This post is inspired by Gautam Ghoshs post that pointed me to an excellent resource for recruiters- written by an old acquaintance of mine, Mohan Kannegal of Merit Trac. The free e-book for ‘beginners in recruitment’ is a good black book for -not just novices-but also for regular practitioners-as it does us back to basics. I would recommend any body involved in hiring-including the hiring managers-to peruse it as it does give us a good checklist. To me, the interesting takeaways were the ‘new ideas’ mentioned by Mohan- which included a) recommendation of a ’standardised’ biodata form to be advocated by all job boards, and employers- in order to help ‘ searching and retrieval’ of the ‘key words’- to enable higher recruiter productivity! Personally -while I do agree most of the candidate do not always provide all information in their resumes as required, this exercise totally negates the fact that -each individual is indeed unique-and to me, the bio-data or a resume ( or CV) -is actually an extension of one’s personality!! It would be a shame to try and compress an individual to a bunch of tabulated skills. b) the use of airconditioned staff buses - as an USP for improving ‘company loyalty’ and perhaps a great retention tool- as well as a medium to impart ‘communication and training’! Brilliant- one could not have got a more captive audience -twice a day-for an hour like this :-)! c) The killer idea though is the ‘using sms’ as a good tool to improve recruiter productivity ! “Assume you are a Recruiter who wants to schedule interviews for a hundred candidates. You have the names and mobile numbers of these candidates in an Excel sheet. You fill out the date, time and venue of the interview for each of these candidates on the same Excel sheet. The Excel sheet can be uploaded onto an SMS based software application which SMSes the date, time and venue to each of the hundred candidates within a few minutes and provides a report of deliveries. Candidates who receive the SMSes can send back an SMS to confirm their participation. A report can be run off the application which tells you how many of the hundred participants have confirmed their participation. Those who have not confirmed their participation can be reached by making phone The advantage of the software application is that in ten minutes, it is possible to SMS a hundred candidates and receives confirmations. This substantially reduces the amount of time Recruiters spend on the phone, scheduling candidates. Further, SMS is most likely to be delivered and read compared to email or phone calls. Since most candidates are in meetings during a working day, they would not answer a phone call. Also, most candidates check their personal email ids once a day or once in two days. But, they certainly check SMSes during the day. ” Infact, I was instantly reminded of a new service- Mobismart launched by a Hyderabadi company..that uses bulk voice mail messages . Just imagine- a personalised message that could trigger off a desire in an otherwise content start performer?? d) And yes, here is an attempt that is picking up…companies rehiring professionals who worked for them earlier!! PS-I am very keen to know your responses /opinions !! How would you feel as a colleague - especially since you have been loyal to the company and have stayed backwithin the system during the period-and the return of the prodigal-perhaps at an elevated position & higher salary!!
From the monthly archives:
August 2008
132 important java interview questions on mywalkin forum
I am sure that many of you must be aware of the interview questions forum present on mywalkin. The forum was created to enable users of mywalkin to help each other especially in clearing technical doubts. I am happy to let you know that the forum is steadily moving in that direction. The Java interview questions forum has been particularly successful with nearly 132 questions asked and many of them answered by the members. In this mail I have given the 10 most popular java interview questions in terms of number of views and top 15 most tricky java interview questions based on number of replies given. I have also listed the questions that have not been answered till date . I request you to answer these questions if you know an answer. Top 15 Most tricky java interview Questions In the last 3-4 months I have observed that the questions that get the most number of replies are the ones in which people have confusion. Here are the top 15 tricky interview questions based on number of replies. In How many ways can u create an object for a class? 10 Static Methods 9 What is abstraction? 8 What is Encapsulation? 8 Difference between error and exception 8 What is Life Cycle of Servlet? 7 project architecture in interviews? 7 Can we create constructor for abstract class? 7 Can we create constructor for abstract class? 6 what is port no of oracle 6 Why do we need struts? 5 How will you decide whether to use Interface or abstract ? 5 Difference between ApplicationServer and webserver? 5 What is the diff between synchronized and volatile?please write with example 5 is array list is synchronized 5 Top 10 most popular java interview questions I have used the number of views recieved by a question to decide its popularity. Difference between error and exception 5027 In How many ways can u create an object for a class? 2986 How will you decide whether to use Interface or abstract ? 2855 What is Encapsulation? 2695 Can we create constructor for abstract class? 2668 how to eliminate duplicates in list 2587 Static Methods 2442 What is abstraction? 2430 Difference between ApplicationServer and webserver? 2240 Difference between java.util.Date and java.sql.Date? 2166 The 2 lists seem to have a lot of questions in common. This just goes on to prove that forum is the best place to get your doubts cleared or verify that your understanding is indeed correct . Finally I come to those interview questions that have not been answered till date. I am not very sure if they are too easy to answer or too difficult to answer. If you do know the answer to any of these, then please answer them on the forum. It will help 1 person at the least. Unanswered java interview questions How to do authorization and Authentication of our application? problem with display how to handle runtime exceptions in jsps? what is introspection? At what situation we have to use it? what is thick client application and thin client application what is the diff b/w webapplication & client-server application? Servlet Doubt How to handle this in JSP Hi friends plz answer these questions Why to go for struts PMD Perpective problem Can we synchronize the method in interface? what is the servletconfig object will do? why don’t we get previous page after signing out? All these awesome questions and answers have been created by the effort of less than 800 members of mywalkin forum. More than 1 lakh people visit mywalkin. I request you to consider the potential if all of us could start interacting on the forum. Request you to kindly join the mywalkin community.
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EATON - 30th Aug 2008 - Bangalore - BI / J2EE / .Net
We seek applications from BE/ BTech/ ME/ MTech/ MCA for the following openings: Minimum 5 years of experience: BI Team Lead: Informatica/ Cognos must (PL SQL/ Unix/ Kalido skills preferred) - Production Support, Development and Migration. J2EE Production Support Analyst: EJB, Struts, Hibernate must (UML/ Oracle iStore/ Khalix/ Finanical accounting desirable). .NET Programmer Analyst: ASP.NET web applications with VB/C# must (Oracle database 9i or later desirable). Minimum 3 years of experience: BI Analyst: Informatica/ Cognos must (PL/SQL/ Unix/ Kalido skills preferred) - Production Support, Development and Migration. ClearCase / CleearQuest Software Analyst: Version 2003.6/7, multisite, admin/user suppoet, implementation/upgrade experience must. Content Management Developer: HTML, CSS, JavaScript must (familiarity with Content Mgmt Applications like Stellent desirable). EDI Analyst: ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Odette/VDA standards, Gentran 5.3/6.0 must (HP-UX, Progress 4GL, Progress databse desirable). EDI Integration Specialist: ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Gentran 5.3, 6.0, MFGPro ERP must. HP-UX Systems Administrator: 11i - account/network/disk/ performance management must (ServiceGuard and Veritas VM desirable). Lotus Notes Administrator / Analyst: administration, design, development, documentation, scripting, basic Oracle Database support (Unix desirable). MatrixOne Programmer Analyst: version 10.6+, MQL/TCL, implementation, CAD integration (ProE/Solidworks/Catia) must (PLSQL, J2EE desirable). Oracle Applications DBA: 11i, 9i+ database, all administration tasks, patching, tuning, Unix/Linux scripting, multi-site, business aware. Oracle Applications Technical: 11i, Forms, Reports, Interfaces must (BI Publisher/Inventory/ OM/ AP/ Contracts/ Services desirable). ORCAD PCB Design Software Analyst: version 16, administration/ user support must (upgrade and Allegro exeprience desirable). Remedy Administrator: understands concepts of ITIL, client-server/mainframe application development/deployment, database, networking. Tibco: Enterprise Application integration using Tibo/ Integration Manager/ Hawk or Oracle must. Weblogic Administrator: Weblogic Server, Integration, Workshop, Portal must (Unix/Shell scripting skills desirable). Windows Server (VMware) Project Manager/ System Analyst: Windows Server/ VMware/ Hardware and formal PM experience must.
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Hot Careers
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Options in India- some HOT openings!
Hi Just thought I shall file in a short and crisp note- as a long weekend comes up in India. Am hoping I can catch the attention of someone who could probably know someone else!! These are all HOT -and some of them are through my associates-but you can be sure -our clients would be interested in meeting them asap :-)! Positions based in Hyderabad -CEO role for Power Company -Group CFO for another Power company . -VP Finance for an infrastructure startup -promoted by 3 well known groups- -Financial Controller -50 crores company -manufacturing industry -Head Compliance-infrastructure company -Head Budget- Power company -Head Secretarial- group in infrastructure -Head Legal- group in power -Financial Analysts/Modelling for Power company -Financial Analyst for PE company -Mining Head for a group -Engineering Head for a Biomass start up for Sugar cogeneration plants -Taxation Head for an infrastructure company -Corporate Communications Head for a fast growing business house Positions based in NCR region: -VP Finance for a group into Thermal Power projects -based in Delhi -Business Analyst for Infrastructure- Big Four firm Positions based in Chennai: -VP Delivery -IT services - GM Finance & Secretarial for a company that had an IPO earlier this year -Financial Analyst -Design engineers for Power plant-at various levels - for instrumentation/civil/ electrical/mechanical functions PS- there are also a few openings in Europe -those with JDEdwards One World implementation experience !!
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