In what is a very interesting move Genpact a business services and technology solutions company has started to hire 12th std passouts with the option for them to complete their graduation as they work.

Its called the Associate Trainee Program 2007 with Osmania University, Hyderabad.  The programme allows candidates to work and earn a Bachelor of Commerce (with Computers) degree simultaneously. The last date of admission for the programme is August 31, 2007.

Speaking on the programme, Mr Ashok Tyagi, Senior Vice-President, Genpact told businessline ”The Associate Trainee Program has enabled a number of students from across the country to gain valuable work experience while they complete their graduation.”
 

IT companies have started hiking freshers salaries. According to this article salaries for fresh engineering graduates is steadily breaching the 3 lakh per annum mark.

There is also a lot of action being seen in the campus placement for freshers across universities. Companies typically are starting their campus recruitment plans 12-15 months in advance with the process peaking during the august and september months for next year passouts.

It is being said that big companies like Infosys and Cognizant have also revised the compensation package for freshers. Also besides the salaries the number of hires are also increasing. The top 5 it services companies are expected to hire 1 lakh recruits this year out of which 60-65% would be freshers.

Healthcare BPO sector which includes jobs like medical transcription, billing, coding and clinical trials is seeing a huge demand for fresh talent. Over 5000 freshers are required by this sector especially in the southern states of the country.

According to this article this industry currently employs more than 15000 people in chennai, hyderabad and banglore alone. Also according to Mr Manoj Pachisia, Director, NEXT, a BPO training institute. “Currently, healthcare BPOs are preferred jobs in the industry because they offer day shifts and are non-voice based processes,”

Megabucks is the Annual Entrepreneurship Competition of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

It aims at serving as the right platform for budding entrepreneurs to act on their ideas and talents to develop them into reality and nurture them to form exceptional enterprises. Jobs4freshers was voted among the Top 3 companies out of the total 8 Present.

Jobs4freshers in its stall had showcased their product through a simple game which explained the functioning and future plans of the company.

The object of the game was to throw the ball on each bottle one at a time. Each bottle was a process for recruitment starting from verification right up till Recruit. Almost all the students present at the event were at the jobs4freshers stall. This innovative strategy was deeply appreciated by the judges.

The winners who was able to knock down all the bottles one by one were awarded Jobs4freshers t-shirts.

Our first winners

The participants who were not able to knock all the bottles down, as consolation prize they were awarded jobs4freshers smiley balls with a personal customised message from Jobs4freshers.

These are the guys form startups.in they were one of the sponsors of the event.  They profile everything related to startups in

They had also interviewed our CEO sometime back.

The Jobs4freshers team

There is reason for freshers and for us as well to cheer! This is because IT giant Wipro has decided to hire 14000 freshers for FY08 which is twice the number that it hired in the previous financial year!

Wipro hired 7100 freshers in the previous financial year and this sudden rise is beacuse of the followiung realization by wipro.

“This is to meet the growth needs, and secondly, we have decided that the proportion of rookies versus laterals should be more towards the former. This gives us a lot of operational advantages as people who go through training after college are more productive,’’ Wipro HR executive vice-president Pratik Kumar told ET.

This news is great for freshers especially as i have noticed that there are soo many IT freshers that are looking for jobs. When a company like wipro says that it thinks hiring freshers is better it makes us feel good and also encourages us to do better than we are doing at Jobs4Freshers.

What is Jobs4freshers.com?

It’s a jobsite for freshers having no experience or upto maximum 1 year of work experience looking for jobs. You can be a fresher from anywhere in India and you can register at Jobs4Freshers.com.

How do i as a candidate use Jobs4freshers.com?

As a candidate the first step you need to take is register yourself and post your resume. Though the resume form is long it helps in increasing your chances to get noticed if you fill all the relevant fields.

How will companies contact me? Or how do i contact them?

The companies that have taken database access with Jobs4Freshers.com will either call you or email you if you are eligible for the job. So make sure the email you sign up with is a proper email that you use frequently. Also you can apply to jobs after logging into your account. You can also setup job alerts from your account to recieve an alert on new jobs that match your requirement.

What is Jobs4freshers.com?

It’s a jobsite which has a database of freshers looking for jobs. These freshers are from across India and from across streams i.e. graduates, undergraduates and post graduates.

How do I as a Company/Employer/Recruiter use Jobs4freshers.com?

You can Post jobs or subscribe to the database. But first you will need to sign up. Signing up is free and you get 5 Free job postings on registrations. After registration you can choose from our various plans for database access and Job postings.

How do i advertise on your site? Do you have the option of banner ads?

Yes we do have advertising solutions on our site that can be customized to your needs. You can view our advertising solutions here and contact us.

How do I make payments?

You can get those details from our modes of payment page.

Just read this nice article on corporate manners for freshers and thought i should post it here.

Here are some corporate manners for freshers that would definitely add more competence to their caliber.
Always enquire about the timings of arrival, departure and breaks if; you are not informed beforehand
Follow the Golden Rule in a corporate ” Never Be Late.”
Your dressing is an expression of your attitude. Enquire about the company dress code or simply observe your would be colleagues. Dress positively to boost your impression.
Express a warm greeting to the receptionist whenever you pass her/him. He/She knows everyone at office and would help you to build office relationships.
Learn the office layout from the receptionist through casual talks.
You can find somebody in your team who you can rely upon and seek help from them during emergency cases.
Maintain a proper sitting posture.
Never personalize your cubicle with family photos and other little accessories.
Keep your personal calls to the lowest possible number (Read it as zero) during the first few weeks. In addition keep the ringer volume low yet audible to you.
Do not use office e-mail or surf the Internet for personal purpose.
Try to solve your duties rationally and never depend too much on others.
Never postpone your duties to the next day.
Be willing to extra duties or help your colleagues. However more importantly, know when you have to say the word “no”.
During lunchtime ask your colleagues to join you or go to the lunchroom for food. This will enable you to interact with people from other departments too.
Never give out too much personal information about yourself to everyone. At the same time never be too inquisitive and gossip about others.
Always update yourself with knowledge of business and competition by reading journals, watching programmes, discussions etc.
During the first meetings and presentations share ideas but; keep your opinions to yourself.
Always keep eye contact with others while talking.

Well hope these tips helped

Before we move on to talk about all the new features that Jobs4Freshers plans to include its only fair to list down all the features we currently have for employers and freshers. So here is a list..

Employers - Features in detail

Posting Jobs
Employers can post jobs in rich text, choosing their own fonts, styles and even graphics in their posts. Additionally, employers can specify the location of advertised position by marking it on a map (if you have enabled the map feature).

Manage Posts
Employers can Edit or Delete their previous job posts all from one place.

Browse resumes
Employers can browse resumes submitted by the job Seekers. Employers can be search resumes using various different fields, you can configure the Resume Search Form from the Admin.

Resume Email Alerts
Employers can create alerts which are sent via email to alert of new job seekers entering the system. Employers can specify their alerts to be triggered by specific keyword(s).

…and More!
- View posts statistics, such as number of hits and number of online applications.
- View their Order history
- Change account settings.
- Buy posting credits and subscribe to view resumes.
- Edit Employer’s profile (This can be seen by candidates when they click on your name or company name)
- Send email to Candidates via the website

Job Seekers - Features in detail

Online Application
Job Seekers can apply to jobs online. Three file attachments can be sent with the online application.

Submit resume
Upon registration, job seekers can submit a resume. To make sure an employer can clearly understand you skills and search you well we have put many optional fields filling which increases your chances to be noticed.

Resume can be made anonymous or public
Job seekers can make their personal details private (Anonymous). This feature encourages users to submit their resume without the worrying about unknown companies calling them.

Suspend / Activate resumes.
When a job seeker becomes unavailable, they can set their resume status to suspended. this works well if you have just taken up a job and maybe you change a job in 2 or 3 months then you can activate your resume again. As Jobs4Freshers.com provides jobs to candidates upto 1 year of experience.

Job Email Alerts
Job Seekers can create alerts which are sent via email to alert of new jobs that are posted. Job Seekers can specify to have alerts to be triggered by specific keyword(s).

Save jobs
Jobs are saved into a personal area, and users can apply for the jobs later.

Save Applications
Job Seekers can Save and review their applications.

Tell a friend
Email Jobs to friends.

…and More!
- List all jobs by a specified Employer.
- View Employer’s profile
- Accept / Deny access to their resume for Employers to see

As you can see we have many of the basic features covered here. But yes we have been coming up with many more features soon.

Well this is the first post on Jobs4Freshers official blog. Its taken a long time for us to get into the blog mode though Jobs4Freshers.com has been around for sometime.

But all the freshers and employers can be rest assured that we have been working very hard over the past 11/2 years and have good reasons to delay the launch of this blog.

 Firstly a note on the history of Jobs4Freshers.com. Jobs4Freshers was conceptualized in June 2005 and was launched on 9th September 2005. Since its launch Jobs4Freshers has grown with each passing day.

Today Jobs4Freshers.com boasts of thousands of freshers who are registered with the site and over 1000 employers and job postings. We have also been listed on Yahoo and Rediff Job search.

Besides that we have also been featured as a promising startup on startups.in (a website that covers promising internet startups from india and at Proto.in a technological showcase of India’s best technology startups.

So yes we have com a long way but we are still starting out as far as understanding the freshers needs and the employers needs are concerned. This blog is one of the initiatives to bring us closer to both the freshers and employers. Do let us know your feedbacks through comments.