Indian-American teen invents '20-second' mobile charger
21 May, 2013
WASHINGTON: An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge your cellphone in less than 20 seconds. Eesha Khare, from Saratoga, California, was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Intel Foundation after developing the tiny device that fits inside mobile phone batteries, that could allow them to charge within 20-30 seconds. The so-called super-capacitor, a gizmo that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny space, charges quickly and hold... Uninor named best place to work by labour rights NGO
20 May, 2013
 NEW DELHI: International NGO Social Accountability (SAI) has conferred Indian telecom operator Uninor SA8000 certification for complying workplace standards based on International Labour Organisation and UN conventions. "The SA8000 is the world's first auditable social certification standard for decent workplaces. After an 8-month long process, that included an audit of Uninor's compliance to labour laws, ability of its employees to form unions...Uninor has been certified to have the highest ... More than 50% of Indian professionals shift industry after their first job
16 May, 2013
CHENNAI: Employers beware. Indian professionals expect more from a job than just a hefty salary. A recent pan-India survey by professional networking site ApnaCircle.com found that more than half of all Indian professionals have shifted industry after their first job. Based on feedback from 3 million users logged onto their site, the organization found that "industry switches are on a high, and that professionals prefer job satisfaction, growth and passion over money". The youth of the country ... Newspaper vendor from Bangalore walks into IIM-Calcutta
15 May, 2013
BANGALORE: As the alarm goes off at 4am, N Shiva Kumar is up on his feet, stacking his bicycle with newspapers. He has to deliver them before the sun appears on the horizon. A habit since Class 6, Shiva's life is set to change now. Come June 16, this newspaper-boy-turned-vendor will walk down the corridors of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta as a PGP student. It sounds like a fairy tale, but the TOI vendor who cracked CAT 2012 has indeed grabbed a seat in the premier business school.... Infibeam to hire over 3,500 by 2015
13 May, 2013
 AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad-based e-tailer Infibeam is hiring aggressively. With the Rs 3,600 crore industry slated to double by 2015, Infibeam is in a rush to grow its human resource four times to attend to the increasing volumes.  "I want to have 5,000 people in our rolls by 2015," says Vishal Mehta, Infibeam founder, who has a team of 1,300 people servicing customers pan-India. He picked up seven students from Indian Institute of Management early this year for category management, finance, market... European MNCs rushing to set up R&D centres in India
03 May, 2013
 BANGALORE: European corporations are making a beeline to establish engineering research outfits in India, mirroring a practice pioneered by American companies such as Texas Instruments and General Electric more than a decade ago. The reason for setting up offshore engineering R&D centres called captives is much the same — plentiful high-tech talent at relatively low cost — and point to a deepening of relationship between India and Europe in the technology space.  Within the past few m... Tech freshers' pay caught in 4-year time warp
29 April, 2013
 India's $108-billion IT industry is among the country's largest organised private sector employers, but the bottom of the sector's pyramid appears to have little to cheer about. While the overall wage hike in the IT sector has dropped to single digits of late, the salaries of freshers, who are typically engineering graduates and form the largest chunk of recruits, has remained stagnant in the past three to four years. Experts say this trend is likely to prolong as firms navigate a difficult bu... Why students should be on Twitter?
23 April, 2013
   Kunjal Kamdar,Lead Talent Acquisition Group Quinnox Twitter for students!!! How will it help them!! Well, they are already spending loads of time on Social Media like Facebook, so why encourage them to join yet another Social Networking site!!! These are some of the questions that might have run across your mind. Well, we all know that the current generation is super active on networking sites and most of them own a smart-phone. So why not let them make the most of it!!  Are you trying... Quality of entry-level talent worries IT companies
01 April, 2013
 MUMBAI: Indian companies are increasingly complaining about the lack of quality talent at the entry level and more so in the IT/ITeS services space which recruits fresh graduates in huge numbers. According to a research conducted by a consulting firm, the findings of which were exclusively shared with TOI, only students from tier 1 engineering colleges, like the IITs and NITs, which constitute 4.5% of the overall engineering graduates, are fit to work in software products firms like Microsoft ... For every engineering job in India, there are 17 aspirants: Study
17 March, 2013
New Delhi: With more number of graduates passing out from high-quality engineering colleges, job aspirants in the engineering arena seem to be facing tougher competition compared to their peers from the business administration stream, says a study. As per study, there are 17 aspirants for every one engineering job available. In comparison, students pursuing business administration have it easier with six job seekers per vacancy. More number of students are passing out from high-quality enginee...