NEW DELHI: India has once again emerged as the most optimistic nation in terms of hiring plans for the next three months and the recruitment pace is expected to return to the pre-recession level in the new year, global staffing services firm Manpower says.

“There is no more ‘cautious optimism’ among employers anymore, it has given way to ‘definite optimism’. Besides, the pace of hiring will be back to the 2007 level in the next year,” Manpower India Managing Director Naresh Malhan said.

According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, India has a net employment outlook — a measure of recruiting plans — of 39 per cent for the first quarter of 2010, the highest among 35 countries surveyed. India has been reporting the strongest hiring plans globally since the third quarter of 2008.

India’s outlook has improved by 11 percentage points on a quarter-on-quarter basis and by 18 per cent year-on-year.

A sectoral analysis shows that hiring outlook has risen across all sectors. Job seekers in the services, public administration, education, mining and construction, finance, insurance, real estate, and the wholesale and retail trade sector, could look forward to the most favourable hiring environment in early 2010, the survey said.

“The good news is that employer hiring expectations across all industry sectors are improving in the first quarter of 2010, and job seekers in key industry sectors can look forward to the most favourable hiring environment in over a year,” Malhan said. Source: The Times of India; 8 December 2009

BANGALORE: After a long hibernation of 18 months, headhunters are actively out in the market as talent requirements have started trickling in. The hiring momentum is expected to pick up from April onwards.

Even in a worst scenario, calendar 2010 will create around 50,000 fresh IT/ITES jobs against zero fresh jobs — except a very thin campus hiring — in the previous year. The calendar 2007 had witnessed a bumper hiring at over 3 lakh while the growth got tapered off towards the third quarter of 2008 clocking a total hiring of only 1.8 lakh.

B S Murthy, CEO, Leadership Capital says the new year will usher in recovery and a wave of general optimism across segments. “This means a complete change from the current skeletal and need-based hiring. The large volume-hiring realm (services space) will warm up by the second quarter of calender 2010. A 15% increment in hiring volumes is expected in the first two quarters while the growth could cross 20% or double towards third and fourth quarter.”

According to Nirupama V G, MD, AdAstra, requirements will start pouring in like tsunami, HR departments of many corporates have already geared up for large scale hiring after a long standstill. “Normalcy will return to the industry by April. In addition to domestic hiring, India is going to emerge as a huge sourcing ground for global jobs across segments, positions and profiles.”

“When we enjoy a vantage position in human resources, talent is still a scare commodity in global markets. The year 2010 is going to be bright year for India in terms of domestic and global placements,” adds Mohan Menon, CEO, Sentient Consulting. Source: The Times of India

About.com Guide, Karen Schweitzer, Defines ‘Rolling Admission’ as follows:
Rolling admissions are a type of admissions policy. Business schools that use a rolling admissions policy review applications as they receive them.

How Rolling Admissions Work
Some business schools have multiple “rounds” or deadlines during the admissions process. Business schools with rolling admissions do not.

How to Deal with Rolling Admissions
When dealing with rolling admissions, it is important to remember that admissions committees will be reviewing applications as they come in. This means the decisions will be made and seats will be filled throughout the admissions process.

If you wait until the last minute to submit your application in a rolling admissions situation, there is a good chance that the majority of seats will already be filled.

Bottom Line
It is always better to submit your application early when you are working with a school that uses rolling admissions.

Wikipedia defines rolling admission as follows:

Rolling admission is a policy used by many colleges to admit freshmen to undergraduate programs. Under rolling admission, a candidate is invited to submit his application to the university anytime within a large window. The window is usually over six months long, and some schools do not have a previously specified end date (the window simply closes when all spots are filled). The university will then review the application and notify the applicant of their decision within a few weeks from submission.

Advantages of rolling admission:
Rolling admission is helpful to both students and university admissions offices, because the process is more mellow and applications do not all flow in at the same time, respectively. Students can finish their application anytime between the summer before their senior year and midway through their senior year and can submit it at leisure, taking the time to carefully review their application and not getting anxious about a nearing deadline. The organization receives applications continuously rather than in one or two bursts and is thus able to spend more time on each application individually.

Collegeconfidential.com defines Rolling Admission as follows:
The idea behind “Rolling Admission” is that it enables candidates to receive an admission decision within a predetermined period after submitting an application. Typically, the decision arrives about two months after the application process is complete and often far sooner.

Colleges without Rolling Admission usually have a specific deadline, and no applications are evaluated before this deadline, no matter how early they are received. All decision letters are then mailed to candidates on the same day, which is generally in late March or early April.

When you apply to Rolling Admission colleges, it is wise to ask several questions. Find out how early you can submit an application and if sooner is better when it comes to getting aid, housing, choices of classes or academic program. Find out, too, if these determinations are based on the date you applied or on the date you accepted the offer of admission. Ask also how quickly you should expect to get your news—good or bad—in the mail and when you need to inform the college of your plans.

Thus, if you apply via Rolling Admission, don’t forget to ask admission officials how soon you need to respond, if admitted. Those institutions that do not belong to the CRDA group may insist on hearing from you before you have received all admission decisions. If this is the case, find out if you can get an extension in order to wait for all your letters to arrive. If the answer is no, you might want to consider delaying your Rolling Admission application until the notification date coincides with the notification you will receive from your remaining target schools.

According to the institute, historically, many individuals who work in real estate have acquired their skills on the job. However, as the business of real estate has become more complex in structure and more international in scope, the industry has recognised the need for specialised education in Real Estate. IDS-NIREM’s one-year distance learning Post Graduate Diploma Program in Real Estate Sales & Agency Management (PGD-RESAM), the first in the country, educates men and women in the full range of skills required of real estate professionals today. The course emphasis is on to provide knowledge and create practical skills to plan and execute successful sales, marketing & leasing strategies for different types of properties and to plan & manage real estate agencies.

The PGD-RESAM program, launched by IDS-NIREM, offers both, the fresh graduates who intend to pursue a career in real estate and those in the real estate profession, an unequaled educational growth and career advancement opportunity. To get further information, visit www.nirem.org

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The course emphasis is on to provide knowledge and create practical skills to plan and execute successful sales, marketing & leasing strategies for different types of properties and to plan & manage real estate agencies. Specific focus of the course is on the following:

• Sales & leasing of properties
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Eligibility for admission:

• Bachelor’ degree from a recognised University.
• Work experience in sales shall be preferred, though not mandatory.
• Should have good command over written and spoken English.

Applicants from outside India (English Language Requirement):

• Should have completed atleast three years of full-time academic study in English medium Or,
• Should show evidence of a sufficient oral and written command of the English language through the English language test organized by the institute Or,
• Should have TOEFL paper-based score of 513 or Internet-based score of 65 (minimum) or IELTS score of 5 (minimum).

How to Apply?
For further details, visit www.nirem.org

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