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.

View: India has its work cut out in terms of jobs The jobless growth phenomenon predates Covid, but the urgency of addressing it has become sharper in the shadow of the pandemic.

India Skills Report 2023: Indian employable talent leaps from 46.2% to 50.3% The report also points out that 89% of graduates were actively seeking internship opportunities. The survey indicates that candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi had the highest employability

Why Employers love Psychometric Assessments? Employers use psychometric assessments for many reasons.

Manufacturing firms likely to expand hiring amid global uncertainties According to the latest edition of the Teamlease Employment Outlook Report that reached out to more than 300 companies in the manufacturing sector, about 60% of the firms have a positive hiring intent in the fiscal fourth quarter with plans to ram…

Blue-collar industry sees sharp rise in job opportunities: Report In 2022, blue-collared job opportunities more than doubled in India. The growth was also visible in all top metropolitan cities such as Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Delhi, said the report.

Employees in India want more control over working hours, ready to take pay cut for more flexibility: Survey The ADP Research Institute’s 'People at Work 2022: A Global Workforce View' study surveyed almost 33,000 workers across 17 countries, and revealed that more than seven in 10 (71%) are seeking more flex…

Multidisciplinary degrees for college students and NEP enabled higher education pathways Over 94% of the learners stated that they would like to pursue multidisciplinary degrees which allowed them to choose subjects from different fields. Meanwhile, in keeping with the growing use of technology, about 70% responded …

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.

Mixed bag of job opportunities await aspirants in 2023; enhanced skills to be in spotlight According to staffing firms and job portals, it will be a mixed bag for the Indian job market next year. Amid subdued tech hiring, some of the non-tech hiring, especially in telecom and service-oriented sectors has gained pace…

Direct employment in aviation, aeronautical manufacturing sector over 250,000, says VK Singh Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation Gen (Dr) VK Singh (Retd) said the direct employment in aviation and aeronautical manufacturing sector is nearly 250,000 employees. The figure stated includes pilots, …

ESIC plans to fill 6,400 vacancies soon, says Union Minister Bhupender Yadav Delivering the second Graduation Day address at the ESIC Medical College and Hospital at K K Nagar here, the Minister said ESIC is also working towards providing skill-based training programme to the workers for paramedical jobs and has lau…

ESIC scheme adds 11.82 lakh new members in October It showed that the gross new enrolments with the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 crore in 2020-21. It was 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and 1.49 crore in 2018-19.

IIT Bombay wraps up phase 1 of placements with a total of 1237 on-campus offers and 194 PPOs accepted The phase I of placement season 2022-23 at IIT Bombay started on December 1, 2022 and extended till December 16, 2022. According to a press release issued by the institute, the offers received in 2022-23 in the phas…

Lecturers, IT inspectors, multi tasking staff among 1.47 lakh recruited through 'Rozgar Melas': Govt Constable, teachers, lecturers, nurses, nursing officers, doctors, pharmacists, radiographers and other technical and paramedical posts, sub inspector, lower divisional clerk, steno, personal assistant, incom…

ISB students bag 1578 offers from 222 recruiters; 40% of total offers go to women students More than 14% of the overall offers came from companies that offer leadership/general management roles in various functions. This year saw 30 first-time recruiters on campus. 36% of the PGP Class of 2023 are women, and 40% of …

Intel to ramp up focus on hiring from tier 2, tier 3 colleges These are not limited to just colleges but also focus on developing talent across talent groups ranging from women in technology, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community and more. The Unnati programme is focused on technology inclusion and advancin…

Hiring sentiment for services sector stands strong for Q4: Report Overall, across services and manufacturing sectors, an average of 68 per cent employers (65 per cent in the third quarter) have expressed a strong hiring sentiment.

77% companies in India’s services sector plans to hire in Q4: Teamlease report An analysis of the hiring trends across industries, functions and regions, indicates that India is leading with the highest hiring intent despite the ongoing global inflation, with about 77% of the employers surveyed keen to increase thei…

Job seekers made to count trains at New Delhi Railway Station, duped of over Rs 2.5 cr "Each candidate paid money ranging from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 24 lakh to Subbusamy who further paid these to a person named Vikas Rana. Rana posed as a deputy director in the Northern Railway office in Delhi," 25-year-old Snet…

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.

Service sector emerges as highest employment generator this year: Survey The report states that hiring is expected to continue across sectors in 2023. Real estate, banking, renewable energy, healthcare and IT will be actively hiring in the coming year at around 15%. Employment in the automobile sector and FMCG indus…

From your resume to your meetings: Why authentic storytelling, communication is important From the interview you ace to get the job of your dreams to every project update, every client discussion and every startup pitch is also an exercise in storytelling. A key communication skill, unfortunately, is not a skill tha…