16 Nov 2002

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The Great MT Resume Contest!

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Dear Friends,

This is to announce the The Great MT Resume Contest strarting wef
from Dec 19th, 2002 and ending on Jan 14th, 2003.

Cash/other prizes to be announced in the next issue. Watch out!

So what will set the winning resumes apart?

Some interesting observations about what is different in winning
resumes. We are giving below a few critical factors that will make
your resume a winning one:

1) Provide full contact details

The contact details in the resume have to be complete and
accurate. You would be surprised to know that some job seekers in
their hurry to fill in the details type in wrong information. Like
some, who give their e-mail addresses as abc@..., when it
should have been rediffmail.com. A wrong email address means that
you cannot be contacted!!!

2) Create a persuasive resume title

Your resume title should work like an advertising headline. For
example, "MT Professional with 6 years experience in acute care".

3) Make your Career objective stand apart

Avoid oft-repeated, clichéd objective statements. It was amazing to
find that more than 80% of the job seekers have objectives that
began with "Seeking a challenging position."

4) Articulate your target job well

It helps to articulate what job you are best suited for given your
qualification and experience. This also helps the HR Manager
understand your real expectations.

5) Highlight your work achievements

The employers expect to read more about your achievements than job
responsibilities in the previous job. Highlight your achievements,
while briefly writing about job duties.

6) Complete the sections on Skills and Additional information

Include details about soft skills, technical skills, and language
skills etc in the additional information or skills section. A
comprehensive skills section ensures that your resume is not left
out when an employer is searching for 'your' kind of skills.

Apart from all the above, what really will set the winners apart is
the fact that the resumes should be persuasive and make a perfect
selling tool.

Participate, and make your resume a winner too. The time you invest
in your resume is likely to give you the best return on investment
ever - your next job.

I will get into the nitty gritties of participation next time!

Cheers!!! :)

Maj (Dr.) Amit Chatterjee, SM
Strategist/Founder ~ mailto:MTIndia@...
MT India ~ http://mtindia.org

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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Various NE Florida industries join trend

As it continues its decade-long climb to global powerhouse status
in information technology, India is taking along call centers and
medical transcription. This could spell trouble for local jobs.
Already, several national companies with Northeast Florida
operations joined the trend of outsourcing or establishing
facilities in India:

Nashville-based HCA - which owns Memorial Hospital Jacksonville,
Orange Park Medical Center and Specialty Hospital Jacksonville -
outsourced $30 million in IT work to Mumbai's Syntel in February.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana Healthcare which employs 1,200
Downtown, reportedly is a Syntel client as well.

Medical transcription is strongly making its way into India's
economy. Northeast Florida hospitals - including Baptist Medical
Center, St. Vincents Medical Center, Shands Jacksonville, and Mayo
Clinic Jacksonville - use in-house transcriptionists or outsource
to U.S. companies, officials said. The U.S. companies they hire
may send work to India.

Acusis, a Pittsburgh medical transcription provider whose clients
include "several hospitals and clinics" in Jacksonville, has
facilities in Bangalore, Chennai and Mysore. It employs 200
transcriptionists and 60 software engineers in India, compared with
60 employees in North America.

India handles all of the firm's transcriptions, which are then
checked for quality and accuracy in the U.S., Acusis President
David Iwinski said. American transcriptionists earn up to $800 a
week; Acusis pays its Indian transcriptionists $150 to $680 a
month. A post-Sept. 11 surge in patriotism prompted many companies
to keep quiet or deny offshore outsourcing. Iwinski noted the
secrecy at a recent industry conference. "You could walk around
that thing all day and not find anybody willing to acknowledge they
do work in India, subcontract in India or ever heard of India."

http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2002/11/04
/story2.html

2) Max starts lay-off

Max' IT division Ateev has gone in for major restructuring, laying
off 60 employees in its software development business. It has now
decided to concentrate on its medical transcription business,
HealthScribe, besides its knowledge management division.

Sources said only a handful of senior executives, including the
head of the development division who had come in from Chennai-based
software company Polaris, were offered a golden handshake package,
while most of the employees were laid off as per their offer
conditions - three months salary.

As per Max' IT business rejig plans, Max will now focus on its
medical transcription business - Healthscribe, which is learnt to
have already making cash profits. As part of the expansion in the
medical transcription business, Healthscribe will get into medical
records segment. The company, however, has no immediate plans to
infuse funds into Healthscribe India and the company will pursue
only an organic growth route for some time, sources said.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?ar
tid=27698460

3) From a chapati to a puffed puri

Speaking to FICCI last week, the US Ambassador to India said that
Indo-US trade and investment flows are flat as a chapati. Strictly
speaking, only American merchandise exports to India deserve that
local culinary description.

Blackwill thinks that US investors are making money in China. Not
true, although for a number of American companies like GE, Boeing,
Motorola and McDonald's, the Chinese market is expanding at a more
scorching pace than India's. Where India scores over China is in
software exports and IT-enabled services (like call centres,
back-office processing, medical transcription). But here the
Chinese are determined to catch up.

Negative sentiment on India on account of the nuclear stand-off
with Pakistan and because of our continuing failure to translate
policy intentions into actual actions is growing. A country with a
historic past is in danger of being condemned to remain a country
with a great future.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?art
id=27204496

4) 2,000 new ITES jobs in Bangalore a month

THE IT-enabled services sector, which of late is witnessing hectic
activity in the country, is creating about 2,000 new job
opportunities a month in Bangalore alone, according to Karnataka's
IT secretary, Mr Vivek Kulkarni. Karnataka at present accounts for
close to one fourth of the total jobs in the Indian ITES sector.

"Of the 1.07 lakh personnel employed in the Indian ITES sector,
about 24,000 are located in Bangalore. We expect this sector to
create about two thousand new jobs a month, which is the highest
ever in the country," said Mr Kulkarni.

ITES broadly includes the traditional business process outsourcing,
back office support services, customer management services and
industry-specific processing services, data entry/conversion and
medical transcription among others.

http://in.biz.yahoo.com/021110/17/1xlba.html

5) ITPO to be developed as hub for culture, trade facilitation

Plans are under way to make the International Trade Promotion
Organisation (ITPO) as the hub of social, cultural and trade
facilitation activity. "Expression of intent" bids from promoters
to develop this concept had been initiated, the Minister of State
for Commerce and Industry, Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy, said inaugrating
the twenty-second India International Trade Fair.

Mr Rudy said that services had emerged as a major export earner for
the country comprising different categories such as software
exports, bio-technology, space technology, consultancy and
education, medical transcription, call centres and back office
services. The Minister announced that the trade centre in Chennai
had been providing facilitation services and the one in Bangalore
would be launched by March 2003. He said ITPO had plans to open a
centre in Ahmedabad, Guwahati and Mumbai for which land had been
acquired. In Kolkata too, an agreement had been signed between the
State Government of West Bengal and ITPO for a trade centre there
opposite to the Science City complex.

http://in.biz.yahoo.com/021112/17/1xnxx.html

6) THE ROUSE REPORT: An information technology sector

Beyond the basic enabling infrastructure of low-cost, broadband
telecommunications, there are a number of related pre-requisites
for the realisation of our national development vision. Barbados
still has the opportunity to occupy a unique position at the
confluence of visitor services, health services, internation al
business, financial services, information technology, e-commerce,
and customer support services.

At another level, much employment could be encouraged in the
provision of electronic data management services in fields like
medical transcription, legal and medical coding, and insurance
claims management for large international companies that prefer to
outsource part of their operations instead of locating offshore
themselves. These types of services are technical to their
particular industries, requiring high levels of application
specific training over fairly long periods of time.

http://www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=30148&Section=LO

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