14 Eylül 2012 Cuma

E-Commerce India - There's an online portal for every kind of Job

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a quote on working hours by robert frostFrom agriculture dominant country, India has moved to servicesdomain in a couple of decades. One of the barometers of economic development isthe employment growth across all sectors. With 6-9% growth in GDP in the lasttwo decades, people were fortunate to find all sorts of jobs across country.With colleges in different regions, talent in pockets for certain areas, skillsin abundance in a few states and opportunities galore far and wide, how wouldpeople find suitable jobs even if they are aplenty?
Applying technology, job portals have come to the rescue. Due togrowth of Information Technology (IT) sector in the new millennium, people wereaware mainly of these IT job portals, but there exist a portal for everypossible type of job. Here are some of those portals which made finding jobseasy on the Internet.
http://naukri.comhttp://shine.comhttp://monster.comhttp://timesjobs.comhttp://clickjobs.com Provides an opportunity to post resume for jobs across different industries / sectors and designations. Most of them started with the IT job opportunities but expanded to all other domains. Each of them must be having millions of resumes in the repository. These portals also offer simple services like resume development, provide information about different professions and salary level validation.
http://babajob.com If you are looking for a maid, driver , cook or cashier, this is the specialized portal to visit.  There is a provision of police verification and health insurance check of job seekers, for the benefit of employers, through their service. Their mission seems to create a positive impact to the 'bottom of the pyramid'.
http://freshersworld.com Candidates fresh out of a college, especially from tier-2 and lower always find it difficult to seek a job.  Recruitment in the campus is not meant for all colleges and even that does not go smooth sometimes. This portal provides an exclusive service to show job opportunities for such freshers, who are ready to conquer the world.
http://govtjobsdaily.com Securing a government job  was the norm with previous generation in India, after gaining a good academic record. If one is interested in such government jobs, this portal seems to provide good help.
http://apnacircle.com If one is more interested to improve their professional network over a period of time and potentially seek a job from employers, this India-based website would be helpful.

I believe there would be lot many specialized job sites in India.The job seekers get to register on these sites for free; the job portals drawtheir revenues from the employers. It's a win-win situation for all theinvolved parties.
E-Commerce in India has blossomed with onlinetravel business to start with. After that, online classifieds, especially matrimonyand job portals, flourished pretty much. I wonder if all those folks who got ajob through any of these job portals take a moment to admire the technologybehind the scenes for their success and happiness !

E-Commerce - Product Strategy - 1

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The first and foremost aspect in e-commerce is to decide on theproducts to be offered online. If one is already into a specific domain (forexample retail apparel) and wants to extend into online space, then the nextmove becomes easier. If one is interested to get into e-commerce domaindirectly in the first place and has to decide on the products to be sold,exhaustive research needs to be done.
There are many goods and services that can be offered online.Typically, they can be classified into following broad categories:
  1. Physical products (like books, electronics, apparel, lifestyle and deals)
  1. Services online (like online marketplace, travel bookings, tax filing, video-on-demand and group-buying)
  1. Digital Downloads (like ring-tones, mp3 music, wall-papers and images for websites)
  1. Classifieds (like matrimony, jobs and property)

Each category of the products has its own unique characteristicsthat needs to be considered while making them available online.
Some of the physical productsare big in size and quite expensive. The packaging and delivery needs must beconsidered carefully for such products especially from cost perspective.
One might think that providing servicesonline should not be that challenging. While it is true that fulfillmentand delivery are not quite difficult, providing the functionality itself is notthat easy. Keeping the customer hooked on to the site to avail more services orrepeat service is the key in this case. Earning the trust of the customer insome of the cases is also equally challenging.
The typical challenge with digitaldownloads category is the digital rights management. The digital contenthas to be procured from authentic source while paying due attention tocopyrights. The complexity involved in delivery of the digital goods throughvarious channels (like Web and SMS) cannot be undermined.
Classifieds is an area, whichhas been traditionally available in print medium. When it was moved online, itwas the exact replica of mixed classifieds (sulekha, freeads etc) available onthe Web too. Later, the specialized areas - like only job sites or only matrimonysites - have picked-up and delivered good results in India. There needs to be agood enough incentive for two or more parties to come together on a classifiedssite to avail the service.
Identification of a domain is the first crucial step in starting ane-commerce venture.

Article of the Week - Kathrine Switzer

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Kathrine Switzer (born January 5, 1947) is an American author, television commentator and marathon runner, best known as the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. Her finishing time of approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes was nearly an hour behind the first female finisher, Bobbi Gibb (who ran unregistered).

She registered under the gender-neutral "K. V. Switzer". It was not done in an attempt to mislead the officials; she had long used "K. V. Switzer" to sign the articles she wrote for her college paper. Race official Jock Semple attempted to remove her from the race, and is noted to have shouted, "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers." However, Switzer's boyfriend Tom Miller, who was running with her, shoved Semple aside and sent him flying. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines.

As a result of her run, the AAU barred women from all competition with male runners, on pain of losing the right to compete.

Switzer, with other women runners, tried to convince the Boston Athletic Association to allow women to participate in the marathon. Finally, in 1972, women were welcome to run the Boston Marathon officially for the first time ever.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kathrine Switzer"

No quiz next Tuesday 28th!

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It was the most bustling Tuesday trivia night yet at the Ale House in Grafton this Tuesday evening, as Quizmaster Ryan returned fresh from his trip to Berlin and the London Olympics, while some quizzers also returned following a summer sabbatical.

Among that group were the Concordia troublemakers, naming themselves I'd like to hold the Quizmaster's snake in my talons on the night, who the Quizmaster was pleased to see back...


They probably would've won the best team name prize, but they had second spot wrapped up firmly!

That prize - for best name - went to the trio from The Von Trapp Bastards who got quite the applause and chuckle from the onlooking crowd...


And in other news, the Hooters coozy was in the house, and looking quite firm itself...


Holla!

Remember, again there's no quiz quiz next Tuesday August 28th due to a private function upstairs at the Ale House, but they quiz will return the following week with a new trivia league starting as well!

Until next time Grafton, drink while you think...

Tuesday August 21st, 2012 scores:


  1. 48 The Fusterclux
  2. 47 I'd like to hold the Quizmaster's snake in my talons
  3. 45 Random Answers: once you go black tees you never go back
  4. 44 Uruguay'T Quizmaster!
  5. 41 U R Gay if u think Rod Stewart is sexy
  6. 41 A country that I used to know
  7. 39 Mario Speedwagon & the Luigi Bee Gees
  8. 39 Is the private party next week a party for your privates
  9. 36 The Von Trapp Bastards
  10. 35 Knows Jobs
  11. 34 We play real football in America Ryan!
  12. 20 World Domination

Article of the Week - Penal Colony

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A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer to a correctional facility located in a remote location it is more commonly used to refer to communities of prisoners overseen by wardens or governors having absolute authority.

The British used North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Convicts would be transported by merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century. When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of what is now known in Australia as penal settlements.

Devil's Island (French: île du Diable) is the third largest island of the ÃŽles du Salut island group in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 14 km (9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana in South America just north of the town of Kourou. It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres). The island was a part of the notorious French penal colony of French Guiana for 101 years, from 1852 to 1953.[1] The island was used primarily to house political prisoners. 

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Article of the Week - Water Lillies

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Water Lilies is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.

The paintings are on display at museums all over the world, including the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

On 19 June 2007, one of Monet's water lily paintings sold for £18.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in London. On 24 June 2008 another of Monet's water lily paintings, Le bassin aux nymphéas, sold for almost £41 million at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of £18 to £24 million.

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So you think you can quiz?!

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It was another Tuesday for Grafton quiz elite at the Ale House this week. Five teams duked it out for the beer, and we even welcomed in some newcomers, with the newbies from Smarty Pints took home the best team name prize at the first time of asking....


We hope to see them back again next week.

In other news, there was actually a three way tie as the top, as three team all recorded 57 point scores. Sudden death ensued, meaning one team would miss out, and that just happened to be Team Sabinoston....


They have a couple of team members getting married on Saturday - so congrats to them! We wish 'em all the best!

Elsewhere,  Rhymes with Crasanomia did enough to record second spot, and gladly took the $20 tab....


The show rolls on next Tuesday with $3 pints!

Until next time Milwaukee, drink while you think....

Tuesday September 11th, 2012 scores:

  1. 57 Fusterclux
  2. 57 Rhymes with Crasanomia
  3. 57 Team Sabinoston
  4. 56 Unlike the Titanic I don't believe Mother Theresa ever went down
  5. 46 Smarty Pints!