Update: We are putting the finishing touches on our next release. The second contest has now ended. The winner is ……….
Priyanka Chaurasia with 11780 points.
Congratulations Priyanka, please send us your address via email.
Its taken us a little longer for our next release but we are now almost ready. Its all going to happen on Feb 10. Watch this space!
Updated Results Feb 8 2007
Top 3
Priyanka Chaurasia – 11288 points
Kamles Bharti – 8428 points
Manish Jain – 7133 points
please refrain from scrapping orkut users who may not be the target audience for CampusChai. Also, the contest will end on Feb 10 with the 2.0 release of CampusChai.
Top 3:
Priyanka Chaurasia – 3234
Kamlesh Bharti – 961
Deepesh Shah – 155
Next posting of points on: Jan 20th
Here are some guidelines for round 2 of the PS2 competition…
The winner of the first round of the competition, Kamlesh, can compete in this round too. However, in a case where he wins again, he won’t
be awarded the PS2. Special arrangements will be made for a different prize.
Also, if the difference in score between him and the runner up is less than 200 points, the runner up will receive the PS2.
So what I am trying to say is, to avoid all this confusion, Priyanka and others who want the PS2…roll up your sleeves and start promoting CampusChai harder than before. You can’t let the same person win twice!!!
UPDATED
Also, this time around there will be prizes given for 2nd and 3rd place. The 2nd place holder will get an iPod Shuffle and the 3rd place holder will receive a digital camera. Feb-15 will mark the end of the contest.
Good luck!
Although we don’t particularly like the idea of extending the contest due to a variety of reasons, we have had a great number of requests asking us to do so. So we we have decided to extend the contest until Feb 28. All counters will be reset to zero starting yesterday and everyone will have the same opportunity to participate.
We are also looking for people to submit articles on CampusChai related to placement/recruitment/interview options. The prize will involve an opportunity to work as an marketing intern at CampusChai. Please contact us at marketing@campuschai.com for further details.
The New York Times talks about getting your degree and still being umemployed and highlights the fact that most unemployed college graduates in India lack three essential skills,
While the overall message of the article is well conveyed, the author states that the development of the desired skills are only to be achieved by those attending IIM’s and IIT’s. (Quoted below)
But the chance to learn such skills is still a prerogative reserved, for the most part, for the modern equivalent of India’s upper castes — the few thousand students who graduate each year from academies like the Indian Institutes of Management and the Indian Institutes of Technology. Their alumni, mostly engineers, walk the hallways of Wall Street and Silicon Valley and are stewards for some of the largest companies.
Similar articles always seem to brand Indian educational institues into two categories. The IIT/IIM lot and the others( and usually ‘others’ stand for everything bad about the indian education system). I disagree on that aspect of the article, just because you went to IIT does not mean that your accent is impeccable and you are pitching creatives in madison ave to the fortune 500. I know a lot of folks who went to IIT and were brilliant analytically but had trouble with basic grammar. A lot of these articles tend to see the colleges as black and white and seem to miss the grey. The grey are those colleges where they accomplish 60%-80% of developing an employable graduate. For ex: A lot of colleges in the major metros fall in this category. The students speak great english have semi decent analytical skills and seem to do just fine finding jobs.
I do have to agree with Anand(the author of the article) on the fact that colleges in India do need to place emphasis on the soft skills. Academic capabilities carry far more importance and students generally seem to lack the back-slapping,personable natures usually needed to get ahead in the corporate world. Somebody needs to fill this gap. Aptech/NIIT are passe now, Language/personality schools are in. There is a huge market opportunity for somebody to step in and start offering courses with emphasis on the communication and creative sciences.
We have had great success with our PS2 giveaway contest. Our users have been C-R-E-A-T-I-V-E!! We would have never imagined publicizing CampusChai the way our users have done. Here is an update on the campaign leaders as of today
#1 Rahul Basu
# 2 Kamlesh Bharti
#3 Satya Narayan Pujapanda
#4 Deepesh Shah
#5 Divyesh Gaind
There really isn’t much separating the top three. There are also a bunch of upstarts rapidly gaining on the top 3.
Update1: We will be announcing prizes for #2 and #3 positions as well next week. Stay tuned for the updates.
Update
Sorry some of you may have received multiple emails. We are extremely sorry about this.
Thanks to all those users who provided us their email at our splash page. Your launch email is being sent out as I type this and fear not , we dont have any devious plans to spam or sell your email address. A lot of you (especially students) emailed us from the splash page wanting to know more about the service and what it would offer, We hope to make some your questions clear in this post
Objective
CampusChai was started with the goal of providing a simple web based service for all campus recruitment related activities in India. We plan to do this by:
Providing colleges with tools to manage their placement strategy.
Enabling employers to collaborate better with Universities/Colleges and Students.
Helping students experience a streamlined recruiting process when launching their career.
We are planning to launch the site in stages. Currently the site covers Jobs, Events(Walkin’s/Campus hiring) , Student Profiles and job interview tips/suggestions. Eventually the site will provide an end-to-end solution to the Campus Recruitment domain. Of course the soon to be released features will stay focussed on the core aspects of our site.
Features:
Create your career profile in minutes. We wanted to provide an easy, simple way to add your details with the minimum amount of fuss and clicks.
We have also tried to make it easy to find Jobs. Instead of a confusing array of search options and checkboxes and the like. We have one search box. You can enter specific keywords,tags,locations or a combination of keyword and locations. So if you are looking for a BPO job in Noida with fresher qualifications, you would type bpo,fresher,noida .
You can also apply for jobs with a single click with no page refresh. Your profile and files will be added to the employer’s applicant folder and the employer will be notified(depending on their settings)
Campus recruitment events are core to the recruitment process and we didnt want you to miss out on them. Employers can schedule events by city or college. If an event is scheduled in your college or city, you will see it on your events page with the upcoming ones at the top. You can then choose to add/remove yourself from the event on the same page.
We also included a goldmine’ section on tips and suggestions on how to tackle interviews etc. The area also covers interview questions and provides students with abilities to comment on questions.
We hope that this gives you an idea of what CampusChai offers from a student perspective. We will cover the employer aspects of the site in our next post. If you are in a hurry, you can learn more <a href=”www.campuschai.com/learn”>here</a>. Do let us know what you think.
Hey everybody, we are live and kicking. Our baby CampusChai was successfully delivered 2:30pm IST. Server and application are doing fine. Stop by and say hello. Please give us your feedback at admin AT campuschai DOT com
We will have more details tomorrow.
