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Monday, 31 December 2018

Nearly 70% recruiters plan to hire big in 2019: Survey

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Hiring better leaders and reskilling current workforce are the biggest challenges in the New Year, finds a TimesJobs survey of 1,250 HR managers.

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UK universities keen to deepen ties with Indian universities, companies

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Universities in the UK are keen on forging deeper collaborations with Indian universities and companies, for which the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) is pushing for easing of norms in Indi

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Sunday, 30 December 2018

Ecommerce’s talent hunt to stay on course

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Hiring plans of Flipkart and Amazon are unlikely to change despite the recent change in the foreign direct investment policy for the e-commerce sector

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Saturday, 29 December 2018

Another heavy rush expected as Railways plan to offer openings for over 14,000 JEs

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Currently, railways is in the midst of filling up 64,000 posts of assitsant loco pilots (ALP) and technicians and 62,000 gangmen, for which the first phase of the recruitment examination is over.

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Friday, 28 December 2018

View: The future of next generation of Indian professionals can’t rest on a fast-depleting cost advantage

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Post-Arbitrage Moment is here. If left unattended, India's demographic dividend may turn into disaster.

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ESIC filling 5,000 vacancies, says Santosh Gangwar

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ESIC's recruitment process is underway "in which around 5,000 vacancies for different posts are being filled", Gangwar said at a function to lay the foundation stone of an ESIC dispensary at Mayur Vihar in Delhi.

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Thursday, 27 December 2018

Five promising domains for India's IT workforce

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Bengaluru, Delhi and Pune lead in jobs in these 5 areas, followed by Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

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MBA graduates don’t get a premium over tech grads in campus jobs

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Companies pay a huge salary premium for talent at top institutes, with the average salary at a tier 3 B-school or a technology institute pegged at one-third of the salary at top institutes.

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IIIT Vadodara placed 95% of its graduating students this placement season

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Other companies that visited the campus this placement year include Directi, Codenation, Siemens, MAQ Software, PlaySimple Games, Nucleus Software, ICICI Bank, Gromor Finance, TCS, among others.

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Wednesday, 26 December 2018

IT & startups expected to hire 5 lakh people in 2019: Mohandas Pai

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Former Chief Financial Officer of IT major Infosys Ltd, T V Mohandas Pai said entry-level packages in the industry went up by as much as 20 per cent in 2018, after stagnation in salaries for the past seven years.

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Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Tech startups, ecommerce companies to step up hiring in 2019

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Most companies are building their tech teams. “One of our core focuses for 2019 is to continue to build depth in our engineering and product teams across levels,” said Daminee Sawhney, vice president, human resources at Zomato.

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Monday, 24 December 2018

View: Modinomics won't bring in achhe din in the short term

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It’s not just a jobs problem. There is an aspirational gap between soaring expectations and reality.

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Women replace men as HR heads in 60% companies

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Interestingly, only 15% among these women have risen vertically to become CHROs. The study reveals the remaining 85% of these movements were external hires.

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IIT Hyderabad receives 213 placement offers

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Among first-time recruiters that came for Phase I Placements include Softbank, Mercari, Toyota Research, TSMC (Taiwan semicondcutors), Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Barclays and Oppo.

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Sunday, 23 December 2018

Wipro rolls out bonus plan for juniors to curb attrition

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Wipro will pay a percentage of their total compensation as bonus with the January salary, primarily to employees in the B1 and B2 bands, said person familiar with the matter.

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Employers turn cautious as poll season begins; Salary hikes may remain static at 8-10% in 2019

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As per Aon's survey, despite improvement in economic forecasts, pay hike projections for 2019 are at around 9.6%

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Thursday, 20 December 2018

India's textiles sector needs 17 mn additional workforce by 2022: Govt

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Govt said it also plans to pursue strategic engagement with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on the Fabric-Forward Policy

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Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Wipro starts online test for fresher hiring

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TCS has started it, and TOI reported about it in September. Now, Wipro has launched a similar initiative. They call it the Elite National Level Talent Hunt (NLTH).

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View: Government has simply not created new jobs, writes Yashwant Sinha

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India’s level of unemployment is a marker of future social unrest among the youth.

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IIT Delhi students receive 900 placement offers

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43 students have been selected for international roles in the European region, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, US etc.

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Tuesday, 18 December 2018

#MeToo effect: Pro-active companies seek advice to make workplaces safer

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After GST and other tax issues, addressing #MeToo-like situations and taking pre-emptive measures top their corporate clients’ agenda, say law firms.

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IPL Auction 2019: Uncapped Chakravarthy, Unadkat fetch big money

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IPL Auction 2019: Uncapped Chakravarthy, Unadkat fetch big money




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Jose Mourinho sacked by Manchester United after worst start in 28 years

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Jose Mourinho sacked by Manchester United after worst start in 28 years




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Monday, 17 December 2018

Infosys to hire more with liberal arts, design skills

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“People with liberal arts, who are creative thinkers, tend to put themselves in the shoes of the consumers and tend to think out-of-the-box,” said a person at Infosys.

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Women are on track to earn the same as men -- in 202 years

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The economic opportunity gap -- based on participation, pay and advancement in the workforce -- remains the area that’ll take the longest time to close.

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Automatic shift driving jobs away from humans?

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Sectors like manufacturing are among the worst-impacted.

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Hiring for tech talent to double in 2019

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In the BFSI space, tech hiring is largely aligned to business strategies as the focus is shifting to mobile.

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Over 4,000 artificial intelligence job roles vacant on talent shortage: Report

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Around 57 per cent of firms hiring for AI roles are looking for candidates with over five years of experience.

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Sunday, 16 December 2018

Government looks to find jobs for ‘humanities’ undergraduates

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Ministers and top officials of the three ministries held a meeting last week to decide on the contours of the programme, set to be jointly launched over the next few days.

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PSBs hunt for new-age talent to grow business

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Government banks are tapping talents in specialised functions like wealth management, analytics, strategy, digital and customer services.

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Saturday, 15 December 2018

Campus placements: What to do when your batchmates have landed jobs and you haven’t

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ET talks to psychologists for tips to cope with the competitive environment during campus placements.

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Friday, 14 December 2018

Living in the gig economy: Key skill for millennials is preparedness to move across industries and roles

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Millennials or Gen Y, comprising 34%of India’s population are already 45% of the Indian workforce and by 2025 this number is expected to reach 75%

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IIT Kharagpur completes placement with 1275 offers from 192 companies

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About 40% of the profiles offered are in IT-Software followed by 20% in core engineering, 15% each in analytics and e-Commerce and 10% in finance.

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Thursday, 13 December 2018

Standard Chartered cuts India headcount as digital alternatives gain steam

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The bank's overall strength in India has now reduced to 7,300 people, the sources said.

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Online hiring activity rises 5% in January to September: Report

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The home appliance sector was the second best e-recruiter at 39 per cent, according to the Monster Employment Index (MEI) for January to September 2018.

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Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Big recruitment drive by BSNL, announces vacancy for 300 management trainee positions. Here's how to apply

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The post is All India Cadre and those selected can be transferred in any of the operational areas of the telco.

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World is competing to create Artificial Intelligence-related jobs

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UiPath culled a total of 30,000 job listings from 15 industry-leading countries, retrieving any role that requires either skill or training in AI or Machine Learning .

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Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Hiring declines marginally by 1% in November: Report

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Industries such as auto and banking/financial services witnessed a dip of 4 per cent and 23 per cent, respectively, in November, according to the Naukri JobSpeak Index for November 2018.

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UPSC seeks fresh applications from private sector specialists applying for JS posts

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The candidates may access the link indicated in the email and submit online all the requisite information asked for in the DAF before 6 pm on January 1.

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Adobe, Nvidia, Microsoft best tech companies to work for in India: Indeed

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According to the Top-Rated Workplaces: Best in Tech report, as rated by Indian employees on Indeed, multinational companies continued to dominate the list.

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Monday, 10 December 2018

How to motivate performers who have lost interest at work

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A leader must focus on being a sounding board and understanding the psychological contract with a team member.

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Japanese recruiters queue up at new IITs to tap tech talent

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IIT Mandi, Patna see recruiters like Fujifilm, Tonichi Insatsu, Mercari and SMS DataTech.

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Sunday, 9 December 2018

Artificial Intelligence talent scout: Unorthodox hires & maybe lower pay

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For years, employers and online intermediaries have used algorithms to help fill job openings, but their methods were often crude.

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More than half of companies look to step up hiring in 2019: Mercer

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"The hiring outlook seems to be positive (in 2019). More than 50 per cent of companies expect to increase the headcount", said Shanthi Naresh, India business leader, Mercer.

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Saturday, 8 December 2018

Helping people write Instagram captions is now a career

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Surat-based entrepreneur Mridul Kothari, 24, started The Perfect Caption as a place to share things he was writing while mending a broken heart two years ago.

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Friday, 7 December 2018

Uber India to double down on hiring engineers in 2019

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According to the company, its tech centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad are critical to the global mission of developing urban mobility solutions for everyone.

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Talent crunch may hit Coal India’s top deck

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At present there are more than 500 general managers in Coal India and subsidiaries who take care of most day-to-day ground-level activities.

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Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Degrees of desperation for traffic brigade job

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Many of those buying forms were LRD (Lok Rakshak Dal) aspirants, who recently had their exam cancelled due to a paper leak.

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What makes startups the best place to start your career

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IITs are known for innovation as well as for fanning startup ideas through their on-campus incubation centres.

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Tuesday, 4 December 2018

30% increase in job offers at IIT-Madras this year

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Transnational corporations including Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Citigroup participated in the placements, and 20 startups including Udaan, e-bike maker Ather Energy, fintech firm CureFit, picked up 78 students.

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