How To Choose A Career?

Choosing a right kind of career is important so that a wholesome professional life can be wholesome and healthy. Here are some tips and suggestions over how to choose a career in a proper way – 

• Look out for careers that have better pay and better prospects. Research more about the job market. If you do a good market research then you can always grab the best job for yourself.  

• Based on your skills and interests look for jobs that suits you best. Find out your key skills, things that you are interested in. If you opt for a job that you are interested in then you can easily attain success. 

• Work towards your dream job dedicatedly.

• If you fail to choose your dream career then you would always suffer from the guilt and remain and underperformer. Do not give up your dream coming under family or peer pressure.

Career Opportunities For Freshers

Refer to the below listed IT Jobs for Freshers and apply suitably - 

• There is a job vacancy for Back office Executive Fresher in Balaji Human Resources & Management Services, Indore. The incumbent should have excellent communication skills.  

• Boutique Hotels India Private Limited is recruiting hotel management freshers for their hotel located in Jaipur and Udaipur. The incumbent should have excellent communication skills.

• RDS Business solution, Chennai, seeks fresher Hotel Management graduates, preferably having B.Sc degree.

• National Group Of Consultants, Delhi, invite job applications for Data Entry Operator. Freshers are welcome to apply.

• There is requirement of Software Engineer by Data Patrol Technologies Pvt Ltd in Pune.

• Redstar Telecom services Ltd requires ECE fresh candidates.

• HR Remedy India, a Hyderabad based company, needs Freshers for its Sales department. 

• In Engineering sector, vacancy is available in TATA communication for ECE fresher, INOX is also hiring electronics engineers.

Cognizant is also hiring for the profile of Engineer Trainee-ITIS for freshers batch B.Tech pass outs.

Fastest Growing Career Tips For Freshers

Refer to the below listed fastest growing career tips for freshers for growing at your workplace by leaps and bounds – 

• Be an inherent learner, believing in the fact that learning is an ever-going process. This approach will keep you abreast with latest techniques and processes pertinent to your job profile, consequently making your grow and progress in your career.

• Be professional in your approach as only professionals are taken seriously. Adopting a professional approach will keep you seriously engrossed in your work. 

• Remain goal and aim oriented lest you will not reach anywhere. However, do not make unrealistic or unreasonable goals lest you will not be able to attain them and may suffer from undue stress or tension.

• Be open to take risks but in a safe way. However, take the risks in a gauged and a sensible manner so that risk taking renders positive results.

Tips for Successful Career Planning

Plan your professional path ahead with help of below listed tips for successful career planning - 

• Build up a good network for yourself so that a sturdy platform can be relied upon. Having a good network will make sure that good interpersonal skills can be used for the benefit of the career.

• Skills sets are the most important tool that will go on to be of great help for steering the career in a right way. If the skill sets and the pertinent talent are built in a strategic way, then employer will certainly have something to bank on that will go on to make your career progress ahead. 

• A key to a good career planning is to keep a balanced approach so that both the dynamics of work and personal life move in perfect tandem. 

• The best way for a career to move ahead is to actually believe in what is being done and being happy to follow the associated activities. Following a career with inherent passion is indeed a key to take it to places.

Looking For A Start Up In Your Career? Avail Career Tips for Freshers and Gain Maximum Advantages

To expand your professional life with ease and comfort, it is necessary to work co-ordinately in an effective manner. For that reason, below are given some career tips for freshers that can help you in achieving maximum success.

• You must have professional attitude within you so that you become goal directed in the long run of success

• Get prepared for group discussions and deliberate conversations

• Stand by your decisions and try to make decisions correctly

• 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.

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

• Avoid job hoping.

Education Departments Adopts Framework For Its Corporate Makeover

The framework drafted in by the ministry of school education has finally been put to action. The framework was designed to rebuild their department and introduce a corporate makeover at it. 

A leading newspaper, the TOI had already published reports regarding the advancements on sept24.  Initially, the state arranged for these operations at the headquarters of education department at Pune and has now moved step forward to redistributing the work at mantralaya level. 

There are in total of   five joint/deputy secretaries (JDS) at mantralaya level to look into the working of primary education, secondary education, administration, budgeting and sports. 

Nevertheless,, there is s still some work that needs to be worked out between departments due to which he state decided to allot specific responsibilities to each individual departments. An official of JDS3 reported,” Be it zilla parishad, municipal corporations, education societies etc this JDS will be the one-person contact for every issue."

Addressing Internship Woes

An internship is usually taken up by graduates to stand out from the large pile of employees striving to earn job at the end of their studies. However, the truth of the matter, though , is that it usually ends up as a monotonous and tedious task getting you nowhere. 

You do it for the necessity to seek your degree that mandates its requirement and a past time for the prolonged summer vacations. It usually results in a screwed up training program whereby the intern ends up waiting to meet his respective boss with the piles of research reports. 

The co-founder of the Web portal Lets intern.com- Rishabh Gupta says,” Too many companies expect their interns to hit the ground running. Companies don’t make their expectations clear. They give regular employees a few months before they expect them to prove themselves, but often interns are not even given a couple of weeks.”

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.”

Automobile Sector Been Hit Hard Ahead Of The Dwindling Economy

Until sometime before, V M Jagtap decided on revamping the production levels. He decided on running one shift five days a week nearby Pune at his Ranjangaon auto parts factory. 

Not only this, he also initiated other steps viz, diversifying the auto sector and mingling several units that make almost the similar stuff for various firms and dissenting decision of laying off one fourth of its workforce. 

The state of factory of Jagtap symbolizes the state of affairs of thousand such odd small- and medium-scale auto parts makers, having an average turnover of Rs 100-500 crore at the Maharashtra’s Pimpri- Chinchwad industrial club that are confronting the heat waves of the extended slowdown being witnessed across the Indian automobile sector. 

Not only this, there are many such firms that are preparing to diversify the expected safer businesses. Whereby his state is self expalantory, he has been exempted from operating his factory from a former three shifts six days a week.

An Analysis Of Caddo School Superintendents

Amidst the present scenario whereby the Caddo school systems needs a savior , the shortlisted candidates for the superintendent position have come out with suspicions if the hunt should be carried forward or not. 

Nevertheless, it is shocking to note that two of the candidates who knew the systems well lost their lives and the remaining 13 doesn’t appear to be qualified for the prospective positions. 

Their candidature seems inefficient forthwith the size of Caddo’s and its several problems viz, budgets and academic shortcomings in the school system’s deck of cards. An analysis of the Times Of India furthermore indicates checkered resumes and skeleton systems of the left out candidates. The chairman of advisory board, Rev. Joe Gant said,” It’s frustrating to say the least,” said Rev. Joe Gant, who chaired the advisory board. “People have lost hope that this board can do anything in the best interest of the students when there are so many personal agendas.”

Newbie Pick Up Senior Roles To Inculcate Leadership Skills

In an effort to groom newbie for future roles, companies are resorting to varied strategies to inculcate leadership skills in its employees. SAP Labs, for instance have introduced an innovative concept of ‘In the Spotlight’, whereby managers are provided to become the HR head for a day of the company. 

The programme visions to mentor young professionals with the responsibilities of senior roles. Akhil aggarwal, a senior development manager at SAP Labs was offered the role for a day. Narrating his experience, he said,” I sat in Bhuvaneswar Naik’s cabin and all enquires that were directed to him came to me. I attended meetings, took decision on behalf of the company. The experience was an eye opener for me.

I learnt a lot about the ways to interact with senior leaders in the company.” He was assigned the office of the HR head and allocated all the key responsibilities of the position.

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.”

Datawind Collaborates With TES India

The widely acclaimed maker of Aakash tablet, Datawind has collaborated with TES India. TES is an online coaching site where users can upload content related to education on their tablets. 

The business tie is most likely to benefit Datawind with content as huge as 5 lakh to its customers. It will also enable teachers to access course material. TES ensure education content for a wide variety of courses viz, Bachelor of Arts, B.Com, B. Ed, general awareness, CBSE content, educational presentations, discussion on social topics, etc. Not only this, it also provides access to teachers looking for employment and tutors for students. 

Furthermore, Datawind also made partners with companies for providing education material. Long before, datawind had also worked with the Indian government to accomplish the government’s projects of providing access to android tablet that is cheap and affordable. In addition, it worked with other associates for content that could be preloaded on its products.

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." 

Soft Skills: A Powerful Employability Predictor

A recent study provides perhaps the perfect evidence that soft skills metric can predict an employee’s prospects of getting selected in an interview. The research was nothing if not robust. A key finding of the study suggested that top employers are looking for the so called soft skills in the aspirants as the key deterrent for prospective job compatibility. Generally speaking, the skills include team spirit, managerial skills, spoken and written communication, adaptability and varied personality verticals. Academic Excellency has taken back seat as recruiters demand candidates who are good at interpersonal disciplines and not mere bookworms. 

   

“What the employers want is a well-rounded student,” says Jean Manning-Clark, director of the Colorado School of Mines’ career center. Carrying forward his point, he further added that the candidates grabbing 10 to 12 offers are more often good at soft skills and consequently, highly employable. To accomplish the purpose, companies nowadays are resorting to different strategies of contest arrangement, interactive sessions, problem solving presentations etc. for talent assessment.