While Reliance chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani tops the list of richest Indians, he comes in way below at number 19 on the list of CEOs ranked by remuneration as per a study conducted by Business India. Here’s a list of the CEOs who made the cut:

1. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani
   Remuneration in 2008-09: Rs 52.04 crore ($11.19 million)
   Commission: Rs 52.04 crore
2. Kalanithi Maran, chairman and managing director, Sun TV
   Kavery Kalanithi, joint managing director, Sun TV
   Remuneration: Rs 37.08 crore ($7.99 million)
   Commission: NA
3. P R Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha, chairman and managing director, Madras Cements
   Remuneration: Rs 28.71 crore ($6.2 million)
   Commission: Rs 28.40 crore ($6.1 million)
4. Naveen Jindal, executive vice chairman & managing director, Jindal Steel & Power
   Remuneration: Rs 28.28 crore ($6.09 million)
   Commission: Rs 20.36 crore ($4.38 million)
5. Malvinder Mohan Singh, ex-chairman, CEO and MD, Ranbaxy
   Remuneration: Rs 23.72 crore ($5.09 million)
   Commission: NA
6. Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Airtel
   Remuneration: Rs 20.90 crore ($ 4.48 million)
   Commission: NA
7. Vivek Kumar Jain, managing director, Gujarat Fluorochemicals
   Remuneration: Rs 20.73 crore ($4.45 million)
   Commission: NA
8. Gautam Adani, chairman, Adani Group
   Remuneration: Rs 20.03 crore ($ 4.30 million)
   Commission:  Rs 17.64 crore ($ 3.78 million)
9. Brijmohan Lall Munjal, chairman, Hero Honda
   Remuneration: Rs 19.79 crore ($4.24 million)
   Commission: Rs 18.61 crore ($3.99 million)
10. Pawan Munjal, managing director and CEO, Hero Honda
    Remuneration: Rs 19.69 crore ($4.22 million)
    Commission: Rs 18.61 crore ($3.99 million

Shared from the Slideshare Newsletter:

These seven presentations are handpicked by the Applicant Blog at applicant.com. They also got some love from from getthatjobonline.com

1. Effective Job Interviewing from Both Sides of the Desk
   It is gives great advice by looking at both sides of the job interview. My favorite tidbit is, “Your Awesomeness is not self-evident.”
2. 10 Job Search Attitudes that Will Get You More Interviews
   Short, but sweet. I think attitude is often an overlooked piece in the job hunt puzzle. My favorite tidbit is, “I will search as if I don’t need a job.”
3. Rethink your Job Search
   This reads a bit like marketing material for JobTiger, but is still has good content. My favorite tidbit is, “Tap into job openings that may not have been published.”
4. Leveraging LinkedIn for the Job Search
   A great little walkthrough on using LinkedIn for your job search. Favorite tidbit, “When you find a connection, leverage it to find other connections.”
5. 10 Commandements of Job Search
   This is the presentation by the Applicant Blog, and it stresses staying positive. “Ignore the fact that your friend, uncle, aunt and even your mother-in-law is unemployed. It’s about you.”
6. Job Search with Social Media & Mobile
   This is a great presentation that covers LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & some mobile apps. “Maxims remain the same … tactics are very different.”
7. Converging Trends Impacting Your Job Search
   It covers a lot of ground discussing marketing trends, social media and what networking means today. “Become a content expert … shift, cull & create content”

(Link via Yash)

Avnish who maintains A Common Fan’s Sports Diary – my favourite sports blog – has launched a section called Sports Quotient (SQ). On SQ, you’ll find posts which are too short to be called an article and a tad too long to be called a tweet. These articles make for nice conversations and are strongly recommended to those who, apart from having a great IQ and EQ, would also like to boost their SQ.

Yash does a special linkfest for those who have lost their job in the current downturn.
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These are some turbulent times, and all of know someone who has lost his/her job, sometimes we are that ’someone’. Even the best qualified, experienced and most competent of us have lost jobs in this economy. It is important to realize that most layoffs in such times are more about corporate survival and less about individual performance. Therefore the best thing to do is get your emotions and finances in place and get cracking. There are jobs out, find your niche and market yourself.

We have scouted the Net for the best advice we can find. Each link tips and tricks that can help in various ways, from dealing with the emotions, making the best of use of the time you have and most importantly landing another job.

Read them all, you have the time and more importantly you would not want to miss a trick.

Find answers for tough questions: In India there is an unnecessary amount of social stigma attached to layoffs. People often hide their situation and miss out asking the right questions and getting the right answers.

Time Magazine has a brilliantly practical article titled “What to Do When You Get Laid Off“. The FAQs format provides answers to questions some people are to afraid or ashamed to ask. “How honest can you be with prospective employers?” and “What to you tell the wife and kids?” are some of them.

A daily plan for job hunters, even job hunters need a plan and the Career Building Tips blogs has one in great detail. A useful read.

Keep your emotions in check. It is no secret that a job loss can be an emotionally scarring experience, Susan McMillin over at ezine.com has 3 posts to help you deal with stay positive, develop coping skills and surviving the job loss (and the depression) with a smile.

Rohit Bhargava also has 5 posts he put up last week where as part of his Career Survival Week. All of them are must reads,
1. What to do when you lose your job deals with the first steps to take when you lose your job, including accepting the situation, looking at it an opportunity to change gears and direction and of course use social networks, indentify influencers and get noticed.
2. Job Seeking 2.0 delivers exactly that what it promises, shows you ho to get noticed and has great advice including apply for non-existent jobs and answer user generated challenges. I don’t think the resume is dead for the Indian market so keep that handy as well.
3. How to rock an interview – well great advice including and most importantly, make the hirer look smarter.
4. And finally find the inner entrepreneur, the freedom can be liberating and if you have identified an opportunity, go ahead and give it shot.

You absolutely should not miss the posts from HBR’s blogs including Four Ways to Bounce Back From a Setback and Are You About to Snap? Snap Out of It!

Mashable (not necessarily a careers advice blog) has a great list of posts written over the last few months including:
• 30 websites to visit when you are laid off, most of them are US specific but they start off with great advice how to cope when you get laid off and about.com’s job searching guide. Some good advice also comes in the form of don’t stop dating and most importantly Mashable’s career tool box, 1000 places to find jobs.
• Also Mashable recommends Telonu’s Layoff Talk section, if you want to anonymously tell your layoff story.
• Its Mashabale so there has to be some great advice on how you can use social networks to land a job. Twitter tactics and Ten Ning networks you must visit.

Robert Scoble also has some great advice on how to use social networks to get yourself noticed, including “remove all friends from your facebook and twitter accounts that will embarrass you. We do look” and “remove any hint that you hated your old job.”

Hope you found these useful, add more helpful links to our comments box.

Keep yourself updated to keep your career on the right track with yet another Workosaur Linkfest by Yash.

1. Hate social networks? Sick of people poking you on Facebook and asking for recommendations on LinkedIn. Suck it up! Your network will soon be your be a Job Qualification.
2. Marshal Goldsmith answers 2 relevant career questions on the Harvard Blog. a) Do you have any advice for someone who is just getting started in the stressful workforce? b. How to Overcome Discrimination and Get the Promotion You Want? The question was asked by an Afrian American woman in the workforce, but the response is just as relevant for anyway facing discrimination.
3. Anne Holland on how to survive and flourish despite marketing layoffs?
4. Sylvia Ann Hewlett on how the financial sector is maintaining gender diversity in tough times?
5. Too much competition among workers causes jealousy/envy among employees and reduces workplace productivity – University of Notre Dame Study.

Another feast of links by Yash for those in the career fast lane:

1. Simply Superb advice from Robert Scoble on how to get attention when applying for a job. A great list of do’s and don’ts.
2. Mukul Kumar has 5 hacks for startup hiring in India. Must read for startups who are looking to hire and those looking to join startups.
3. How to tackle troublesome team members – from Harvard Business Reviews Ask the Coach Blog
4. Seth Godin has great advice for those who only focus on 1 single aspect of their career. He says don’t! Break it up into 16 boxes… (works equally well when marketing a product)
5. Maybe you can’t make money doing what you love – its worth a shot, Seth Godin (again) tells you how.
6. Mark Drapeau over at Mashabale tells us how to execute AGAINST your resume. And why everyone should and will use social tools to help their career.
7. This one is for the ladies, actually its for Opportunistic Businesswomen. The very appropriately titled SNOBS – an Australian Social Network for Opportunistic Businesswomen. Men everywhere, be afraid, be very afraid!

TED Talk by Chris Anderson (Wired): Technology’s Long Tail (Feb 2004)

And if you haven’t yet read the book, do check these links:
Wired article on The Long Tail (Oct 2004)
Chris Anderson’s Blog – The Long Tail

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a conference that brings the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). The TED Site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. I assume that is a compelling enough description to prompt anyone to have a look. Awesome site to spend your time on.

I don’t remember who pointed me to Scott Berkun’s essays but I found some great stuff there. The essay am particularly fond of and which I do use in my day-to-day life is the one on creative thinking hacks. Highly recommended.

Yash scours the web for some really interesting stuff for workosaurs.
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Recession and Job-loss related Articles:

• Robert Scoble on what to do if you lose your job during this recession
• Web Worker daily on how to recession-proof your career

Using the web in your efforts to get a Job:

• Read Write Web on web-enabled job hunting
• Marketing Pilgrim on Why your Google reputation can hurt your career?
• Web Strategist on How Andrew got a job at Forrester by reading a blog
• Web Worker Daily on the social media resume
• Importance of a simple online resume
• How the Infosys blog is a recruitment channel