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Cover Letter provides Great Cover

By Anil Mahajan, MBA PGDIT (IIFT)

Like a phoenix, the cover letter has risen from the ashes and is very much alive and kicking.

Unless you have a PERFECT work background, growing academic qualifications and SOLID GOLD EMPLOYERS then a résumé just won’t work on its own. It is only with an effective cover letter that you can save your butt and get that interview call. With an effective cover letter, you can promote yourself any which way you want.

A cover letter is just not an optional add-on. Actually, the resume is an optional add on.

During my headhunting days, I have been using this as a “guru mantra”. I hunted a man for a company, and, seeing his resume, I found that he’s lacked somewhat in his resume (for instance, he had 8 years of experience as against the 14 desired by the company).

And his resume would “khol his pol” and not lead to an interview call. I asked the man to write a cover letter showing his prowess in the skills the company wanted with absolutely no mention of the shortcoming!

After ten years of working with job seekers in all industries as a placement consultant, the best results and fastest turnaround I’ve EVER SEEN from application to interview has proven time and time again to be sending a cover letter ONLY, and taking the résumé to the interview (where you can answer any concerns in person). I’m always being asked by job seekers “How important is a cover letter?” What they should really be asking is… “How important is my résumé?”

Because of the sheer volume of résumés being submitted for each job (especially jobs posted on the net in naukri, Timesjobs, jobstreet etc.), employers simply don’t have time to read and interpret your past skills and experience; so they simply use your résumé to discriminate against you. In other words, they’re looking for what you don’t have rather than what you do have…

Anil Mahajan has made pioneering contributions in the field of Resume Writing and Resume Management.

courtesy Jobnet Magazine

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Jobs – Careers in Steel Industry- India

The Steel industry is a much sought after Employer in the jobmarket.

The Indian steel industry consists of companies that tend to be large and offer career opportunuties in diverse fields.

Most of them have  informative websites which jobseekers are advised to study before applying to any of them.Many steel companies of India also have a provision of applying directly to them,through their websites.

The Steel Companies which are in the private sector also use the services of Placement Agencies.You can use the Jobnet Job directory India and International, of Placement Firms 2011 edition which will give you the industry specializations of Placement Consultants, which also covers Steel industry.

List of Steel Companies in India for the Jobseeker

Please study their websites for Jobs, careers, product and corporate information. You can also research their hiring processes.

Reliance Steel

Tata Steel

Ispat Industries Ltd

Durgapur  Steel Plant

Bokaro Steel

Steel Authority of India

Jindal Steel

LLoyds Steel

You can do a google search and get  comprehensive information on them.

Courtesy: Jobnet Directory of Placement Firms India & International 2011 edition, covers Placement Agencies in India who handle recruitments for the steel Industry in India that are in the private sector. For government Jobs ,please apply through advertisements or throught the websites of Government  companies in Steel sector in India.

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Jobs in Bottled Water Industry

The Bottled Water Industry in India has seen an explosive growth in the recent years. The industry consists of large FMCG companies like Nestle, Pepsico, Coca Cola, Parle,United Breweries, as well as a number of smaller organizations, and companies selling localized brands in smaller market segments.

This industry offers good career prospects for those looking for jobs in this industry. Most of the Multinational Companies in this industry use Placement Agencies.

Placement firms and the career websites of these organizations can be used for Jobhunting.

Nestle

Pure Life was launched in 1998 , by Nestle. The product has a presence in more than 20 countries.

PepsiCo

Aquafina was first launched in USA in the year 1994. In India, Aquafina’s was launched in Mumbai in 1999 and todays enjoys  countrywide presence.

Parle

Mineral Water under the name ‘Bisleri’ was first introduced in Mumbai in glass bottles in two varieties – bubbly & still in 1965 by Bisleri Ltd., a company of Italian origin. This company was started by Signor Felice Bisleri who first brought the idea of selling bottled water in India.

Parle bought over Bisleri (India) Ltd. In 1969 & started bottling Mineral water in glass bottles under the brand name ‘Bisleri’. Later Parle switched over to PVC non-returnable bottles & finally advanced to PET containers.

Since 1995 Mr. Ramesh J. Chauhan has started expanding Bisleri operations substantially and the turnover has multiplied more than 20 times over a period of 10 years and the average growth rate has been around 40% over this period. Presently they have 8 plants & 11 franchisees all over India. They have a 60% market share of the organized market.

Coca Cola Company

Bottled water Kinley has a strong presence in Afghanistan, India, Maldives and Pakistan.
Kinley is a high quality bottled water processed with added minerals.

United Breweries Group

United Breweries Group , headed by Vijay Mallya, have launched, Kingfisher Himalaya Natural Mineral Water.

Source : Jobnet Directory of Placement Firms India and International.

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Stop mass mailing your resume to improve your reach

Lima Sehgal

Considering the job market conditions today, there is an urgent need for jobseekers to address the issue of improving their visibility.

Over the past decade mass -mailing resumes has become a way of life. As a marketing strategy it has low merit in showcasing any candidate. But as a concept it holds the promise of the ultimate shortcut in job hunting. Few can resist the seduction.

The vacancy volume has hit a new low. The squeeze on jobseekers has made the competition levels escalate. Not only has the pie become smaller, one does not get to sometimes even smell the piece.

The first line of attack to the problem is to stop job-hunting by proxy. We have to dig our hands into this messy business without the comfort of resume mass mailing. Today’s job market conditions calls for aggressive marketing. Like climbing on the rooftop and yelling – Here I am, as good as good can get.

Perhaps it is also time to throw that old mindset out of the window. The one about finding jobs, which says if you search hard enough, it will be found. Not only do we need to research the nuances specific to our industry but also identify the placement firms specializing in our field of work.

We may talk of global job shortages but that is no invitation to follow the herd.

ISSUE 169  copyright Jobnet magazine 2010

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Job hunting on the internet this holiday season

Lima Sehgal

When does the internet have a holiday?

If the answer is never, then jobseekers need to address a very important issue – the human factor on the net.

The internet usually is a faceless medium for hunting, searching or sending emails. So far so good. But when it comes to applying, talking to placement firms, or simply finding out  — then there could be new dimensions. There may be another human on the other side of the ether – alive…

I find it amusing that there is so much obsolete data on the internet that when I get a phone call, the caller sometimes gets speechless with surprise. But what gets me speechless is the fact that some of the callers treat me like a non human voice, non persona -Multilingual, perfect in dishing out information, robotic in service and impervious to mundanities like sleep timings.

Sleep? The internet never sleeps either, so I learnt the hard way.

I get calls from irritated jobseekers who telephone local and foreign placement firms in the middle of the night to find that they are sleeping too. (So why am I putting wrong information in the Jobnet Directory, they ask with indignation?)

I am not trying to educate, only requesting that, like me, there are others who have given their contact details on the net. They too may not enjoy waking up early on Sunday mornings. I do hope that, with the holiday season around the corner, jobseekers would get down to realizing that the humans we reach through the internet desire a few holidays too …

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Jobs in Reserve Bank of India subsidiary  Bharatiya Reserve Bank NoteMudran , BRBMNPL

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited,

Corporate Office, Bangalore – 560 029

Website:www.brbnmpl.co.in

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL / Company),is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India. They have their presses at Mysore in Karnataka and Salboni in West Bengal.

They have a good detailed career section on their website.Their vacancy postings seem to be updated.You can access them online.Their application forms are also available on their website.

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) was established by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as its wholly owned subsidiary on 3rd February 1995 with a view to augmenting the production of bank notes in India to enable the RBI to bridge the gap between the supply and demand for bank notes in the country. The BRBNMPL has been registered as a Public Limited Company under the Companies Act 1956 with its Registered and Corporate Office situated at Bangalore. The company manages 2 Presses one at Mysore in Karnataka and the other at Salboni in West Bengal. The present capacity for both the presses is 30 billion note pieces per year on a 3-shift basis.

The Board of Directors headed by a non Executive Chairman nominated by Reserve Bank of India oversees the overall affairs of the Company. The Managing Director is the whole time Chief Executive of the Company and is also a member of the Board. The members of the Board of Directors are persons of high eminence drawn from various professional fields. The Managing Director is assisted by a team of senior officers in the Corporate Office and two presses at Mysore and Salboni.

Both the presses have installed the latest “state of the art” Technology in bank note printing. The machinery at Mysore Site has been supplied by M/s. De La Rue Giori, now KBA Giori, Switzerland and that of Salboni by M/s. Komori Corporation, Japan. Both the presses are equipped with sophisticated Security Surveillance Systems.

The Corporate mission of the Company is to produce bank notes conforming to international standards set by Central Banking and monetary authorities of the world and makes them available in adequate quantities to the Reserve Bank of India at competitive prices. BRBNMPL seeks to achieve this mission through its most valued asset, its people.

It has also gone in for extensive automation and the Enterprise Resource Planning. The BRBNMPL has already put in place an effective Quality Management System as embodied in the ISO 9001 – 2008 and also environmental management systems and has also been certified as ISO 9001 : 2008 and ISO 14001: 2004 Company.

Company research will make you more successful in jobhunting.

Courtesy: Jobnet Magazine

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