“IBM India has commenced its small-and-medium businesses (SMB) operations at Nashik in Maharashtra for providing innovative IT solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in 14 tier-II cities across the country.

According to a statement issued by the Indian subsidiary of the global IT major, the SMB operations will enable the company to provide better support to its SME clients in non-metros.

ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamilnadu) & NASSCOM Chennai , co-ordinated a campaign to take IT to tier 2 cities in Tamilnadu. Six locations (Hosur, Salem, Madurai, Trichy, Coimbatore & Tirunelveli) has been identified to spread the benefits of IT uniformly across the state. This campaign was kicked-off with an Industry - Students meet in the deep south twin cities of Tirunelvi - Palayamkottai on 18th and 19th of Jan 2008.

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I came across an article on soft skills training recently and it was a great eye opener. I had been thinking that soft skills was about learning to speak good English and being able to communicate, but it seems to be more than that.

I came across an article on soft skills training recently and it was a great eye opener. I had been thinking that soft skills was about learning to speak good English and being able to communicate, but it seems to be more than that.

It’s a whole subject on its own – including customer service, making the right decisions, understanding working styles, hierarchy in organizations etc. An understanding of these soft skills on the job front is important to understand the protocol and how to fit in. I am trying to locate the various aspects of soft skills to understand this.

Recently I came across a news item which said that The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $150 million to expand mobile phone coverage in rural areas in India. This is good news indeed. The agency has decided to fund the construction of 17,100 more cell towers to strengthen mobile phone coverage in the Subcontinent. In spite of drastic growth in telecommunication sector, we suffer from a critical lack of communication infrastructure in rural areas. Its sad to learn that out of 600,000 villages in the country, about 7 per cent do not even have landline phone connections.

When you will be studying about India and especially about the businesses which are undertaken in the country, then you will certainly be amazed to see the number of companies and groups which are working wonders and lending a helping hand to boast the overall economy of India. Bharti Enterprise is one of those names that you will come across while you search for the big Indian companies. The basic focus of the enterprise is on the Telecom Industry and it really have achieved a place and have been able to make a mark in this very industry.

Most of the media firms look for the flow of creativity, ability to handle situations and spontaneity. There had been some 10 media firms who came to our college for recruitment. Since most of them were national media they were keen in the ability to deliver the ideas in a spontaneous and creative manner in both English and in the national language. (Though they were not really impressed with the popular Hinglish) But the laid-back situation with these firms is that half of them never get back after confirming the students list.

I stumbled on this article while I was browsing for some interesting news on media jobs

Indian media industry is increasingly finding it difficult to find freshers with basic knowledge of media planning and buying. Taking a step in the direction of filling this need-gap, Lintas' Northpoint Centre of Learning in collaboration with Lintas Media Group is introducing post-graduate programmes in marketing communications.

Its time of campus recruitments and almost all the leading business houses in print/television are vying with each other to grab the best in talent the college has to offer. And more importantly those students who have been writing on the net, How they find they could land jobs that have a better compensation package than what one could ever dream of, today’s going rate for starters for an established journalism candidate passing out is nothing less than Rs. 20,000/- for starters and could be high as Rs50, 000/-.

Right now I’m undergoing campus placements in my college. and its just been 4 days since the process has started and i already have 2 very good offers in my hand. right now everything might seem good, but believe me 2 days back i was so depressed and dejected! What a contrast life can be at times!