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Topic of the week : Recession wipes out Business Case for Offshoring Go to Topic

Recession is a concern for everyone in nearly every industry-fear of lost...

Recession Proof Technologies


	5 Data Security
	4 Virtualization
	2 Embedded Technologies

Will the new American government affect the IT industry??

Yes

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Debates in "Sapient"

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Are the students changing after entering the corporate office?

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	Argument added by Kriti Das, HR Manager, ANZ Information Technology \| Topic: Corporate Layoffs \| 2 years ago
	I believe that students do change after entering the corporate world. If they dont change then they just cant fit into the corporate world. They need to carry an attitude that makes them employable by the employer.

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Enthusiasm while recruiting Vs Empathy during layoffs

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	Argument added by Kriti Das, HR Manager, ANZ Information Technology \| Topic: Recruitment for organization \| 2 years ago
	I would rather say its enthusiasm while recruiting which is very important. When you recruit in a proper and happy way you will select the right candidate, which may not lead you to the lay off level.

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Idea Contests in "Sapient"

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Which tech jobs are recession proof? And why ?

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	Argument added by Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech \| Topic: Recession wipes out Business Case for Offshoring \| 3 years ago
	Hi Smitha, well said. Web and graphics nowadays are involved in almost every field. So if recession affects one sector the other sector will help us. This is considered to be the best profession compared to other. :)

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What are the best emerging technologies of the future ?

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	Argument added by Sameer Joshi, Project Manager, ADP \| 3 years ago
	Each and every technology named here is equally important,....

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Corporate Culture is a CEO's Responsibility and should be on the CEO Agenda

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	Commented by Priyanka Dixit, HR Executive, Leading IT services \| Topic: corporate culture \| 3 years ago
	George not exactly but they too have a great role to play......... apart from that everyone should cooperate to build it....... Thanks for sharing.........

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Sony And Google Try To Take On The Kindle With Open Books

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	Referred by Abhimanyu Shekhawat, Project Manager, Kotak Mahindra \| Topic: open source business models \| 3 years ago
	When you are coming from behind, embracing openness is always a good strategy. That is exactly what Sony is doing with its electronic book reader, which is up against the Amazon Kindle. The key to the Kindle’s success is that it is paired with the...

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Q & A in "Sapient"

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what are the terms for being enlisted as recruitment consultant with bpo?

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	Referred by jagdeep sachdeva, Partner/Principal/VP sachdeva placements & consultants \| Topic: Recruitment for organization \| 2 years ago
	we are 12 years old company and working with many small and big industrial setups as their authorized recruitment consultant. we also worked with BPOs few years back. now again we want to enter the same way. how can we and what are the terms? hr from...

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like to participate in campus recruitment drive ??????????

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	Referred by jagdeep sachdeva, Partner/Principal/VP sachdeva placements & consultants \| Topic: Recruitment for organization \| 3 years ago
	Dear Sushil hi we appreciate your response, kindly send us the details as required so as to start campus drives with you. this is in reference to your mail showing iinterest towards the campus recruitment drives and thanks for the time given to me for...

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Topics in Sapient

businesses using open source Go to Topic

Free & Open Source REcruitment Software

RecruitPro FOSS is a Complete Recruitment Process Automation Software which streamlines the entire recruitment process as per Customer needs. Customers can Configure/Create Candidate, Client, Recruitment Manager, Source, User and Requirement Information Pages Database as per their requirement and RecruitPro seamlessly bind's these information and provides them a comprehensive solution to maintain and manage their Resume database, work flow and Candidate engagement process. Customers can also Cr

SaaS vs Open Source. Who will win ?

SaaS

Open source

Corporate Layoffs Go to Topic

Sapient Layoffs 8% staff in India on Feb 12, 2009

Sapient Corp. became the latest e-consultant forced into major cutbacks by the economic downturn, announcing layoffs around 8 percent of its work force in India (Gurgaon) on Feb 12 and warning it won't make its expected first quarter profit. Earleir Sapient fired 160 people in July 2008 without notice. Firings were underway with over 200 more people in PIP bench was already fired on november 2008. On an average sapient fire 1 in every 3 employee. Sapient said it has laid off employees as part o

Layoffs soar as India plunges deeper into recession

Have listed layoffs till Jan. The employers covered are across different industry verticals. Add what you hear to the list. Company City # Layoffs When Sapient Gurgaon 8% Feb-09 Mastek Bangalore, Hyderabad 429 Feb-09 Motorola Bangalore, Hyderabad 500 Jan-09 Polaris Chennai 480 Jan-09 Unitech Delhi 20 Jan-09 Sun Microsystems Bangalore 200 Jan-09 Apollo DKV Insurance Delhi NA Jan-09 eminlabs hyderabad 4 Jan-09 PROCALL - AGRANI Bangalore 15-20 Jan-09 Lionbridge Technologies Mumbai 100 Jan-09 Motor

corporate culture Go to Topic

Corporate Culture is a CEO's Responsibility and should be on the CEO Agenda

Why is it that few CEO's accept responsibility for the corporate culture, and defer to HR and OD? That attitude is a dereliction of duty. Yet CEO's routinely talk about their leadership. It is apparent to me that there is a gross misalignment of the western business model, and that the OD, HR, and leadership pundants do not understand. Perhaps Jack Welch of the former very successful GE understood, but most who wrote about his stile did not. Jack orchestrated cultural change through modifyin

Corporate communication in HR

Dear members, Here i would like to rais the topic that i faced when started working in my own state Orissa. I found 95% of the corporate using the local language for there professional communication. Few are using Hindi too. Use of English for internal or external communication is very rare. I would like to know your view about this. Please reply

Corporate Governance Go to Topic

Satyam fiasco exposed corporate governance standards in India?

Yes

How to protect Companies against accounting frauds ?


	6 rotate the auditors in regular intervals
	4 Proper segregation of duties in the accounting/finance system
	2 Audit and transfers

How to secure network Go to Topic

Eight daily steps to a more secure network

While many companies have a 9-to-5 security staff, hackers don't punch a clock. However, your network can still remain secure in the 16 hours in-between—you just need to focus activities to provide maximum coverage for the network. Mike Mullins gets you started with a list of eight daily tasks in this edition of Security Solutions. In today's connected world, hacking is a 24/7 business. Whether approaching it as a job or a hobby, hackers don't punch a clock. While many companies don't have the

WHICH IS THE BEST ANTIVIRUS - TOTAL SECURITY FOR A NETWORK

Yes

Saas v/s open source Go to Topic

SaaS vs Open Source. Who will win ?

SaaS

Open source

Open source key driver of SaaS

Software as a service (SaaS) is the talk of the day and it will increase in its popularity since there a scope of opensource to push it higher and higher. Gartner predicts that SaaS will be driven by opensource in the future. And the prediction is supported by facts and figures. By 2010, 90 percent of software as a service (SaaS) providers will have some open-source component in their technology infrastructure stacks (that is, operating system, application server and database) to reduce softwar

Software Development Methodologies Go to Topic

Story of programmer

1.Two Recursive functions calling each other Mujhe kuchh kehna hein mujhe bhi kuchh kehna hein pehle tum, pehle tum 2. The debugger Jab koi baat bigad jaye Jab koi mushkil pad jaye Tum dena saath mera hamnawaz 3. From VC++ to VB Yeh haseen vaadiyan Yeh khula asmaan Aa gaye hum kahan 4. Untrackable bug -- aye ajnabi, tu bhi kabhi, awaaz de kahin se 5. Unexpected bug (esp. during presentation to client) Ye kya hua, Kaise hua, Kab hua, Kyon hua 6. And then to the client

Agile or Waterfall development methods--Which one to choose?

Agile

Waterfall

securing wifi technology Go to Topic

How to secure WiFi network.


	9 Secure your wireless router
	6 Secure your Wi-Fi Network
	4 create or configure wireless profile for users who require access to witeless n/w

What are the Issues and threats related to wireless future??


	1 Security
	1 Lack of Standards
	1 Convergence, Data Theft

Recruitment for organization Go to Topic

What is the biggest challenge faced by the Recruitment Professionals?

Top Rated Answer :

Being HR professional in Recruitment industry, the one of the biggest challenges I face here is the commitment of the candidates, the words they give to the recruiter as they do not give the value to their own words. For placement consultancy,...

Voicemail Surfing: Circumventing Gatekeepers Using Documented Voicemail System Features.

Having trouble with gatekeepers? Do you need to speak to someone directly and keep getting the nth degree from the company receptionist or their administrative assistant? I have read many articles with suggestions to resolve this problem. They usually involve rusing (aka lying), calling after hours and leaving a message for the person you need to speak to (wouldn’t you rather speak to them live?), or calling every extension at a company sequentially until you find them (who has time for t

Role of media in India Go to Topic

Do Media channels and Political leaders have same character?

Top Rated Answer :

I am totaly agree with mr . basudev mahapatra.. both of them have moral responsibility above all for the society. that we can be definetly called as similarity between them.

Should media be given the rights to disclose any company's official information??

Yes

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