Last month I had a meeting with one of my old friends, who is now VP–HR in a fairly large IT setup. He informed me that he is planning to lay off a couple of hundred people in his company, in a phased manner. What surprised me was that he mentioned that out of them [...]

I still remember the day when I faced first interview of my life, it was PI (personal interview) at the FMCG conglomerate that had come for selection at our institute campus. 7 out of our 10 friends made through the interview and rest 3 of us could not. Though we were almost alike in terms [...]

Last week one of my friends Sumit received this awful and not so unexpected news, “Effective today your services are not required. Kindly collect your belongings/ dues by the weekend”.
He immediately called me up with very stressed and frustrated voice and complained about the employer that he has worked with them for more than 4 [...]

This was a mail which I received from an old friend of mine. I thought it is worthwhile to share it with the group
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Early this year, Arun, an old friend who is a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing a specialised software. He [...]