Forward by Suresh
Monday, December 29, 2008
Caretel Infotech hires 600 people for BPO ops
Forward by Srujan
Dalmia group company Caretel Infotech is upbeat about the opportunities in the BPO space and has hired about 600 people, even while others are handing out pink slips to employees amid the current slowdown.
"In last 30 days, we have recruited 619 employees for our various projects from metros and even small towns like Chindwara at Rajasthan for our Kisaan Call Centre Project. For our various assignments, we will be recruiting more and more people from all over India and train them for the future," Caretel Infotech Chief Executive Officer Amit Roy said in a statement.
[nidokidos] Bicycles from BMW...
Forward by Subamangala Ramaseshan
These all are the bicycles newly launched by BMW. Wanna buy one??
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First Miss India
Forward by Ramaseshan
First Miss India( held in the year 1949) Pramila (Esther Abraham) is now 90 Years old
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Good Morning
Forward by Suresh
You cannot control what happens to you,
but you can control your ATTITUDE toward what happens to you,
And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. 
Job seekers may go to YouTube to put video resumes
Forward by Srilatha
Job seekers may go to YouTube, and hiring pros are giving video serious thought. Job cuts next year are expected to surpass 1 million, outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. said today, but rising unemployment will also bring about its own boom in the use of social networking and tools such as video resumes.
Challenger, a Chicago-based firm that tracks job cut announcements, said 156,000 tech-sector job cuts were announced through November, or about 15% of the just over a million announced reductions this year. That's in contrast to the period of the dot.com bust, when tech job cuts accounted for 36% of the overall total of job cuts in 2001 and 32% in 2002, the firm said.
As layoffs continue, job seekers will increase their use of Web 2.0 tools to network and to stand out in a crowd. "YouTube could become the sandwich board of the new millennium," Challenger said.
On YouTube, a search for "video resume" brings up less than 2,000 results; a search on "resume" alone returns 26,000 results but includes anything using the word "resume." Video resumes may still be too new and different for most. Management Recruiters International Inc. in Philadelphia did an online poll of visitors to its Web site last spring, and out of the 500 Web site responses, 4% said they had used video in their job search.
But video is getting serious consideration from recruiting professionals, such as Kip Hollister, CEO of Boston-based recruiting firm Hollister Inc. Hollister said she may use it to market some of her clients.
"One has to be very careful using this as a tool, because the first impression is a lasting impression," Hollister said. "If one is going to do this, you really need to do it right. And if you do it with low quality, that will, in essence, leave a cheap impression of video resumes," she said.
Hollister's clients range from programmers with skills in .Net and Java, to business analysts and chief technology officers. Ideal candidates for video may be those seeking management jobs who may interact with marketing and other departments. Video might enable potential candidates to demonstrate their communication skills and charisma, she said. But sending a video link to a large company may not help.
"The average recruiter at a big company is recruiting for 20 different positions simultaneously," said Michael Neece, chief strategy officer at Pongo Software LLC, which operates PongoResume, an online resume service. Those recruiters, "are trying to screen as rapidly as they can" and may spend no more than 10 to 20 seconds looking at a resume.
Neece also said some employers may see video as a legally risky way to screen applicants because a video may give information unrelated to an applicant's qualifications, such as race, size and disability.
Della Giles, director of BlueSteps.com, the career management service of the Association of Executive Search Consultants in New York, said resumes will become more graphically rich and may include snippets of video as part of an overall presentation. BlueSteps is now working with VisualVC Inc. in Reston, Va., which combines multimedia elements, including video, in a resume, she said. The association represents search firms that recruit executives.
"The resume should be more than just a simple kind of paper document" that "gives you the essentials, but it doesn't necessarily tell you a lot about the broader aspects of an individual," Giles said.
Carrots, Eggs & Coffee!
Forward by Deanna Walter
A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee...You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, ' Tell me what you see.'
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'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, 'What does it mean, mother?'
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
'Which are you?' she asked her daughter. 'When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
May we all be COFFEE!!!!!!!
You might want to send this message to those people who mean something to you (I JUST DID); to those who have touched your life in one way or another; to those who make you smile when you really need it; to those who make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down; to those whose friendships you appreciate; to those who are so meaningful in your life.
Photography is the part of art, this is the part of art.....????[creative pics]
Forward by Arun
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas To All
Forward by Arun kumar
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." 
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Gud Morning Frnd's
Forward by Suresh
~*~ When u think u have reached the end,
think again it may be a new beginning.~*~
Indian IT majors cut onsite staff
Forward by Deepa
Bangalore: Suffering to counter the economic slump, Indian IT majors are now reducing the number of onsite work force as many major customers tend to cut their IT budgets and focus more on offshore projects to bring down the cost. Largest IT firms in India such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro are cutting back onsite employees between three to five percent and even more depending on the projects, reported The Economic Times.
Based on the new trend, onsite roles like manager, requirement analysis professionals and tech employees involved with development of technical specifications with a customer are being brought offshore. "The customers are asking for more savings, attempting to have fewer people on projects wherever possible. We are obviously under tremendous pressure to bring back these roles offshore," said a Senior Executive involved with delivery of projects at a top Indian tech firm. As offshore works from countries like India need billing rates which are less than half of the costs in U.S. and UK many major outsourcing customers such as GE, RBS and Bank of America plan to focus on offshore outsourcing. "We will have to move more work offshore, and the question really is about how much more we can deliver remotely," said Sambuddha Deb, Chief Global Delivery Officer, Wipro.
Recently, RBS has cut down the number of onsite staff in UK by almost one third, and expert says that the company has relocated many employees at its Indian captive center. RBS is also pushing Infosys, to which the Bank gives work to outsource, to do more from offshore centers and is also shifting more positions to its captive center in Delhi.
Industry officials had earlier mentioned that Indian offshore vendors could bring back hundreds of professionals from the markets of U.S., UK and other European countries. A top executive, who requested anonymity said, "Each of us (top five Indian tech firms) have few thousand professionals working onsite, the pressure to move offshore will result in over five percent reduction of onsite exposure, which might come down to around 10 percent, from 15-20 percent currently."
Moreover, the Indian outsourcing firms are also under pressure to consolidate dedicated offshore delivery centers. "With customers now slice core and non-core work, they are looking at ways to reduce the total number of professionals being billed, thereby putting pressure on the dedicated centers," the executive who did not wish to be quoted said.
Customers have now begun to ask about the total number of people work in a project. "We are now receiving queries about the exact number of people working on a project apart from many other specific details, which the customers never asked," pointed out a Manager with a leading offshore firm based in UK who did not wish to be identified.
New strategies adopted by foreign customers are expected to affect the revenue of Indian IT majors. "Infosys' EBITDA is expected to decline from 31.4 percent in 2008 to 23.6 percent in 2011, while TCS could see its margins go down from around 26 percent last year to 18.2 percent over next three years. Wipro is also expected to see its EBITDA decline from around 20.1 percent last year to 13.5 percent by 2011, finds an Anand Rathi Research.
Cute Sisters....WoW
Forward by Subamangala Ramaseshan
Childish activities are always beautiful
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Incredible
Forward by Deanna Walter
Read The Caption on the first photo then look at the second photo
Look at the picture above and you can see where this driver broke through the guardrail, on the right side of the culvert,
where the people are standing on the road, pointing.
The pick-up was traveling about 75 mph from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail. It flipped end-over-end, bounced off and across the culvert outlet and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which the driver was traveling.
The 22-year-old driver and his 18-year-old passenger were unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.
Just outside Flagstaff , AZ on U.S. Hwy 100.
Now look at the second picture below...
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If this guy didn't believe in GOD before, do you suppose he believes now? Share this your email family and friends. Let this be a reminder to all of us,
GOD is in control!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
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