There is fear in the air. The financial meltdown has created a scary environment and everybody is running helter-skelter and are trying to save their investments.

There is uncertainity also in the air and in the corporates. Employees are feeling insecure about their jobs and corporate are laying off people in heaps just because they have lost major businesses.

But what does this financial ...

BPOs have always been character assasinated. It is in the news for all the wrong reasons, rather BPOs are made the reason for all the wrong news.

When I joined the BPOs, I was told that one cannot work in a call center without smoking. You have to smoke to cope up with the stress you encounter in a BPO. But its has been 8 years now and I have never smoked. Is it that the BPO is the one who brought the ...

The shortlisted candidates in the preliminary round are normally subjected to a group discussion. Group discussion is not something that is prevalent only in the BPO industry. Most of you would have seen it sometime in your career - in colleges, during entrance exams etc.

Most of you would define a Group discussion as a round in which there are a few candidates in a group debating on a certain topic. One ...

The Timesjobs Jumbo Job Fair is here again. It is a wonderful opportunity to all prospective employees to find all the major companies hiring for their various positions under one roof.

The details of the next job fair are as under:

ITES Jobfair - 26th and 27th July 2008
Bangalore

Jumbo Jobfair - 2nd and 3rd August 2008
Time - 10:00 AM till 6:00 PM
Venue - Hitex ...

This is an excerpt from the leading daily "The Times of India". It provides an insight into the growth of the BPO sector.

"The Indian software and BPO segment will grow at a rate of more than 16 per cent to become a 132 billion-dollar industry by 2012, global infotech analyst International Data Corporation said on Wednesday.

"The India domestic IT and ITeS market is expected ...

Most of the people working in BPOs are in the age-group of 18-25 years. They have very little or, no knowledge of using their money.When I started my career in the BPO, I came across quite a few people who would get credit cards and use them to the maximum, and then discard them without paying the bills. The collection agencies would keep pursuing the organization in which they had worked to trace their whereabouts ...

This article was originally published in Carrerbench.info, by Sagar Satpathy.

This is a very handy information for people who want to know which are the best BPOs in India.

BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) has become the latest buzzword for young career aspirants in India. BPOs not only attract millions of young job seekers, they also open ...

This is an article that was originally published in BPO Biz. This article explains in detail the difference between a BPO and a KPO.

'Specialization' is the term of the day. And with specialization comes 'perfection' which is what certain jobs demand.

There used to be a time when an employee in a BPO joined a company with the sole aim of growing up the ladder as early as possible, so that he could get off the "Calling job", which he termed as monotonous and repetitive with no excitement. But as the industry matured, the ...

Most of the BPO employees, I have come across have very little knowledge about the industry in which they are working. Yet there are many who assume that they know everything and that they are the best analysts when it comes to predicting growth.

One of my friends younger brother was very upset because he couldn't find a job. He was a graduate in commerce and had been hunting for a job for quite some ...

The BPO industry is here to stay. In a series that I would start now, I would publish news from leading english dailies that proves this fact and would also give you a fair idea of the magnitude of growth that his industry is expected to grow at.

A reader of my blog said once that I state with such authority that the BPO industry is indeed here to stay but what proof do I have to establish the fact. ...