Anand Nataraj

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Looking at the amount of response I got from SMS’ing my friends about a Job Opening… I thought it would be nice if I can keep sending SMS to friends so that they can help me in closing those requirement… Yesterday I again SMS’ed all my friends about an Opening in Business Development… The requirement was for Female Candidates & a typo has cause real embarrassment because I SMS’ed the requirement to my clients, business associates other than my friends, relatives & associates (at-least I can explain them)…

Here is the message I sent & the typo is marked in red;

Cogzidel Job Opening

Profile : Business Development
Experience : Fresher
Qualification : MBA
Requirements;
1.) Good Communication Skills & fluency in English.
2.) Good attitude to learn & ability to work indecently & with teams.
Location : Chennai
Gender : Female
Salary : Rs.8000/- PM

Pls pass me if you have any reference or help me by passing it to your friends. Resumes can be emailed to anand@cogzidel.com

Actually what I meant was Independently & not indecently… So, my lessons from this experience is;

• Never send messages without proof reading…
• Never send a message when am in half sleep…
• Never trust spell checker blindly…

Always i rejoice days where i worked with full satisfaction. I carry that happy moments along with me & will funny & accommodating.

But I don’t know what happened today. I wanted to be calm, silent & serious. Without me realizing I had a wonderful day at work and i did following tasks today;

• Browsed Cogzidel.in & collected around 20 things which were bugs, suggestions & feedback for improvement.
• Wrote a case-study for Cogzidel Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.
• Coordinated with Madurai folks who made me Happy by launching new product for CogzidelTemplates.Com.
• Had a productive meeting with my CTO where we discussed;
  • Speeding delivery of projects.
  • Road map for Sales Improvement.
  • Ideas for new products.
  • Plan for Development for Internal Framework.
• Had meeting with my CFO to discuss about;
  • Status of fun raising.
  • Collected tough cases faced to write case studies.
• Even before writing this blog finished writing one another case study.

This is supposed to be a fulfilling day for anyone and anyone must feel high. But for me everything looks normal and I’m not that excited. I normally go out to watch some movie when I’m sad or very much excited. Today i got a call from my friend to go for a movie which i turned down.

But i feel happy because the new change in me is only taking me in the right path.

A corporation advertised all kinds of positions to fill for their new office in a big city, the candidates were selected based on their resume and tested for their aptitude for the positions. 

The corporation put around one hundred baseball balls in some particular order in a closed room with the room window open Then they send a group of two to three candidates of particular discipline into the room and locked it from outside They left them alone and came back after six hours, to analyzed the situation: 

1. If they were counting and recounting the number of balls – They were hired for the ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT
2. If they had messed up the whole place with the balls – They were hired for the ENGINEERING
3. If they were arranging the balls in some other order – They were hired for the PLANNING
4. If they were throwing the balls at each other – They were hired for the OPERATIONS
5. If they were sleeping – They were hired for the SECURITY
6. If they had squashed the balls into pieces – They were hired for the INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
7. If they were staring out of the window – They were hired for the EXPORT
8. If they were sitting idle – They were hired for the HUMAN RESOURCE DEPT
9. If they had thrown the balls out of the window – They were hired for the MATERIALS DEPT
10. If they were clinging onto the balls – They were hired for the TREASURY
11. If they said they had tried different combinations, yet not a ball had moved – They were hired for the SALES
12. If they had already left for the day – They were hired for the MARKETING and finally
13. If they were talking to each other and not a ball had moved – They were hired for the TOP MANAGEMENT

Nunook Interactive Pvt Ltd is a fast-growing educational gaming startup headquartered in Mumbai with a branch office in Chennai. The founders of the company have a total of over 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley, and have recently relocated to India from the US to develop a company for the Indian market. 

Nunook currently have the following openings their organization.

Job Opening 1:

 

Engineering intern: Looking for engineering interns from May to August 2009. Your duties will include:

 

• Working with senior Action scripter’s and Flex engineers to develop the client side for a new product
• Developing the server backend for the product using PHP and MySQL
• Maintaining, troubleshooting and debugging various parts of the product
• Developing and maintaining our corporate website using HTML, CSS, AJAX, and other Web standards

 

To apply for this position, you must be currently enrolled in a BE/BTech or similar degree program. Company looks for a strong programming background in all candidates.

For this position, experience in PHP, MySQL, Actionscript or Flex is desirable. Most importantly, company looks for talented engineers who love technology and learning new things.

Job Opening 2:

 

Game designer: This is a full time position. Company looking for a game designer to perform the following duties:

 

• Developing concepts for new easy to learn, fun to play games targeted at schoolchildren
• Creating design documents based on these game concepts
• Working closely with artists and programmers to ensure that the game designs are implemented to high quality
• Tuning and testing the games to make them challenging and entertaining
• Providing design input for other parts of our educational gaming product
  
  

Company is looking for candidates who love games and have previous exposure to game design. Experience in creating concept art using paper sketches, Photoshop or Flash is a plus.

Requirements:
Both these positions will entail taking on a significant amount of responsibility and working with a high degree of autonomy. To succeed in these roles, candidate must be able to work well as part of a small, highly-motivated team. Candidate must be enthusiastic about their work and keen to take on new challenges.

If you are interested in either of these positions, please contact Abhijeet Vijayakar at abhi@nunook.com.