Change Feminine Work Culture
Empowering women in the workplace has been on the global agenda for over a decade. This is especially important in the travel and hospitality industry, currently among the largest and fastest-growing industries worldwide, forecasted to support 328 million jobs, or 10 per cent of the workforce, by.
According to HVS Executive Search, women currently comprise 60 per cent of the industry’s workforce, and the number will continue to rise to fulfill the exponential increase in opportunities world travel and tourism council.
What was once thought to be a glass ceiling for women is now heralded more a misnomer. Recent research indicates that current challenges to advancement in the workplace are really due to an invisible obstacle course that involves womens’ self-imposed barriers and the remiss of organisations to help women manage these barriers via a lack of active leadership development. The online survey of 54 male and 45 women global industry leaders found the most common self-imposed barriers involved family and household responsibilities holding a higher priority, as well as work–life balance, whereas the most prominent workplace barriers were lack of mentoring, lack of careful career planning, stereotyping, and perception of feminine traits.
That’s why it’s so important for leaders in the industry to create a deliberate plan to help move women forward, by understanding their self-imposed barriers and working toward a more balanced solution. Overall, the future is bright for creating more empowering workplace cultures for women, especially in the hospitality education sector.
— Emily Williams Knight,President, Kendall College
Hiring at xebia
Java consultant (2-5 years): Hands on experience in application development, strong OOPs knowledge, experience with design patterns and open source frameworks.
Java senior consultant(5-9 years):Hands on experience in application development in an enterprise set up, responsible for technical design, strong OOPs knowledge, experience with design patterns, open source frameworks. Experience to modern web application like Play, GWT etc. Web services like restful.
Java principal consultant (9-13 years):Hands on experience in application development, four years or more in the position of lead developer/technical architect in enterprise Java software development. Formulating technology solutions, ownership of technical solutions, Open source contributor.
Solution architect (12-15 years):Candidate is required to architect complex systems, have worked as solution architect/lead architect at least for three years, experience to quickly analyse and work through existing complex system, identify improvement areas and architectural changes, motivate and mentor team members.
Integration engineer (7-12 years): Proven ability to design and develop complex integrations, experience with installing, administering and/or scripting interaction with middleware , experienced with Java, Scripting languages (python preferred, perl/bash), sound knowledge of unix command.
Amazon cloud developer (5-8 years):Hands on scaling in the cloud (AWS), set up different application layers, hands on experience setting up monitoring (UNIX), hands on experience using Ops management framework like chef and Amazon OpsWorks, hands on experience with release management set up and maintenance (Jenkins, Sonar, etc).
Hadoop developer (2-5 years):Hands on experience in application development, experience/understanding of apache, hadoop and map reduce architecture, experience of any NoSQl or column store database, responsible for technical design and experience in guiding/monitoring others. Strong OOPs knowledge with design patterns, experience with Java/JEE and open source frameworks /tool like hibernate, spring, maven, ant etc.
Exposure to web services like SOAP and restful.
Talk on correct dialect
Collins India recently organised a talk regarding the correct pronunciation of English. In order to drive the point home that teaching correct pronunciation should start at school-level in India, the publishers had invited co-author of Collins pronunciation guide, Work on your Accent and well-known dialect coach Helen Ashton to deliver a talk.
Students from more than 30 schools across the city participated in the talk along with their teachers and principals. NS Krishna, MD, Collins India welcomed everybody and encouraged them to ask questions on the topic.
Convocation at DSC
Country’s premier communication institute The Delhi School of Communication (DSC) celebrated successful completion of its 18th batch of two-year Post Graduate Programme in Communication in a grand convocation at the Alliance Française de Delhi, lodhi Estate.
Chief guest Anita Nayyar, CEO of India and South Asia for Havas Media presented certificates to the successful students on the occasion. Other well-known media and communication professionals Atin Chabbra, lead, Digital Marketing, Pearson India and Prof. N. K. Gupta, Associate Professor, DU were also present at the event.
Speaking at the event Nayyar said: “Be it advertising, marketing or media, your expertise and dedication will take all of you places. Remember there is no shortcut to success.”
DSC’s integrated marketing communication course is a dual qualification programme awarding both the PGDPC along with the masters in Mass Communication from Jodhpur National University.