To help you decided whether it's worth your while to step into the Career Fair @ Sasken, it's important to evaluate a simple fact: Are you a Telecom Have or Have-Not?

The Haves have the advantage of working in a complete telecom environment - in that rare telecom company that provides technology products and services that span the entire telecom value chain.

(Incidentally, Sasken is India's only such company, and we currently have openings for the right kind of people)

The Have-Nots, on the other hand, do not have such an advantage, as they work on only a small part of the telecom pie. They have a head full of ideas but nobody to hear them out.

Now, depending on where you see yourself, you can use our 3-step guide to boost your career by leaps and bounds.

Step One: To be or not to be
A complete telecom professional plays an active part in shaping the telecom industry. He or she works closely with industry-leading customers and partners across the telecom value chain.

(By the way, Sasken works with six of the top ten mobile handset vendors, three of the top five semiconductor manufacturers and many global network equipment manufacturers.)

A complete telecom professional gets the opportunity to work with DSL broadband technology and wireless components for protocol stacks and multimedia codecs, to multimedia applications such as videophones and MMS.

(Once again, we can't resist bringing to your notice that we do all this at Sasken. And more!)

Step Two: Double or quit?
To doble your worth and become a respected telecom heavyweight, you need to work with the industry's foremost technology companies on projects that encompass the entire telecom value chain.

Of course, you can stay where you are, but quit kidding yourself that you are a complete telecom professional, because you are not.

The ball is now in your court.

Step Three: Step into the Career
Fair@Sasken. Step out with a future.

Walk-in to the Career Fair at the Sasken Facility on the Indiranagar-Koramangala Ring Road, between 9.30 am and 5.30 pm on August 7 and 8.

And check out how you can live and breathe total telecom at Sasken (and still manage to get your Work/Life balance right!)

If you are on the same wavelength as us, who knows, you could walk out with your appointment letter.

People First - A Great Place To Work
Our People First credo offers you the freedom to live and work the way you want to.

Ask any of our 1,600 empowered employees working in our state of the art research and development centres in Bangalore and Pune, and in our Offices across the globe in Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Sweden, UK and the U.S.

They will tell you about our flexi-time policy (that's not merely on paper but in practice too) which allows you to decide when to work and upholds your expectations for a balanced lifestyle.

How mutual trust and respect define our relationships.

And how there is no enforced dress code and definitely no policing.

You will also hear about a whole world of conveniences created at Sasken - like our cool cafeterias, 24x7 ATM, exclusive gymnasium, medical center, Montessori childcare center and travel desk - to build a work environment that is flexible, informal, supportive and empowering.

Take the first step forward towards becoming a complete telecom professional.

Come to the Sasken Career Fair.

Positions
Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, Project Leaders, Architects, Project Managers.

Basic qualification for all positions
Engineering Graduates/ Post Graduates/ PhDs in Electrical/ Electronics/Computer Science with the skill sets given below.
Experience : Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience.

Skill Set
Standards, Technologies and Domains:
Wireless: GSM/GPRS, CDMA. UMTS, MMI, WAP
Wireline: ADSL, VDSL
Multimedia codecs: MPEG, JPEG, speech standards, WMA/WMV.
Messaging and streaming protocols (RTP, H.324/H.323, MMI, WAP, XML)
Datacom: TCP/IP; DHCP, Radius, IPSec, Routing Protocols.

Multimedia applications frameworks: Symbian MMF, UIQ Series 60, OPA, BREW.

Software engineering: OOAD, UML, System/Product Architecture, Release Management.

Programming Languages: C, C++, VC++, Java.

Scripting languages: Perl, Tcl/Tk, Expect, TTCN, Shell Scripting

Operating System: Embedded Linus, WinCE, J2ME, Symbian, PalmOS, VxWorks, Nucleus, Unix.

DSP's/ hardware platforms: TI DSP C55x, C64x, OMAP, DM270, ARM.

Tools: Rational Rose, performance measurement tools, RTRT, Test Director CCS, Visual DSP, ADS, Code Warrior, mobile test environment like Anite or Aniritsu.

Offerings of Sasken
Model Development Services is an offering for Terminal Handset Customers providing end to end solutions and consultancy for Full Phone Integration.

Area of Work:

• Product/Handset Design, GUI/MMI, Component Development/Testing, Application Frameworks
• Component, Integration, System, Field and Regulatory and Interop testing.

Wireless Development and Sustenance Services are focused on RAN elements (BTS, BSC, NodeB, RNC, OMC) of the wireless networks.

Area of Work:

• Call processing
• OAM agent development
• Physical layer development
• Protocol design and development
• Testing

Sasken's DSL Solutions provide solution architecture, DSL algorithm development, system and hardware design, and product validation and testing.

Area of Work

• Multi-layer stack development, embedded systems, microprocessor architecture, mobile standards for L1, L2 and L3 layers and mobile phone architecture, test case development/execution
• GUI/MMI, component development, application frame works for handsets
• Testing, framework development, test case development/execution.

Multimedia Applications Solutions provide a range of multimedia applications and codec engines that help the world's leadig handset manufacturers differentiate their products in today's markets.

Area of Work

• Development of multimedia applications
• Development, porting and optimization of DSP algorithms and media processing
• Development of protocols, application engines and UI
• System level integration and testing on target devices
• Peripheral access and device drivers (camera, speaker, communication ports)

IC Design Services provide full-chip and hardware design services across the development cycle.

Area of Work

• ASIC/ ASSP/FPGA/SoC
• Library development (digital and analog)
• Analog circuit design (DAC, ADC, PLL)

Skill Set for IC Design:
Flow: Good understanding of the ASIC/FPGA development flow and sound competency in one or more phases is a must.

Programming languages: Verilog, VHDL, C, SystemC, VERA, Specman

Tools: Simulators, Synopsys DC, Physical Compiler, formal verification tools, Prime Time, Synopsys/Cadence/ Magma tools for physical design, Synopsys/ Mentor tools for DFT and ATPG, Hspice/ SpectreRF tools, Nanoism.

Hardware platforms: TI DSP C55x, C64x, OMAP, ARM, MIPS.

If you can't make it to the Career Fair, you may send your resume within 7 days.