Tuesday, October 7, 2014

#Flipkart founders apologies for not being able to provide a great experience


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Dear Customer, 

Yesterday was a big day for us. And we really wanted it to be a great day for you. But at the end of the day, we know that your experience was less than pleasant. We did not live up to the promises we made and for that we are really and truly sorry. 

It took enormous effort from everyone at Flipkart, many months of preparation and pushing our capabilities and systems to the limit to be able to create this day. We were looking at fulfilling the dreams of millions of Indian consumers through deals and offers we had painstakingly put together for months. 

And though we saw unprecedented interest in our products and traffic like never before, we also realized that we were not adequately prepared for the sheer scale of the event. We didn't source enough products and deals in advance to cater to your requirements. To add to this, the load on our server led to intermittent outages, further impacting your shopping experience on our site. 

An unprecedented 1.5 million people shopped at Flipkart yesterday. While we stand humbled by the sheer faith that such a large number of customers have shown in us, we are unhappy that we were unable to live up to the expectations of millions more who wanted to buy from us yesterday. 

And this is not acceptable to us. 

Delighting you, and every single one of our customers, is absolutely the top most priority for Flipkart and we have worked very hard over the last seven years to earn your trust. Yesterday, we failed that trust. We have learnt some valuable lessons from this and have started working doubly hard to address all the issues that cropped up during this sale. 

Price Changes As we were preparing various deals and promotional pricing in the lead up to the sale, the pricing of several products got ​changed to their non-discounted rates for a few hours​. We realise that this breaks the trust our customers have put in us. We are truly sorry for this and will ensure that this never happens again. 

Out-of-stock Issues We ran out of the stock for many products within a few minutes (and in some cases, seconds) of the sale going live. For example, most of our special deals were sold out as soon as they went live. We had ensured availability, anywhere from hundreds to a few lakh units for various products, but it was nowhere near the actual demand. We promise to plan much better for future promotions and ensure that we minimise the out-of-stock issues. 

Cancellations We had large number of people buying specific products simultaneously. This led to some instances of an order getting over-booked for a product that was sold out just a few seconds ago. We are working round-the-clock to ensure availability of additional units for these products and will do our level best to ensure that we minimise any cancellations. 

Website Issues ​We realise that the shopping experience for many of you was frustrating due to errors and unavailability of the website at times. We had deployed nearly 5000 servers and had prepared for 20 times the traffic growth - but the volume of traffic at different times of the day was much higher than this. We are continuing to significantly scale up all our back end systems so that we do a much, much better job next time. 

Everything that we have achieved at Flipkart is purely on the basis of our customer's trust and faith. This is why we come to work each day and continue to remain extremely passionate about building the best possible customer experience for Indian consumers. We failed to live up to this promise yesterday and would like to apologise once again to every single customer for our failure. 

Thank you. 
Sachin and Binny
 
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Creative Designer, AirAsia - Bangalore

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/19341404?trk=jobs_biz_prem_srch

Role & Responsibilities:

Working closely with the branding team to design print ads, sales collateral, corporate branding, digital banners, and social media posts, merchandise branding, Events & Exhibitions  etc.
Ability to think out of the box and suggest new ways of implementing creative better.
Should not keep restricted to the brief given and should be able to brainstorm and come up with innovative ideas to make brief to great campaign.
Maintaining AirAsia corporate identity in every aspects to make sure its properly executed (e.g. billboard, neon sign, and sales office).
Maintain and update product websites; with accuracy, consistency and compliance with required standards.

Reporting to the Brand Manager - the Creative Designer desired should be friendly, matured with pleasant disposition, humble, honest, meticulous; self-starter; able to perform multi-tasks, work under pressure in a challenging environment and tight deadlines.

Desired Skills and Experience

Requirements:

  • Candidate must possess at least a Diploma in Graphic/Web/Multimedia Design
  • Good proficiency in Mac OS X
  • 3-4 years of experience of creative layouts from an advertising agency background , or
  • Required application skills in Adobe CS6: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign
  • Preferred skill(s):  Action script, Video and Sound Editing, HTML, CSS
  • A good eye for typography, layout, design and user-interface
  • Required language(s): English

MBA Marketing Fresher Candidates

Require MBA Marketing Fresher Candidates for FMCG and Auto industry , interested candidates please share resume on pvrgservices@gmail.com or contact @ 01725098366 or 9855002798

Friday, September 19, 2014

Chief Engineer for a 5 star deluxe chain of hotels, Salem and Indore

Urgently looking for a 5 star deluxe chain of hotels, following positions: Chief Engineer - Salem and Indore, Sales Manager - Salem and Financial Controller - Kolkatta. Excellent pay packages, People only with hospitality background apply, Chief Engineer Salem should be able to speak the local language. Please share your resume with Job in Subject and salary details at mamta@redstringglobal.com

CASTING CALL, Bangalore

CASTING CALL
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A feature film that talks about the lives of 3 friends in Bangalore in the 1980's. The film is going to be directed by 'Q', and it will be shot in Bangalore and Mysore. The film is a comic take revolving around the quizzing circuit in schools and colleges in the 80s' Bangalore.
The characters in the film are young, intelligent, nerdy, 'high society' youngsters in the city who have an immense amount of knowledge but don't get much attention from the opposite sex. However, there are also a number of interesting characters who need not necessarily be in this mould but have important roles to play.
Age : Need to look 19-21
Superb command over English
Time committment : 2 months (Nov - Dec 2014)

The audition dates are 18th, 19th and the 20th of September 2014- From 3pm to 8pm. Audition material will be given at the venue
The address :
#2280, 16th A Main,
1st Sector, HSR Layout
Bangalore: 560102
Behind Pratham Motors
Call : 9686188948

Thursday, September 18, 2014

AVP / Manager - Business Development - Institutional Sales, Delhi

About The Company-
Aye Finance Pvt. Ltd. is a newly setup and rapidly expanding Non Banking Finance Company (NBFC) with a vision to be a leader in providing finance to micro and small businesses across India. We use automation and innovative risk assessment methods to provide access to an under-served segment of business entities. The Company is driven by highest levels of corporate governance and is led by professionals who have been leaders in the Banking industry. For details visit www.ayefin.com

Designation
AVP / Manager - Business Development - Institutional Sales

Location
Delhi

Education and Experience-
- Graduate (MBA preferred)
- Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in institutional sales or new business development
- Exposure in Financial Services industry preferred

Other key requirements
- Strong business presentation skills
- Persistent and high achiever
- Ability to negotiate and structure business solutions for corporate partners

About the Role
- All India position
- Reports to Country Head - Sales 
  

Contact
To apply, please send your updated CV to Mr. Vikram Jetley at 
vikram.jetley@ayefin.com

Friday, September 12, 2014

STC [WEBINAR] ADAPTING TO CHANGES IN LANGUAGE USE

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[WEBINAR] ADAPTING TO CHANGES IN LANGUAGE USE
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Date(s) - 20/09/2014
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Adapting to Changes in Language UseVidhiKapoor•    Does change in language use impact me as a Technical Writer?
•    Do I unlearn all the rules or some of them?
•    Are there any ‘thumb rules’ to help me adapt to language change?

Vidhi has been at the forefront, driving technical content startegy and integration of technology based language process improvements in her organization. Her intense passion for languages has taken her back to school recently to learn Korean.

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STC India Editing SIG presents the free Webinar on:
Speaker – Vidhi Kapoor




Adapting to Changes in Language Use
    British philologist Ernest Weekley suggested long ago that 'Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis'.
    As language use changes rapidly in our constantly connected global environment, let us take some time to consider how these changes impact Technical Communicators.
    The webinar touches upon the following areas:
    •    Is Technical Language changing?
      About the Presenter
      Vidhi is the global Technical Communication and Localization Manager at Developer Tools Division, GrapeCity with 10+ years of cross-domain experience. She currently recruits, trains and manages a team of multi-lingual technical communicators and localization experts handling content for US, Japan and rest of the world. 

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