Microsoft at its Build 2016 conference in San Francisco announced several major announcements including Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The Redmond giant also revealed new features for its voice-based virtual assistant Cortana which will be available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Microsoft says that Cortana will now “pro-actively make suggestions” for users through-out the day…
Forgot your passport on way to the airport? Relax as De La Rue, a Britain-based commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer, is working on a technology that can store “paperless passports” in smartphones. The technology would allow travellers to do without the booklets and switch to “paperless passports” that would act similar to mobile boarding…
In a major initiative to promote original research, 26 government ministries and departments are set to enter an agreement to collaborate for technology development covering various engineering disciplines along with institutes like the IITs and NITs. HRD ministry officials said the initiative is part of the IMPRINT initiative of the NDA government which is a…
The job of the resume is to get you an interview, but what if your resume doesn’t even get read? One way of increasing your chances is attaching a great cover letter, as the job of the cover letter is to entice the reader to learn more about you and read that resume. A well…
The first is Achey Hand: that feeling, an hour or so in to any essay paper, that your poor, sore hand is probably crippled forever, and cannot possibly write one single more word without the attention of a doctor with a special qualification in muscle exhaustion. The blistered lump on your middle finger, meanwhile, is…
The four steps involved in career planning process are as follows: 1. Analysing employee needs and aspirations 2. Analysing Career Opportunities 3. Identifying congruence and incongruence 4. Action plans and periodic review. Employees join organisations to fulfill their career goals and aspirations, on the one hand, and organisations provide them opportunities available with them, on…
Life is full of choices. Some require little thought or reflection—like the choice of what to eat for dinner— while others demand rigorous deliberation. When it comes to your career, you’ve likely already made several difficult choices in the past and will undoubtedly face many more. There is a natural give and take in every…
“Sometimes nerves take over and you don’t show who you are.” Those are the words of an auditioning actor in “Every Little Step,” a 2008 documentary that follows the process of casting the 2006 Broadway revival of “A Chorus Line.” But they could just as easily have been spoken by anyone who has ever been…
