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Explore Event Management Jobs
If communication skills are your forte and you get excited about being in the limelight and organizing things, then you might consider event management as a career option. Event management requires you to be social, outgoing, possessing excellent organizing skills and of course, top notch communication skills. Are you the person behind cultural programmes in your college? Does preparing, rehearsing and organizing a great show get you all charged up? If you agree then turn your passion into a career.
Event management will require you to organize programmes of various magnitudes. From cultural programmes, small office meets to high level international seminars and symposiums, event management oscillates between the hip and happening to the serious and conservative. As an event manager, you have to study the venue, understand all the requirements, thoroughly know the purpose of the event and estimate a budget for it. You will have to arrange all that is needed in the programme and might be asked to take part in the scheduling and sequencing of events as well. Once you know the details of a project, you will need to submit a report based on which you will receive the contract to organize it. Plenty of young people are showing an inclination towards this owing to the excitement and creativity it promises. Event management grooms your organizing skills, man management skills and demands innovative thinking.
If you are interested in jumping into the event management bandwagon, you can pick up and sharpen your skills at National Institute of Event Management (NIEM), College of Events and Media (COEM) etc.
Banks Jobs Calling
For everyone out there who are under the impression that global recession will hamper recruitment in Indian banks, here is a piece of good news. Pushing apprehensions of slowdown aside, banks are on a major recruitment drive these days. Two major reasons behind this overdrive being the retirement of a large number of senior employees and banks looking to provide more and more specialized services such as insurance, net banking, asset management and so on. In order to bring new services to their customers, they need to train people with specific skills who will be entrusted with these services.
It is estimated that about 20% of a strong workforce of 750,000 will retire within the next two years. This opens up a huge gap which needs filling. In addition to all this, banks are also expanding so that they can reach out to more people all over India. State Bank of India opened 2000 new branches in 2008-09 and are expected to open 1000 more this year. Openings exist for clerks, general banking officers and specialist officers. Recruitment is happening by the thousands according to this report in rediff.com and all major names such as Canara Bank, SBI, Bank of India,Union Bank of India are involved. So for all of you who have your sights set on a rewarding career in public sector banking, the requirement presents a golden opportunity.
Consider Internship Jobs
If you want to taste professional life before plunging into it and would like to experience what it feels like to handle a real time project, an internship can be a very good idea. Several major concerns offer opportunities for internship where you get to learn all about life at work and gain valuable experience in the domain of your choice. Internships can be part time or full time for a limited period, so you can probably take them up along with your studies. Internships can help you make up your mind on your choice of career as there is nothing better than to actually be a part of the industry and learn your work hands on.
Bear in mind however that internships might or might not come with a stipend all the time. So you might have to arrange for your accommodation and travel if your company asks you to report to an office in another state or country. However, good performance will always be rewarded and the company might offer you a position at the end of your internship if you manage to impress them. Google, Infosys and even the United Nations among many others, offer good internship opportunities.
Infosys Training Attempts to Address Employability Issues
How does an introduction to the booming IT industry at an early age by a premier company sound to you? That’s exactly what Infosys is doing in their “Catch Them Young” programme. The programme is aimed at identifying talented school students and training them for a successful IT career. The students are chosen through a written test and trained in computer languages and other IT functions.For outstanding performers,there are opportunities for working on a real time project with Infosys paying a stipend.
In addition to this, Infosys also runs the “Rural Reach Program” where school students in rural areas are exposed to the basics of computer education so that they can aspire to a career along those lines later. The “Train the Trainer” programme is also worth mentioning as it’s objective is to train the lecturers of technical institutions so that they can handle their courses better and equip their students with the right skills.
Exciting Publishing Jobs
All of us grow up reading books and in the process, pick up a lot of words, expressions and proverbs from them. Books become our gateways to knowing more about different countries, cultures and practices. From comic strips to novels, books delight and educate us all the way. We all love books that are well written, blemish free and impeccably designed. Now that you have become an English enthusiast (and I am sure books had a major role to play in building your enthusiasm) how would you like to ensure that you and other people get to read books that are well designed and fun to read? If that sounds exciting, then a publishing house could be your destination while making a career choice.
A career in publishing is an exciting as well as rewarding prospect. You get to work with manuscripts, edit them, design them, so that they can be successful in the market. You can also look forward to interacting with authors, working closely with them and when a book is published and goes on to become a bestseller, you can feel satisfied to know that you had a big role to play as an editor or illustrator. In view of the rising number of opportunities in the publishing sector, several institutions are offering courses to equip you with all the skills you will need to turn a raw manuscript into a potential bestseller. Check out this link for some institutions offering such courses.
Learning English:Exposure Emphasized
One of the most important things you need to remember as a BPO employee is that the people you will be calling might be very different from you and me. They are based in different countries and belong to various cultures. The way they speak and use languages are different as well. Different countries bring in certain unique words and expressions to the English language which are derived from their cultures and their native languages. While training a BPO employee, companies usually spend a lot of time familiarizing him/her with these unique expressions since failure to comprehend these might lead to a breakdown in communication.
If you are aspiring for a BPO job and looking to enhance your employability, you will do well to look at some of these unique words and phrases and make a habit of using them while speaking. I am pretty sure an expression like “It’s a lemon” will perplex most of us in India but in the US, this phrase is commonly used to describe something that is defective. Thus a good knowledge of these expressions will surely help you get ahead of competition if you are looking forward to a rewarding BPO career.
Time to Wake Up
It never fails to surprise me that though the BPO industry has been around for a while now, our educational institutions do not really train the students for it. Students generally have to depend upon the many BPO training institutes that have mushroomed in recent times.
Why this neglect? In our educational institutions we are still holding on to certain traditional career paths coupled with a tendency to look upon new openings with suspicion. Even after being convinced of their benefits, it takes a long time to implement new courses. Our students end up losing out since they are not aware of these opportunities in the first place and are not given the necessary training. This results in a mad rush for the “established” careers when there are plenty of openings elsewhere.