Heat stress may wipe out 4.5% of India’s GDP, cost 34mn jobs by 2030 ​​The challenge for India is to meet its growing cooling needs without adding to its greenhouse gas emissions and it ispossible through use of innovative technologies that would also help emissions significantly and create nearly 3.7 million jobs, …

Govt targets to cross 1 crore job-mark from digital economy in next 2 years: Vaishnaw "Government has set a target that in this we should be easily crossing 1 crore jobs in the coming two years without any doubt," the minister said. He said that the digital economy and its associated employment is a major …

Samsung to hire 1000 engineers from IITs and other engineering colleges Samsung will recruit engineers from multiple streams such as Computer Science and allied branches (AI/ML/Computer Vision/VLSI etc.), Information Technology, Electronics, Instrumentation, Embedded Systems and Communication Networks. In addition, …

Top packages at IITs may see a dip SaaS startup Glean, which now has an office in Bengaluru with 45 employees, is visiting old IITs including Kanpur, Madras and Kharagpur. "This year, overall hiring goals are slightly more modest than last year as we are looking at hiring four through campus placements compared…

Festive season hiring this year grows by 73 pc, says report As many as 1,00,000 order books were closed in this period considering that e-commerce and logistics, retail and Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sectors heightened their hiring efforts in line with surging demand, according to data by busin…

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Fresh out of college? Keep your CVs ready as firms look to build talent pipeline for future growth The focus is on building an internal talent pipeline to cater to future growth plans amid rising external volatility. Apart from the top IITs and IIMs, and other leading management and engineering institutes, companies…

IIT Delhi, IISc Bangalore, and IIT Bombay among top 100 universities for graduate employability: GEURS 2022 India has seven institutes in the top 250, of which most have gained significantly in the rankings. These include IIM Ahmedabad in 154th spot (up 8 places from last year, IIT Kharagpur at 155 (+15), new entran…

Job platform Monster transforms to an end-to-end talent platform; reinvents itself as foundit As the company now transforms itself to an end-to-end talent platform, complete with a new logo and vision, it will offer comprehensive solutions to recruiters and personalised and contextual services to job seekers across …

BetterPlace partners with BII to upskill, employ 100,000 women workers by 2024 Betterplace will bring together a network of partners from across the country that are equipping women workers to build a better life for themselves, while also mobilising and sensitising employer organisations who are actively working to…

At hybrid office, Monday blues make way for vibrant Wednesdays According to a survey conducted by Randstad India, around 71% of employees prefer flexible work hours and organisations that allow the option to work from home. Around 50%-55% percent of employees prefer working three days from the office. Viswanath PS, …

Union mins to give job letters at 45 places tomorrow Forty-five union ministers will hand over job letters to new government recruits at events held in 45 places covering 31 states and union territories on November 22, in the second edition of the 'Rojgar Mela'.

Formal job creation under EPFO increases by 9.1% in September Formal job creation under the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation jumped by 9.1% in September to 1.68 million compared to 1.54 million added in September 2021 as economic activities picked up with the start of festive season in India.

ET Startup Awards 2022: India generating 15 lakh jobs a month, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Railways to provide over 35K jobs by March 2023: Railway Board Executive Director

Gaming Industry to add 1 lakh new jobs this fiscal: Report Over the next year, the sector will add new jobs across domains like programming (game developers, unity developers), testing (games test engineering, QA lead), animation (animators), design (motion graphic designers, virtual reality designers), artist (VFX …

Railway announces timeline for NTPC exam results, empanelment for 35,281 jobs by Mar '23 The move comes as a welcome relief for more than one lakh aspirants, who took the tests in phases and are awaiting results. The RRB NTPC exam 2022 was conducted for various zonal railways and production units of the Indian R…

IIM Bangalore achieves 100% summer placements IIM Bangalore students bag internship offers over two days of summer placements; a total of 539 internship offers made to 529 students with maximum offers from consulting domain

Farming as a career choice? Yes, and right now agriculture needs youth! For years, farming has seen the harsh realities of many farmers who put in all their effort to provide food for the entire nation, but in the end, failed to deliver the basic life essentials to their own families. However, we cannot ignore the f…

After IT, other services firms taking a relook at moonlighting policy A few Indian and multinational companies in services – including banking, insurance, call centres and organisations engaged in customer relations, product development, and marketing – are reviewing their existing policies to explore the scope of a…

HUL halts 'lister' to keep pace with new talent market The programme, which assured Listers a rapid rise in the Unilever system, has lost relevance in a fiercely competitive market in which young employees are rejecting traditional HR ideas and unwilling to wait until they are in their 40s or 50s for leaders…

IIT Guwahati registers 21 per cent increase in pre-placement offers for 2022-23 academic year The Institute has already received a total of 218 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) this year against the 179 offers during the entire 2021-22. The PPOs will continue to be made till the commencement of Phase I of Campus Placemen…

From increased hiring demand for freshers to top-in-demand careers and courses insights from TeamLease Career Outlook Report for July to Dec 2022 Intent to hire is a measure that the report uses to denote the % of employers intending to hire. According to the report, that number is at 59% for hiring freshers in the …

Twitter job cuts: what are digital layoffs and what do they mean for employees and companies? Musk's plans to restructure Twitter began with laying off top executives, before notifications were emailed to around half of the Twitter global workforce that they were being made redundant or that their jobs were at r…

Fake CV usage surges amid virtual recruitment, talent shortage The online recruitment process during the pandemic was accompanied by scams and frauds as the potential candidates used fake resumes and experience letters to get jobs, said a TOI report. Employers from some of the leading Indian companies revealed that …

TCS top recruiter in Cluster 3 of IIM Ahmedabad summer placements with 11 offers The firms that participated in Cluster 3 comprised eleven cohorts – Banking Financial Services & Insurance, Consumer Technology, Core Manufacturing & Infrastructure, Education Tech, Enterprise Tech, Financial Tech, Food & Da…