“Choose your career wisely, know the facts before hiring a Job Consultant” : Harshal Ramteke

Nagpur: Nowadays getting a good employer & employee is an onerous & arduous business.

You may see many online & newspaper ads for various job openings, beware before you proceed. Scammers using all the ways to cheat you.

How to get Call for a InterviewIf you are a job needy person you shall get registered with only renowned Job Placement Consultants who are having good reviews & tie ups with Companies.

Other you can join many forums like Groups on Facebook, Linkedin, & webportals like naukri.com, timesjob, monster, shine etc. Keep your CV updated daily if you are jobless. Because Recruiter won’t reach your profile if your cv is not updated as there are many applicants with same profile, if you update your profile you will reach to the nearest position of listings to the recruiter visit on webportal.

Job ScamsScammers know that finding a job can be tough. To trick people looking for honest work, scammers advertise where real employers and job placement firms do. They also make upbeat promises about your chances of employment, and virtually most of them ask you to pay them for their services before you get a job. But the promise of a job isn’t the same thing as a job. If you have to pay for the promise, it’s likely a scam. So don’t pay a service fees before you get appointed in a Company referred by a Consultancy. Also take a Receipt of any payments you did to them.

You need to pay to get the jobThey may say they’ve got a job waiting, or guarantee to place you in a job, if you just pay a fee for certification, training materials, or their expenses placing you with a company. But after you pay, the job doesn’t materialize. Employers and employment firms shouldn’t ask you to pay for the promise of a job.

You need to supply your credit card or bank account informationDon’t give out your credit card or bank account information over the phone to a company unless you’re familiar with them and have agreed to pay for something. Anyone who has your account information can use it. Many Consultants ask for submitting their Original Documents, Mark sheets, Blank Cheques but it’s all unethical & illegal.

Job Placement ServicesMany job placement services are legitimate. But others lie about what they’ll do for you, promote outdated or fake job openings, or charge up-front fees for services that may not lead to a job. In fact, they might not even return your calls once you pay. Many fake job consultants & mentors promises for guaranteed job but it does not happen.

Back Door EntryFreshers or some experienced candidates too nowadays demanding “Back Door Entry” as a job. But beware, no MNC select you only on the basis of reference. Everyone have a Recruitment Policy, Selection Process & Step by Step Tests.

They may say, that they have contacts with VP, Director or HR and you shall crack the Interview or direct Joining. But all of them are Fake & in Government Sector it’s everywhere coming up with frauds. Don’t let your hard earn money to a thief’s pocket.

Fake Degrees & CertificateMany Candidates who failed to complete their education been offered with immediate Distance Learning Education Degrees & Certificate. The one who tells that Degree will be provided within a month or two by paying in cash without exams is a fraud and scam.

These certificates have no values nor for any Government jobs nor in MNCs Private jobs.

Check with the hiring companyIf a company or organization is mentioned in an ad or interview, contact that company to find out if the company really is hiring through the service.

Also Know about the Company, Nowadays making a website is a simple thing. Read about the reviews about the Company & employer too.

Get details — in writingWhat’s the cost, what will you get, and who pays — you or the company that hires you? What happens if the service doesn’t find a job for you or any real leads? If they’re reluctant to answer your questions, or give confusing answers, you should be reluctant to work with them.

Get a copy of the contract with the placement firm, and read it carefully. A legitimate company will give you time to read the contract and decide, not pressure you into signing then and there.

Know whether it’s job placement or job counselingExecutive or career counseling services help people with career directions and decisions. They may offer services like skills identification and self-evaluation, resume preparation, letter writing, and interview techniques, and general information about companies or organizations in a particular location or job field.

But job placement isn’t guaranteed. Fees can be as high as thousands of rupees, and you often have to pay first.

Work-at-Home BusinessesWant to be your own boss? Earn thousands of rupees a month from home? Ads promote many different work-at-home jobs and businesses, but often the message is the same: they promise you’ll earn a great living from home, even in your spare time.

Don’t take their word for it — many of these “jobs” are scams, or don’t deliver on the claims they make. So do some research, and learn about common work-at-home scams.

Who to Trust & How?Every Manpower Consultant is not Fake , but candidates shall have to understand their need beware of the Scammers who are looking for a Short time money by fooling around.

Providing a Job Placement to the needy is the best thing you can do for someone. The Placement service shall be done ethically and efficiently. The Service charges shall be nominal and shall be made after satisfaction of the candidate.

A Consultant shall know that the Candidate is already in need of job; they must be in some financial trouble & may be in some personal nuisance too. One single incident done by a scammer can ruin their time, money & trust.

Before lining up for a Interview a Consultant shall Counsel the candidate and shall let them know about Company & Job Profile. Let them groom well so that they shall understand the need of employer and shall be provided with basic Interview Tactics.

Providing a better path for employment is a need for youth empowerment in our Country.

Request you to ethically support the needy and help them to uplift their career for betterment.

Write us : hr@horizonindia.org

Harshal Ramteke
(Director)Horizon India Group

Search For Employment: Colleges not offering enough placements, students turn to job agencies in Chandigarh

WITH ACADEMIC sessions drawing to an end, students at city colleges can now be seen searching for job opportunities. While many rely on the college placement cells, a lot of students in the Tricity have started knocking at the doors of job consultants and employment agencies to secure jobs.

Lack of adequate opportunities at placement drives in colleges has led to an increase in the number of students turning to seek employment options from such agencies. Says Parth Aghi, a student of DAV College, who has approached an employment consultant to look for job opportunities, “Colleges do not have very active placement cells, which is why employment is not really guaranteed there. Of late, however, placement agencies in the city have been doing a good job of helping students get in touch with companies for jobs.”

While some online employment portals do not charge the students anything for their services, other agencies charge a registration fee in order to put students in touch with potential employers. Further, if students get employed with the help of the services offered by these placement agencies, the students are also required to pay their salaries of seven to 20 days to these agencies.

One such placement agency, Dolphin Head Hunters that boasts of specialising in IT and non-IT placements for students, charges students a registration fee of Rs 500 for a two-month-long membership. “Once a student has registered with us, we put them in touch with potential employers on the basis of their qualifications. We only promise them to arrange their interviews, the rest is up to them. If they get employed, they are also required to give us a week’s salary after their date of joining,” says an official from Dolphin Head Hunters.

Another such company, T&A Solutions, offers its services to students free of cost. “Students are required to create an account on our website, and upload job-related details on the site, which then get saved in the database. Their work abilities are then matched with the listed job openings on the website on the basis of their preferred cities, and accordingly interviews are scheduled,” says Pradeep from T&A Solutions.

“We do not charge the job seekers. Instead the companies that get listed on our website pay us for putting them in touch with potential employees,” Pradeep adds.

Even though such employment agencies do not assure 100 per cent employability, the number of students turning to these agencies has only increased over the years. Explaining the reason for more students seeking job opportunities through such portals, Anant Gupta, owner of a placement agency in Chandigarh, says, “The reason why students are turning to such employment agencies of late is because we offer them individual attention and give them time unlike what happens in college placements. The college placements only take in the best of students, what about the rest?”

“The problem is the lack of enough opportunities in our colleges. We all want jobs, one way or the other. If shelling out money to these agencies helps us get in touch with employers, there is no harm in that,” says Mehaik Soin, a BCom graduate looking for a job.

My job's giving me a heart attack!

When Helen Smith had a heart attack at age 37, she was in shock. She was young, healthy and in tip-top shape. There'd been no warning signs. She had no family history of heart disease.

It was no little heart attack, either. It was a big one, she says, that forced her to take drugs and wear a pacemaker for the rest of her life. What in the world, Smith wondered, had caused the heart attack? And, more important, what could she do to make sure she didn't have another one?

Smith, a forensic psychologist, never got a clear answer to the first question, but she answered the second one on her own: She knew deep down that her stressful working conditions had contributed to her medical crisis. And she knew that things had to change if she wanted her heart to keep ticking.

It wasn't easy. "It was a horrible feeling to know that my life's work that I trained 11 years in graduate school for was going up in smoke due to my health," she said.

Stressed? The unexpected reasons why

But a new study says Smith did the right thing. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that you're more likely to have a second heart attack if you work in a stressful job. Other studies have shown you're also more likely to have that first heart attack if your work is stressful.

Smith took a long, hard look at specifically what parts of her job were stressing her out. The first thing to go: her five employees, so she could reduce the stress of managing others. "Some people flourish by dealing with other people. I did not, and I knew my limitations," she said.

Next step: She moved out of her fancy office (and into a home office) so she didn't have to work so hard to make ends meet. With no rent and no payroll, Smith could see fewer patients.

As a forensic psychologist, she spent most of her time with violent patients, a high-stress situation in itself. "When I would treat and evaluate patients who were violent, my heart would beat irregularly, and I would feel dizzy and weak," she said. But she couldn't (and didn't want to) stop working altogether. So instead, she found less stressful pursuits: a blog, podcasting and a radio show.

How to stop being annoyed by life

Smith acknowledges that not everyone can rearrange work the way she did. "I am very lucky that I was my own boss," she said.

So what do you do if you're not your own boss? We posed several scenarios -- exploding bosses, back-biting co-workers -- to the authors of "Working with You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work." Katherine Crowley is a psychotherapist, andKathi Elster is a business strategist.

Elizabeth Cohen: In addition to being authors, you're consultants -- people come to you when they're stressed out about work. What's usually bothering them?

Katherine Crowley: Bosses!

Cohen: OK, so let me throw a few stressful bosses at you. Let's say a client tells you, "My boss doesn't appreciate me."

Kathi Elster: You have to detach and depersonalize. You're not going to turn this person into a caring, loving boss. You have to accept you're not going to change this person.

Crowley: That's right, the stress comes from expecting something you can't get. If you need appreciation and acknowledgment -- which everyone does -- we suggest you find another way. Get colleagues to band together and acknowledge each other. Find other ways within the company to get this appreciation.

'Are you OK?' Signs you need a vacation

Cohen: Here's another one: How about the boss that explodes? She just yells and screams.

Elster: This is where people take a lot of medication! You have to detach and depersonalize again. Accept that it's not about you, and watch them scream. Act a little bored. You have to see it as the other person's problem.

Crowley: Also, do a physical activity during your lunch hour or after work that releases the toxins of the other person's behavior. Unhook physically. Take a run, take a bath, get a massage, do yoga.

Cohen: How about the boss that's been in the company forever, has survived every layoff, but doesn't really do anything.

Crowley: We call that the sacred cow. They're your boss, but you have no idea why. We always say, bow down to the sacred cow. The only way they're going to allow you to function is if you give them the credit.

Cohen: Moving away from bosses, let's talk about colleagues. What do you do about the co-worker who's sweet to your face but stabs you in the back?

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Elster: What a back-stabber does is cut you out of meetings and conversations. They insert themselves when you're not around. So you're going to have to forge your own PR campaign and let people know the truth. We don't suggest you confront the back-stabber; it won't get you anywhere. But remember, back-stabbers think they can't get anywhere on their own, that they have to bring someone down in order to succeed. They'll eventually sink their own ship.

Cohen: So big picture, what can someone do when they feel stressed out at their job?

Elster: Lots of things can be stressful at work, but it's how you internalize the stress that makes the difference. Remind yourself all day long that no one has control over your experience. They have control over your paycheck, but they don't have control over your internal experience.

You're Hired

When Vistara airlines decided to add new aircraft to its fleet recently, it took to social media to hire talent. In a span of 10 days, the airline hired around 40 cabin crew members through job postings on Facebook and LinkedIn. In fact, Vistara posts job openings on its Facebook page regularly and receives voluntary applications, too. "All our hiring is done either through employee referrals or social media channels. We don't advertise in newspapers or go through job consultants," says S. Varadarajan, CHRO of Vistara.

Advertising agency SapientNitro launched a campaign called 'Troublemakers' in April to look for extraordinary minds adept at digital innovation. The campaign, comprising short quirky videos and a quiz, was plastered across social media channels. The videos, which humorously depicted the kind of office characters the company was not looking for, recorded almost 506,405 views in total. Out of the 8,777 candidates who took the quiz, the company hired four. Kameshwari Rao, VP, People Strategy, Sapient India, says the company saw the number of applicants double this year, thanks to the campaign.

"Social media channels have become watering holes where all the influential, digital savvy people congregate," says Krishna Gopal, Global Head, Leadership Hiring and Talent Management at Tech Mahindra. Gone are the days of sifting through heaps of CVs to find the right talent. A direct message to potential hires on Twitter or LinkedIn saves time and effort.

The wide reach of social media is also helpful to contact people in countries where full-fledged commercial job portals are absent, informs Karuna Vempala, Director - Talent Acquisition Group, Cigniti Technologies, which has got over 200 professionals on board in the past three years through social media channels.

Hiring through social media facilitates a direct connection between the company and the candidate. And the absence of a recruitment consultant makes it a cost-efficient process. Companies are resorting to social media to hire people with special skill sets. "It is extremely powerful when you want to narrow down your search to a very specific criterion like the college they went to or the professional groups they are a part of," says Gopal.

A quick personality check by browsing through candidates' Twitter, Quora, Instagram and Facebook profiles helps companies take more informed decisions. "It helps in ascertaining a person's political inclination, values and ethics, which are very important especially for leadership roles as it would affect the culture of the company," says Purushotam Savlani, SVP and MD of background screening firm First Advantage.

When hiring for low-level jobs, social media helps in corroborating candidates' claimed accomplishments - through testimonials and endorsements on LinkedIn, for example - and also give an idea of how their bosses or colleagues perceive them. Vistara's Varadarajan recounts an incident: "We had shortlisted a person on LinkedIn. But on checking his Facebook posts, we found that he had an aggressive personality, and very radical views on politics". He wasn't hired.

It's the human word over the digital word for Shailja Dutt, Founder of Stellar Search, an executive search company. She is against "making judgement calls based on partial information of someone's social life online". "One can't use that data to take an informed decision on whether the person would make a good fit to the organisation. If there's a number to call for a reference check, make that call," Dutt advises.

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LinkedIn's new feature 'Open Candidates' comes as a relief to job seekers who want to look for other options without alerting their current employers. Using the feature available on LinkedIn's Recruiter product, users can secretly convey their interest to switch to recruiters. The information would be kept away from the candidate's employer, making the process a lot less stressful. "We currently have nearly a million members signalling they're open and expect that number to grow significantly as we expand markets through 2016 and beyond," Eduardo Vivas, head of product for LinkedIn's Talent Solutions, said in a blog post. The feature, for now, is available in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. The professional networking site has also introduced two other features - LinkedIn Career Pages and Apply Starters.

Copyc(h)at

After Instagram, Facebook is trying to copy Snapchat's most popular feature 'Stories' on its Messenger app. US-based technology website TechCrunch reported that the social networking giant has launched 'Messenger Day' in Poland. The feature enables users to share stories - videos and pictures in a slideshow - which disappear after 24 hours, just like they do on Snapchat. The feature has only been launched in Poland, where Facebook Messenger is not as popular as Snapchat. "We know that people come to Messenger to share everyday moments with friends and family. In Poland, we are running a small test of new ways for people to share those updates visually. We have nothing more to announce at this time," a Facebook spokesperson told the tech website. Earlier in August, Facebookowned Instagram had introduced a similar feature.

JW Michaels Appoints Head of Partner Placement Division

New York-based executive search firm JW Michaels & Co. has named Richard Zakin as a managing director to lead its national partner placement division. With a decade of experience in practicing executive search and as a former partner for more than eight years with two of The American Lawyer’s Am Law 100 firms, Mr. Zakin brings a unique and personal perspective to the role.

Most recently, he was managing director of Alan Roberts Co. and before that held the same role with Howard-Sloan Legal Search. He also gained executive search experience with Solomon Page Group and Strategic Legal Solutions.

Mr. Zakin has completed partner placements across a wide range of practice areas, including intellectual-property litigation, M&A, tax, private equity and real estate. Before entering the executive legal search profession, he was a commercial real estate partner with both Bryan Cave LLP and Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

Broad Legal Sector Knowledge

“Richard’s knowledge of the goals and motivations of both clients and prospective candidates streamlines the process for all parties involved and ensures that communications with senior law firm management and candidates are discrete, detailed and handled in an expeditious manner,” said Jason Wachtel, managing partner of JW Michaels & Co.

“For the past 10 years, I’ve partnered closely with leading New York and national law firms for targeted and strategic growth efforts,” said Mr. Zakin. “My broad law firm knowledge background and practice area strength will ensure law firm partner candidates are guided responsibly as they contemplate career decisions.”

JW Michaels & Co. is an executive search firm dedicated to serving the recruiting needs of top-tier financial services, legal, technology and business institutions, including investment management firms, hedge funds, investment banks, law firms and Fortune 500 companies. The firm has additional offices in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Houston.

The firm recently expanded into the Atlanta market through a majority investment in executive recruiter ExecuSource, Inc. Since 1998, ExecuSource has placed more than 5,000 accounting, finance and IT professionals with over 200 mid-sized to billion dollar organizations in the Atlanta area. Its local experience and resources will now contribute to JW Michael’s continued growth. The firm’s founding partners, Frank Green, Marc Schwartz and Michael Johnson, along with the rest of its staff, all remain with the firm.

RUSSELL REYNOLDS NAMES US REGION HEAD

Executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates named Constantine Alexandrakis as US region head, responsible for growing the firm’s business in the United States. Clare Metcalf will step into his previous position as head of the Chicago and Minneapolis offices.

Alexandrakis joined Russell Reynolds as a consultant in 2004 and has led the Chicago and Minneapolis offices since 2012 and 2014, respectively. He has served on the firm’s executive committee since 2015. Alexandrakis will continue to lead the firm’s global leadership and succession business, and remain based in Chicago.

“With deep experience advising CEOs and boards at both private and public companies across industries, Constantine is uniquely suited to lead our growth efforts in the United States,” said Russell Reynolds Associates CEO Clarke Murphy. “During his 12 years with the firm, Constantine has held a number of leadership roles in our organization. In these roles he has consistently demonstrated our firm’s core values as a trusted advisor to our clients in a dynamic and often volatile business environment.”

AUSTRALIA – OPTIONS GROUP ACQUIRES EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRM BROADSTREET GLOBAL

Options Group, an executive search firm serving the financial services industry, has announced the acquisition of Broadstreet Global, a financial services executive search and strategic consulting firm based in Australia.

Broadstreet Global's founder, Adam Gillibrand, will join Options Group Australia as a Partner.

"Australia is a critical part of Asia-Pacific and will be a key driver of growth for the firm.  As the centre of gravity of the global economy shifts, Options Group's presence in Australia will help the company serve all of the region's talent markets and will open significant opportunities over the next few years for our clients and ourselves," Gillibrand said.

“This transaction, combined with our acquisition of Whitney Correlate in Hong Kong last year, highlights our commitment to the Asia-Pacific region,” Michael Karp, Co-Founder and CEO of Options Group, said. “We've increased our investments in our global platform and, with our larger presence in the region, we expect to continue to win market share."

Broadstreet Global specialises in search and consulting for investment banking, capital markets, structured products, alternative asset classes and insurance.