Job Search Tips

Placement advice for a third year B.Tech student

July 4, 2010 Job Search Tips

This piece of advice is related to placement and is targeted for bachelors student studying pre-final year in an Engineering college in India. 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 [...]

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Print your code before a job interview

July 1, 2010 Interview Tips

To those who are new to this blog, I’m a software engineer by profession. I am a proud geek who loves technical stuff. 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 [...]

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Social media x Job search = 0

June 17, 2010 Job Search Tips

I can relate to this. You?

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Tata Technologies Looking for C/C++/Java programmers

June 4, 2010 Announcements

Tata Technologies Ltd. is hiring 40 professionals for Pune Location.  Headquartered in Singapore,   Tata Technologies Limited is a leader in engineering services outsourcing with over 4,000 highly skilled employees. 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 [...]

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Naukri.com – the best job search website in India?

May 17, 2010 Job Search Tips

Poll Results: 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:

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Most important section in your naukri profile

April 11, 2010 Job Search Tips

Ever wondered what is the most important section in your naukri.com profile? 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 [...]

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Different kinds of interviewers and tips to tackle them

March 11, 2010 HR

Every interviewer has their own style of evaluating a candidate. Some interviewers make the hiring decision within ten minutes, while some of them do an extended and an in-depth interview. There is every possibility that a candidate hired by one kind of interviewer may not be selected by another kind of interview. Interview is a [...]

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How to use LinkedIn differently

December 19, 2009 Job Search Tips

Millions of new users are signing up to LinkedIn. Everybody seems to look at LinkedIn as an online profile and a way to maintain professional connections. But LinkedIn is not just that. If rightly used, it could help you improve your productivity. It could save your time in finding jobs for employees, clients for consultants, [...]

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Fifteen things you can do when your job is lost

August 30, 2009 Career Issues

Check out this guest post on 15 things that you can do when you lose your job that I wrote for AmitBhawani.com. In that blog post, I had articulated 15 things that you could do when you are unemployed, to survive yourself and improve your job prospects. As always, your feedback is appreciated!

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Do college grades affect one’s job chances?

April 17, 2009 Job Search Tips

Take a Poll College grades certainly affect your job prospects. The better your college grades, the greater your chances to  find a good employer, and vice versa. All the tier-one companies such as IBM, Google, Microsoft etc. give lot of importance to academics during selection. It also depends, whether you have applied to an entry [...]

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