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Pre-Budget: Jobs remain elusive, quality jobs even more so
As the economy slowly picks up after the pandemic-induced business meltdown, jobs are trickling into the market but their quality is often patchy, as most of them are in the informal sector. At the same time with population growth and more new entrants joining the job market jostling with those who lost work during the pandemic, job opportunities are still too few and far between.
A story of shattered hope behind every pink slip: Look up LinkedIn
Harshita Jhavar, a data and applied scientist at Microsoft, who spent four years in the company in Washington, writes in her LinkedIn post, "Please help me find a suitable position to connect with a team where I can have a relevant role to play. I will be persistent until I crack my next move".
Uncertainty, layoff fears raise tech pros' stress, anxiety levels
Fatigue due to overworking, anxiety of getting laid off, worry about performance, pressure to perform, and overall career concerns in a tepid job market are a few of the stress triggers prevalent now across India Inc employees that rose significantly over the last month or so, according to mental wellbeing experts.
Companies step up campus hiring of women
Catching them early will not only help groom female talent and build a future pipeline, but also give the companies access to a larger, fresh pool of candidates to bring in out-of-the-box thinking and promote a more inclusive and innovative workplace culture, say industry executives.
Tech layoffs shock young workers, but not older ones
Tech’s generational divide is representative of a broader phenomenon. The year someone is born has a big influence on views about work and money. Early personal experiences strongly determine a person’s appetite for financial risk, according to a 2011 study by economists Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley and Stefan Nagel of the University of Chicago.
SSC MTS, Havaldar Exam 2022: Application process starts for over 11,000 vacancies. Here are details
As per the SSC official notification, the last date to complete the online application is February 17, 2023. SSC will conduct the MTS & Havaldar 2022 exam in computer based test (CBT) mode in April, 2023. However, the Commission has not yet released the exact date of examination. The same will be notified soon.
SBI PO Prelims exam 2022 result announced. Here are all the details and how to check the scorecard, cutoff
Candidates can see their their scorecard along with the qualifying status of the candidates for the next stage of Mains exam on the Bank's official website -- sbi.co.in. The SBI PO preliminary examination 2022 was held in December from 17-20. The Mains Exam will be held on January 30.
Work generation under NREGS surges in December
Government data showed 18.1 million rural households got work under the scheme in December compared to 15.8 million in November, a growth of 14.5% while the person days work generated under Mgnrega stood at 236.8 million vis-a-vis 203 million in November, an increase of 16.6%.
Blue-collar jobs scene looking bright
According to the data, the number of job vacancies in the blue and grey collar industry increased by 301% in the past year to 10,542,820 in 2022 from 2,626,637 in 2021. The number of job seekers in the blue and grey collar industry have also grown by 236%.
Govt cautions on companies' jobs surveys
The government on Wednesday said many private companies or organisations conduct employment surveys based on their own methodologies that are generally neither scientific nor based on internationally accepted norms.
Non-IT sectors may dominate white-collar job market this year
The current moderation and caution in jobs in the information technology (IT) sector, which has for years been the dominant recruiter in the white-collar job market, will likely continue in 2023, as long as the global demand remains impacted, said top company executives.
Pushing for diversity: More firms to hire women for shop floor jobs in 2023
Most of these companies are pushing for diversity by hiring more women for shop floor jobs, their plants and stores, while others are considering opening outlets run only by women, said the executives ET spoke with.