Career Planning, Career Management, Job Search, Resumes, Interviews
Changing Industry is a well thought process
Tips on How to get into a Job in a different industry
Looking for some expert tips on How to get into a Job in a different industry? Help is here if you want to change the industry you are working in and make a career in a different industry.
When applying for such a position in an industry different than yours keep in mind some important tips …
Here is a presentation on impact of Social Media & Mobile in your Job Search. How to tweet your way to job? The must do’s of Social media for a modern day job seeker
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Here is a presentation on The 10 Commandments Of Job Search – the ten must do things for every job seeker
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Here is a presentation on Using LinkedIn For The Job Search by Maurene Grey who is New York, United States based IT industry analyst/consultant; Job seeking at Grey Consulting
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This is a presentation on Job Search Attitudes that will Get You More Interviews by Brian Massey who is Austin, Texas, United States based Conversion Scientist at Conversion Sciences
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Here is a presentation on Effective Job Interviewing for emplyer and employee by Andy Lester who is McHenry, IL, United States based Author, web programmer at The Working Geek. Read on:
According to market reports Indian employers have started hiring. Although at slower pace but they have started saying bye to recession and layoffs and are now shaking hands with new employees. Here are some prominent hiring plans of Inc India:
Recession is out folks – start increasing your rates …
Mahindra Satyam has Reinstated the Employee Benefits according to reports. The Mahindra Satyam which went into problems after the startling revelations by earlier promoter Mr. Ramalinga Raju and was later aquired by Mahindra group in a Government conducted auction.
Mahindra Satyam is in the process of reinstating all employee benefits which include
Variable portion of staff salaries
Employee stock option plans (ESOPs)
Promotions
Slary hikes
Based on performance parameters, all associates who handle the full lifecycle of a business are being issued ESOPs as per reports. The company has also announced that it would re-introduce a staggered cash bonus for a select set of junior associates, along with some reward and recognition programmes.
Good for Mahindra Satyamites!
Leading IT companies including TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL have declined to participate in Dataquest Best Employer Survey. It seems the companies are afraid of downfall in employee morale in the recssionary times – and negative feelings against them due to recent layoffs.
The top four Indian IT firms — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies, Wipro and HCL Technologies have all declined to participate in the annual Dataquest IDC Best Employers Survey. This is for the first time in eight years history of this prestigious survey.
Here is a list of IT best employers in 2008
IT Best Employers: The Top 20
Rank Company Empex
1 iGate Global Solutions 82.5
2 RMSI 81.8
3 HCL Infosystems 81.1
4 Rolta India 80.8
5 Microsoft India 76
6 Tata Consultancy Service 74.9
7 SAS Institute 74.6
8 Synechron 71.8
9 Tavant Technologies 70.7
10 Span Infotech India
11 Hexaware Technologies 70.3
12 Intel India 69.9
13 Datacraft 69.9
14 Infrasoft Technologies 69.3
15 Fulcrum Logic 68.6
16 GlobalLogic 68.5
17 Ness Technologies 68.4
18 Tulip Telecom 68
19 Sun Microsystems 67.6
20 Nagarro Software 67Source: Dataquest
Now in the absence of these bigwigs who used to be among top 20 in the HR survey the Best Employer survey will have no meaning. In our opinion there should be an informal survey and these companies should be rated on that.
Write your own career path
Want to write your own Career Path? Here is some help from CareerCola.com on writing Career Path.
Career Path or Career Planning are much abused words in HR lexicon – many times used by HR practitioners to fulfill their agenda. You can not leave the important aspects of YOUR career in the hands of some “HR practitioner” whom you barely know and who may not even know anything more about you except your name and designation. You have to take control and write your own career path.
Yes – organization have set paths based on concrete hierarchy. This makes the options available to you limited. Organizations also are lazy – late to react to changing demands and hence they are always late to change the career paths, roles and organization structure – most of the times unless they are forced to do. If you accept the paths given to you by Human Resources or your supervisor – you are doing injustice to yourself. You have to make your own – based on your goals and dreams. If later you find they match a path in organizations book – OK. If or if not – you have your own path.
Here are few recomemnded steps – if you dont like them find your own..
- Start with end in mind – what is your goal in career? What you want to achieve?
- Identify where you are
- Note down various paths to reach that goal
- Select the best scenario and make it your plan A
- Select the second and third best to make Plan B and Plan C (life is not predictable always)
- Now check if your plans have any similarity with organizations Career Path
- Discuss them with your mentor, supervisor and HR and formalize
Remember – you have to write you career path otherwise someone else will write it!
