Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Yes We Topped
We Topped…………….
Dataquest’s Best Employers Survey 2008
In Dataquest’s Best Employers Survey 2008, more than 10 Indian firms having an employee base of less than 4,000 were in the top 20 list
The top IT employers 2008
1. IGate Global Solution
2. RMSI
3. HCL Infosystems
4. Rolta India
5. Microsoft India
6. Tata Consultancy Service
7. SAS Institute Pvt Ltd
8. Synechron
9. Tavant Technology
10. Span Infotech India
11. Hexaware
12. Intel India
13. Datacraft
14. Infrasoft Tech
15. Fulcrum Logic
16. Global Logic
17. Ness Technologies
18. Tulip Telecom
19. Sun Microsystems
20. Nagarro Software
Small companies top best employers survey
In Dataquest’s Best Employers Survey 2008, more than 10 Indian firms having an employee base of less than 4,000 were in the top 20 list
BENGALURU, INDIA: Relatively smaller companies were voted as best employers in the information technology sector, by 2897 respondents across 33 IT companies in India, reveals a forthcoming Dataquest-IDC IT Best Employers Survey 2008. More than 10 Indian firms having an employee base less than 4,000 were in the top 20 list.
This follows the trend observed in the Dataquest Top 20, Dataquest's annual survey of the Indian IT industry, wherein revenue of smaller IT companies grew better than that of large companies, beating forecasts that they will be negatively hit by the US slowdown than larger companies.
The winner of the Best Employers Survey 2008 was iGate, which displaced TCS, India's largest IT firm by revenue from the number one position in 2007 to number six this year. In 2007 survey, iGate jumped 26 places to the number three position.
The eighth annual Dataquest-IDC Best Employers Survey studied employees across 33 companies. It ranked the companies on employee satisfaction (80 percent weightage) and HR score (20 percent weightage). The HR score included quantitative parameters like size, growth, employee growth, retention and HR initiatives.
Movers & shakers
There were some significant changes in rankings of the top 20 players. Microsoft and Intel, which did not participate in 2007, entered the charts in 2008 at 5th and 12th positions respectively.
iGate Global Solutions recorded the highest employee satisfaction closely followed by RMSI at number two. HCL Infosystems, Rolta India and Microsoft India were third, fourth and fifth respectively in the employee satisfaction scores.
In pure HR score, TCS outscored all other companies, followed distantly by Rolta India. Smaller companies like Synechron, Tulip Telecom and Nagarro Software took the next three places.
Though companies like MphasiS EDS and Zensar were number eight and number 12 in the HR ranking, they did not make it to the top 20 best employers indicating that employees do not always share the same perception with the company.
TCS ranked number one in terms of opportunity to work overseas and company image. Not surprisingly, since it created history this year by becoming the largest private sector employer in India crossing the 1,00,000 employee mark and becoming the first Indian company to employ10,000 non-Indians, close to 9.2 percent of the total strength.
However, employee perception on fairness of the appraisal systems, salary hikes and relevance of perks and benefits, seems to have pulled TCS down.
There were nine new entrants in the top 20 list even as some of the large companies like Capgemini, Cognizant, CSC, IBM, Infosys and Wipro did not participate in the survey this year.
Some companies, which continued to be a part of the best employers list, include TCS, RMSI, and HCL Infosystems. Accel Frontline, Cybage, and Aricent could not make it to the list this time unlike last year when they were ranked 15, 17, and 19 respectively.
Sun Microsystems slid nine positions to number 19, while Nagarro gained nine positions on the whole while improving its HR ranking from 32 to six.
Based on the survey results, companies were also ranked on eight broad parameters — company image, organization culture, job content, salary, appraisal, people, outsiders consider it a dream company, and internal employees consider it the most preferred employer. In the first six parameters, iGate occupied the number one slot.
Why people leave?
Half the respondents surveyed said that salary and compensation were the top reasons to leave the company. Other parameters included growth opportunity, overseas opportunity, location of the company and flexible office hours or work-life balance Work-life balance, which was the number eight reason for leaving in the 2006 and 2007, moved up for the first time this year to be one of the top five reasons to change a job.
"Salary growth was pulled down by industry growth down last year...there were even concerns about job security. So it's interesting that work-life came up as one of the top five reasons for switching IT jobs in India," said Prasanto Kumar Roy, Chief Editor at
CyberMedia, publishers of Dataquest. "This Indian IT professional is maturing."
Attrition levels at 18%
The average attrition rate in the participating companies inched up to 18 percent in 2008, up from 17 percent in the previous year. However, the Top 20 Best Employers reported a lower 14 percent attrition rate.
Women continued to form 23 percent of the total IT workforce of the participating companies for the third year in a row.
The survey was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, questionnaires were sent to around 200 IT companies seeking information on areas such as employee strength, salary structure, training days, tenure of top management, etc. In the first phase, 44 companies participated. Of these, 33 companies were then short listed for the second round, which was a face-to-face employee survey. A total of 2897 employees across 33 companies were interviewed.
The survey was conducted in seven cities Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai,
Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru in June-July 2007.
Dataquest’s Best Employers Survey 2008
In Dataquest’s Best Employers Survey 2008, more than 10 Indian firms having an employee base of less than 4,000 were in the top 20 list
The top IT employers 2008
1. IGate Global Solution
2. RMSI
3. HCL Infosystems
4. Rolta India
5. Microsoft India
6. Tata Consultancy Service
7. SAS Institute Pvt Ltd
8. Synechron
9. Tavant Technology
10. Span Infotech India
11. Hexaware
12. Intel India
13. Datacraft
14. Infrasoft Tech
15. Fulcrum Logic
16. Global Logic
17. Ness Technologies
18. Tulip Telecom
19. Sun Microsystems
20. Nagarro Software
Small companies top best employers survey
In Dataquest’s Best Employers Survey 2008, more than 10 Indian firms having an employee base of less than 4,000 were in the top 20 list
BENGALURU, INDIA: Relatively smaller companies were voted as best employers in the information technology sector, by 2897 respondents across 33 IT companies in India, reveals a forthcoming Dataquest-IDC IT Best Employers Survey 2008. More than 10 Indian firms having an employee base less than 4,000 were in the top 20 list.
This follows the trend observed in the Dataquest Top 20, Dataquest's annual survey of the Indian IT industry, wherein revenue of smaller IT companies grew better than that of large companies, beating forecasts that they will be negatively hit by the US slowdown than larger companies.
The winner of the Best Employers Survey 2008 was iGate, which displaced TCS, India's largest IT firm by revenue from the number one position in 2007 to number six this year. In 2007 survey, iGate jumped 26 places to the number three position.
The eighth annual Dataquest-IDC Best Employers Survey studied employees across 33 companies. It ranked the companies on employee satisfaction (80 percent weightage) and HR score (20 percent weightage). The HR score included quantitative parameters like size, growth, employee growth, retention and HR initiatives.
Movers & shakers
There were some significant changes in rankings of the top 20 players. Microsoft and Intel, which did not participate in 2007, entered the charts in 2008 at 5th and 12th positions respectively.
iGate Global Solutions recorded the highest employee satisfaction closely followed by RMSI at number two. HCL Infosystems, Rolta India and Microsoft India were third, fourth and fifth respectively in the employee satisfaction scores.
In pure HR score, TCS outscored all other companies, followed distantly by Rolta India. Smaller companies like Synechron, Tulip Telecom and Nagarro Software took the next three places.
Though companies like MphasiS EDS and Zensar were number eight and number 12 in the HR ranking, they did not make it to the top 20 best employers indicating that employees do not always share the same perception with the company.
TCS ranked number one in terms of opportunity to work overseas and company image. Not surprisingly, since it created history this year by becoming the largest private sector employer in India crossing the 1,00,000 employee mark and becoming the first Indian company to employ10,000 non-Indians, close to 9.2 percent of the total strength.
However, employee perception on fairness of the appraisal systems, salary hikes and relevance of perks and benefits, seems to have pulled TCS down.
There were nine new entrants in the top 20 list even as some of the large companies like Capgemini, Cognizant, CSC, IBM, Infosys and Wipro did not participate in the survey this year.
Some companies, which continued to be a part of the best employers list, include TCS, RMSI, and HCL Infosystems. Accel Frontline, Cybage, and Aricent could not make it to the list this time unlike last year when they were ranked 15, 17, and 19 respectively.
Sun Microsystems slid nine positions to number 19, while Nagarro gained nine positions on the whole while improving its HR ranking from 32 to six.
Based on the survey results, companies were also ranked on eight broad parameters — company image, organization culture, job content, salary, appraisal, people, outsiders consider it a dream company, and internal employees consider it the most preferred employer. In the first six parameters, iGate occupied the number one slot.
Why people leave?
Half the respondents surveyed said that salary and compensation were the top reasons to leave the company. Other parameters included growth opportunity, overseas opportunity, location of the company and flexible office hours or work-life balance Work-life balance, which was the number eight reason for leaving in the 2006 and 2007, moved up for the first time this year to be one of the top five reasons to change a job.
"Salary growth was pulled down by industry growth down last year...there were even concerns about job security. So it's interesting that work-life came up as one of the top five reasons for switching IT jobs in India," said Prasanto Kumar Roy, Chief Editor at
CyberMedia, publishers of Dataquest. "This Indian IT professional is maturing."
Attrition levels at 18%
The average attrition rate in the participating companies inched up to 18 percent in 2008, up from 17 percent in the previous year. However, the Top 20 Best Employers reported a lower 14 percent attrition rate.
Women continued to form 23 percent of the total IT workforce of the participating companies for the third year in a row.
The survey was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, questionnaires were sent to around 200 IT companies seeking information on areas such as employee strength, salary structure, training days, tenure of top management, etc. In the first phase, 44 companies participated. Of these, 33 companies were then short listed for the second round, which was a face-to-face employee survey. A total of 2897 employees across 33 companies were interviewed.
The survey was conducted in seven cities Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai,
Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru in June-July 2007.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Blogs!! Ever wondered what they are??
It is great that the phrase blog floats around the net day in and day out, but what if you have no idea what a blog really is? Is this going to be helpful to your web site? No, not really. Here we will ing you a skinny on the phrase blog, and you can decide for yourself if it may or may not be useful in your web pages. This way you will not be wasting your time on something you may not need, and the energy can be put to something you find more useful for yourself.The term blog refers to weblog and it is in every fashion not a commercial or professional site. It is more of the personal nature, for comment or web site material. Generally the most recent information on a blog is kept at the top of the page, as blog's are dated log formats. Often they will have commentary of other sites or links directing you to them. Many times the site is dictated by group links and the log is updated frequently. The opinion is this is the very first weblog was back in 1993 it was the Mosaic. This was generally a compiling of links that where kind of disregarded. It took until 1998 for they're to be a mere handful of these so called blog's in existence. The blogger all knew each other and were swapping the links between each other.By the year 1999 this term blog was starting to pick up pace, and as a result became a phenomenon. Once it became free to the public, it really took off and was a pastime that was enjoyed by many. Web logs were hand coded by developers on the web before the software became available. The use of html was the main coding for this program, and the web designers at the time were pretty much the only ones that knew it. Now that this new software is available to the general public, anyone is capable of making a blog. The moment blogger was released in 1999 it became a huge success with the public. Now people are not restricted on what kind of weblog they make, fast-forward to the year 2000 and people are making as many as 300-350 new blogs daily. There is actually a directory for all these blogs, and it contains as many as 5,500 entries. This is now a craze with over 750,000 blog users; this was not merely a passing trend obviously. There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.
Personal Blogs
The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some personal blogs quickly garner an extensive following. A type of personal blog is referred to as "micro blogging," which is extremely detailed blogging as it seeks to capture a moment in time. Sites, such as Twitter, allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends and family and are much faster than e-mailing or writing. This form of social media lends to an online generation already too busy to keep in touch.
Corporate Blogs
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.
Question Blogging
is a type of blog that answers questions. Questions can be submitted in the form of a submittal form, or through email or other means such as telephone or VOIP. Qlogs can be used to display shownotes from podcasts or the means of conveying information through the internet. Many question logs use syndication such as RSS as a means of conveying answers to questions.
By Media Type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a link log, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photo blog. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumble logs.
A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog.
By Device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA could be called a moblog. One early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance. Such journals have been used as evidence in legal matters.
By Genre
Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs. While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog.
House Blog
A house blog is a Blog created with the sole intent of using it to share and chronicle a home improvement or renovation process. Only in recent years has the concept of a house blog come into being and become more popularized through communities. The majority of house blogs are operated by homeowners who wish to share with the online community their remodeling projects from cost and materials to how it's impacted their family. Most house blogs are not created with the intention of earning revenue although some house blogs do sell advertising or are part of ad networks. The most significant reason for the popularity of house blogs is the cost. Using services such as Blogger and Wordpress, house bloggers can quickly and easily create a blog for free. In this way, the marketer can determine the viability of the selected niche before making a large investment of time and money.
There are multiple tools these days for the people that are truly interested in blogging, this software can be found online and has become extremely popular. Check out the craze for yourself, and see what you think of it. You may just enjoy it yourself.
To Your Success…..
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