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Tech firms may hike pay by 120% to hire, retain niche talent
People in high demand include full-stack engineers, data scientists, data engineers and backend engineers, according to recruitment consultancy firm Xpheno.
Hiring fraud! The 'talented' Mr Ripleys plaguing India Inc
India Inc is grappling with impersonation - candidates hired during the pandemic aren't the ones turning up for work. They are even using video morphing and audio proxy tools, among others, to get jobs.
IITs see record crore-plus offers as firms jostle for talent
For the first time ever, domestic offers accounted for a significant chunk of these crore-plus packages, as companies went all out in their bid to bag the best of tech talent.
CSC, Infosys tie up to upskill 6 crore students in rural India
Powered by Infosys Wingspan, a next-gen learning solution, Infosys Springboard aims to enhance the digital literacy of students and help them be competent in digital technologies and supporting life skills.
As demand soars, exchanges offer top coin for crypto talent
Headhunters and industry executives say that the 25-30 exchanges that operate in India are witnessing demand for talent across functions such as technology, compliance, legal, risk management, marketing, and sales to manage and scale their projects at a time when the government is in the process of bringing in stricter regulations and more government oversight.
Younger IITs reap benefits of blockbuster placement this year
IITs including Hyderabad, Patna, Gandhinagar, Ropar and Mandi have seen a sharp uptick in top offers and average salaries, which in some cases have gone up by as much as 50% from last placement season.
Most sectors on track: Hiring party's on, job street's not waiting for Santa
About 64% of 3,020 employers covered in the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, shared exclusively with ET, said they will hire more people in the coming quarter, while 15% said staffing levels would decrease and 20% expected to keep workforce levels steady. Only 1% were unsure about hiring intentions.
Data science and analytics job offers trump IT services during phase I of IIT-M placements
While core engineering constituted the largest percentage of placements with 42% of the job offers coming from the sector, data science and analytics which took up 19% while IT stood at 18%. Other sectors like financial services, management and research and development contributed less than 10% of the total placements, IIT-M said in a statement on Monday.
Big companies in India don't see new variant impacting white collar jobs
The growth that the white-collar employment space has been witnessing over the last 4-5 months is expected to continue unless there is an intense third wave of the pandemic that leads to stricter restrictions and disruption of the supply chain.
Blue-collar worker shortage could go from bad to worse
The demand-supply gap stems from the fact that a significant chunk of the migrant population is still hesitant to return because of the fear of a potential third wave of the pandemic.
Meet the man who fired 900 employees in one zoom call!
Vishal Garg, the Indian-origin CEO of Better.com, abruptly announced that the mortgage company is laying off about 9 per cent of its workforce
New-age career lifecycle management platform, GENLEAP, wants to help you choose the right career
Discovering one’s innate abilities may not always be easy, but if a child’s hidden potential is uncovered early on, the parents get a longer duration to nurture their child on the relevant track.
IITs see more global offers, Rs 1 crore-plus packages than ever before
The number of crore-plus packages across four IITs: Kanpur, Roorkee, Kharagpur and Varanasi (BHU) so far this year has exceeded 80, far surpassing what has been the total tally across all IITs in previous years, placement cell officials told ET.
Despite travel opening up, tech talent staying put in India
These countries are allowing travel for fully vaccinated high-tech workers, who are in demand to help in the rapid digitisation of their economies that took off during the pandemic.
Govt to chalk out legal road map for working from home
Some of the options being considered include fixing work hours for employees and payment of additional expenses incurred by them towards electricity and internet usage because of working from home.
Startups with deep pockets making a beeline for IITs
Hungry for technology talent to expand, these players - some of them unicorns, or firms with a valuation of $1 billion or more - are all chasing fresh engineers in droves.
43 per cent rise in campus placements in IIT-Madras in first session of recruitment
As many as 176 offers were made by 34 companies which was 43 per cent increase on Day one's first session, the highest ever in the prestigious institution. Some of the recruiters include Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Bajaj Auto, Bain and Co., Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, Boston Consulting Group among others, an IIT-M press release said here.