Fireworks start in job market ahead of Diwali
Job openings are at a new high and the competition for talent - especially those in technology - is at a level not seen in many years, more ...
Cognizant plans employee sops to arrest highest attrition rate among peers
Cognizant clocked an attrition rate of 33% in the quarter ended September 30, far exceeding those recorded by TCS (11.9%), HCL Technologies ...
India’s Top 5 IT firms nearly matched FY21 hiring numbers in H1 FY22
TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra Ltd added 122,546 employees in April-September 2021. That compares an estimated 138,...
Hiring boom in financial services amid deals, IPO rush, digitisation
Across hierarchy levels – including middle and junior management – there is an average 30-50% pick up in hiring activity, while some have ev...
Vedanta building pipeline of women CXOs across group
Vedanta has linked gender diversity goals to the top management’s KPI (key performance indicator) with an aim to catapult women to the group...
NSDC partners with Global Partners to launch skill impact bond
Along with the NSDC, the global coalition comprises of HRH Prince Charles's British Asian Trust, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation...
Hiring activities increase in current quarter, says report
The buoyancy in hiring activities reflect the increase in economic activities, mass vaccination drive carried out by the government in the l...
Shipsy rolls out career reboot programme
“Diversity and inclusion lie at the core of Shipsy. We celebrate and honour individuals’ decisions and commitment towards other important ar...
14% employment rise in Q3 2021 from Q3 2020: Michael Page India
“The current quarter has seen a 14% increase in hiring. But looking at the larger picture, we are seeing an increase by over 50% growth in j...
LTI to hire 5,500 freshers in FY22 to meet demand
LTI is building a larger talent pool through fresher hiring, non-tech hiring, upskilling of in-house talent and more on the back of broad-ba...
B-school internships bounce up with sentiment; stipends at top institutes rise up to 67%
Average stipend for the two-month internship was ₹2 lakh or more across most campuses; for FMS, IIM Lucknow and XLRI, it's the highest e...
Even with a dream job, you can be antiwork
There are many potential reasons for workers’ reluctance to work terrible jobs. October 23, 2021 at 12:54PM
Employment may cross pre-Covid levels in October
"The spurt in the labour participation rate and the employment rate give additional reasons to expect October to see a consolidation of...
Ivanti to increase headcount to over 2,000 in two years
The US-headquartered company aims to increase its headcount to over 2,000 from the present 500 over the next two years and a major portion o...
Festivals boost demand for gig workers as economy opens up: Experts
"In the third quarter, with the onset of festive season, we are witnessing a 400 per cent spike in the hiring for gig workers. Earlier,...
Blue collar hiring sees significant uptick across job categories: QJobs data
There has been a 320% growth in overall new job openings added in the blue collar hiring market during Q2 (July-September) of FY22 compared...
Total salary spends by startups increased by 43%between April & Sept 2021: RazorpayX Payroll Insight
Shashank Kumar, CTO and Co-Founder, Razorpay said in a release: “Businesses across industries are on the road to recovery and these insights...
FMS Delhi achieves 100% summer internship placement
Around 23% of the students accepted offers in sales and marketing, rolled out by the most prestigious firms across the country. 25% of the s...
BANKIT hired over 40,000 of its 70,000 agents during the pandemic
"We onboarded around 3000 to 4000 agents a month, at that point in time," Amit Nigam, Executive Director and COO of BANKIT told ET...
Job posting activity sees stable monthly growth of 1%: Report
Compared with August, September saw a stable monthly growth of one per cent in job posting activity this year, according to the Monster Empl...
Campus placements see uptick with companies returning from COVID-19 hiring freezes
Offers are pouring in from old and first-time recruiters and a bunch of others that were on a hiring freeze last year due to the pandemic-in...
Employment ambit may be widened to include gig and platform workers
The need for a revised and comprehensive definition of employment is being felt because of the evolving forms of employment in India, a seni...
Big four IT companies raise fresher hiring targets
The big four — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro and HCL — have hiked their projections for hiring of freshers from the first ...
IBM Consulting has expanded hiring at double-digits across its global delivery network: Mark Foster
Mark Foster said business transformation has accelerated for organisations in every industry as they seek to emerge stronger from COVID-19 a...
TCS, India's biggest technology recruiter, is not going to campuses
Campus placements have been the popular way of recruiting for India Inc post-2001 with on-campus salary offers an indicator of the health of...
Business on the road to recovery, HDFC and ICICI step on the hiring pedal
Financial institutions had brought hiring to a halt as they dealt with the aftermath of the first and second Covid wave. October 13, 2021 at...
IIM Indore students receive two-month summer internship stipend offer of up to Rs four lakh
These students include students of IIM's two-year Post-Graduate Program in Management (equivalent to MBA) and five-year Integrated Progr...
Capgemini announces hiring drive for freshers: Here's how you can apply
Candidates graduating in 2021 or those who have graduated in 2021 are eligibility for the drive, and require a MCA, BE/BTech qualification. ...
Capgemini announces hiring drive for freshers: Here's how you can apply
Candidates graduating in 2021 or those who have graduated in 2021 are eligibility for the drive, and require a MCA, BE/BTech qualification. ...
Recruiters line up at IIM Indore for summer placement drive
Recruiters include Amazon, Google, American Express, Asian Paints, Axis Bank, Bain & Co, Bajaj Auto, Baker Hughes, Barclays, Boston Cons...
Indian businesses have bullish hiring plans as they look to rebuild and grow: Survey
The most prominent impact of remote or hybrid working for Indian businesses will be on increased profitability (84 per cent) and employee we...
Returning to office post pandemic? Here is how to manage office and family
After nearly two years of work from home, returning to offices, getting into a new routine, and managing both family time and office can be ...
India Inc's hiring activity up 57% in September, according to Naukri's JobSpeak
Hiring in the IT-software/software services sector grew 138% y-o-y in September led by an accelerated pace digitisation post pandemic. Octob...
Hiring activity almost flat, witnesses 3% growth sequentially in September, says report
The report further showed that sectors such as retail witnessed a 16 per cent jump in job postings and hospitality/travel grew 15 per cent l...
TCS hires 43,000 freshers in H1 FY22, plans to add 35,000 in H2
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) added a total of 19,690 employees during the September quarter, taking its total workforce strength to 528,7...
As business bounces back, FMCG and ecomm cos plan to go on a hiring spree
Hiring firms said new rapidly emerging FMCG retail models such as direct-to-consumer and social commerce platforms are fuelling demand for c...
Sales most sought-after job role in current quarter, says new report
The near-10 per cent growth in GDP in the current fiscal, coupled with fewer supply disruptions, opening up of the pent-up demand both in th...
India’s unemployment rate falls sharply in September to 6.86%: CMIE
The creation of additional jobs pushed up India’s employment rate to 37.87% in September as compared to 37.15% in August. October 07, 2021 a...
October-December hiring intent touches 18-month peak
The latest TeamLease Employment Outlook Report, shared exclusively with ET, shows that 41% of the surveyed companies intend to hire in this ...
CSS Corp to ramp up headcount, create talent pool in India
A majority of the hiring is to be focused on engineers. The company is also looking to hire non-engineering graduates (B.Com, B.Sc).“We have...
Nearly 52,000 placed at Apprenticeship Mela across 660 locations
Over 5000 companies across retail, telecom, IT/ITeS, electronics and automotive sectors participated in the event, the ministry said. “Under...
Consulting majors working to get gender balance right
While strategy firms such as BCG and Grant Thornton have a higher representation of women at the partner level at 15-20%, the Big Four audit...
Recruiters make a dash for tech talent at NITs
“There is a huge demand for top-deck tech talent. NITs have risen to the demands of the industry. Small wonder that there is a beeline for t...
Why so few women in cybersecurity jobs?
October 04, 2021 at 05:21PM
The Metamorphoffice: How the hybrid employee will transform the workplace
Companies are adopting a wait-and-watch approach towards the new worker who sometimes logs in from home and sometimes swipes in at the offic...
Indian job market on a strong recovery with a 60% year-on-year increase in the number of active openings
The number of open job positions accepting applications for white-collar professionals in September rose to around 285,000 as companies acro...
India Inc is hiring from places where they have no offices
Hiring from locations other than the cities where companies have offices has shot up to 35% from just about 5% in the pre-pandemic times, sh...
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