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A
very exclusive club
HR TechNet is an association of competitors bound by a bond
of trust that has turned them into friends. Exclusivity is
the other name of this informal club of the HR heads of a
few of the country’s biggest IT companies.
The
role of persuasion in communicating
Any business communication, no matter how routine, involves
more than just information dumping. You must select and organise
the information with a specific audience and purpose in mind.
In a real sense, persuasion is a major purpose of any communication.
Whether your goal is to sell, motivate, convey bad news or
simply inform, your ability to persuade ultimately determines
the degree of success or failure that you will achieve.
Career
roadmap for a software engineer
A software engineer has put in two to three years of hard
work, burn the midnight oil, work on tight deadlines, write
and debug thousands of lines of code... Is that what life
is all about? Where does he go from here? This is the dilemma
facing most young software professionals—23-28 year olds—in
the Indian software exports industry.
An
informal workplace
The India Technology Centre of Network Appliance Systems (India)
is the company’s only R&D centre outside the USA.
The unit is determined to take a different approach to HR
policy. Says Pranjal Nagar, a member of NetApp’s technical
staff, “It’s a smooth organisation with no hierarchy,
and direct access to senior management. We even got to interact
with our
A
balanced life
Known as Srini among his peers, Srinivasan opts to start off
by talking about his fun-filled days at school and college.
He recalls a memorable event from which he continues to draw
inspiration. In college he was an air force cadet in the NCC,
and one of two candidates selected for the air cadet exchange
programme.
Five
Skills
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