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Author: IIMC Alumni Association

  • Desk and Feature Writing Openings with Upcoming News Agency

    Newsandviews.com is a soon to be launched Features Syndicate and News Agency.

    Requirement: Feature writers and Junior/Middle level desk people

    Location: All over the country

    Brief job profile: Seeking Freelance Feature Writers with excellent command over English (for writers) and enviable editing skills for the desk people. By editing we do not mean inserting a comma here and a semi-colon there.

    Experience: A minimum of three years

    Salary: As per industry norms

    Contact person: Vipin

    Email: careers@cricdomestic.com

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    Thanks.
    IIMC Alumni Association
     
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  • HS Brands International needs Editor / Proofreader in Bangalore

    H S Brands International, a global mystery shopping firm with offices in US, Europe and Asia, seeks Editor/Proofreader for its Bangaloreoffice.

    Experience: 0 – 3 years [Full time position, work from office]

    Brief job profile

    * To edit and proof read the reports as per the client’s requirements and the guidelines.
    * Check for discrepancies, insufficiency or any contextual errors in the reports.
    * Each report to be checked for minor changes that substantively change the theme, typeface, tone, structure, characters, or other elements of the audit that has been written. It would include spelling or grammar in a way that does not deviate from what the respondent wanted to convey.

    About: HS Brands International is comprised of the Mershimer Group and Service Sleuth, which combine Loss Prevention, Franchise Royalty Assurance, Market Research and Mystery Shopping to create a one-stop shop for companies in need of solutions to existing problems. Service Sleuth excels in measuring and improving customer service across all industries through integrity and mystery shopping as well as other effective measurement strategies. The Mershimer Group specializes in taking a proactive approach at preventing loss through proven strategies and tactics within the industry. HS Brands International is a leader in the loss prevention industry because it provides “tried and true” tactics using cutting edge technology to design programs for its clients that produce results to minimize loss and boost sales.
     
    Partner: Mr. Sanjeev Shenoy, partnered with HS Brands International to start operations in Asia-Pac in May 2008. Over the past 2.5 years, our team size has grown to 12+ and the shopper network to above 5000. We are currently working with over 15 clients in India and 10 clients across Asia. There has been a 100% growth in turnover, year on year over the last 2 years.

    Today, HS Brands International works with some of the most recognized brands as clients. We are committed to growing their client’s business through customer service excellence and loss prevention strategies utilizing the industry’s most advanced technology. HS Brands has a database of up to 5000 shoppers, which will grow as we continue to expand.

    Mystery Shopping

    Concept: Mystery shopping or a mystery consumer is a tool used by Mystery Shopping Providers and market research companies to measure quality of retail service or gather specific information about products and services. Mystery shoppers posing as normal customers perform specific tasks—such as purchasing a product, asking questions, registering complaints or behaving in a certain way—and then provide detailed reports or feedback about their experiences.

    Mystery shopping was standard practice by the early 1940s as a way to measure employee integrity. Tools used for mystery shopping assessments range from simple questionnaires to complete audio and video recordings.

    Mystery shopping can be used in any industry, with the most common venues being retail stores, hotels, movie theaters, restaurants, fast food chains, banks, gas stations, car dealerships, apartments, health clubs and health care facilities. It can be used to gather specific information about a product or service, or to check up on the customer experience and what type of customer service they receive. HS Brands International works with its client company to come up with a report that is specific for their customers shopping experience.

    Responsibilities

    Each feedback form to be checked for minor changes which are changes that do not substantively change the theme, typeface, tone, structure, characters, or other elements of the audit that has been written by the shopper. Such changes would include spelling or grammar in a way that does not deviate from what the shopper wanted to convey.

    Towards Clients & Client Reports

    * To edit the reports as per the client’s requirements and the guidelines decided upon.
    * Check for discrepancies, insufficiency or any contextual errors in the shopper reports.
    * Ensure the reports are error free with regard to grammar, spelling and punctuations.
    * Stick to the timelines that are client specific.
    * Comprehend the shopper guidelines as well as the editor guidelines before handling each project.
    * Prepare the editing guidelines as well as shopper guideline based on the assignment sheet for each client.
    * To work on MS Picture manager and edit/ crop/ darken the bills for better clarity.
    * To edit the shopper reports prior to submitting them to the clients.

    Towards Shoppers

    * Follow up for information in case of incomplete feedback forms.
    * Grade shoppers without being biased.
    * Follow up with the shoppers in case of any clarifications. Provide predefined shopper comments on the basis of the language, effort and the overall accuracy of each report which in turn will help in identifying the quality shoppers of the lot.

    Towards Project Coordinators

    * Understand the nature of the project and the volume expected on a weekly basis.
    * Follow up with the co-ordinators on any insufficiency regarding a particular report.

    Growth Path: One should be able to see themselves handling a variety of projects thus contributing to the overall growth of the company and move to the level of Manager Editorial Content.

    Salary range: Rs 14,000-18,000 per month

    To apply, contact: Prashanthi

    Email: hr@hsbrands.com, india@hsbrands.com

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  • Moe’s Art needs PR Executive in Mumbai; Freshers can apply

    Moe’s Art is a public relations agency and it helps its clients with making PR campaigns, building strategic communications, content creation and enhance brand visibility.

    Requirement: A PR Executive with good writing skills to work on business/entertainment clients

    Location: Mumbai

    Eligibility Criteria: Graduates or Post Graduates with 0-2 years of experience

    Note: The job opening is for Mumbai ONLY.

    Specific Tasks

    – Help in developing press releases, authored articles
    – To ensure that the content is logical, well structured and grammatically correct
    – Capable of writing an article on any subject
    – Managing the content requirement for different clients

    Qualities and Skills

    • Attention to detail
    • Proven writing ability
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Understanding of client business issues and requirements
    • Polished and professional appearance
    • Good networking skills

    Salary range: Depending on current salary and experience

    To apply: Send in your resume at careers@moes-art.com

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  • IMP: Maharashtra Chapter Inception Meeting on 27th October, Saturday

    Dear IIMCians,

    Mr Sourav Mishra, coordinator of Maharashtra chapter, has informed that alumnus are meeting in Mumbai on 27th October, Saturday to form the committee for Maharashtra chapter. IIMCians in Maharashtra are requested to attend the meeting and participate in the selection/ election of office bearers.
     
    Date– 27th October, 2012
    Time– 11.30 AM
    Venue– Cafe Coffee Day, Churchgate, Mumbai
    IIMCians working/ living in Maharashtra may reach to Mr Mishra at mishra.sourav@gmail.com/ 99202-85887 for further details.
    Thanks & Regards,
    Harshendra Verdhan
    Organisation Secretary, IIMCAA

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  • IIMCAA: Responsibilities & Work Profile of New Office Bearers & Committees

    Dear IIMCians,
    Thanks to all for expressing the faith in our team for the revival of IIMC Alumni Association (IIMCAA). I assure that we will meet your expectations with the help of office bearers, executive members, chapters, active members and above the all- WE, the IIMCians.
    For the better output and transparent functioning of the Association, 5 standing committees are being formed with clearly defined work, responsibilities in addition to distribution of works among other office bearers.
    All these committees will be headed by a Convener & a member will coordinate the activity of each committee. Each committee will comprise of total 5 members from the panel of office bearers.
    Coordination Committee, for this year only, will have more than 5 members as this committee has been entrusted with the responsibility of membership drive and as we all know, we have no membership at all except founding members. So a mammoth membership drive needs more than 5 members in this committee for smooth functioning.
    Patron
    Patron (Ex-officio DG of IIMC, Mr. Sunit Tandon) will extend patronage to the alumni association.
    President
    President (Mukesh Kaushik) will preside over the meetings & functions of alumni association. In the absence of President, senior most Vice-President will preside over the meeting or function.
    President will appoint standing committees excluding committee/ committees for any specific purpose, as and when required. These committees will comprise office-bearers and executive members. He may appoint President/ General Secretary of chapter/ chapters in any of the committee/ committees. He may change the structure of any committee/ all committees and its members.
    General Secretary
    General Secretary (Animesh Biswas) will be responsible for overall functioning. He will call meeting of office-bearers and executive members in consultation with the President. He will share agenda of the meeting at least one day prior to the meeting except emergency meetings with office bearers & executive members.
    Office-bearers & executive members shall meet at least once in every month. General Secretary will coordinate with chapters/ committees and other external forums/ institutions.
    Treasurer
    Treasurer (Gaurav Dikshit) will be responsible for fund mobilization & expenses for the association. He shall work in close co-ordination with Finance Committee, which will approve the budget prior to the functions/ events/ purposes.
    Treasurer will seek budgetary approval in advance. If an event or a function is being organized without budgetary approval from Finance Committee, Treasurer will get it approved within 15 days of that function.
    Organisation Secretaries
    Organisation Secretaries (Harshendra Verdhan and Ritesh Verma) will work for the strengthening and expansion of the alumni association. Both of them in close coordination with each other, chapters and Coordination Committee, will complete the membership drive.
    Chapter units will coordinate with any of the Organisation Secretary and both of them will coordinate with each other.
    Moderator, Online
    Ritesh Verma will oversee online activities of the association independently on the daily basis as a Moderator. If he feels any post/ material requires discussion before he posts/ rejects it, he will seek binding opinion of the Communication committee which will decide the fate of such posts.
    Chapters
    Currently, AGM has approved state coordinators for different chapters. These chapters will form their committee soon. After chapters have their own committee in place, they will start and complete the membership drive and organize alumni meet or any other suitable networking event in their functional areas in close coordination with national body.
    Chapters may invite office bearer/ bearers from national chapter to their event on their expenses.
    General Secretaries of all the chapters will file a quarterly report of work before Vigilance Committee marking a copy to President, General Secretary, Organisation Secretaries and Chapter President by 2nd week of every third month.
    Functioning of Committees
    General Secretary will communicate with all committees via member officiating that committee and seek the opinion on the issues to be deliberated and decided. Each committee will have a separate mail id which will be handled by member officiating that committee. Committees may deliberate and decide any or every issue on mail with its members.
    Member officiating that committee may call meeting or may seek opinion on mail from its members in consultation with Convener of that committee. If there is dissent on any issue in the Committee, matter would be decided with the opinion of majority of the participating members in that Committee.
    Decision of each Committee is final and no one can change it except of that committee. General Secretary may request the committee to re-consider the decision clearly citing grounds for request but final decision will lie with the committee only.
    Finance Committee
    Functional areas: Finance Committee will approve the measures of funds mobilization and budget of expenditure on the basis of requisition of Treasurer for any event/ function/ purpose. It will help the Treasurer in getting sponsors for events/ functions/ purposes in close coordination with other member of office bearers and active members of the association.
    This committee will monitor the income and expenditure. It will file a quarterly report of its work before Vigilance Committee marking a copy to President, General Secretary and Organisation Secretaries by 2nd week of every third month.
    Convener– Apurva Chamaria
    Members– Prabhat Pandey, Nishant Verma, Soumya Jha & Mohit Agarwal
    Officiating Member– Mohit Agarwal
    Mail id- iimcaa.finance@gmail.com
    Co-ordination Committee
    Functional Areas: As name suggests, this Committee will coordinate the activities of the association. Be it Membership drive, coordination between institute & the association or coordination with other institutes/ forums, this Committee will decide the ways of coordination/ cooperation.
    General Secretary and Organisation Secretary may seek advice of the committee in coordination matters, which will be binding in nature if sought and given. As far as membership drive is concern, Committee will work as Office of Membership.
    Distribution, collection & processing of membership forms and amount transfer to Treasurer received from membership is responsibility of committee. Committee will seek funds from Treasurer for their work and assignments.
    This committee will file a quarterly report of its work before Vigilance Committee marking a copy to President, General Secretary and Organisation Secretaries by 2nd week of every third month.
    Convener– Abhinav Garg
    Members– Vrinda Mathur, Prashant Asthana, Reetesh Anand, Varun Shailesh, Anupam Mishra, Vartika Tomer & Abhishek Sachan
    Officiating Member– Vartika Tomer
    Mail id- iimcaa.coordination@gmail.com
    Communication Committee
    Functional areas: Communication Committee will handle internal and external communication in close coordination with Moderator, Online Activities. It will receive the reports of Vigilance Committee and share it with members in an appropriate way in close coordination with Moderator.
    It will prepare reading & printing materials of the events, press release, explore the guests for events/ functions/ purposes and seek funds for such activities from Treasurer.
    This committee will file a quarterly report of its work before Vigilance Committee marking a copy to President, General Secretary and Organisation Secretaries by 2nd week of every third month.
    Convener– Shubhashish Mallik
    Members– Tanu Shri, Amit Kanujia, Rishi Kumar Singh & Vartika Tomer
    Officiating Member- Tanu Shri
    Mail id- iimcaa.communication@gmail.com
    Logistics Committee
    Functional areas: Logistics Committee will handle every aspect of function/ event/ meeting in close coordination with General Secretary, Treasurer and concerned committees. Committee will seek funds/ sponsors from Treasurer.
    This committee will file a quarterly report of its work before Vigilance Committee marking a copy to President, General Secretary and Organisation Secretaries by 2nd week of every third month.
    Convener– Dhiren Dukhu
    Members– Anand Saurabh, Neha Keshri, Keshav Kumar & Harendra Yadav
    Officiating Member- Anand Saurabh
    Mail id- iimcaa.logistics@gmail.com
    Vigilance Committee
    Functional areas: It is an internal audit body. All the committees and chapters except Vigilance Committee will submit a quarterly report of their work/ works by 2nd week of every third month to this committee marking a copy to President, General Secretary, Organisation Secretaries & Concerned Chapter Presidents.
    This committee will critically review the report of all committees and chapters and send a report by 4th week of that month to Communication Committee to make the report public, marking a copy to President, General Secretary, Organisation Secretaries and Concerned Chapter Presidents. Vigilance Committee will return the report of respective committees and chapters with observations/ suggestions/ warnings marking a copy to President, General Secretary, Organisation Secretaries & Concerned Chapter Presidents.
    Report of other committees/ chapters would not be made public before next AGM. Report of Vigilance Committee will be made public only quarterly which will review works and performance of all other committees/ chapters. Vigilance Committee can not change or modify the report of any committee. Communication Committee/ Moderator are bound to circulate/ publish the report received from Vigilance Committee.
    Convener– Aakash Kumar
    Members– Ajit Dubey, Parimal Kumar, Ranveer Singh & Kunwar Abhishek Bhagat
    Officiating Member- Kunwar Abhishek Bhagat
    Mail id- iimcaa.vigilance@gmail.com
    Thanks & Regards,
    Mukesh Kaushik
    President, IIMC Alumni Association
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  • REVISED: UP Chapter Formation Meeting on 28 October in Lucknow Press Club

    Dear IIMCians,

    Mr Santosh Valmeeki (1988-89, HJ, Delhi), coordinator of Uttar Pradesh Chapter, has informed that alumnus are meeting in Lucknow on 28th October, Sunday at U.P. Press Club at 10.00 AM to form the committee for Uttar Pradesh Chapter.

    IIMCians in Uttar Pradesh except Nation Capital Region (NCR) are requested to attend the meeting and participate in the selection/ election of office bearers. UP Chapter will explore the ways to connect IIMCians working or living in distant citites like Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Varanasi etc.

    Mr Valmeeki is available @ santosh.hindustan@gmail.com/ 94150-10820 for further details.


     
    Correction: In earlier mail 11 AM mentioned as start time of meeting which actually is 10 AM. Meeting shall start at 10 AM.
     
    Thanks & Regards,
    Harshendra Verdhan
    Organisation Secretary, IIMCAA

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  • IMP: Uttar Pradesh Chapter Formation Meeting on 28 October in Lucknow Press Club

    Dear IIMCians,

    Mr Santosh Valmeeki (1988-89, HJ, Delhi), coordinator of Uttar Pradesh Chapter, has informed that alumnus are meeting in Lucknow on 28th October, Sunday at U.P. Press Club at 10.00 AM to form the committee for Uttar Pradesh Chapter.

    IIMCians in Uttar Pradesh except Nation Capital Region (NCR) are requested to attend the meeting and participate in the selection/ election of office bearers. UP Chapter will explore the ways to connect IIMCians working or living in distant citites like Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Varanasi etc.

    Mr Valmeeki is available @ santosh.hindustan@gmail.com/ 94150-10820 for further details.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Harshendra Verdhan
    Organisation Secretary, IIMCAA
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  • AGM of IIMCAA and roads ahead…

    Dear IIMCians,

    On the behalf of IIMC Alumni Association, I thank all IIMCians for their presence at the Annual General Body Meeting, which held on October 14, 2012. I appreciate your attachment and respect for the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. I am glad to meet all of you who came to attend the AGM and also saw the commitment for the IIMC Alumni Association in you.

    I would like to express my gratitude to all the IIMCians who formed this association in 2004 and would like to take few names from them like Mr Neeraj Saxena, Mr Chandan Kumar, Mr Gopal Krishna, Mr Anupam Shrivastava, Mr Akhilesh Sharma, Ms Vartika Nanda, Mr Mahendra Yadav and all who laid the foundation of this association.

    I also thank to all our respectable seniors, who took their valuable time out of their busy schedule and attended the AGM. Your motivation and encouragement helped us to take this major step for strengthening the Alumni Association. I would like to take few more names here like Mr Rana Yashwant, Mr Anuranjan Jha, Prof Haresh Kumar, Dr Upendra Pandey, Mr Ramesh Tiwari who attended the AGM and helped us as a guardian.

    I am also thankful to Chapter Coordinators of IIMCAA for accepting the responsibility of contacting all IIMCians in their respective States. We all want to take IIMCAA to every alumnus and all parts of our country and outside the country. We are in contact with some IIMCians in UK, US and other countries who have shown interest in forming their respective Chapters soon. We will also explore other chapters in abroad as suggested by DG of IIMC Mr Sunit Tandon and announced by our President Mr. Mukesh Kaushik.

    I am also grateful to Mr. Sunit Tandon, Director General of IIMC, for his presence at the AGM and accepting to be our ex officio Patron resulting in the recognition of IIMCAA as an official alumni association of the Institute. I totally agree with his suggestion of keeping the body totally apolitical. Since inception IIMCAA is committed for alumni networking only. It is defined well since the formation of Association that We are neither a student union nor a trade union. It is entirely an alumni networking activity and its mandate is defined which neither interfere in the functioning of IIMC in general or recruiters of IIMCians in any manner. We will abide by this principle in our activity and behaviour minus some exceptional cases which would require our attention.

    None of us want to see IIMCAA as a forum of political fighting. i am sure that everyone is here just because of IIMC and only for IIMC cause. We are committed for that. We have other forums to take political movements and social agitations forward & every IIMCian as a citizen of this country is entitled to have his/her own political opinion & socio-political activity fully independent of IIMCAA.

    Under the leadership of our President, Mr. Mukesh Kaushik, we will meet Mr. Tandon, who is also an Ex Officio-Patron of IIMCAA, in coming days. We will discuss our future plans and mechanisms to strengthen the bond between the Institute and the IIMCAA.

    In next few days, we will initiate the membership drive to enrol all alumni in maximum cities. To make the membership drive a success, we all have to work as a team and co-operate each other. Office Bearers, Executive Members and several active members of IIMCAA will contact you soon and meet you at your office or home to take your details. Our state chapters will be helping in this exercise to get enrolled IIMCians residing in other cities of the country. I request you to give us support and cooperation to this drive. Please be in touch with your fellow batch-mates and keep their contact details. In addition to this, IIMCAA will send membership form to any IIMCian on requisition on a given postal address which they may return with cheque or draft of membership fee. Fee will be decided and declared soon after office bearers meet on several issue including this. Our target is March 2013 and till then, we want to make a database of maximum alumni.

    Registration of the IIMC Alumni Association is another important responsibility of us. Very soon we will initiate the process of registration of our association and come up with the outcome as early as possible.

    We have started the process of Chapter formation in every State. In next few weeks, these Chapters will hold a meeting to form Committees. These Committees will select/elect their office-bearers, who will further take the responsibility of maintaining a database of all alumni and organise Reunions or get-togethers in their respective States in addition to encourage members to attend AGM every year.

    I would also like to take this opportunity to discuss a key matter of IIMCAA web forums on Google Group, Blogspot and Facebook. Many members, have objected to posting of such posts/ materials/ surveys on this forum which are not related with IIMC or useful for IIMCians, in informal discussions during AGM. They complained and we also have observed that lot of people are using our forum to execute the agenda of other forums/ institutions in various ways. It has been decided to filter/reject such messages strictly. If Moderator feels any post/material requires discussion before he post/reject it, he will seek binding opinion of a soon to be announced committee which will decide the fate of such posts.

    We are in the process of developing a code of conduct for members, election process for maximum representation and several other mechanisms which will help us in the smooth functioning of Association in coming days.

    We will keep you informed on our further developments and expect your full support to make our Alumni Association vibrant and effective. Cooperation from each one of you will sure help everyone to build-up an energetic and lively IIMC Family.

    I am singing  off with a saying – “You can take a person out of IIMC, but you can’t take IIMC out of a person.”

    Regards,
    Animesh Biswas
    General Secretary
    animesh.cwg@gmail.com

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  • IIMC Alumni Association AGM Result

    Mukesh Kaushik elected IIMC Alumni Association President unopposed


    New Delhi Oct 14, 2012: Annual General Body meeting of IIMC Alumni Association today elected Mukesh Kaushik of UNI as its president unopposed while the Director General of the Institute Sunit Tandon was made the patron of the association.
     
    The AGM elected Animesh Bishwas as General Secretary and Aakash Kumar, Apurva Chamaria, Shubhashish Mallik, Abhinav Garg and Dhiren Dhiku as its vice presidents.

    Assuming charge of the association Kaushik announced that the international chapter of the IIMC former students would soon be launched as alma mater of this prestigious institute are spread in more than 110 countries across the globe. DG IIMC Mr Tandon, as ex officio patron of the Alumni Association said that the body should remain apolitical in nature and work for the betterment of IIMC family.

    The AGM also endorsed the election of Harshendra Verdhan and Ritesh Verma as Organisation Secretaries while Tanu Shri, Rajeev Dwivedi, Anand Saurabh, Diwaker Kumar and Kunwar Abhishek Bhagat as Secretaries and Gaurav Dikshit as the treasurer of the association.

    Executive Members of the elected body are: Ajit Dubey, Prabhat Pandey, Parimal Kumar, Amit Kanaujia, Vrinda Mathur, Prashant Asthana, Reetesh Anand, Nishant Verma, Ranveer Singh, Neha Keshri, Anupam Mishra, Vartika, Abhishek Sachan, Keshav Kumar, Harendra Yadav, Rishi Kumar Singh, Soumya Jha and Varun Shailesh.

    Santosh Valmiki (UP), Neelima Sukhija Arora (Rajasthan) Alok Kumar (Bihar), Sandeep Kumar (Jharkhand),  Rakesh Kumar Das (North East), Sourav Mishra (Maharashtra), Safi Shamsi (WB), Rakesh Mohanty (AP), Arvind Kumar (Gujrat), Pragyan Mohanty (Karnataka), Mrigendra Pandey (MP/Chhatishgarh), Saurabh Dwivedi (Punjab, Haryana and Himachal) and Sudhanshu Kumar Patro (Odisha) were appointed Chapter coordinators  of the association.

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