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It's 2023 but job interview biases continue
An analysis of 3,000 virtual job interviews revealed that 42% women and 33% men were asked personal questions that had potentially no connection or relevance to the role they were interviewed for.
India Inc to hire more women this new year in diversity push
Leading organisations including Cognizant, Larsen & Toubro, HDFC Bank, ITC, KPMG, Axis Bank, Schneider Electric, Cipla and Procter & Gamble are doubling down on efforts to improve gender diversity in the workplace.
EV sector hiring set to gain momentum next year
Hiring in the sector is seen growing by 40-50% in the next 6-12 months as companies look to strengthen their teams across functions to cater to capacity expansion and new product launches, according to industry officials and staffing companies.
IITs see a mixed bag of job offers this season
Placement representatives told ET that students at IIT Bombay and Guwahati bagged more job offers this year compared with 2021. IIT-Delhi, Roorkee and BHU (Varanasi), however, have had to negotiate declines anywhere between 10% and 20% compared with last year.
India to collaborate with G20 for gig workers
This is imperative as the countries deliberate on mobility of gig and platform workers between nations along with other skilled workforce.
Companies rush to fill op compliance roles
Companies across the banking, financial services and insurance, and fintech sectors are ramping up their risk and compliance functions with senior-level hiring to guide them through a dynamic regulatory environment.
Big Tech hiring in India hits a low amid global layoffs
These US tech giants had been reducing hiring for months now. Their active openings fell from 9,000 in the July-August period to 4,000 in mid-October, Xpheno said. Job postings in November were almost 80% less than in July.
About 90-110 lakh gig workers may be recruited by 2025: Report
The gig economy has been one of the most pivotal economic shifts in a long time and people are choosing gig jobs because it works with their lifestyle, they can choose when and how much they work, or it allows them to earn money between jobs, global job site Indeed said in the report on Wednesday.
IIT students secure over 130 Rs 1 crore-plus job packages
The IITs that have received these offers include Delhi (50-plus offers), Kanpur (33), Madras (25), Kharagpur (12 offers), Guwahati (8), Varanasi (4) and Roorkee (2).
Recruiters continue to roll out offers at IIT on the second day of placements
IIT-BHU, where the top offer was Rs 1.2 crore from Graviton Research Capital, said it received 640 offers (including 305 PPOs) from 173 companies till the end of Slot 1 on Day 2. Companies that visited on Day 2 included American Express, BNY Mellon, Deloitte USI, HDFC, Piramal Group, Samsung among others. Salary offers for Slot 1 on Day 2 at IIT-BHU ranged Rs 12-40 lakh.
Computer Science students bag crore-plus packages at IITs
ET caught up with five such students across IIT Madras and Guwahati: Malkareddy Sai Aryan Reddy, Vineet Kumar Dhandharia, Kaustubh Miglani, Aditya Trivedi and Atharva Varde. In keeping with the trend of the moment, four out of five are joining high-frequency trading firms; the last one, a startup. Predictably, all of them are from computer science-and-engineering background.
Trading firm Jane Street offers ₹4 crore-plus package at IITs
At least three students from IITs of Delhi, Bombay and Kanpur have bagged this pre-placement offer (PPO) for an international posting by Jane Street on the first day of final placement season on Thursday, placement representatives told ET.
Tata trusts board may consider internal candidate for CEO job
In recent times, Ratan Tata, 84, has been keen to ensure that the Trusts pursue critical causes such as malnutrition, cancer treatment, sanitisation and education. Those being hired by the Trusts have the knowledge and experience to help scale up their reach in such key areas, insiders said. Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, is keen to ensure that the interests of both institutions, the Tata Trusts and Tata Sons, are protected.