Eligibility Criteria:

• BCA or B.Sc graduates (Computer Science/ Electronics/ Mathematics/ Physics/ Statistics / Information Technology / Information Science only)
• Candidates who have graduated in 2008, 2009 & 2010 with experience of up to 24 months are eligible to apply
• Simple average aggregate of 60% throughout Class X, XII & Graduation.
• Should not have participated in the Infosys selection process in the last 9 months.
• Should be willing to relocate and work in a 24×7 environment.

If you qualify the above criteria, email your resume to

graduates@infosys.com

on/before 23^rd July, 2010.

Short listed candidates will be informed via e-mail about the selection process.

If you wish to send your resume through employee reference, email your resume to us at

sridhar@interviewmantra.net

To get interview calls to positions whose nature of work differs from that of your current profession or field of work, simply mention the keywords related to the job you aspire for.

For example, if an IT engineer wishes to apply for finance related jobs in addition to IT jobs, he would mention the following in his Key Skills.

Key Skills:

Java,C,finance,accounts,financial analyst,financial manager

Let us say an Embedded System Engineer is looking for IT jobs. His Key Skills should be something like this.

Key Skills:

Embedded systems,microcontroller,java,C,SQL

Say a developer wishes to switch role to a tester. Here is an imagination of which Key Skills that person should write.

Key Skills:

SQL,UNIX,testing,manual,automated,QTP,regression,

In a lighter note, if Sachin Tendulkar secretly wanted to become a Singer like Lata Mangeshkar, he would mention his key skills as following.

Key Skills:

Cricket,one day,test,20 20,singer,playback,artist,bollywood.

The reason why he mentioned cricket skills first is that he doesn’t want to drastically make a career shift to the line of Singing. This suggests Naukri search that Sachin is still open for opportunities in cricket along with playback singing. Sachin wants to play safe, like he does in ground.

Email your resume immediately to:

freshers@infosys.com

Voila! Your resume will be stored in the database of Infosys Technologies. If you are lucky, in a couple of months, you will receive a computer generated email from Infosys shortlisting you for an off campus placement test.

You can surely count on this technique as I have known friends who are working for Infy who had got placed by emailing their resume to the above mentioned email id.

Ensure that your resume includes your date of birth, aggregate academic credentials of standards 10, 12 Engineering / Graduation, Post Graduate and E-mail ID for communication.

Send in your resume, mentioning the following in the subject line:

Job Code – Preferred Location of Selection Test
Example: “SWT-01 – BANGALORE”

Good Luck to you!

I assume that you are currently in the 6th semester of degree. The only way you can get a job at this point of time is through campus placement. You can reserve a job for future if you are lucky and your college organizes on-campus placement drive, and if you are eligible for the placement drive, make it in through the interview.

Otherwise, you will have to wait until you reach last semester of your final year. You can then upload your resume to job portals such as www.naukri.com , www.monsterindia.com etc., and tell the job market world that you are available for a job placement.

For now, I suggest you to improve your puzzle solving skills by doing books such as Puzzles to Puzzle you by George summers or Shakunthala Devi puzzles. Also work on your general aptitude skills which include mathematical problems solving, logical problems etc. You will find a lot of placement papers on the internet in websites such as www.freshersworld.com or www.placementpapers.net

Feel free to ask me anything related to placements. Do not feel inhibited to ask or put forth your concerns with respect to your job search.

A day before attending a  job interview, I print a couple of codes that I have written and carry them with me. This helps me more than in one way to clear the interview.

By reviewing code what I wrote an year back, I get a chance to revise what I know. Many a time, we forget concepts that we already know, let alone new ones.

Another advantage is that I can show it as a proof of my proficiency to write codes. This will be a confidence booster to me as I’m not faking, the code is hand written(typed) by me.

Try this trick, it will never let you down.

I can relate to this. You?

Do you meet the following criteria? If yes, send your resume asap to sridhar@interviewmantra.net

• Possess 2 to 5 years of IT Experience.
• Education – BE or MCA.
• Programming experience in C/C++/ Java (Swings, Servlets, JSP, strong OO skills).
• Knowledge of Teamcenter ITK programming is a huge advantage.

Note that this requirement is for Indian National only.

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This is a pie chart drawn from results of an informal poll taken amongst my Facebook friends and blog readers.

One thing is clear from the results, Naukri.com is the favorite job search website in India.

Take poll:

• Download resume in word format

This resume is very concise and to the point. The top most section, “SUMMARY”, gives a clear picture about the candidate in two brief bullet points. This helps the interviewer to get a picture about the candidate without having to scan the whole resume. The formatting in this CV document is neat and consistent.

Give your suggestions of improving this resume. What according to you is missing in this document. Use the comments section to tell us your opinion about this cv.

Which input do you think is the key deciding factor for the Naukri search engine to send you the most relevant jobs to your email inbox?

For those who don’t know Naukri, it’s India’s most reliable job search website. Something like what is Monster.com to the world.

If you hold an account with Naukri.com and remember the credentials, login right away, I have got something interesting to show you.

Steps to follow:

1. Login to Naukri.com
2. Go to Preview and Update profile screen
3. Edit the section Current Professional Details
4. Edit Key Skills
   

Current Professional Details

Focus your attention on the input Key Skills. Read, re-read what keywords you have mentioned here. This tiny section is going to determine your future. Yes, this will have a significant impact on your future. Read on to know how.

The software sitting on Naukri servers simply reads this section, notes down the keywords and sends you jobs relevant to the keywords that you entered here. Naukri software also uses this information to decide whether to forward your profile to the recruiters who post new job positions relevant to your skills.

Use this Key Skills section with caution. Though it is not specified in the update screen, use the first 100 characters to fit in all the skills related to your current job separated by a comma.

For example, this was what I wrote in the Key Skills input of my Naukri profile.

Key Skills

Flex, Java, J2EE, C language,assembly language & C in AVR micro-controller, 8051 micro-controller, PIC micro-controller, Keil U vision micro-controller

I made several mistakes in my “Key Skills” section:

• Don’t exceed character limit: I exceeded the tacit 100 character limit, the total number of characters in my key skills is 153. Which means the skills beyond 100 character mark are being ignored by Naukri.
• Mention skills in order of importance: I did not mention my skills in the order of importance to me (left to right). I guess it is safer to mention your core skills first, because it’s natural that the software would have been written to scan from left to right. Also can avoid the risk of crossing the character limit.
• Use Comma as the separator between key words: I used ‘&’ as a separator. So “assembly language & C in AVR micro-controller” is processed as a single keyword that will match with nothing alike. Don’t use any special character other than comma to separate two keywords.
• Use more frequently used Acronyms as keywords: Instead of “C language”, I could have mentioned “C” as a keyword, as it is more likely to be a keyword.
• Test the keywords in Naukri Search: Instead of “micro-controller”, I could have mentioned “microcontroller” as it matches more closely with the jobs posted at Naukri. When you are in doubt, test the keyword using Naukri job search engine whether any jobs match that keyword.
• Split lengthy keywords: Comma should be the only separator between any two key words. Instead of “8051 micro-controller”, I could have written “8051,microcontroller”. Splitting into two keywords, helps the software to understand your skills better.

After reading my own advice and following it, my Key Skills should look like below.

Key Skills:

Flex,Java,J2EE,JavaEE,C,assembly,AVR,8051,PIC,Keil

Update:
To add to this article, resumes get searched based on the title of the resume. Like whenever you upload your resume into Naukri profile, you have to give a name to your resume. When the employer search for Naukri resumes, the results are pulled out in the list of resumes based upon the title of your Resume Summary section.