15 little known facts about India !!

1. India is one of only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).
2. India is one of six countries that launches satellites.
3. The Bombay stock exchange lists more than 6,600 companies. Only the NYSE has more.
4. Eight Indian companies are listed on the NYSE; three on the NASDAQ.
5. By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world’s second largest after China.
6. India has the second largest community of software developers, after the U.S.
7. India has the second largest network of paved highways, after the U.S.
8. India is the world’s largest producer of milk, and among the top five producers of sugar, cotton, tea, coffee, spices, rubber, silk, and fish.
9. 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R&D facilities in India.
10. Two million people of Indian origin live in the U.S.
11. Indian-born Americans are among the most affluent and best educated of the recent immigrant groups in the U.S.
12. Thirty percent of the R&D researchers in American pharmaceutical companies are Indian Americans.
13. Nearly 49% of the high-tech startups in silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. are owned by Indians or Indian-Americans.
14. India sends more students to U.S. colleges than any country in the world. In 2004-2005, over 80,000 Indian students entered the U.S. China sent only 65,000 students during the same time.
15. In a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an Indian-American woman scientist, Dr. Ananda Chakrabaty, won the argument that persons may be granted patents for useful manufacture of living organisms. She defeated the U.S. Patent Office, that argued that living things may not be patented, thus establishing the legal foundation for the biotech industry, (Diamond vs. Chakrabaty, 1980). Dr. Chakrabaty invented a microbe that eats oil spills.

Weird Reasons For Interview Dropouts :P

Just though of sharing this information with you :)

In your Hiring life have you faced a scenario, where you have lined-up candidates for the in-person interview and finally no one turned up? What will you do in those situations? What would be your answer to the interview panel which is ready to interview the scheduled candidates?

Those were "Standing on the Knife" kind of situations where i am trying to reach the candidate on the one hand and on the other hand, convincing the client to wait for some more time to see if the candidate arrives the venue as committed. I wonder sometimes if those candidate can understand the word called "Commitment". The interview panel believes the words of the Consultant/Recruiter to make themselves available on their productive time. Still there are some genuine candidates who calls the recruiter to explain their absence. On such case, we can make the interview panel/client understand and provide an opportunity to see if the candidate turns up on another schedule.

Despite several reminder, the candidate commits us their presence and at last you will still look into the doors to see if someone turns for the interview to save our face from the interview panel/client. There are some candidates who will not answer the call and keep the phone ringing. Few, afraid to say their absence and some switch off their phones for few hours or a day.

On the next day i call them to enquire their absence and to explain that i was in soup. But i would get a weird reasons for not showing off as committed. Few of them for you inline below

* My relative or Granny suddenly expired.

* Met with a minor accident.

* Fever or illness.

* Went to home town for holidays and could not come back as planned.

* One of my friend met with an accident, went to hospitalize him and got delayed.

* Vehicle got punctured or struck in between.

* My boss didn't grant me leave or permission.

* Critical project issues came up.

* Team discussion extended or prolonged.

* Unscheduled Training sessions.

* Unplanned Client Call.

* Went to solve legal issues in our family.

* Went to renew driving license / family card / gas connection etc.

* On the way (but still in his/her office).

 Hope you would have got more funny reasons than me. Never schedule someone who is not keen for job and who doesn't feel his/her commitment as top priority than anything else in the world.