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Thank you Recruiterbox

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Sometimes, there are some awesome folks who deserve a special post. The guys behind Recruiterbox definitely deserve this one coming up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We at BITSAA International had our 2nd ever longest-cum-largest drive for recruitment to bring on-board the next set of BITSAA Leaders and Volunteers who would drive the next phase of execution for the BITS Pilani Alumni Association. We had over 500+ applications in a Leadership drive run by Raghuraman and the HR team, and we coordinated all of it using Recruiterbox. This is how it helped us:

1. All conversations from 1 place with candidate.

2. All logs, notes, which position applied to, tags, labels for internal consumption.

3. Reports to download and put people in the right stages – selected, not selected, on-hold etc.

It just made our job very very easy, rather than coordinating over multiple products like Google Excel, Spreadsheets, Dropbox etc. We did not (mostly) miss any candidate and were able to keep a great track of ourselves.

The best part about the team is that since we are a registered Non-Profit organization, they gave us a free usage for the entire time! Unbelievable support, never did they ask for anything, they gave us support as though we were a normal customer and absolutely fabulous UX/UI led to everyone being able to use the product efficiently without much training.

Kudos to the Recruiterbox team and Thank you from all of BITSAA International. I am sure of the 50,000 odd BITSians around the globe, this word should hopefully spread.

Using Trello for all BITSAA International Teams

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Exciting times lay ahead for all BITSAA Volunteers – we are getting hooked to a really good app called Trello!

So we have been losing a lot of information over e-mails and a lot of To-Do’s have been getting lost in this process. Hence from now on – each one of us who is part of BITSAA International is going to be communicating internally via Trello. Though a volunteer organization we are always the 1st to get hooked on using some really neat apps out there, and we have been supported by many of these orgs with their products.

Some of them – Gust, Recruiterbox, Dropbox, YMC have already been hits internally!

Trello is a simple online app which allows a team to track like a Sticky Note Board, all the tasks and align that with the Goals taken up by the respective team for the year. It’s really neat and has simple UX/UI which makes it very intuitive and easy to use.

To understand how to use Trello – follow the below 2 links and check this screenshot by the CXO team who is using it as well for our own tracking purposes.

1. http://blog.trello.com/launch/

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaDf1RqeLfo&feature=youtu.be

If you have any doubts – please feel free to reach out to me at vijaysharma@bitsaa.org. This is a great app and I am sure we will have fun using it.

Look forward to all of your support and enthusiasm in implementing this.

“With a little help from my friends” – BC Krishna’s Story into Entrepreneurship

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Often, the advice given to first time entrepreneurs is to find a good mentor.

BC Krishna, a BITSian serial entrepreneur who is now on his third stint as the founder of a company understands the importance of mentors.

BC Krishna has a problem. He is bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. His latest venture, Mineral Tree is a secure payment gateway for SMEs. Throughout his career he has been driven to solve large scale problems using technology and he seems to be pretty good at it: 3 companies, all three back by influential VCs, one acquired and 1 running strong and the latest one being hailed as a disruptive payment gateway solution. But he also admits that one thing that entrepreneurs need is having someone to talk to, especially if that person has prior entrepreneurial experience. And that is the story that NYT focused on when they covered BC’s start-up recently, which we suggest you read. Continue reading →

Good Ideas to Re-start Alumni Activities: Alumni Relations

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There was an interesting question which was left un-answered on Quora – the link is here.

Vijay Sharma

Vijay Sharma

I wanted to write an answer not only to those there, but to many alumni of BITS and of other institutes/schools as well. A quick few thoughts after volunteering for the past 2.5 years to support Alumni activities for my association:

The Question is – “What are good ideas to re-organize an alumni assocition?”

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