Labour ministry issues guidelines for Atma Nirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana
The scheme was announced in November to incentivise formal job creation in the country and subsequently approved by the Cabinet in early Dec...
Labour codes to herald new wave of reforms in 2021; job creation likely to be major challenge
This year has also been a challenging year for the workforce as well as for employers due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The gove...
Capgemini looks to hire 24k people next year
French IT services provider Capgemini is looking to hire about 24,000 people in 2021. These include laterals as well as fresh hires from ca...
Appinventiv hands out 22% average increment
Appinventiv has also resumed hiring from remote locations in Q2 of the financial year 2020-21. The company has hired 100 people in lockdown,...
Hiring to bounce back in 2021, claims Naukri.com’s Hiring Outlook Survey
In 2020, sectors like medical/healthcare, IT, BPO/ITES were less impacted while the sectors that struggled to cope included retail, hospital...
L&T plans to hire 1,100 engineers across business verticals in 2021
"L&T not only offers Graduate and Post Graduate Engineer Trainees (GETs & PGETs) continuous learning opportunities and a growth...
2021 Tough Job: Buoyancy in the job market may continue to be missing, but bad news won’t get worse
The Make-in-India drive will bring in some fresh investments but do not bet big on it to create many jobs. For a country that adds 7-10 mill...
From understanding tech to emotional intelligence, key skills needed by professionals
From understanding tech to emotional intelligence, key skills needed by professionals December 26, 2020 at 02:01PM
What skills are Indians learning for 2021
As the demand for transferable skills that can be remotely applied is growing, tech-based courses and digital marketing training dominated t...
Covid drives India Inc to boost gender diversity
Axis Bank, Infosys, Tata Steel, Vedanta, RPG Group, Dalmia Cement and Tata Chemicals among others have accelerated their search for female t...
International offers at IITs hit by the pandemic blues
Seven top IITs — Bombay, Madras, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Kanpur, Roorkee and BHU — have together received 137 offers for international location...
New demand-driven scheme in the works to create more entrepreneurs
The plan is to impart entrepreneurship development training to aspiring and existing entrepreneurs for setting up and scaling up their enter...
Python, digital marketing, and web development popular among students: Survey
Internshala Trainings, the e-learning arm of Internshala, has brought out a report highlighting the major skills that Indian students learne...
Delhi, Bengaluru emerge as hot spots for e-commerce jobs: Report
Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai emerge as the demand hot spots, accounting for 53 per cent of the total demand on an average, when it comes to g...
Fresher hiring gathers pace; up 55% since September-end, says Freshersworld.com
Some of the sectors which are driving the demand for freshers are IT, ecommerce, finTech, eduTech, auto, and EV segment in auto. BPO, physic...
ESIC scheme adds 11.75 lakh new members in October
Gross new enrolments with the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) were 8.27 lakh in June, 4.87 lakh in May and 2.62 lakh in Ap...
Consumers' focus on local products to help create job opportunities: Piyush Goyal
As consumers emphasise more on quality products and services at the right price manufactured in the country, it will create more jobs for th...
EY to hire 9,000 for digital services
EY India is looking to hire about 9,000 executives in 2021 across its domestic and global delivery services business as the firm beefs up i...
FMS Delhi achieves 100% summer internship placement; average stipend increases by 5%
FMS has just concluded the summer internship placement process for the 2020-22 batch where 64% of the batch or 183 students have received a ...
Demand for job roles in IT sector continues to be unaffected: Report
According to the report by job platform SCIKEY Market Network, demand for job roles in the IT sector continued to be unaffected despite the ...
70% of women who took a sabbatical dropped out of the workforce: X-Leap Survey
Around 70% of women who have taken a sabbatical have dropped out of employment and have started something of their own or are looking for a ...
WeWork creates flexible workspace solutions for all your needs
WeWork is also the only shared workspace in the country to have received the global certification from The British Safety Council. The certi...
Hunting for new jobs, India's migrant workers learn new skills online
Various state governments began mapping migrants for the first time this year, emphasising the need for them to gain new skills and increase...
Nine in 10 India employees feel prepared to work remotely for long term: Dell Technologies research
Surveying over 7,000 working professionals aged 18 years and above from the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) region (of which 1,027 were from ...
18.1 million to be employed by direct selling industry by 2025
This proves that the Direct Selling Industry is flourishing and illustrates its potential with the continued rate of growth -- increasing at...
Embracing new normal, corporates set to step up hiring, appraisals in 2021
The coronavirus pandemic emerged as the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape. For the corporates, work-from-home and remote...
Indians most optimistic in APAC about job, pay rise prospects in 2021, shows global study
Over one in three Indian workers are very optimistic about their career prospects in 2021, the highest in all countries surveyed, it said. D...
Staffing federation worried over non-payment of dues
The Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) may convene a meeting soon to discuss allegations of payment irregularities against some of its biggest...
Employees get full marks, rewards for adapting to Covid disruptions
At the end of a year that has tested the resilience of employees, a number of companies are giving their workforce time off, monetary reward...
Indians most optimistic in APAC about job and pay rise prospects in 2021: Indeed Global Survey
64% and 56% Indian workers respectively said they were optimistic about their chances at better career opportunities, and a pay rise in 2021...
Technically skilled gig workers in high demand
According to staffing company TeamLease Services, demand for technical gig workers increased by 20%-25% between April-November this year c...
EPFO net new enrolments rises 56% to 11.55 lakh in October
Roughly 6.80 lakh members exited and then rejoined EPFO, indicating switching of jobs by subscribers within the establishments covered by EP...
Yes, you should still ask for a pay raise this year
It’s true that many companies spent the first half of 2020 cutting costs wherever they could. So it’s easy to understand why anyone may hesi...
Covid-19 is reshaping the job market in a big way. Are employees equipped for the new environment?
As digital transformations happened and the bottom of the pyramid workforce reduced, the number of people managing this workforce has reduce...
More men than women freelancing during COVID-19 pandemic: Survey
The data from freelance platform Flexing It, which witnessed 200 per cent growth in the total number of freelancers registering post COVID-1...
Top hospitals and healthcare facilities offer flexible working options to doctors
Apollo Hospitals, Fortis Healthcare and Max Healthcare are among those who are introducing various flexible working options for doctors incl...
IIT Placements: 2 weeks on, 50% bag jobs
ET spoke to all seven IITs about their individual placement numbers so far — and the total across all the institutes comes to 5,300. Top rec...
Companies that offered more than a crore rupees to graduates from IITs this year
Despite the pandemic, it has been a worthy job hunt for some deserving students after graduating from IITs. As per a report by The Economic ...
How to use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other Social Media to augment your job search
How to use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other Social Media to augment your job search December 18, 2020 at 03:51PM
Coca-Cola laying off 2,200 workers as it pares brands
The Atlanta-based company said on Thursday that around half of the layoffs will occur in the US, where Coke employs around 10,400 people. Co...
Indian professionals cautiously optimistic, 40% expect jobs to increase: LinkedIn survey
The year-end data from LinkedIn, the world's largest online professional network, shows that despite experiencing radical changes in the...
Indian professionals cautiously optimistic heading into 2021; 40% expect jobs to increase: LinkedIn
LinkedIn year-end data shows that in 2020, online learning and digital skills took centre stage and Indian professionals pivoted to upskill ...
IITians bring home those Rs one crore-plus offers this year too, despite the pandemic
Almost all these crore-plus packages - which include components such as ESOPs, performance bonus among others - have been offered at three I...
How the Code on Social Security 2020 impacts your take-home salary but protects your future
How the Code on Social Security 2020 impacts your take-home salary but protects your future December 15, 2020 at 11:54AM
Indian Railways set to organise mega recruitment drive for filling 1.4 lakh vacancies
According to the official release, the first phase of the exam will commence from December 15 till December 18, 2020, for isolated and minis...
Cisco to hire 1,200 from top colleges
A majority, 95% of the college recruits are going to be from engineering colleges such as IITs and National Institutes of Technology, Anupam...
100% summer placements for IIM Bangalore students
Roles offered included PE/VC, Business Analytics, Consulting, Finance, General Management, IT/Product Management, Operations, Sales and Mark...
Top industry executives feel WFH has improved productivity, flexibility
Executives said the only downside of work from home was that new recruits and trainees were unable to observe seniors at work. Companies are...
Whitehat Jr to foray into Brazil, Mexico; create 1 lakh teaching jobs in India in 3 years
In an interview to PTI , WhiteHat Jr Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Karan Bajaj said the barely two-year old online education platform has se...
Covid-19 effect: PSUs double down on soft skill development for employees
Companies such as National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Bank of Baroda are focusing on their em...
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