SBI group to hire about 2,000 people
While people with experience in rural and agriculture will be recruited through newly set up micro finance vertical, appointments will take ...
High labour supply will lead to drop in wages in urban India: CMIE
The labour participation rate also fell from 42% in the previous week to 41.4% in the latest week and the employment rate fell from 38.4% to...
Almost two-thirds of college grads can't find a job: Survey
Covid hits placement prospects of Class 2020 across 82% colleges, according to a survey. Most students have switched to online job portals, ...
View: Indian youth can revitalise Covid-battered economy
There are several inspiring ways in which youth-led enterprises across Asia-Pacific are innovating to support their communities to combat co...
We need labour law reforms in India but diluting the laws not the right way: Staffing firms
"I haven't seen one industry body which has come forward and said it is euphoric about the announcements that these states have mad...
Amazon India to hire 20,000 temporary staff in customer service to serve global customers
E-commerce major Amazon India on Sunday said it is offering close to 20,000 'seasonal' or temporary employment opportunities in its ...
Blue-collar workers likely to see 10-20% wage hike
Textile, auto component, leather and a whole spectrum of small business and construction companies that are dependent on unorganised workers...
Most Indian millennials, Gen Z say stress legitimate reason to take time off work: Survey
While the COVID-19 crisis has been unprecedented, 85 per cent millennials and 74 per cent Gen Zs in India agreed that policymakers had taken...
Social media is the new hunting ground for those with revoked offers
As more job offer revocations hit engineering colleges in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, students say social media is helping open up more...
The virus has made India’s devastating gender gap even worse
The virus and stay-at-home orders have hurt women in other ways. Many of the millions of migrant workers forced to flee cities for their rur...
White collar gig workers will be the norm for India Inc
Startups said the concept will open up a huge talent pool of experts for new ventures, as they cannot afford to keep such highly paid employ...
Migrant workers on the brink of another crisis: ILO
The International Labour Organisation, on Wednesday, said tens of millions of migrant workers who have been forced to return home because of...
Real estate body to give employment letters to one lakh migrant workers
NAREDCO had signed an agreement with Uttar Pradesh government to provide job to 2.5 lakh migrant workers. On June 26, at Sector 94, Supernov...
India is giving its migrants the licence to skill
The move is in line with the recently unveiled Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan and comes after the government has mapped reverse migrants in the...
Shadowfax looks to strengthen tech team
The company is focused on strengthening its engineering and leadership teams and will be engaging candidates for its technological domain fo...
Women workers in demand as companies grapple with staff shortage
Staffing companies say that as their clients start the second and third shifts at their manufacturing plants, they are requesting to fill th...
Students-run think-tank launches helpline to find jobs for lockdown-hit workers in Delhi-NCR
The helpline will be operational from 10 am to 7 pm everyday. Student volunteers will attend calls from potential employers and workers and ...
COVID-19 has led to 20 lakh job losses in bus, taxi sector; more on anvil: Industry Body
Industry body Bus & Car Operators Confederation of India (BOCI), which claims to represent 20,000 operators with 15 lakh buses and maxi-...
9 in 10 engineers from top tech firms rate system design as crucial skill for career growth: Study
88% of all respondents working in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet- formerly known as Google) companies feel that system...
India to launch new rural job programme for migrants
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would spend 500 billion rupees for the programme. June 19, 2020 at 08:45AM
Job offers continue to be revoked at B-schools
Several companies that include some of the big recruiters in hospitality and automobile sectors have also deferred the date of joining by lo...
Sodexo partners with several companies for outplacement platform targeted at hiring blue-collar workers out of jobs
More than 15,000 blue-collar vacancies have been posted on Sodexo India workforce platform in the past few weeks by companies in sectors suc...
Covid has cut the time it takes to hire top level executives
Search firms told ET that the time taken for filling leadership positions in companies has reduced by half due to online working. The ease o...
Hiring picks up in multiple sectors including e-commerce & delivery
Outdoor clothing and tactical gear firm Wildcraft, which is making reusable PPE overalls, Hazmat suits and masks for the Ministry of Textile...
Employees at large firms most confident about future of their employers: Survey
The survey noted that "41 per cent of enterprise professionals think their companies will do better in the next 6 months, while 63 per ...
Naukri.com launches outplacement platform
“During these tough times, companies have been compelled to ask their employees to go. With this launch, we stand in solidarity with them an...
Enrollments in online training show 12 times growth in the last five years: Survey
Programming with Python and Web development are the highest in demand with 26% and 23% enrolments respectively. Out of the total enrolled st...
More than one-third of engineering graduates worried about placements: Survey
The survey was conducted on almost 1,000 candidates hailing from different engineering disciplines. June 15, 2020 at 03:15PM
The workplace is going to change in many ways: Paul Abraham, IndusInd Bank
A lot of activities which were not seen as lending themselves to automation will now be so. That means much displacement in people and worki...
Babus coming to office but their appraisals will be further delayed till next march
On March 30, the government had first extended the deadline on account of the lockdown forced by Covid-19 and said the process would be comp...
Amid Covid gloom, there is a good news for employees
Four out of five companies of 500 surveyed by Aon in May said they are not instituting across-the-board pay cuts. And nearly 70% said they w...
Millions of jobs could be permanently lost in reallocation shock
The risk though is that the pandemic is inflicting a “reallocation shock” in which firms and even entire sectors suffer lasting damage. Lost...
Revival sign: Hiring up in some sectors
Although the data is raw, sectors such as edutech, e-commerce, data processing, supply chain management, banking, FMCG, healthcare, insuranc...
Talent, skills will be repatriated to India due to Covid: Tharoor
"COVID-19 will inaugurate an era of deglobalization. Lots of countries are turning isolationist and protectionist. COVID-19 has convinc...
Come back next year, startups, tech firms tell employees
Many firms say work from home has not impacted productivity. Some even say productivity has improved. June 11, 2020 at 07:55PM
Job loss most severe immediate impact of COVID-19: Survey
The preliminary results showed that loss of employment was considered as the most severe immediate impact of the crisis while lower economic...
Covid blues: Employees losing sleep over rejoining office
After more than two months under a nationwide lockdown which lulled many into a false sense of security, the return to offices is bringing w...
IT professionals crowd the job street
Recruitment firms have received at least a few tens of thousands of queries for entry to senior levels in IT services space. Xpheno, a speci...
Hiring activity declines 61% in May 2020 as compared to May 2019: Naukri.com JobSpeak
The May 2020 decline in hiring is led by industries like hotel/restaurant/travel/airlines (-91%), retail (-87%), auto/ancillary (-76%), and ...
Mining & construction, finance, insurance, real estate to drive Q3 job market in India
Those showing weakest trend are manufacturing and services, said the employment outlook survey of 695 employers across India by ManpowerGrou...
Just 5% of India Inc bullish on hiring in Jul-Sep quarter, job outlook bleakest in 15 yrs: Survey
The encouraging news, however, is that India features among the top four countries out of 44 nations that projected a positive hiring trend....
Pandemic leaves hiring plans in disarray
Only 5% of Indian companies plan to hire in the July-September quarter, while 2% expect a decrease in their headcount, according to the late...
Some companies that have been forced to lay off staffers are helping them find jobs elsewhere
Firms -including Uber India, Oyo, Ola, Cure.fit, ShareChat, LendingKart, Zomato, Makemytrip and Airbnb -alone account for at least 5,000 la...
Extending safety net: Companies keen to continue 'work from home'
Remote working may go on for 2-4 months as firms don’t want to risk health of their employees. Multinationals and information technology com...
Covid impact: Jobless rate to hit 8.5% if stimulus not widened, says Pronab Sen
Estimation Problem While unemployment is essentially in urban areas, it is difficult to ascertain numbers due to reverse migration, says for...
Civil services prelims on October 4: UPSC
The civil services examination is held annually in three stages - prelims, mains and interview -- by the UPSC to select officers for the Ind...
Employees are moving into ergonomic home-work setups
Both individual buyers and companies are investing in creating enabling workspaces at home, as the likes of Google, Uber, Razorpay, SpringWo...
Ola electric mobility goes on hiring spree
Ola Electric Mobility (OEM) recently onboarded Vithal Acharya as its new human resources head and plans to hire at least half a dozen more s...
Situations Vacant: 12,000 jobs on offer in edtech
There are currently around 12,000 active openings for permanent job roles across levels at leading edtech companies, according to an estimat...
Govt to conduct skill mapping exercise on India returnees under SWADES initiative
The exercise, kick-started under the Vande Bharat Mission, aims to create a database of qualified citizens based on their skillsets and exp...
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