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Apple acquires Virtual Assitant App Siri

As you know Apple is the most spelled word in today’s mobile market as well as in Tablet computers. But Apple wants you to spell even more in front of its device and may be this is the plan from Apple to buy the small but powerful organisation Siri.

Siri is basically involved in developing some virtual applications mainly voice recognition and search programs.Siri is also involved in developing applications for some millitary activities and you can interact with the phone via voice or text like asking information on weather,route,restaurants and also details on other events.

Siri has also developed some iPhone but it works only in US and also it is used by US Defense advance research project agency.Siri is one of the successful industry with artificial intelligence projects.It seems the acquisition deal could be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 to $200 million.

Apple is trying to acquire many small and powerful organisations in the recent years in the similar way Google is also doing the same.

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Role of consultancies in IT Recruitment

Most of the IT recruitments today are happening only through consultancy services.Consultants are supposed to do a good job for employees seeking job and also for employers.They are to ease the job of HR’s in IT companies and some IT companies will be depending only on the consultancies for recruiting right kind of people.But unfortunately consultancies seems to be biased and they don’t even care about getting the feed back from the employers on the result of interview process and sometimes they don’t even have proper contact with Human resources team of the organisation.

Consultancies today give interview calls to most of the people seeking jobs and once the interview is completed and suppose if the employee has successfully completed the interview process then the next step is only to get an offer.But this doesn’t happen in most of the cases.Consultancies donot even know for which grade or designation they have referred people and they will not have clear details on requirement.So who knows all the details on recruitment?Its one and only the HR of the organisation.

Now the papers of the employee after successful completion of the interview reaches HR table and there they realise there happened some mistake and now the consultancies don’t even attempt to give a sorry call atleast to the candidate.

The above scenario is happening and has happened for many of the job seekers.So people who are searching for a job and if you get calls from consultancy do get full details on the kind of job and also the salary details.Otherwise it will finally end in a mess up

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Wipro not bothered about Infosys says Premji

The recent Infosys’ announcement of giving an average salary hike of 14-17% is widely
believed to put pressure on other IT giants to go for aggressive salary hikes and
compensations.However, the country’s third-biggest IT company Wipro Technologies does not believe so. Nor the company sees any threat of a rise in attrition rate due to the recent salary hikes given by its rivals.

According to a news report, Premji said that we are not bothered about Infosys and that the company does not see the hikes as a huge concern. He added that when it comes to TCS, they are announcing hikes after a gap of 24 months, while we are only 18 months delayed.The company also said that it would give promotions in next two months. This is said to be in sync with the normal appraisal and promotion season which happened in June and July.