Stretch your limits
Usha Albuquerque
HOW the West was won—that’s the story of yoga. As more and more people in the western world turn to alternative therapies such as yoga, we in India are beginning to appreciate and follow one of India’s richest traditions. Yoga has traditionally been the art of living a healthy life. It has been a major healer in ancient India. Be it a physical ailment or mental, the cure for all has been found in yoga. In today’s age of stress, people are turning more and more to yoga for mental and physical relief.

Buffer Zone
Overstaffing is the new HR mantra to outwit attrition in the IT and telecom sectors.
WITH the attrition rate reaching alarming levels in India's booming sectors like information technology and telecom, human resource personnel have devised innovative ways such as overstaffing and thinking beyond higher pay packets to retain talent. "Attrition is a crisis in India, especially in sectors such as IT, ITeS, telecom and retail, that are growing at the fastest pace.

Beyond pay packets
Making employees feel more valuable than clients helps retain talent.
Paucity of talent coupled with a high rate of attrition has forced corporates in India to give more weightage to employees than the customers to ensure that their top and bottom lines continue to improve. Cutting across sectors, employees both in the new-age and brick-and-mortar companies are today in the enviable position of choosing their employers, contrary to the dictum of chasing a job.

Monstrous!
Online job-hunters turned into prey
Joseph Menn
Hundreds of thousands of job-seekers are at a risk of being ripped off through a sophisticated scheme concocted by Internet criminals who have penetrated the resume database at Monster.com. Using e-mail addresses, phone numbers and other personal information harvested from the job-hunting website, the crooks are posing as potential employers or as Monster.com itself in a bid to hustle the victims' bank account numbers and passwords.

Right attitude wins over right answer
R.C. Sharma
Rakesh, an MBA student, had passed out from a reputed university in 2001. The company placement trend was just gaining popularity. Having cleared the technical rounds, Rakesh was to face the personal interview. While the major part of the interview was smooth sailing, the final question was something Rakesh will never forget.

Bits & bytes
Now, pay IGNOU fee online
THE Indira Gandhi National Open University has entered into agreement with AXIS Bank for online payment of fee for the December term examinations. According to a IGNOU release issued in Madurai recently, the form would be available on www.ignou.ac.in from September 1 to October 20.

Career Hotline
Getting past GMAT
Pervin Malhotra
Q I am planning to write the GMAT. Since I am an engineer by training, my maths is fine, but as I studied in Hindi medium up to matriculation, I am not very comfortable with the English portion of the test. Kindly advise me.

• Bridging the Gulf

• Experience it

• Class apart

• Doctoring abroad

Fortnightly Quiz-292

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