TimesJobs.com has launched a career services portal

Times Business Soultions run online job portal TimesJobs.com has launched a career services portal namedStepAhead. According to the company, StepAhead is a one-stop destination offering a host of services customized for senior, mid and entry levels professionals. StepAhead’s portfolio of premium services range from providing expert advice and analysis of users Resume's strengths and tips on 'how to' make it better with Resume Critique.

StepAhead also provides Resume Distribution and Job Search Management services to make sure that the usres’profile reach top recruiters. With StepAhead’s Profile Verification Service, users can get profile’s credentials, both academic qualifications and employment histories verified, and win recruiters’ trust to get more interview calls.

StepAhead also offers Career Astrology with analysis and predictions in the areas of Work Place Compatibility, Career Growth, Personal SWOT Analysis, Get an Answer, Name Change, Job Shift Planner and Auspicious Dates.

“Undoubtedly, every working professional shares this dream of ‘Career Growth’. But this ambition has many definitions and manifests differently for each individual. While for some the goal would be Financial Freedom, or Bigger Status, for others it could be Recognition from the boss, colleagues, family and friends or even Society. StepAhead provides the bridge between this aspiration and its achievement,” summarized Mandeep Sodhi, Business Head, StepAhead.

PNB facilitates balance enquiry via missed call

“Missed Call” the uniquely Indian innovation has found new legitimacy of sorts at Punjab National Bank. Given how a large number of Indians like to give missed calls so as to indicate to the party at the other end to call back, the bank has devised a simple mechanism which exploits the trait in a unique manner.

The public sector lender has launched a service which allows its customers to find out their savings account balance by giving the bank a “missed call”.

All the customers have to do in order to know their savings account balance is dial the bank’s customer care at either 18001802222 or 01202490000 and give no more than three rings using their registered mobile phone numbers. Immediately after receiving the missed call, the system at the bank’s end sends the details of the accounts balance via an SMS.

The facility is an extension of the bank’s recently launched SMS-based alert service which has received an extremely favorable response from the customers, says the bank.

While PNB is perhaps the first bank in the country to exploit the missed call phenomenon, there have a few examples albeit outside the realm of banking and financial services sector, which indicate that the missed call culture may soon go mainstream in the enterprise.

Sangeetha Mobiles, a retailer with one of the country’s largest chain of mobile stores for instance uses a customized solution which enables prospective customers to get in touch with the mobile retailer via missed calls. Also, there have been reports of mobile application developers working on apps which can incorporate missed calls as a standard type of messaging like a text or even a regular call.

Mobile call rates likely to go up by 30p/min

Disappointed with Cabinet decision on fixing minimum or base price at Rs 14,000 crore for spectrum, the telecom industry today said the recommendations will prove to be "regressive" for the sector's growth and that operators would be forced to raise tariffs for consumers.

GSM operators body COAI, which countsBharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellularamong its members, said the move will impact tariffs by 30 paise per minute on an average.

"It will continue to have an impact on the tariffs to the extent of about 30 paisa per minute. The effect on finances is that an amount of Rs 3,20,000 crore of additional debt that will have to be laid on the industry," COAI said.

Also, the banking industry itself has said that it would be near impossible to continue to fund this type of a demand for investment funds, he added.

"So the only thing that this is going to balance is perhaps the budget of the country if at all even that. So we really don't see any benefit that this decision does to the industry," Mathews said.

CDMA operators body AUSPI agreed. "It (reserve price) is still very high. It will definitely affect the tariffs," Association Of Unified Telecom Providers Of India Secretary General SC Khanna said.

KPMG Executive Director Jaideep Ghosh also said the pricing is on the higher side and that tariffs for consumers, which have gone up recently, would continue to "firm up".

The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has decided to fix the reserve price at Rs 14,000 crore for 5 Mhz of airwaves as against around Rs 18,000 crore recommended by sectoral regulator Trai for spectrum auction.

The Supreme Court had, in February this year, cancelled 122 licences issued by the then Telecom Minister A Raja in 2008 and asked the government to conduct fresh auctions by August 31.

But this deadline may not be met and the government may approach the apex court for extension of the timeline

Indian IT companies Wipro, Infosys to tweak hiring strategy

India's IT companies, which hired approximately 1.5 lakh students from campuses last year, will be hiring much less during this placement season starting August-September. 

Country's third-largest software exporter Wipro, which had planned to keep the ratio of on-campus and off-campus hiring at 90:10 in the beginning of the year, has now changed it to 70:30, a senior executive from the Bangalore-based company said. "We will hire in a measured way till we get more (demand) visibility and increase off-campus numbers," the executive added. 

In campus hires, companies have to make offers and wait for at least six months till the student finishes his degree. But it can hire off-campus as and when there is demand for more hands. Off-campus recruitments include freshers who had opted out of placements and some with very little work-experience and are picked by companies through hiring drives and job fairs. 

"Off-campus hiring is gaining traction, especially among large IT firms that are cautious and are not able to take long-term business decisions," says Nasscom President Som Mittal said. "It helps them to take hiring decisions based on their needs." 

Nasscom has cut IT-BPO industry's growth forecast to 11-14% this year, down from 16% last year. Some companies like Infosys have given a revised projection of 5%. IT companies are looking to calibrate hiring to the slowdown. 

Last month, country's second-largest IT exporter Infosys said it could delay the joining dates of over 25,000 freshers it had hired from campuses in the 2011 placement season. Its mid-tier rival iGate, too, has delayed joining dates of close to 1,000 fresh engineers by a month or two. 

TCS, India's largest IT firm which will hire 50,000 people this year, plans to maintain its campus hiring. 

Companies say that quality is not an issue in off-campus hiring - despite many of the applicants being rejects from previous placement processes - if one is prepared to search harder for the right hires. "If 3 out of 10 people are suitable on-campus, that ratio will be much lower off-campus. You have to drudge a lot more to get the right people," says Naveen Narayanan, Global Head -Talent Acquisition, HCL Technologies. 

HCL is willing to take the extra effort and will maintain its 70:30 ratio of on-campus to off-campus this year. It makes economic sense to spread hiring across all months, instead doing the bulk during placement season. 

Mid-tier firms are following suit, but to break the monopoly enjoyed by the IT mammoths during placements. "Off-campus increases our chance of finding the right talent," Parthasarathy NS, COO of MindTree, said. "Large companies often visit campuses and recruit 95% of the best students on day one. Smaller firms, which typically visit on day 3 and 4, are left with a very small number," he added. 

MindTree has therefore decided to increase its off-campus quota from 10% of total hires to 30% this year. This strategy is expected to give the Bangalore-based firm wider reach in tier-III and -IV colleges. 

"Given the uncertain economic scenario, I would assume that on-campus placement numbers are going to come down this year," says Bhaskar Chavli, Chief Delivery Officer at NIIT Technologies. "Companies may want to see how business turns out and then decide on hiring targets." 

Gurgoan-based start-up CoCubes.com - it connects companies and colleges through an online recruitment platform - has seen on-campus hiring over the past one year drop by 30-40%. The start-up, which works with companies like Capgemini and UST Global, had experienced a rush for off-campus demand in 2010. Back then Accenture placed urgent orders for 1,500 freshers off-campus in eight weeks and feels sudden demand will come their way again. 

"A similar trend seems to be coming back this year as more companies wait for the economic environment to stabilise and then finalise their hiring plans," says Harpreet Singh Grover, co-founder and CEO of CoCubes.com. 


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LEFT TO RIGHT MULTIPLE SELECT BOX AN EASY WAY

Here is the javascript to select multiple options from left multiple to right multiple selection box


//////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE HTML /////////////////////////////////////


<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>
<div style="font-size:12px;color:#999999">Applicable Courses </div>
</td>
<td><div style="font-size:12px;color:#999999"></div> </td>
<td><div style="font-size:12px;color:#999999">Selected Courses </div> </td>
</tr>
   <tr >
    <td>

    <select name="left-select" id="left-select" size="5" multiple="multiple" style="width:150px; font-size:12px;color:#999999;">
    <?php
if($action!='Edit'){

foreach($result_course_reservations as $key=>$data){
$course=$data['chrCourseCode'];
?>
    <option value="<?php echo  $data['intAutoNo']; ?>"<?php if($intCourseReservID==$data['intAutoNo']){ echo "selected"; } ?>><?php echo $course; ?></option>
    <?php }
}else{
foreach($result_course_reservation as $key=>$data){
$course=$data['chrCourseCode'];
?>
   <option value="<?php echo  $data['intAutoNo']; ?>"<?php if($intCourseReservID==$data['intAutoNo']){ echo "selected"; } ?>><?php echo $course; ?></option>
    <?php }
} ?>


    </select>

    </td>
    <td style="padding-right:20px;text-align:center">
    <a onclick="sendSelectedOptions();" onmouseout="selectAll('right-select',true)" style="cursor:pointer;" title="Add"> <strong>>></strong> </a>
    <br/>
    <a onclick="removeSelectedOptions();" style="cursor:pointer;" title="Remove All"> <strong><<</strong> </a>
<br />
 <a onclick="selectAll('right-select',true)" style="cursor:pointer; font-size:13px"> <strong>Confirm</strong> </a>
    </td>
    <td>
    <select name="right-select[]" id="right-select" size="5" multiple="multiple"  style="width:150px; font-size:12px;color:#999999;"></select>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>



////////////////////MULTIPLE SELECTION BOX :JQUERY  SCRIPT ////////////////////////////////////

function sendSelectedOptions(){
    $("select#left-select option:selected").each(function () {
               var o1 = new Option($(this).text(),$(this).val());
  var position = $(this).attr("rel");
               o1.setAttribute("rel",position);
               $("select#right-select").append(o1);
    });

    $("select#left-select option:selected").remove();

    sortDropDownListByText('right-select');

}

function removeSelectedOptions(){
    $("select#right-select option:selected").each(function () {
               var o1 = new Option($(this).text(),$(this).text());
               var position = $(this).attr("rel");
               o1.setAttribute("rel",position);

               $("select#left-select").append(o1);
    });

    $("select#right-select option:selected").remove();
    sortDropDownListByText('left-select');

}

function sortDropDownListByText(selectID) {
    // Loop for each select element on the page.
    $("select#"+selectID).each(function() {

        // Keep track of the selected option.
        var selectedValue = $(this).val();

        // Sort all the options by text. I could easily sort these by val.
        $(this).html($("option", $(this)).sort(function(a, b) {
            return a.text == b.text ? 0 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1
        }));

        // Select one option.
        $(this).val(selectedValue);
    });
}




function selectAll(selectBox,selectAll) {
    // have we been passed an ID

    if (typeof selectBox == "string") {
        selectBox = document.getElementById(selectBox);
    }

    // is the select box a multiple select box?
    if (selectBox.type == "select-multiple") {
        for (var i = 0; i < selectBox.options.length; i++) {
            selectBox.options[i].selected = selectAll;
        }
    }
}