After joining hands with Twitter, Election Commission Monday announced its partnership with Facebook to reach out to 31 percent of the electorate in Tamil Nadu and achieve 100 percent turnout. Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhoni and Director of Public Policy (India, South and Central Asia), Facebook, Ankhi Das in a joint press conference announced the…
Google was supposed to introduce its ‘Voice Access’ service back at last year’s Google I/O conference, but never did so. The search giant has finally launched an ‘Voice Access’ beta app using which people can control several more features of their smartphones with voice commands. Users can now give commands such as ‘Open chrome’ to…
Google Developers Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot have published a draft document to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Incubator Community Group (W3C WICG) detailing a newly created API (application program interface) for directly connecting USB devices to webpages. It is envisioned for use as a Web connectivity platform for hardware manufacturers. The new API…
Accepting a job below your skill level can be severely penalising, says a study, because of the perception that someone who does this is less committed or less competent. To make ends meet in the short term, many workers may accept part-time positions and seek work from temporary agencies or take jobs below their skill…
When companies look for freshers, they prefer students who have done internships as they provide a lot of exposure and make them work in a real life work situation. No doubt, a college provides theoretical knowledge and confers a degree, but one has to pass the real exam at workplace. So, you cannot ignore the…
It’s been said that job interviews are like first dates: Initial impressions count, awkwardness can occur, and outcomes are unpredictable. Being good on paper is only one aspect of the screening process. “A lot of people assume that a great résumé is enough,” says Laura DeCarlo, president of Career Directors International and author of Resumes…
If you prepare for interviews as thoroughly as I think you do, you’ve probably got a (long) list of questions to ask. But you probably also worry about which ones are actually okay to bring up—and which could cost you the job. This post originally appeared on The Muse. Yes, when I was a recruiter,…
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Since we all have different skills, interests, experiences and expectations, here’s what you should consider when thinking through this important decision. As U.S. News unveils its Best Careers of 2011, it makes sense to think about whether one of the jobs on the list is a good fit for you. Of course, since we all…
Let Employers Search For You Large companies often receive thousands of job applications at once. To speed up the recruitment process, computer scanning software is used to filter out sub-standard resumes. Formatting your own résumé as a scannable document lets employers discover you – an undeniable advantage for every job seeker. So how does it…
