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Cognizant expects to make offers to 45,000 new graduates in India in Q4

IT companies like Infosys and Wipro are witnessing high attrition numbers

Hiring activity in India on steady recovery: LinkedIn India report

Hiring activity in India has been on a steady recovery and the hiring rate in July this year was around 65 per cent above the pre-COVID level, a report said. According to the LinkedIn India Labour Market Update (July 2021), there was a deepening hiring dip in April 2021, corresponding to the second wave of COVID-19 cases in India. Since then, it has been recovering steadily. Compared to the pre-COVID levels in 2019, the hiring rate was 35 per cent higher at the end of May 2021, 42 per cent higher at the end of June 2021, and now 65 per cent higher at the end of July 2021, it said. Hiring rate is a measure of hires divided by LinkedIn membership. This analysis looks at the changes in hiring rate between the month under review and the same month in 2019. "As large sectors such as IT, manufacturing, and hardware begin to ramp up hiring after a year of hiring freezes, we are hopeful that hiring will continue to grow," the report said. It said hiring has been on a steady recovery, lar

PwC India to invest Rs 1,600 crore, create 10,000 more job opportunities

A large proportion of these jobs will come in the areas of digital, cloud, cyber, analytics and emerging technologies.

Hiring gets AI power, but its scope is limited for blue collar employees

Technology can also help with some very practical solutions to know a candidate during remote hiring.

Hiring received booster dose in January-March period in India: Report

About 90 per cent of the large organisations stepped up their hiring: report

Uber to hire close to 250 engineers in India to expand tech, product teams

Uber on Wednesday announced it is recruiting close to 250 engineers for its Bengaluru and Hyderabad-based teams, as the company continues to expand the scope of operations for its engineering and product work in the country. The current round of hiring will strengthen the company'srider and driver growth, delivery, eats, digital payments, risk & compliance, marketplace, customer obsession, infrastructure, adtech, data, safety and finance technology teams, a Uber statement said. These roles are currently split between the Hyderabad and Bengaluru tech centres. Uber said its expansion plans are in line with its vision to make mobility and delivery more accessible, and to become the backbone of transportation in over 10,000 cities across the globe. Senior Director - Engineering, Manikandan Thangarathnam, said,"Our teams in Hyderabad and Bengaluru work on important global mandates, and pioneer various industry-first innovations." "In order to serve more people across the

Infosys attrition at high of 15%; to hire 25,000 from campuses in FY22

Firm says had also offered pay hikes to retain talent

Hiring activities rise marginally in March, says Naukri JobSpeak Index

Hiring activities rose marginally with job listings rising to 2,436 in March compared to February this year, according to a report.

Online test for govt recruitment likely to be held in Sept: Union minister

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the Common Eligibility Test (CET) for government jobs recruitment is likely to be held around September this year. He said the National Recruitment Agency (NRA) for conducting the CET has been constituted with the approval of the Union Cabinet. As a major boon for the youth, particularly the government job aspirants, a Common Eligibility Test (CET) will be conducted across the country from this year to screen and shortlist candidates for recruitment to central government jobs, said Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel. The first such test is likely to be held in the later part of 2021, probably around September or so, he told PTI here. Singh said the "path-breaking transformational reform" carried out by the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) was possible because of the personal intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his deep concern for the youth. The NRA, he said, will be a multi-agency body which will conduct

Job posting picks up pace; likely to witness just 6% dip in 2020: Report

The gradual increase in both the seeker and recruiter activities on the Monster job portal showed that clear signs of recovery in the job market compared to the Covid-19 lows.

Technology hiring consistently above pre-pandemic levels: Report

Digitisation has increased in the country due to the pandemic

Hiring activities spike in Feb helped by digitisation: Report

Hiring activities grew by 33 per cent sequentially, the report said

IIM Lucknow achieves 100% final placements in virtual hiring process

A good number of prestigious first-time recruiters were also on-boarded this time apart from the legacy recruiters offering diverse job profiles

Covid will force 18 mn Indians to find a new occupation by 2030: Report

The pandemic will have a lasting impact on labour markets, a report said on Friday

Employers keen on hiring freshers across job roles: TeamLease report

Hiring of entry-level professionals is likely to witness a significant uptick going ahead, according to a survey by TeamLease EdTech

Hiring sees growth in education, real estate in January: Naukri

Hiring activity saw sequential growth in certain sectors including education, real estate and banking, said a new report from job portal Naukri.com

HCL Technologies targeting to hire 1,000 employees at Nagpur facility

IT company HCL Technologies on Thursday said it plans to add 1,000 employees in the next few months to work out of its campus near Nagpur. The new hiring will be a mix of freshers and experienced hands, the New Delhi-headquartered company said in a statement. The company has a 50-acre campus in MIHAN (Multi-modal International Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur) near the winter capital of Maharashtra which went operational in April 2018 and currently houses 2,000 employees, it said. It wishes to create a global IT development centre at the site which will include efforts to recruit, train and employ local talent and create sustainable ecosystems for them.HCL Nagpur focuses onEngineering and R&D Services (ERS),application development and infrastructure management services line of business. The company said it has a campaign wherein it wants talent from Nagpur to come back to the orange city to pursue a career in ERS, application and infrastructure management services. The company has

Hiring to bounce back as most organisations lifted freeze: Naukri.com

Hiring is set to bounce back as most organisations have lifted the freeze in hiring, according to a Naukri.com survey

Hiring, better appraisals back on India Inc agenda amid Covid-19 pandemic

The pandemic emerged the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape.

Indian employers see better hiring intent for first quarter of 2021: Survey

Corporate India is showing "healthy signs of recovery" and plans to hire more people in the first three months of 2021 compared to the quarter ending December, a survey said on Tuesday. According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey that covered 1,518 employers across the country, the employment trends in the first quarter of 2021 is expected to be on the rise with a Net Employment Outlook of 5 per cent. The outlook has registered an increase of two percentage points for the first three months of 2021 compared to the December quarter. The sectors expected to drive the job market in the 2021 first quarter include finance, insurance and real estate, and mining & construction sector. All other sectors indicate negative growth in this quarter, the survey said. "Corporate India is showing healthy signs of recovery and an overall positive sentiment is gripping the market. Many of the deep-rooted structural factors that have sustained Indian economy over the years like ...