shortfall in the country. 

The reason for debate and concern entails is the outgrowing debts pegged at a staggering $1 trillion that are unpaid. The reports of Reuters, JP Morgan Chase state that in order to prevent any bankruptcy, banks have put a halt on issuing more student loans. The Chase’s student loans chief executive, Thasunda Duckett said,” “We just don’t see this as a market that we can significantly grow.”

However, the matter of concern is that a studies conducted by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Records Examination Board  depict that the global student enrollment in the graduate courses at America rose from 8% to 10% as compared to the average graduate population. Furthermore, the analysis of Change the Equation, office and administrative positions confront an unemployment ratio of 4:1.

Hiring Remain Muted Despite Inflow Of Projects

A freeze in hiring patterns has been witnessed across several IT companies despite anticipation of big projects from US economy. The recruitment process slowed down in June. However, an upsurge was expected due to inflow of new projects and improved results in the first quarter. 

Unfortunately, the hiring was not in sync with the advancements showed by the sector. Moreover, the Vellore institute of technology in Tamil Nadu had delivered placements to 1820 students by Cognizant in Sep 2011 and 1075 by TCS in 2012; however the same companies did not turn p for any placement during the current year. 

An IT company official remarked,”   IT budgets for the year were made when the demand environment was quite different. And though the demand has improved in the last two quarters, hirings may not increase before first or second quarter of the next fiscal.”

Detroit Firms Introduce Training Courses To Train Workers

Metro Detroit has finally decided on adopting a new strategy of training IT workers for creating efficient workforce from within. The move has been initiated ahead of reducing external hiring costs and to avoid inexperienced fresher who lack skill and technology background required to excel in IT roles. 

Consequently, many companies are spending huge amounts to fill local  IT jobs as the conventional curriculum of the educational institutions isn’t suffice to deliver success oriented action at offices. The CEO of start up company, Grand Circus, Bradley Hoos said,” Technology changes so fast, even if you graduated from a top program three to four years ago, the reality is the skills needed for today have evolved. People are really drawn to (training programs). 

They’re trying to leverage technology to drive innovation.” The trend is gaining pace at super fast rate and technology business associations like, Troy-based Automation Alley are also resorting to training programmes for their employees.

Indian Students Make For Second Largest Chunk In Foreign Education Aspirants

The world is shrinking. Students all over the world are migrating to advanced economies of Canada and US for realizing their dreams of higher education. However, the most popular among foreign national is Canada. Students are flocking to the country forthwith its flexible visa rules, job prospects and safety assurance. 

In an interesting tend, Indians accounts for the second largest exporter of students to foreign national for education purposes. Among these migrants, a significant 13000 choose Canada as their final destination during the year 2012.  

President and vice-chancellor, Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Allan Cahoon says,” Canada provides a positive alternative for students from India because of its ethnic diversity, ability to integrate the best of both British and American university educational models and the quality of its diversified public post-secondary institutions." Cooperative models ensuring flexibility and provincial intervention are the key factors alluring students to the country.

Americans Call For STEM Course Enrollment

A surveys was conducted all over America to get a brief about the colleges that offer he maximum pay packets from pan American companies.  The survey statistics of the report depict that the top ten include those covering stem that is science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 

Another money minting profession includes that of petroleum engineers attracting a starting salary range of hefty $100,000 per annum. Others who follow the line are social workers; these involved in elementary education and children healthcare and education studies. Thus, students in the west should focus more on STEM courses for enhancing their employment seeking efficiencies. 

A key participant of the Kansas forum remark,” Innovation is the strength of the United States in science and technology. That means a broadly educated and experienced person. They need to be very good at their technology or science, but [they need more than that] or we're going to be another China. They're very good at technology. They're not very good at innovation. That's why they send their students here."

All About The Pink Slip Phobia

The most vulnerable facet of the corporate life in today’s world is the insecurity in job market. Employment, by definition is a hand written contract between two parties- the recruiter and the employee. 

The contract is a mutual agreement approved and agreed upon by both the entities. Also, it entails clauses that one may move out of it willingly or as per at their ease. However, when an employee moves out, the process is called resignation and enters into a fresh agreement with an altogether fresh individual with new optimism and enthusiasm. 

When things are other way around that is the employer calls it quits, the situation is dreaded as pink slip. The matter of fact, though, is that pink slips are reality and we need to prepare ourselves for the unexpected odds.  A word of caution would always be not to fret and also don’t personalize it. 

Education scenario dismal in Gujarat

The youth of the state of BJP’s elected candidate for 2014 central government elections appear to have been hit too hard ahead of the discrepit education system in the state. 

These are the outcomes of the survey statistics of a report covering the responses of 7500 youngsters studying across 94 colleges of Gujarat. The survey was conducted by the widely acclaimed Brainchild of commissioner of higher education, BM Institute of Mental Health, to get an idea of the mental and physical welfare of the youth. 

The reports, however puts forward a very grim picture with its key findings depicting 48% of boys plagued by anxiety, and 43% of the girls suffering depression. Dr SR Apte, Institute director said,” They corroborate the general impression that education system has failed to generate capable and psychologically mature youth." The survey was done over the final year students studying various disciplines of science, commerce and arts. 

Block Education Officer Arrested For Charges Of Bribe At Patna

The state vigilance investigation bureau of the state held a block education officer in the capital of Bihar for charges of corruption. The block education officer, commonly abbreviated as BEO was found accepting bribe from a man who sought to attest the certificates of his wife. 

Commenting on the matter, the Vigilance DG P K Thakur said,” A vigilance team arrested BEO Mahesh Jha while he was accepting Rs 20,000 as graft from complainant Om Prakash."

The raid was leaded by the DSP of district, Mohammad Jamiruddin. The reports of Thakur committee state that the BEO posted at Tarari block in Bhojpur district had asked for a hefty amount from the husband of the women for attesting her experience certificates. 

The complaint made by the victim entails charges of bribe and mental harassment against the block education officer. The complainant teacher is a teacher at a middle school, and wanted the attestation so that she could send it for approval to her seniors for releasing her salary.

Government Institutions Infuse High Quality Education

V Srinivas Prasad commented that people generally misinterpret the standard of education delivered across government institutions. Prasad is the district minister of Mysore. 

He gave the remark during the inauguration of co-curricular activities and Prathibha Puraskar programme held at Maharaja Government PU College on Saturday. He said,” Education in government schools is good when compared to some private ones. Of late, private institutions have turned commercial. 

It is a myth that students studying in private schools and colleges are bright. Many of those who have studied in government institutions have scaled heights in different fields." 

The function was followed by felicitation of near around 40 meritorious students who performed well in studies and secured cent percent marks in accounts and business papers. Awards were given away by Janardhana K R who said,” I'm to be a student of this college, which has remarkable history and provides quality education."

Education withers with booming corruption

It is dismal to note that the present state of the country entails evils like corruption and red tapism spreading its roots in every domain  of life, education, healthcare, industries etc, to name a few. 

Cut to the present, the cause of concern is the sprawling corruption in education sector that has severely affected the higher education in the country. The crux of the problem is speculated to be the rising levels of political intervention in educational work structure. 

The appointment of vice chancellors, for example requires the recommendation of state government for the short listing process. Unfortunately, it is a common practice of ministers to demand bribe from the panel members to appoint them as VC. 

Sources reveal that the bribe money could range between a hefty 5 crore to 50 crore vis-à-vis the status of the universities. The vicious process is followed by collection of money by the VCs forthwith the appointments and promotions within the university.

Education Scenario Dismal In State: Alva

People of the country are deeply concerned as regard the form and extent of corruption in almost every walk of life. Cut to the present, Rajasthan Governor, Margaret Alva gave vent to his deep concerns about the conspicuous corruption in higher education. 

She remarked that the evil has become so pervasive that not even a single educational institution of the country could make it to the top 200 world list. She commented during her inaugural speech at the National Youth Conference 2013. The conference spoke on “energizing for excellence” and took place at the Indira Gandhi Panchayati Raj Bhawan. 

Alva asserted that what is particularly alarming is the present state of education, it needs to be more focused and student friendly. Alva added,“ The projections say by 2025, 70% of India's population will belong to the working age and we don't have a single Indian institute among the top 200 in the world." "The projections say by 2025, 70% of India's population will belong to the working age and we don't have a single Indian institute among the top 200 in the world." 

An Analysis Education Standards In The Country

A (Programme for International Student Assessment), commonly abbreviated as PISA was conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to evaluate 15 year old school students in its member nations. 

The test was taken to evaluate their performances in varied modules of mathematics, science and reading in the year 2009. India stood at 73 position out of a total of 74 nations that were assessed during the test. The last position was bagged by Kyrgystan. 

Amidst the present scenario whereby India strives to compete with China, it is dismal to note that the China bagged the first position in the  2009 PISA rankings. The representative state was chosen as Shanghai and interestingly it set new standards of academic excellence for students worldwide. Contrary to this, India backed out of 2012 PISA test asserting that the testing modules are not compatible to what our students are being delivered in at schools. 

An Analysis of Education Quality in India

It is dismal to note that the senior advisor to top leader expressed his concerns over the deteriorating state of education in the country. Sam Pitroda, senior advisor to Manmohan Singh reported,” Leaving aside the top five percent universities, I feel the quality of education in India is pretty bad and I say it with a great deal of concern."  Pitroda quoted it at the eve of the first convocation of Presidency University. 

The guy behind the telecom revolution further accused the central government and its inept policies responsible for the present education scenario. Carrying forward his point, he said, “How to think out of the box and restructure education? This is where mindset comes in... The mindset of government, the ministries and UGC (University Grants Commission) is just not changing fast enough... Some of these people are living in dark ages."  

He also appreciated government programmes viz, the right to information, public information, connectivity of the panchayats etc designed to democratize and revolutionize education.