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JOBS! New Program for IIT Alumni and Employers

September 23, 2006

IIT Delhi Excellence Foundation is pleased to announce a new program, to bring IIT Alumni Job Seekers close to Employers that value them. We have joined hands with Yahoo! HotJobs, to give Employers a 10% discount on job posts targeted to the IIT Alumni, and have created a special job board for Job Seekers.


Employers

Get 10% off when you post jobs to HotJobs. Include a special code in your job description, and the jobs will get automatically marketed to the IIT Alumni community!

Great! What do I do?

  • Browse over to our Home Page, and click on the Yahoo! HotJobs logo to start. Use the coupon code mentioned to get your discount!
  • Once you have a job description to post, include the code ‘HJIIT10’ somewhere in your post. Most employers add it to the bottom of their job descriptions.

That’s it! YES – IT’S THAT SIMPLE!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • So I get to post for 10% less, and am able to target the valuable IIT Alumni. What’s the catch?
    • No catch. As an Alumni Service organization, we’re simply trying to get Employers that value IITians, closer to our Alumni looking for jobs!
  • What do you mean by ‘automatically marketed to the IIT Alumni’?
    • We will advertise this program, and the job listings generated, to the IIT Delhi Alumni in the Bay Area to start with. Other presidents, nationally, have expressed interest in this program, and will sign on as we evaluate the response.
  • Who else is participating?
    • Even before the formal launch of this program, Yahoo! and NetApp have signed up to advertise their jobs. Check them out!
  • Do I have to target the IIT Alumni, or can I just avail of the 10% discount?
    • You’re welcome to use the discount without targeting any IIT Alumni. For example, you can choose to post 100 jobs through this program, and only target 10 of them to the IIT Alumni. This is perfectly fine!
  • What if I already have postings in HotJobs?
    • Well, you won’t be able to avail of the code for existing jobs, but you can still target these jobs to IITians. Simply edit the job description, and add the coupon code ‘HJIIT10’ to the listing.

Job Seekers

What makes these job listing different? It lists job listings from companies that have gone the extra step to target you. This means they’re more likely to look at your resume (as an IIT Alumni) more carefully. You already have a well-wisher at that company – and that can only be good news for you when you apply!

Great! What do I do?

  • Browse over to our Home Page, and click on ‘IIT Jobs’ to get the list of all open positions (a few recently listed jobs are always featured on our homepage).
  • Apply!

That’s it! YES – IT’S THAT SIMPLE!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Ask us one!
    • Email us at iitd a.t mac.com if you have any questions!!

3 Aug 06 – Prof. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University – IIT/Yahoo! Speaker Series

July 30, 2006

Prof. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber
Jon Kleinberg is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research interests are centered around algorithmic issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other on-line media. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, research fellowships from the MacArthur, Packard, and Sloan Foundations, teaching awards from the Cornell Engineering College and Computer Science Department, and the 2001 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research.

What: Economics of Cascading Behavior in Communication
The flow of information through a large social network can be thought of as unfolding with the dynamics of an epidemic: as individuals become aware of new ideas, technologies, fads, rumors, or gossip, they have the potential to pass them on to their friends and colleagues, causing the resulting behavior to cascade through the network. We will consider a collection of models for such phenomena proposed in the mathematical social sciences, as well as recent algorithmic work on the problem by computer scientists. Building on this, we discuss the implications of cascading behavior in a number of on-line settings, including the diffusion of topics among bloggers, the effect of “word of mouth” in the promotion of new products, and the influence of social networks in the growth of on-line communities.

Where: Yahoo! Mission College Campus (Contact iitd-at-mac.com if you’d like to attend)
When: Thursday, August 3 @ 11am-12pm
More information: http://research.yahoo.com/bigthinkers