A fun question on how the job market is changing – give your comments
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Here’s a quick question:
What jobs (titles) will exist in the industry in 6 months that never existed before?
Get creative and think about it – give me answers in comments.
Jobs
- SAP/Sybase Principal Mobility Consultant - Business/Technical Job - Midis Group
- Business Demand Expert Job - Jordan Telecom Group
- IT Service Management Consultant Job - expit
- IT Desktop Support Technician Job - Ali Bin Ali Group
- Systems Techinician Job - Ali Bin Ali Group
- Php Developer - Magento Job - Sitat Byoot
- ICT Manager Job - Manpower Middle East
- Operations Executive Job - Manpower Middle East
- Dubbing Manager Job - Manpower Middle East
- IT Specialist (Linux and Network expertise) Job
Press Releases
- Qubee QClub Reward Program
- Gmail Hacked Sorry about earlier spam
- really amazing,
- Ufone – Karachi Offer PR
- NComputing PR – NComputing tops in Asia Pacific for enterprising client device shipments
- “Nokia and Ufone Partner to Launch N8 in Pakistan”.
- wi-tribe sponsors P@SHA ICT Awards 2010
- Nokia Users Now have Jang News on their Phones
- Oracle PR – Oracle Partners Drive Profit and Growth Through Specialization
- Ufone – Double Number
Recent Posts
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General
Business Incubation: False Hopes and Shattered Dreams…
When a 19th century romantic French writer by the name of Victor Hugo said “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come” he obviously could not envision Pakistani bureaucracy. Not only can it reduce an idea to nothing more than its meager skeletal remains squirming in its own vile, it too often does.
Come 2004, the IT bubble is about to burst in a military run, democratic, American influenced politically independent subcontinent country by the name of Pakistan. It is here in our story that along comes an idea. It is a simple idea yet revolutionary in every way, the idea to prepare this country for the…
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Events General
Home & Cars Expo 2012
The past whole week I was really excited about going to the exhibition on 5th and 6th at expo center Lahore since the theme read “home expo and super car expo”. I was counting on seeing some innovative home solutions, fancy cars and a lot of appliances for both. As I entered the arena, an ear piercing heavy bike engine race greeted me. Oh wow nice, we have bikes here too… and lots of them, but let’s see if we have the actual products that are expected.
First cars!! Honda Launched its new City Aspire at the event. This attracted a lot of young crowd who wanted to check it…
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General
Rock the ball with Pepsi
NOTE: This is a sponsored post
Football. The most popular sport in the world. That may be hard to believe, we being a die-hard cricket nation, but there are many amongst us who get their blood pumping whenever our favorite team kicks some balls (pun intended). There’s excitement in the air, and the airwaves for that matter, when Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona are about to have a face-off on the field. Manchester United or Chelsea? The answer could incite either jeers or cheers, depending on who you’re surrounded by. It feels like you belong to an exclusive club really, not to mention how convenient it is to…
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Coffee Session General
Another SHAM ICT Funding Project
There are two main things that are currently causing out growth in ICT to stall. One is the lack of original ideas, so most of the entrepreneurs either copy what is already around internationally or locally (same ideas of online shopping, online bidding) we still have not hit the jackpot with someone creating some thing like instagram or drawsomething and being acquired by one of the big names.
The second issue always lamented by entrepreneurs is lack of any funding sources in Pakistan. Over the years we have seen efforts being made to create funds which would help but what ended happening that most of these funds either did…
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Coffee Session General
8th Layer of Networking
We all know about the 7 layers of the OSI model. This is the framework by which computer networks are defined. Starting with the physical layer, going through the transport layer and finally culminating in the application layer where end user applications reside. I believe that this should be redefined to include and additional layer – the Social Layer. From the current vantage point, the Social Layer lies right above the Application layer – hence it is served by the Application layer.
The 90s witnessed a boom in what is now referred to as web 1.0. This consisted of static applications hosted over the web. Static applications meant that…
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General Mobile Apps Software & I.T.
Pakistani IT company TenPearls launches car racing game with a bang
Pakistani IT industry has been progressing rapidly over the last few years. It is heartening to see that the industry players are innovating and working in different areas to establish their expertise.
Recently, TenPearls, one of the leading IT companies of Pakistan, launched “Carumba!”, a 3D car racing game for iPhone and iPad. Carumba! has been designed and developed by TenPearls’ innovation labs. Launched as a free game, Carumba! allows users to earn coins during the race, and redeem them to unlock other cars and tracks or to get additional nitro boosts. It has also been integrated with Apple’s Game Center.
The game has received very good response from…
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Events General
TEDx Event 2012
‘Rethinking Pakistan’ [and my expression goes LOL and I will explain why] was the theme of the conference which took place at margalla hills Islamabad on March 31st 2011 organized by TEDx, lets just summarize here what TEDx is; before we further dig into the “theme” and happenings of this conference.
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) and ’x’ denotes the independently organized events under the TED umbrella, mission is “Ideas worth spreading” and this events basically brings together individuals, communities and organizations with the opportunity to excite dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level (geographically). The programs combine live presenters, performers and pre-recorded talks from some of the most brilliant…
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Announcements Events General
ICT Funds Final Projects
ICT R&D Fund aims to provide graduating students a chance to really make their final projects counts. I have always felt that students in their final year some times product excellent products which due to lack of any infrastructure and proper guidance plus funding just go in the Universities Libraries.
Seems ICT R & D fund is giving these students a chance to take their projects to the next level by acquiring funding, if you are a final year student doing a project all you need is to get this form filled and submitted through your head of department .
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Coffee Session General
Thiel Fellowship: right idea, wrong approach
I wanted to discuss the Thiel Fellowship and sort of run the idea among our readership to figure out if it was justified or not. Bay Area hedge fund manager Peter Thiel started a Fellowship program in his name about a year ago trying to capitalize not on start ups, but the smart kids who may actually come up with the next billion dollar idea.
Let there be no mistake. Innovation solves problems. Bankers, lawyers and hot shot executives are good for only one thing: managing an existing infrastructure. It is the innovators who turn existing ideas on to their heads and enable breakthroughs. Considering the point above, it…
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6:41 am
“Personal Helpline Warrior”
You will hire this guy and give him the details on how:
* Wateen has overcharged you.
* PTCL is not upgrading your bandwidth.
* Your bank is sending you wrong bills
etc. etc.
This person’s job will be to call the relevant company as many times a day as possible on your behalf – until they solve the problem, or until you feel satisfied after wasting hours upon hours of their helpline agent.
This person will need a lot of special training in inhuman relations and obnoxious behavior, so would not come cheap and you won’t be able to replace him with a personal secretary/assistant.
You can use one of those, right?
1:32 pm
Good idea. 100 people can pool in Rs. 100 to hire on 10,000 per month a person to harass I mean call helplines on our behalf.
1:54 pm
punsligner: lol! wasie, you *could* hire mamooinpakistan to do that for you i believe
1:24 pm
I do not know what the title can be for this position that I hope Pakistani IT managers start creating in their teams.
There are two scenarios. Either skills are being outsourced or transferred to offshore teams in Pakistan, or Pakistani startups are developing web based products/services.
In both cases, mere development is not going to grab the top dollar. Clients increasingly require consultancy regarding idea or concept enhancement. They require some one who understands that websites and web applications are about conversion.
The ideal candidate would have multiple discipline education in business and computer/information science. She would be able to understand the domain for the client’s work and be able to recommend user experience features based upon user behavior studies. She would be able to measure both quantitative and qualitative feedback from the application. She would be able to compare with competitors and gain valuable insight for a continuous improvement program.
It is the analysis and design skills that we need to build in our industry. When shift happens, the general skills lose value and are outsourced. What skills are the US and UK markets going to want to outsource next?
3:29 pm
Info Sec . This position is necessary for all the “fill in the blank” positions, ranging from analyst, consultant, manager, developer, tester, etc…
Until we start getting serious with our corporate data, client or customer data, intellectual property (however limited it may be), personnel, etc… we aren’t gonna becoming anything more then a breeding ground for people with ill-intent doing whatever they wish.
Example: Would you outsource to a country where you don’t have background checks on people that are hired? Would you hire a crook to install the locks in your home?
Example: Your bank doesn’t have controls in place to secure your online transactions and your account is emptied. With the current strategy of creating the cheapest solution and closing your eyes to the security implications, what more would you expect?
When such things start becoming common place and people and companies begin to worry about their reputation and financials… then maybe someone will start listening to this old geezer.
5:58 pm
business ideas consultant..
enterprise education manager..
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11:14 pm
Corporate Blogger- A person who could build the company’s image using blogosphere or in general we might start having E-Marketing Managers who’ll be responsible for marketing the company’s products/services in the cyber world.
11:16 pm
and oops googling abt “E-Marketing Manager” shows that this post is already there
9:28 am
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