Delhivery to create 15,000 seasonal jobs this festive season

Delhivery said it is strengthening its last-mile delivery capacity through its various partner programmes, on-boarding individual bikers, tr...

Amazon India creates over 1 lakh seasonal job opportunities ahead of festive season

In 2019, Amazon India and rival Flipkart had announced creation of over 1.4 lakh temporary jobs across supply chain, last-mile connectivity ...

Blue-collar jobs on the path to recovery; delivery, healthcare to surpass pre-Covid levels

Blue-collar jobs in delivery and healthcare are expected to end the year surpassing pre-Covid numbers, while facilities, security, ITeS and ...

Companies made 2,923 job offers to CA students during campus placement this year: ICAI

The total job offers this year stood at 2,923 and the average annual salary offered was Rs 8.91 lakh. As many as 133 companies participated ...

E-commerce companies to create 3 lakh jobs this festive season: RedSeer

Most of the hiring by e-commerce platforms ahead of festive season is temporary and done ahead of time to prepare for surge in orders during...

The rise of remote work can be unexpectedly liberating

Early reports from the corporate world were rosy, as employees swapped suits for sweatpants and found new flexibility in their work and home...

Government saves Rs 6000 crore or 50% of funds allocated for skilling scheme

Experts feel while certification is important to help our existing workforce get better work and wages, the rush to achieve targets has come...

First person account: I miss the human connect, says Gen Z first-time employee

I joined remotely from hometown Bhubaneswar in June. Usually, onboarding takes a month. For me, it only took a week, maximising on-the-job l...

Covid-19: A game changer for Indian education

Even as the pandemic caught everyone off guard, the education sector rose gamely to the challenge. The mode of education shifted online, and...

'Digital was the common thread that held us together'

"The foremost step that I took was - formation of a Covid Task Force. Reviewing the situation real-time, we created a strategy to comba...

Four ways to make the office safe in the Pandemic

The main touchpoints in elevators are the floor buttons. We can reduce touchpoints through technology-based interventions. September 27, 202...

First person account: Negotiating paycheck during Covid-19

Negotiating compensation in the post-Covid world can be quite challenging. But there is room for discussion – and a significant package upgr...

Hot jobs in the time of Covid-19

​ET​ presents a snapshot of the hottest jobs during Covid-19 and the reasons behind that. September 28, 2020 at 07:39AM

Golden days of pay hikes at least two years away, say compensation experts

This year—2020—saw the increments falling to 3.6% from 8.6% in 2019, according to Deloitte India Workforce and Increment Trends Survey. Whil...

India Inc is going big on Gig economy

An Aon survey on “Decoding the Gig Economy” done exclusively for ET showed that about half of the companies surveyed employed gig workforces...

First person account: Time to focus on strengths, says laid-off CXO

Apart from the skills and knowledge gained over the past two decades, some other softer attributes that truly helped me were the ability to ...

Hiring to pick up in January-March quarter of 2021, TeamLease survey finds

After the extensive hiring freeze during the lockdown, a significant rise in hiring sentiments can be expected in the January-March quarter ...

Time for people, purpose and partnerships to come before profit: Nestlé India

While the pandemic has made us realise that we are living in unprecedented times, it has also accelerated changes that were already under wa...

Future of work: Welcome to the era of the 21st century artisans

Enterprises around the world quickly and securely responded to global lockdowns. And they have discovered that work continued uninterrupted,...

TCS opens National Qualifier Test to corporates for recruiting freshers

NQT - which is conducted by TCS' strategic unit TCS iON - is a multi-level assessment to assess competence on core cognitive abilities r...

Coronavirus pandemic will take working mothers 10 years back in the workplace

Substantial research has shown that most professional gender gaps are in fact motherhood gaps; women without children are much closer to par...

Job searches for roles in hospitality, tourism on rise since May: Report

Jobs in hospitality and tourism are bouncing back in India, its data suggests. Job postings in the sectors were down only 58 per cent in Sep...

Recovery in formal job market pushes EPFO enrolments to 8.45 lakh in July

The payroll data, released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Friday, shows the members exiting the EPFO scheme f...

Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance rolls out initiative to focus on employee well-being

Over the past few months, the insurer has taken several steps towards improving well-being for employees, including rolling out counselling ...

Acquiring soft skills important to get relevant job opportunities, say 8 in 10 engineering job seekers

Experts say that having soft skills on the resume is especially gaining importance due to the recent change in the work environment. As comp...

Skilled workers trained under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana get higher wages: Govt

“A quick study of PMKVY was undertaken by National Skill Development Corporation which found that standardized protocols and processes have ...

80% Indians faced tech issues while working from home, study finds

WFH required access to technology and strong network connections for the workforces to maintain productivity, retrieve and download files an...

Govt has taken number of steps to increase women participation in labour force: Labour minister

As per the results of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted during 2017-18 and 2018-19 by National Statistical Office (NSO), ministr...

BigLeap Technologies opens new facility, plans to add 6,000 staff by 2021

Hyderabad-headquartered, HR staffing, payroll, recruitment company BigLeap Technologies & Solutions, has announced plans to add 6000 sta...

Govt examining next version of PMKVY: Singh

Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship R K Singh said there is no proposal under examination for setting up a National...

UP CM Yogi Adityanath directs officials to start recruitment drives in 3 months

In a meeting with senior officials, the chief minister sought details of vacant posts in all departments in a week, a government spokesperso...

HCL to double workforce in smaller towns; allow staff in larger cities to move back to hometowns

"In the light of COVID-19, we have been able to leverage some of these locations very well to tide over local pandemic flare ups. So ha...

ESIC members can file claims to get unemployment benefit under ABKY: Labour ministry

The claims to get the relief can be made online along with submission of the physical claim with an affidavit, photocopy of Aadhaar card and...

6.6 mn white collar professional jobs lost during May-August: CMIE

These include software engineers, physicians, teachers, accountants, analysts and the type, who are professionally qualified and are employe...

Last-mile cab market set to lose around Rs 25,000 crore; 200,000-300,000 drivers out of job

Thousands of operators are expected to go out of business and hundreds of thousands of drivers and other workers are likely to lose their li...

Ecom Express to hire 30,000 people as part of seasonal recruitment drive

These seasonal positions have been created across the country with 75 per cent of the total hiring for beyond metros as well as cities inclu...

Ecom Express to create 30,000 temporary jobs ahead of festive sales to address rise in online orders

The company, which had a workforce of about 23,000 in the pre-COVID-19 times, has hired 7,500 people in the last few months to address the i...

Lockdown threatens to undo a hard-won success for India's employment woes

Potential employers searched from 55 towns — this was also earlier limited to larger cities. Queries came from places as diverse as Jalandha...

Searches for sports related jobs grow 11%, postings decline by 25%: Report

The report is based on data of sports-related job searches and postings, including sports league manager, football coach, personal trainer, ...

Overall jobs growth rate slips to 3.5% in FY20: Report

In FY20, 1.70 lakh new jobs were added, while the net addition was 1.76 lakh in FY19, shows a CARE Ratings report. But in FY20, as many as 3...

Hiring activities increase 12 per cent MoM in August: Naukri JobSpeak Index

The month-on-month (m-o-m) improvement in job postings indicates that hiring activities are in sync with unlock measures that are aimed at r...

How an unlikely tech leader emerged as millions of people shifted to work from home

The CISO now is a part of most boardroom discussions, whether related to internal or customer related matters, something that was not the ca...

India Inc hiring may gather pace in October-December, but not as much as last year

However, hiring sentiment in four of seven Indian industry sectors is the weakest reported since the survey began 15 years ago. These are th...

IIT Madras students bag 152 internship offers on Day 1; Institute fares better than last year

Microsoft offered the highest number of internship offers on Day One. Other top recruiters that offered internships include Google, Jane Str...

Railways to begin recruitment process for 1.40 lakh posts in three categories from December 15

These are, 35,208 posts in non-technical popular categories (NTPC) like guards, office clerks, commercial clerks and others, 1,663 posts for...

AI-related job searches rising steadily: Indeed

with accelerated adoption of AI-led technologies over the recent years in the country, according to a report by global job site Indeed. Sept...

Artificial intelligence jobs see a spike in interest, says Indeed data

AI-related jobs have seen a steady increase in job searches in the last 5 years, says the data. Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP) ar...

View: National Recruitment Agency is a combination of convenience and cost effectiveness for candidates

The Union Cabinet recently cleared a proposal to create the National Recruitment Agency (NRA) to conduct recruitment tests for non-technical...

Over 100k tech job openings as companies in India bid to survive post Covid competition

The top tech roles in demand are tech leads, project and programme management specialists, full-stack developers, data science specialists a...

Long working hours, low wages plague India's gold industry workers: Niti Aayog study

Titled " A Study on Socio-Economic And Working Conditions of worker's in Indian Gold Industry", it said that several workers e...