my recent visit for Campus Interview

last week I went to one of the prestigious engineering college (in UP) for selecting few engineers for my company. The response was really great, 160+ people appeared for written test and finally 42 could clear the round 1.
During the interview session, I felt that the student's knowledge base is not upto mark (which we as a company expects). They have the bookish knowledge but not practical aspects of using the same theorm/logic. All were speaking the same answers, seems like there is a strong need of teaching them what exactly we as a company wants in them. what to speak, what not to speak, what areas to focus and what areas to simply ignore in calling out in interviews. what should be the body language etc...we could finally select only 5 candidates from the 165 odd batch...
Had they been trained in campus interviews training, they could have got good number of offers.

Cut Piracy, Get more Jobs

Reducing software piracy in India by ten per cent over the next four years can generate an additional 44,000 new IT jobs, $3.1 billion in economic growth, and $200 million in tax revenues, according to a study released today by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The study predicts an additional $208 million in revenues to local vendors alone. Further, reducing software piracy in Asia by just ten percentage points can generate 435,000 new jobs, over $40 billion in economic growth, and over $5 billion in tax revenues above current projections, the study revealed.

(sources: Ciol.com)

Campus Interviews

Seems like the US economy slowdown is impacting directly/indirectly the software companies recrutiment too for the fresh hires (ie the students/employees) who comes via campus interviews. With campus interviews round the corner, many of the companies are shying away from the heavy recruitment that they do in various colleges, companies who generally selects 50 odd engineers from single college are now targetting only 5-10 engineers.
Lot of students asks me on how to get the best job in the current time, the best method for engineers to score a nice job amidst this slowdown is to concentrate on 2 factors:
1) Projects tuneup as per the latest market needs and demands: Planning your final or pre-final year project in such a way to match what the companies are actually doing or are planning to do that. This requires expert guidance from industry experts.
2) Improving Interview and behavioral skills to get automatic advantage over other class fellows.

With this even if the economy is slow, you will be getting the best job.

iPAPER

Scribd, the online document sharing site, announced today the creation of a new document format built for the web, dubbed iPaper.

iPaper has been designed to be a new web-based document viewer that is "more like a YouTube video than it is like a PDF." Says Trip Adler, Scribd co-founder and CEO,

Monetized Content
iPaper also allows content publishers to make money from their documents by the inclusion of contextually relevant ads. This optional feature uses ads that are powered by Google AdSense, making iPaper the first application to display AdSense in Flash. Unlike Adobe and Yahoo's recent move to put ads in PDFs, iPaper users don't need to have the latest version of Reader to see the ads - if the PDF is in iPaper format, the ads are there.

Where Scribd.com allows anyone to publish to iPaper on the internet, the Scribd platform allows for the use of the iPaper format either internally or externally. There is an Scribd API for developers to use or non-programmers can use the provided embed code or take advantage of Scribd's new QuickSwitch tool.