Intel to Introduce Budget Android Smartphones in India

US chip maker Intel has entered into partnership with smatphone makers of India to introduce budget Android handsets in the country by mid 2013, said new reports.

According to an Android OS report, Intel is planning to expand its market visibility with smartphones that are powered by Intel processors. It was said that the company will foray into the market with handsets which would cost less than Rs 7,000 each.
"The first handset with Lava that we launched was a premium one. We learnt that it was important to have a portfolio and offer choice to the user. We will not have entry-level handsets but our smartphone range will be priced upwards of Rs 7, 000," said Debjani Ghosh, Intel South Asia Managing Director, Sales and Marketing to the Press Trust of India.

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5 female leaders reveal their top career tips

Leaders in Heels recently asked five successful female leaders to give their top tips to women who are at the beginning of their careers.

Know your strengths.

Always self-evaluate. Knowing your strengths will help you to better communicate them to prospective and current employers when job hunting or asking for a promotion or pay rise. It also helps you find areas of opportunity and to work on them.

Many people don’t have the level of self-awareness they need to take advantage of their personal strengths or to strengthen their weak points. Find ways to identify your talents and strong points by asking colleagues for feedback or find a mentor within your organisation who can provide you with an objective viewpoint about where you shine and where you need to improve.

Once you have pinpointed your strengths, practice speaking about them when you are pursuing a new job or asking for promotions.

 Lauren Brown
Company: Pulse Marketing
Position: Managing Director
Industry: Marketing and Advertising

pulsemarketing.com.au

Be honest with yourself.

Be passionate – understand your true skills and values and never be afraid of learning.
Mentors are an invaluable asset to have, being humble in learning will provide the foundation for your success. Always remember those on the way up and never ever take someone for granted.
Best advice of all? Be honest with yourself!

Dee Bounds
Company: Dee by design Pty Ltd
Position: Managing Director/Owner
Industry: Property
deebydesign.com.au

Be curious.

If you are at university, study something that you enjoy or at least include those subjects as part of your degree. It’s amazing the types of careers that you can have which overlap with things that interest you. Careers are long and opportunities creep when least expected. If you love science, but want to work in business then study science subjects because science graduates have excellent critical thinking skills.

Be curious. Think about what you are doing in your role and why. Even if the company or role is not your dream role, you should perform to the best of your abilities and spend the time to understand how your job fits into the whole organisation.

Focus on solutions to problems rather than the problem itself. See every problem from the perspective of how you can fix it rather than complaining about it or accepting it. You can’t always fix issues in organisations, but you should definitely give it a good go.

Be happy and bring a positive attitude to the workplace. People want to work with positive, engaged people. This is one of the most important attributes you can have.

Ms Kylie Ahern
Company: Cosmos Magazine/ Cosmos Media
Position: CEO/ Publisher
Industry: Publishing/ Media
cosmosmagazine.com

Turn challenges into opportunities.

Every successful business owner faces challenges.  But it is about how you respond to the challenges and by turning them into opportunities. These challenges make you the person you are no matter what comes your way.

Always seek ways to increase your skills and knowledge.  You should study, read and listen.  I am passionate about education.  It’s about enhancing lives!

And don’t forget about ‘giving back to community’. Be kind and generous, there’s no point in reaching the top if you have no one to share it with.

I started The Australasian College Broadway with $1600 and one staff member. Today we have a hundred people in our team.  I didn’t do it all by myself, you need support and assistance. By surrounding yourself with a strong team you will reap the long-term rewards.

 Maureen Houssein-Mustafa OAM
Company: MHM Australasia Pty Ltd, the parent company of The Australasian College Broadway
Position: Founder and Co-Chair
Industry: Education
tac.edu.au

Be decisive.

Trust your instincts and go with it. If you are doing well, you can be confident you have good judgement.

Listen to advice from people you trust and respect. Even if you don’t take that advice you’ll have benefited from their alternative point of view.

Take every opportunity to challenge negative assumptions, those of others and your own.
Be bold but balanced. Too many women either self-censor or push our views too hard because we are afraid we won’t be listened to. If you own your knowledge and the power of your position people will follow you.

Be decisive, it’s much easier to turn around a poor decision than to combat inertia.

Visit actors in rehearsal rooms, technicians in darkened theatres, meet your colleagues in their offices. They all need to know that you care about them and their work.

Watch lots of theatre. Your job might be balancing the books and getting bums on seats, but the art is the reason those things matter.

Brenna Hobsom
Company: Belvoir St Theatre
Position: General Manager and co-CEO
Industry: Theatre
belvoir.com.au

Source:http://leadersinheels.com/career/career-advice-from-5-successful-female-leaders/

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Rcom, Delhi requires GM/DGM as GAM-'Group Accounts Manager

Rcom, Delhi requires GM/DGM as GAM-'Group Accounts Manager. Mail updated CV immediately at globalhiringsolutions@yahoo.in

JD as follows:
Primary Responsibilities –
1. Identify & target set of accounts to be focused under Non-government vertical along with a team of KAMs.
2. Envision upcoming opportunities for new - account acquisition.
3. Ensure the achievement of assigned sales / revenue targets through effective sales strategy implementation for all product lines.
4. Monitor team relationship building activities with internal & external key customers for Non-Govt.vertical.
5. Identify appropriate mix of products required for large / complex Non-Govt.accounts to enable development of an innovative, customized & effective solution, meeting all customer needs.
6. Ensure Total Customer Satisfaction and defect free service delivery on agreed SLAs.
Ensure team motivation & development through regular trainings & updation on new upcoming telecom solutions

In case of any query, you may call:
Raj Vohra
globalhiringsolutions@yahoo.in

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10 Worst Career Disasters & Lessons Learnt

1.Getting chewed out. -In one of the meetings, Ramesh got a dressing down because of somebody’s else mistake from his boss, whom he used to admire and respect. He was totally dejected and shocked and his defense looked like whining and complaining. Fortunately, the Boss found out a little later about the person actually responsible for the mistake and apologized to Ramesh in front of other people .

Lessons learnt- Be on your toes and not only cover yourself, but also from implications because of others mistakes. Also have the humility to apologise if you are wrong regardless of position, power, designation. 

2.Mediocre review. When Rohit received his first average rating in the performance appraisal , he was shocked as he had done a decent job and had been praised by his boss. In the feedback session he had been communicated that the activities and projects he was working on weren ’t that important and critical for the organization so nobody was excited and pushed for him when his name came up for performance appraisal.

Lessons learnt- :That’s when he learned to take risks and initiatives on high-visibility projects. That changed the entire trajectory of his career.

3.Write rubbish : After Ravi’s attempt to write a business proposal, his manager termed it rubbish and questioned his educational qualification.Ravi realized it is one matter to get a college degree with theatrical knowledge and another to write a business proposal in the real world.

Lessons learnt- Comunication is the heart of business and corporate life and needs to be learned by observation and practice.

4.Micromanage boss -Rajesh used to pride himself in managing and influencing people. In the the job he tried the same with his boss; that didn’t help. He then tried talking to the senior management; that too didn’t help . Ultimately he had to leave the company.
Lessons learnt-He learned an important lesson that the boss is always more important to the company than self. One cannot choose a boss so one has to learn to work with him .

5.Customer disaster. Rakesh was relatively new to sales when a manufacturing delay caused a business loss to his biggest customer . The customer was furious and threatened to break the relationship. Rakesh saved the situation by internally becoming the customer’s spokesperson and fought to retrieve the situation, while with the customer, he became the company’s spokesperson explaining the problem and the developments.
Lesson learnt- Do not believe in lip service to customers, demonstrate by your actions 

6.Getting laid off. -It can happen to anyone . Suresh' first instinct was to feel rejected and a pressing desire to lash out in anger. But he fought it down and took a break and did some reflection about his interests and passions. He applied to the jobs which were in sync with his interests and passions. It turned out to be the right move and a blessing in disguise and his career grew fast in the new job.
Lessons learnt -That’s when he learned that everything happens for a reason and, when one door closes, another opens. Instead of rolling in self pity .. it is time to pick up the thread and move on. 

7.High-visibility crisis. Sunil as the head of marketing released a product advertisement which caused public uproar and adverse publicity. Instead of panicking and pointing fingures and blaming. He quickly organized the team to handle the crisis and keep the top management posted of the developments.
Lessons learnt -That was trail by fire and taught him how not to panic and maintain his cool. 

8.Abusive boss - Raghav's  boss was a sadist and used to revel in ripping him and his others colleagues apart . He thought of quitting but he loved the organization and his job, so he hung in there while some of his colleagues quit.
Lessons learnt-Ultimately the word got around and the boss was eventually fired for bad people management skills. It proved an old Japanese proverb: “If you wait by the river long enough, you’ll see the body of your enemy float by.”

 

9.Lost credibility -Sharad took a complex assignment with a killing deadline basis his vendors assurance that they would deliver. The vendor went back on his commitment and Sharad had to really work by 24 X 7 to meet the deadline . Lessons Learnt - Stay on top of your vendors. Regardless of the relationship, they may not have the same skin in the game that you do.    
 

10.Publicy making a fool of self - Rajan in order to impress in a company annual conference made a fool of himself by shouting/screaming at his colleagues, pulling them down and boasting loudly about his achievements. The CEO of the company took him aside and ticked him off. This grounded Rajan and made him sober and showed him the correct way to guide others.
Lessons learnt-Never humiliate anybody publicly and have the humility to guide the inexperienced while maintaining one's dignity.
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8 MYTHS ABOUT JOB HUNTING

MYTH 1 - If you can't find the right job, it doesn't exist.

A typical - but inaccurate - conclusion drawn by frustrated job hunters. According to studies by a major foundation and the Federal Employment Service in California , over 85% of job vacancies are not available through traditional resources like newspaper ads, civil service notices, federal or state employment agencies, private agencies or search firms. Nevertheless, there are millions of professional and executive job opportunities. A recent survey by the National Federation of Independent Business revealed that small businesses alone had one million available positions.

MYTH 2 - Most people know how to conduct a job hunt.

Most people job hunt by sending out resumes, the most common - and ineffective - method. Standard resumes produce one inquiry for every 85 resumes a company receives, yet only half of the inquiries results in an interview. That's only one interview for every 170 resumes. The average company conducts 10 interviews before making a single offer; that's only one offer for every 1,700 resumes received. The bottom line - 1,699 resume senders are rejected for every one person offered a job.

MYTH 3 - Employment agencies have plenty of jobs.

It's a startling fact: less than 7% of all professional, managerial and executive opportunities are ever listed with agencies. What's more, surveys reveal that the average agency will see only 1 out of every 20 individuals who contact them. The others don't match their active job list.

MYTH 4 - Employment agencies market job hunters to companies.

Once upon a time, that might have been true. But today's agencies are in the business of filling vacant positions for companies. There's a big difference! Companies buy loyalty by paying commissions to employment agencies. So, rather than marketing job hunters to companies, agencies try to fit individuals into well defined vacant positions.

MYTH 5 - The 'want ads' are where to look for jobs.

Millions of job hunters shop the local classifieds every day without realizing that each ad for professional and executive openings draw from 200 to 500 applicants. And for most jobs, there will always be someone who sounds better than you. Besides, jobs advertised in papers today account for less than 3% of the jobs out there.

MYTH 6 - Employers have all the power.

It's true they have the power to hire and fire, but you have the power of choice. Many job hunters postpone effective job screening until after they're hired, find out their jobs aren't what they hoped, and end up quitting. With hiring costs escalating across all industries it's important to remember that employers need good people as much as you need them.

MYTH 7 - The higher up you go, the more secure your job will be.

Things just don't work that way. More than 500,000 middle managers and senior executives got the ax in the past decade. According to Business Week, the chances are 1 in 3 that you'll lose your job, and those odds increase as you move up the ladder.

MYTH 8 - The best-qualified people get the best jobs.

Not necessarily. The people who get the best jobs are the ones who know how to get hired then put their knowledge and skill to work.

Source : Internet

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