Author Archive for Babar Javed
Babar Javed is Managing Director of Mission Centenarian, health & fitness company founded in 2007, which comprises of a network of personal trainers in Karachi. He also works as the Marketing Director for Epoch Creatives (Pvt.) Ltd. and Program Director at the BodyBeat Recreational Centre (Pvt.) Ltd. Prior to all this, GlaxoSmithKline, Play TV & UBL Fund Managers had to put up with him. His key interests lie in saving the world, eliminating fat people, universal healthcare, free compulsory education & powering everything mechanical with green energy. For more information on his professional experience, visit his public LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/babarjaved
Internal Brain Drain
We are at War; more specifically, the war on lost talent. Managers complain about the lack of enough qualified people to enter the leadership pipeline even with the current economic climate. Experts point to the companies inability in fully utilizing half their talent pool – a decade ago managers would say their female workforce would [...]
Boycott on Facebook and Social Media
The views expressed by the writer do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of PakMediaBlog This is a response to the tremendous parties of idiots I had to tolerate before and during the ban “for a cause”. Readers who can’t handle the truth (or an opinion backed by facts) need to close this page. [...]
Employment Opportunities at Foreign Media Companies
All stated jobs are based outside of Pakistan and have a minimum credential requirement of Bachelors with at least 2 years hands on experience* for each position. The experience is the key point here. Having a master’s degree without the experience does not give candidates an upper hand. Jobs at Press Release Distributors: Marketing Managers [...]
Employment Opportunities at Swiss National Bank
Swiss National Bank is hiring in huge quantities and for some reason they want Desi’s. I’m being informal on purpose. I would have guessed that it’s because they think we’re cheap labor but it turns out that the starting salary for the entry level positions (ELP) listed below is 30,000 Francs (PKR 2.35 Million) per [...]
Employment Opportunities at Global Media Companies
All stated jobs are based outside of Pakistan and have a minimum credential requirement of Bachelors with at least 2 years hands on experience* for each position. The experience is the key point here. Having a master’s degree without the experience does not give candidates an upper hand. Multimedia Product Manager and Client Support Specialist [...]
Brand Strategy: Books & Tweets!
Stop asking yourself whether “To Tweet or Book?” “Ask how both can be used as a part of an overall branding strategy in the appropriate way” – Cristiana Costa, Retail Digital Marketing Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland Facebook and Twitter are playing a larger role in brand strategy than anyone could have expected. What [...]
Customer Conversation: Business Intelligence by 2015
“By 2015 we can expect it to be commonplace in most companies, that customer conversation is the largest chunk of business intelligence” – Niclas Hermansso, Digital Marketing Strategist at Volvo Trucks The day draws nearer when unparalleled understanding of the consumer will be in the hands of most companies – those that adapt to the [...]
