Capgemini is hiring freshers. What you need to do

IT services and consulting company Capgemini India has announced a Pooled Campus Drive 2021 for Engineering, MCA freshers. It has invited en...

Almost one in every three people’s personal life affected due to work stress: Survey

The survey was undertaken by ICICI Lombard General Insurance to understand the proactive interest towards health and wellness in today’s pos...

Capgemini is hiring freshers. What you need to do

IT services and consulting company Capgemini India has announced a Pooled Campus Drive 2021 for Engineering, MCA freshers. It has invited en...

Overall hiring has touched pre-pandemic level: Indeed

Job postings for IT tech software roles saw a 19 per cent increase between July 2020 and July 2021 as an expected outcome of the pandemic-in...

IT firms are changing the way they hire freshers

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Persistent Systems and Infogain Corp. are staggering their intake of freshers through the year in order to ...

Investors make a beeline for HR tech companies

Around $200-250 million have been raised by such companies from investors since January, data compiled by ET shows. August 30, 2021 at 06:00AM

IT companies stagger fresher hiring through the year

Tata Consultancy Services has been selecting trainees through its National Qualifier Test (NQT) for the last few years. “While we continue t...

Dindigul over Delhi. IT firms turn to small-town India for talent, new hubs

Coimbatore, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Madurai and Mysuru are witnessing a surge in technology jobs, as IT companies explore the option o...

It's a good time to be an ESG professional in India

From almost negligible demand a year ago, executives at search firms like Transearch, EMA Partners and ABC Consultants together now have ove...

War for tech talent is playing out on non-IIT engineering college campuses

Institutes such as Delhi Technological University, Vellore Institute of Technology, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, BITS Pilani, ...

Centre preparing to launch unique employment exchange for senior citizens

The employment exchange, tentatively named SACRED, acronym for Senior Able Citizens for Re-Employment in Dignity, will start off as a facili...

Ericsson launches slew of initiatives to reskill employees

The company has created a wide range of reskilling and upskilling programmes across leadership, wellness, soft skills as well as technical s...

Hiring activity witnesses 4% sequential growth in July: Report

Compared to June, July 2021 saw a notable overall monthly growth of 4 per cent in hiring across all metros, as per Monster Employment Index ...

Regulations important for gig economy, but there's a fine line: Anandorup Ghose, Deloitte India

"The labour code changes have already been approved and it is just a question of when they get implemented. It is not a question of if,...

Six in 10 learners upskilled in the past year to strengthen career prospects: Survey

As a part of the survey, the respondents shared what career obstacles they faced, how the pandemic impacted their careers, what they did dif...

Eight in 10 talent leaders, academics say Covid has changed skill needed to deal with remote-first workplaces

The ‘Bridge the Gap’ survey sampled 200+ academics and talent leaders to decode the finer nuances of young talent employability in India. Au...

Wipro to hire up to 400 people in Arkansas, invest $3 million in new centre

"Wipro has been a technology leader for decades. With great pleasure, I welcome them to Arkansas. These jobs will help improve the live...

CSS Corp to hire 2,000 people by FY22-end

"In the last 2.5 years, CSS Corp has doubled its workforce despite the pandemic-induced disruption in the industry. The headcount addit...

Muted impact of second Covid-19 wave: Companies hand out bigger pay hikes on green shoots

Actual average salary increment for 2021 across companies in the country was 7.9% against 7.3% they had projected in March, as per ‘Covid-19...

CXO hiring on steroids as India Inc steps on the gas

“At this point, we’d like each of our consultants to have four hands and 10 heads just to be able to cope,” laughs K Sudarshan, managing dir...

Formal job creation rebounded in June: EPFO data

“The impact of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic waned during June 2021, leading to tremendous growth in net payroll additions as compare...

War for talent has gone to a different level: Axtria's Jaswinder Chadha

Axtria India, which provides cloud and data analytics services to the life sciences industry, aims to hire 1,000 more in the next 12-18 mont...

OYO to hire over 300 tech professionals to expand tech, product teams

The hiring will play a critical role in accelerating OYO's transformation to a global full-stack technology provider for small and mid-s...

Kerala to create 20 lakh quality jobs in five years through a government mission

Dr K M Abraham, Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, has said the strategic paper for building a knowledge society ...

IT companies dole out 100% variable pay to retain talent

The pay-out this quarter is more than the last two, when the variables were not paid out in full at most companies. August 17, 2021 at 06:00AM

Flipkart to create 4,000 jobs by opening 4 new facilities in Maharashtra

Maharashtra was classified as a key centre by the company from a supply chain standpoint. With the recent additions and expansion of existin...

Five in 10 women want flexible job options that allow WFH: Survey

A survey conducted by JobsForHer revealed that in the year 2020, 40% of women professionals preferred a mixture of home and office working. ...

Talent market hot in IT sector, every company hiring: Hitesh Oberoi, Info Edge India

"Frankly, the talent market is super hot right now. Every company is hiring. Every company has higher attrition than they had a year ag...

Covid-19 pandemic slowing down pace of working women returning to B-schools

ET collated data from Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) Ahmedabad, Kozhikode, Bangalore and Calcutta, as well as the Indian School of B...

How tech can drive away hiring blues

Staffing firms are employing apps and online onboarding tools to shortlist and employ blue-collar staff, as companies look to tap a workforc...

Only 47% of young entrepreneurs, startups confident of sustaining beyond six months

More than 1,000 young entrepreneurs across sectors, including health and education, were covered in the survey on issues ranging from access...

Flush with funds, Indian unicorns on a talent hunt

Of these, 14 companies told ET that they were looking to ramp up headcount, across product, technology, data analytics, customer support, sa...

It's getting costlier to hire techies in India. Will global firms relocate?

A sudden surge in pay packages to attract the best of talent could nibble away the competitive advantage India has had all along and make it...

PE, VC funds boost investment teams with flurry of hirings

This number is significant as there are hardly 1,500 professionals working in the PE and VC space currently in India. Avataar Ventures, Iron...

AM/NS India signs pact with NSDC to provide digital skill training

“India has the world’s youngest population who deserve an adequate training ecosystem in place to be able to truly flourish and deliver on t...

Working towards creating greater synergy between education and skills as outlined in NEP: Dharmendra Pradhan

“Government is working towards creating greater synergy between education and skills as outlined in the National Education Policy (NEP) -202...

PwC India to create 10,000 additional jobs in next 5 years

The fresh investment and expansion of Indian operations is part of PwC's 'The New Equation', a new approach in how the firm sees...

Lenskart to add 2,000 employees by 2022

“We have continued to grow exponentially, in international markets as well as in India. This has opened up several job opportunities across ...

Apna.co sees a 40% jump in female users in Q2 2021

Factors like WFH and remote working options are encouraging women to join workforce. August 10, 2021 at 12:47PM

Ed-tech companies to go on hiring spree

Most hiring for these startups will be in sales, marketing, content, design and technical domains. August 10, 2021 at 06:00AM

Hiring in IT grew unabated despite second wave: Suraj Moraje, Quess Corp

"​The response of corporate India is also moderated by the fact that people still feel that they can make their annual targets and they...

HDFC Bank to hire 500 more to expand MSME coverage

The bank's MSME vertical covers 545 districts now with dedicated relationship managers and supervisors, which will be expanded to 575 di...

Software firm Happiest Minds to hire 300 techies in each of next three quarters

"We plan to add 300 people in each of the next three quarters of this fiscal. Our net headcount stood at 3,538 as of the June quarter, ...

Gig workers log into social media to share job pain, companies forced to engage in damage control

Of late, gig workers and their champions have sought to turn the tables, in a manner of speaking, leveraging the ability to spark outrage on...

Now, techies with chops calling the shots in job market market

Recruiters say there’s a tsunami of offers; company bosses say it is not the employer but the candidate they are looking to hire who is now ...

Unnati to hire 300 employees across verticals by FY22

In the last six months, the platform has clocked 10X revenue growth and has already established a wide-ranging network of over 15,000 uStore...

Hiring activity at all-time high crossing pre-COVID levels; grows 11% sequentially in July: Report

With 2,625 job postings, hiring trends grew 11 per cent in July compared with 2,359 postings in June, the highest it has ever been, includin...

Demand for consultants, lawyers at all-time high as companies chart out business transformation post pandemic

This is leading to an all-time high demand for consultants and lawyers even as hiring still continues to be muted in several other sectors a...

[24]7.ai to hire over 5,000 people in India in FY22

The company has taken the hiring process completely online and since the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, the HR team sources candidate profil...

3 NIT Rourkela students get offers of Rs 45 lakh pay package in online placement drive

With 84 companies offering 253 students more than Rs 10 lakh per annum, the average CTC offered was about Rs 9.36 lakh per annum, an increas...