Capgemini recently posted an ad for the position on the professional networking site, Linkedin which was rather interesting.
The position – senior consultant – had the word “mule” in brackets, seemingly coming across as a rather honest description about the position-holder needing to be hard-working and obedient, much like its working class hero and spirit animal, the mule.
Aiding professionals to simplify their tax filing and investment proofs is online tax startup Cleartax. Their latest offering is an online rent receipt calculator.
A handy guide on decoding restaurant bills and elaborating how service tax, VAT and service charge work in India.
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According to a report by ET, Baidu is eyeing making strategic investments in Indian big players like Zomato, Big Basket, and BookMyShow.
Jeff Bezos depicted as Hindu deity Lord Vishnu on the latest cover of New York based business magazine, Forune has drawn flak from the Hindu community worldwide.
People need to get in touch with people working at certain companies for a lot of reasons. For exploring a business partnership, to explore a marketing opportunity, soliciting a favour, for an employee reference at the company, what have you.
However, finding a contact in that company can be tricky. While most people would ask around, there are more ways than one to increase your hit rate of finding the one.
Ola has launched Ola corporate, an enterprise solution to corporate cab bookings.
With Ola corporate, employees would be able to book a cab for official visits, with the click of a button and have the option to have it expensed directly to the company account, instead of needing to have it reimbursed later.
People working at Digital, Advertising, PR and Media agencies have a tough job. While on one hand, they are always constant pressure to churn out eyeball-grabbing content and make and sell a brand, on the other, dealing with a client can get tedious. The clients are usually marketing heads or just business managers from the company with very little knowledge of how the creative stuff works.
While woe be the client servicing folks, they sometimes let in on some of the most hilarious or WTF things said by their clients to them.
Interviews are usually a sacrosanct affair. It’s a matter of getting a job and advancing your career, and people put their best foot forward. However, there are some cases when candidates take a leap of faith and instead of playing it safe and giving well-thought out, stock responses, end up putting their foot in the mouth. Here are a few shining examples of when people said or did some rather crazy things AND got the job! Whether they got lucky, or their cheek paid off, is a anyone’s guess, but these make for some very interesting and hilarious interview stories.