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Wednesday 18 July 2012

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Higher the qualification harder it is to get a job – Labour Bureau report reveals India’s peculiarity

India’s official unemployment rate last year was 3.8%, data released recently by the Labour Bureau shows, but, as always, averages hide many stories. A closer look at the numbers shows that unemployment rises with education level to 10% among graduates, and higher still for backward castes.

The Chandigarh-based labour bureau under the Union ministry of labour and employment released the ‘Employment and Unemployment Survey 2012’ last week. The pan-India survey had a representative sample of 1.2 lakh households. According to the survey, India’s official unemployment rate is 3.8%, with urban unemployment at 5.1% and rural at 3.5%. Unemployment is higher among women than among men; 6.7% for women as against 2.8% for men.

Calculations by TIG using the labour bureau numbers show that unemployment rises steadily with education level. While unemployment among the illiterate is 1.2%, unemployment among graduates is 9.4% and among post graduates it is 10%. In the United States and United Kingdom, where recession had led to poor job growth, the unemployment rate for graduates is at a record high, but this is still under 5%, in comparison.

For urban India, graduate unemployment is 8.2% while unemployment among post graduates is slightly lower, at 7.7%.

These findings are consistent with those of the National Sample Survey 2009-10 which show that the higher the level of education, the higher the open unemployment, says Santosh Mehrotra, economist and director general of the Institute of Applied Manpower Research, an autonomous institution under the planning commission.

Thought

A lady is a women who makes a man behave like a gentleman

Techie News

What Your Facebook Page Says About Your Personality

If you think you’re keeping any secrets on Facebook, think again. It’s not just what you post on the social networking site, but how you post it that reveals what kind of person you are. That’s the contention of researchers at the University of Missouri who have developed a new scale that judges people’s personality based on how they use the popular social media site.

The scale reveals that those who like high-risk activity tend to update their status, upload photos and interact with friends frequently. While conversely, those who are more reserved tend to merely scroll through Facebook’s “news feed” and don’t upload photos or actively engage with their friends.

Missouri doctoral student Heather Shoenberger developed the scale after surveying people about their use of Facebook and having them take a personality test.

Those who leaned toward high-risk activities were labeled as “appetitive,” with those who were more reserved in their activities labeled as “aversive.” While both personality types use Facebook frequently, Shoenberger found significant differences in how each uses the social media site.

“If you’re highly “appetitive” or lean toward high-risk activities, you’re more likely to want to engage with media that are more exciting, whereas those who are higher in the “aversive” trait tend to enjoy safer and more predictable media experiences,” Shoenberger said.

The scale could help advertisers target online audiences easier, according to Shoenberger.

“I believe this could really help advertisers and certain types of media groups target potential customers with particular ads on social media sites,” Shoenberger said. “Identifying these individuals using the motivation activation measure can give advertisers an advantage over their competitors and bring some order to online advertising.”

For example, she says companies that want to target consumers for a high-risk activity should try to determine who is active on Facebook and frequently posting pictures and updating their status.

The study was recently presented at the International Communication Association Conference in Phoenix.

Business Story

Yahoo finally Googles in a new CEO – Search Engine Leader’s Executive Marissa Mayer is the Third CEO in a year

Yahoo Inc picked Google’s Marissa Mayer to become its new CEO, turning to an engineer with established Silicon Valley credentials to turn around the struggling former Internet power houses.

Mayer, 37, edged out frontrunner and acting CEO Ross Levinsohn to become Yahoo’s third CEO in a year. She hopes to stem losses to Google and Facebook Inc – which her high-profile predecessors failed to do.

Her hiring signaled the Internet Company is likely to renew its focus on Web technology and products rather than beefing up online content.

Mayer, Google’s 20^th employee and first female engineer, has led a number of its businesses, and was credited for envisioning the clean, simple Google search interface still in use today, a major selling point for web surfers.

Also known for her love of fashion and a regular on the society pages, she joins the extremely thin ranks of female Silicon Valley CEOs and told reporters that she was immediately interested when Yahoo’s board reached out to her in mid June.

“This is a very competitive and a tough space. I don’t think that success is by any means guaranteed,” she said. “My focus is always end-users, great technology and terrific talent.” Shares of Yahoo, worth less than half their value during its dotcom heyday, gained 2% to $15.97 in after-hours trading.

“It’s a statement on Yahoo’s part to go with a product-centric CEO choice. It’s a very big commitment on the board’s part to pursue a product-centric strategy,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told the fortune industry conference in Aspen, Colorado. Tech companies can be turned around, he said, citing as an example Apple Inc, which had teetered on the brink of bankruptcy before Steve Jobs returned to the company he cofounded.

Mayer will start on Tuesday, when the company is scheduled to report its quarterly financial results, but she will not join the post-release conference call.

Mayer also revealed on Twitter that she is pregnant with her first child, a boy. She told Fortune magazine that the baby is due on October 7 and she expects her maternity leave will only be a few weeks long.

Health Hazard

How mobiles will harm

Mobiles emit signals in the form of radio waves. These microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation.

When we hold a mobile against our ear, the radiation is in direct contact with the tissue in our head.

The fear is that this radiation may cause changes in the brain cells.

If DNA in these brain cells gets damaged, they may become cancerous and cause brain tumours, in particular gliomas

This is a rare type of tumour that typically starts in the brain or spine and can cause headache, nausea, vomiting and seizures

Research Findings

Even 6-year old girls want to look sexy

Girls as young as six years are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects, a new study of elementary school-age children in the US has found. It has been found in the past that women and teens think of themselves in sexually objectified terms, but the new study published in the journal ‘Sex Roles’ is the first to identify self-sexualization in young girls.

Proud to be an Indian

Sunita Williams reaches ISS

Record-setting Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other cosmonauts on Monday (July 17, 2012) successfully docked their Soyuz spacecraft with the International space station for a four-month-long stay during which they will conduct over 30 scientific missions. They arrived at the ISS after two days in orbit.

Success Mantras

Success Formula –By Stephan R Covey, Author of the bestselling motivational book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

+ Be proactive – take responsibility

+ Begin with the end in mind

+ Put first things first

+ Think win-win mutual benefit in all human interactions

+ Seek first to understand, then to be understood

+ Synergize – seek creative cooperation

+ Sharpen the saw

Thursday 12 July 2012

Small Health Tips

Tummy troubles and treatment: Is that terrible tummy ache taking the wind out of your sails? Making you sleepless, stressed, and irritable? Well, it’s not just your mind that is irritated but something deep down in your belly your bowel! Get up and get cracking