Opening for Business Copy Editor with United Media Services, Muscat, Oman

About: United Press and Publishing SAOC, is a sister company of United Media Services SAOC and a part of Renaissance Holdings SAOG. Since its formation in 1988, United Media Services (UMS) is a pioneer and leader in the field of media distribution and communications. For details you can visit www.oeronline.com

The specs for a copyeditor we are looking for.

1. Preferably male.

2. Age: below 35 years

3. Quals: Post Graduation with Masscom preferably

4. Experience: 4-5 desk experience in a business/economic desk print world

5. Role: Copyediting of all group publications (English)

6. Contract: 2 years

7. Posting: Muscat, Oman

Apply with CV and two references, who would be spoken to.

CVs to be sent to rameshk@umsoman.com with a CC to radhak@umsoman.com



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How many golf balls can you fit into a school bus, and other quirky interview questions

Google, the search engine, is popular for its web tools. But it's also very popular among job seekers because of the fun, informal work culture that it fosters. Have a look at their office in Zurich, and even Hyderabad and Gurgaon.

But before you start working with them, Google puts you through several rounds of testing and interviewing. Engineers have to pass a test known as the Google Labs Aptitute Test, or GLAT.

Sample some questions, excerpted from the book The Google Story.

(1) Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that the values of M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeroes are allowed.

WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM

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(4) You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost thou do?

• Wander aimlessly, bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a gnue.
  
  
• Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to the next level.
  
  
• Play MPoRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes.
  
  
• Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path.
  
  
• Email your resume to Google, tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in a whole different world.

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(11) It's 2 PM on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You're minutes away from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What would you do?

Then, there are the interview questions that leave many fumbling for answers.

• How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
  
  
• You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
  
  
• You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?

More here.

Speaking of quirky interview questions, today's Sunday, so we leave you with this hilarious Monty Python classic, and let's hope you don't have to face an interview like this.



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Magnum Opus Productions seeks PR professional

An entertainment company www.freewebs.com/magnumopusproductions looking for a PR professional on a contract basis.

Interested people may send their profiles to magnumdiary@gmail.com

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How To Interview Like Tim Russert

Russert with his trademark dry-erase board during the 2000 presidential election. Wikipedia Photo

Tim Russert, who passed away on June 13, is known as the finest interviewer of his time. Some say he is the best ever.

He was the senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News, and is mostly remembered for being the longest serving moderator of Meet The Press, which has been on air since 1947 and is the oldest show in TV history.

Russert was declared the best and most influential journalist in Washington, and Meet The Press the most interesting and important hour on television. Time magazine had named Russert among the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2008.

Via Poynter, here are some excerpts from an article titled "How To Interview Like Tim Russert".

Great journalists ask short questions. They are open-ended questions that cannot be answered with a yes or no. They provoke thoughts, opinions, feelings, explanations and emotions from the interviewee.

Too many pundits ask long, complex, multi-pronged questions to show how smart and connected they are. Not Russert. His questions were short and direct.

And here's are excerpts from Russert's recent interview of Barak Obama.

It was a vitally important interview for Obama, who was staring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright mess in the face. The first question Russert asked was short, to-the-point and open-ended:

MR. RUSSERT: On Friday you said, "It's been a rough couple of weeks." An understatement. What has the controversy over Reverend Jeremiah Wright done to your campaign?

The follow-up question was direct -- a yes or no closed-ended question followed by a second open-ended question. The purpose was to establish a fact and then use that fact to get a more in-depth answer.

MR. RUSSERT:You're still a member of the church?

SEN. OBAMA: I am.

MR. RUSSERT: Why do you think he re-emerged?

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India's Best Mass Communication Schools, By Mint

Business berliner Mint had recently come up with a study to rate the best communication schools in India. The top ten are thus:



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The study puts Ahmedabad’s MICA on top of the pile and Chennai’s ACJ follows on a close second.

MICA, primarily a communications management school, is conspicuous by its presence since it heads a table full of journalism schools. Mint’s report says:

The MICA director, international relations, too feels that MICA is more of a communication management institute, linking them to Indian Institute of Management (IIMs). “We basically teach management with communications management at the heart. The only difference is that our subjects are different than other management schools and media is only one part of our curriculum,” he adds.

So why was MICA included in the study at all?

Also, as one of the respondents says, it is unfair to compare ACJ — a pure journalism school — with an institute like IIMC, which offers non-journalism courses in advertising and public relations.

IIMC (Mint meant New Delhi but what happened to Dhenkanal?) has slipped to fourth after being rated ahead of ACJ for many years.

The rest of the table is highly predictable. None of the new players in the media education market have climbed up the ladder.

Meanwhile, the minister for Information and Broadcasting, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi has announced that IIMC would hereon become “an International Media University.” He was quoted as saying at the convocation for the class of 2007-08 that:

I am very happy to announce that we have decided to upgrade the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) as an International Media University. The Planning Commission has already approved the proposal and my Ministry is working to make this Institute into a world class media education, training and research University, by an Act of Parliament. This will fulfill [sic] the growing demand of the media industry to provide more trained and qualified professionals. [Via PIB]

Readers of this blog who have studied at the colleges mentioned in the study, may disagree with Mint's rankings. Please feel free to discuss the topic. Comments are open to this post.

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Hot New! Openings for Sub Editor, Senior Sub Editor with Hindustan Times, Mumbai

Hindustan Times Mumbai needs sub editors/senior sub editors with the following profile:

- Candidates must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Should be well versed with conceptualising pages - page layout.
- Good command over Quark Express is a must.

Experience: 1-6 years (Freshers may also apply )

Salary: Negotiable

Contact: Send your CV to recruitment.mumbai@hindustantimes.com with your current compensation details.


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Actors, Singers and Music Composers Needed For a Low Budget Hindi Film, Delhi

Actors, actresses, singers (male and female) and rock/music composers needed for an upcoming low-budget Hindi commeriacl movie to be shot in New Delhi.

Please apply with two pictures.

Contact: studds9@gmail.com, NRAI Productions, a unit of NRAI School of Mass Communication [www.nraismc.com]

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On The State of TV Journalism in India

To quote from a previous career-development article on Jobs Media:

If getting into journalism means changing the world, trust me, you would be disappointed. If you check out the newspapers or television channels carefully, you would notice, we are not doing BBC style journalism. A lot of it is plain entertainment.

Photos via an email forward.

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Openings with Green Leaf Entertainment, a production house in New Delhi

We are a production house based out of Delhi, and one of the key players in providing fiction and non-fiction content for television, apart from catering to communication needs of several leading corporate houses. Currently on an expansion spree we have following openings in our organization.

- Creative Associates:
Dynamic and go getter, with a brain full of ideas. Job includes conceptualization to supervising the effective execution of the idea.

- Management Trainees:
Dynamic, go getter with an eye for business and talent to seize opportunities. Job will include providing lead to the concept teams on sell able ideas...and selling ideas generated by the creative team. Developing, serving and maintaining clients will of course be the usual chore.

Contact: Jagbir Singh, info@greenleafentertainment.com

Salary: At par with industry standards

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Anchors, Producers, Trainees, Interns Needed For Asia's First Luxary Channel

Organisation: VOI Millionaire/Triveni Media

Location: Noida

Designation offered: Anchors, Producers, Trainees, Interns

Brief job profile: We are launching Asia's first luxury channel and need people who can handle high end programming.

NOTE: WE ARE NOT A NEWS CHANNEL AND DO NOT NEED REPORTERS.

Experience required: Depends. freshers very welcome.

Salary offered: Industry benchmark

Contact: Kuber, kuber.sharma@voitv.in .

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What To Expect In Journalism — A Reality Check

A journalist with Economic Times expresses writes on what journalism students must expect as they take that step forward from college to professional life:

A few years back, journalists were people who had studied English Literature or had to failed to become engineers or doctors. Today several colleges have graduate and post graduate courses in journalism, and students are investing in them. But a lot of us enter journalism with all the wrong notions. Here is a checklist on what to keep in mind while choosing to be a journalist:

(1) If getting into journalism means changing the world, trust me, you would be disappointed. If you check out the newspapers or television channels carefully, you would notice, we are not doing BBC style journalism. A lot of it is plain entertainment. We can get into a debate of whether it needs to be there or not. But you wouldn't be getting into a position of deciding that very soon. So understand clearly that as long as you are working for a newspaper or a television channel you would be under immense pressure to produce stories on an everyday basis. So changing the world can take a backstage for a long time.

(2) If being a news anchor or a television journalist is your idea of journalism, change it. Journalism is not about glamour and high visibility alone. It is about deadlines, about breaking stories, picking out trends and, most importantly, doing that every day. It could be unlike the West where journalists get to work on their stories for months.

(3) Journalism would also be your way of earning a livelihood and one needs to have a passion for it. It is not a difficult thing to get admission in any of the journalism courses. Maybe even finding a job is getting easier by the day. But sticking to this profession for the next 10 years, and I am just saying 10, would be difficult if don’t have passion.

(4) Strong networking skills are one of the most important things you need to be a journalist. It is not your knowledge of English or any other language alone that can make you successful.

(5) The salaries can be very bad in the beginning. They are getting better now but don't even think of comparing it with any of your friends with a management degree.

(6) Here’s a purely personal opinion, and an appeal to all those who treat journalism as a stop gap arrangement for their CAT or GMAT or GRE or IAS preparations: give this profession some respect.

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Corporate Communication Manager needed for an MNC Bank in Gurgaon

An MNC bank based in Gurgaon needs Manager - Corporate Communication. The position will be with their global service centre.

Experience - 6 - 8 Years.

Industry Preference - ITES, IT, Service Industry.

Contact: prabhat.sharma@mafoi.com , 18aug.prabhat@gmail.com , or call 9350928534

Via IIMCA

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Have You Ever Lied On Your Resume?

How much of your resume is factually correct, and how much of it is fabrication?

Often, one may be tempted to overstate one's achievements, like claiming an unfinished degree — even though one was only a few marks short and had worked very hard for it.

Harvard Business provides some self-tests for your job application:

Other shoe test:• How would you feel if the shoe were on the other foot and you were the hiring manager looking at this resume? What assumptions would you draw and would they be accurate?
• Front-page test: Would you think the same way if your accomplishment in question were reported on the front page of the Wall Street Journal? Or your prior employer's internal newsletter?

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Opening for Content Editor, Reliance Communications, Navi Mumbai

Apply via Timesjobs.

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Twenty Ways To Kill A Newspaper

Via Sans Serif:

At the World Association of Newspaper summit, Juan Antonio Giner, vice-president of Innovation, has unveiled a surefire recipe to kill a newspaper.

1. be dull and boring
2. change slowly
3. print yesterday's news
4. don't take risks
5. expect different results by doing things the same way
6. insult your readers
7. lie to advertisers
8. please politicians
9. cover buildings not people
10. don't interact with audience
11. print badly
12. print poor colour
13. write long
14. don't care about design
15. don't care about talent
16. don't sack bad managers
17. pay badly
18. don't innovate
19. milk the cash cow
20. expect miracles

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Openings for Special Correspondent and Features Editor at Rediff, Mumbai

Rediff.com, one of the top portals in India, has editorial openings.

- Features Editor, India Abroad, Mumbai

- Special Correspondent, Special Projects Team, Mumbai

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Openings With The Mobile Content Team at NDTV.com, New Delhi

Mobile VAS: We are looking for enthusiastic candidates who can generate and monitor quality content on a variety of themes.

Required skills:
- 2 years of experience in research and/or copy-editing
- Excellent command over spoken English and Hindi
- Proficient with the use of computers
- Exposure to the Mobile VAS and internet domains will be a plus.

The position is based in Delhi, and interested candidates should be willing to work in shifts.

Contact: Mail your resume to diwash.gahatraj@gmail.com

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