Middle-income households account for largest chunk of India's unemployed population: CMIE According to CMIE, the poorest households accounted for 9.8% of all the households and only 3.2% of all the unemployed before the pandemic in 2019-20. However, in 2020-21 and the first half of 2021-22 they accounted for 16.…

Everyone is not OK, but back at work anyway In a McKinsey study of more than 2,900 people last year, one-third of those who had just returned to the office said going back had negatively affected their mental health. The will-they-won't-they saga of office reopenings hasn't helped, making it tough to prepare…

Skills, experience more important than academic qualifications, degrees: Survey Scaler, an edtech startup for upskilling students and working professionals, capturies the current hiring trends and demands of the Indian tech industry in its Hiring Trends Report 2022, which surveyed 81 major IT product and services co…

15% rise in job applications during appraisal months​: Report Employees tend to look for better opportunities mostly due to the increase in compensation after appraisal. 10% of senior management professionals also tend to change jobs during the appraisal season. Employees start applying for the new job roles during …

White-collar job openings hit a new high in March quarter The closing quarter of FY22 recorded the highest number of open white-collar job positions in the past two years and it even exceeded the pre-pandemic monthly jobs numbers, according to data from LinkedIn and top company job boards.

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Salary remains a key motivator for 74% Indians; benefits like medical insurance becomes an important criteria: apna.co The survey also reveals that the rising workforce is now looking for additional benefits such as medical insurance for themselves and their families, perks such as creche services for child care, et…

Quick commerce delivers quick jobs More than 400,000 jobs will be up for grabs for last-mile delivery and supply chain personnel in the next 90 days, almost 50% up from a year ago, according to various estimates.

Six in 10 employees believe Covid-19 pandemic has impacted reskilling, upskilling strategies: Survey The report ‘The State of Learning & Development Report 2022’ by talent assessments company Mercer|Mettl gives an overview of how L&D and skills requirements have evolved in the past two years. The report is a…

Higher increments on the charts as recruiters anticipate churn, shows Naukri survey The number of recruiters planning to roll out increments greater than 30% in their respective organisations grew substantially by 60% versus the previous outlook survey conducted in July 2021, according to the latest edition of the N…

Top tech schools make progress in bridging gender gap At least two in 10 students in first-year undergraduate batches at top engineering colleges including Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) of Delhi, Hyderabad, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee, and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar are women…

COVID-19: Govt says nearly 10 pc of jobs in aviation sector lost between April 2020 and December 2021 While the total number of employees working with airlines, airports and ground handling agencies decreased between April 2020 and December 2021, the number of people working for air cargo companies increased during …

Anurag Thakur launches project for skilling Indians for jobs in UAE The project is aimed at skilling, certification and overseas employment of Indians. Tejas is aimed at creating pathways to enable the Indian workforce to get equipped for skill and market requirements in the UAE, the ministry said in a statement.���…

Engineering, telecom, healthcare to add 12 mn jobs by FY26: Report The report -- titled 'Professional Staffing - Digital Employment Trends Report' -- is a qualitative research that has surveyed and interviewed more than 750 employers/ leaders from across engineering, telecom and healthcare sectors.

Employment rose by 22% in 7 years since 2013-14, says Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav The e-SHRAM portal was launched in August, 2021 with an objective to create a national database of unorganised workers and to facilitate delivery of social security schemes/welfare schemes of the central and state governments…

1.49 lakh entry-level posts lying vacant in Indian Railways: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw The recruitment drive for the Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPCs) for 35,281 vacant posts in various categories, ranging from junior clerk, train assistant, guard, time-keeper to station master, was at the centre of …

Skill hubs to be set up across India, 5,000 planned in 1st phase "The skill hubs are going to be 5,000 in the first phase and we expect skill hub to be present in almost every part of India, as conglomeration of both education and skilling network," MoS for Skill Development Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in re…

Urban unemployment rate fell to 9.8% in July-Sept’21: Government Labour force participation rate in CWS (current weekly status) in urban areas for persons of 15 years of age and above was 46.9% in July-September 2021, similar to 46.8% in the trailing quarter. However, it fell to 19.9% in females from 20.1% in April-…

Number of Indian workers requiring digital skills set to rise by 27.3 mn over next year: Report About 95 per cent of workers surveyed in India acknowledged that they require more digital skills -- the ability and knowledge to apply digital technologies for tasks in the workplace -- in order to cope with changes in t…

Energy transition to create 3.2 million jobs by 2050: Bhagwanth Khuba Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are the partner states for the conference and exhibition, while Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Japan are partner countries. During the conference, a knowledge paper on manufacturing for the g…

Indian companies report optimistic hiring outlook for Apr-Jun quarter The net employment outlook is derived by taking the percentage of employers anticipating total employment to increase and subtracting from this the percentage expecting to see a decrease in employment at their location in the next quarter. For the…

Hiring hiccups seen in April-June 2022, but tech going strong According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey shared exclusively with ET, about 55% of 3,090 employers said they will hire more people in the coming quarter, while 17% said staffing levels will decrease and 26% expect to keep workforce levels s…

Planning skill training for Jewar locals to get 40% jobs at airport: MLA Dhirendra Singh Singh, a key negotiator with farmers for land acquisition for the Rs 29,560 crore airport project, won the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls from Jewar with 1.17 lakh (or 50.53 per cent) votes polled.

Over 70,000 jobs up for grabs at mega employment fair launched by Tamil Nadu CM Job aspirants from the city and also hailing from neighbouring Chengalpet, Kancheepuram, and Tiruvallur districts took part in the event in which more than 500 leading private companies were taking part.

As India Inc prepares to return to office, employees cling to WFH At least six out of every 10 employees responded to a survey by recruitment and staffing firm CIEL HR Services said they were prepared to quit their jobs instead of returning to office or the place of work. Almost a similar number of employees would f…