While hiring continues to improve, competition for jobs is easing, and the digital divide is narrowing, suggesting a recovery in hiring for the non-tech sectors.
Hiring recovery in India continues; hiring in non tech sectors also improves
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Covid – 19: Businesses in India severely impacted but are holding back from drastic cuts on manpower costs
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Covid-19 has severely impacted businesses across the globe, and amid lock down, supply chains going off and customer demand dried up a number of businesses have had to undertake drastic measures including salary cuts, furloughs, as well as job cuts. The impact has been seen globally and for businesses across industries. To understand the impact…
Workmen welfare and safety, key imperatives for India’s steel sector
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India has been one of the largest steel producers, and globally ranked second with production at 106.5 MT in 2018. Steel and its associated mining and metallurgy sectors have seen major development and investment over the years and has been one of the key sectors generating employment and supporting economic growth. Steel has a key…
Recommended podcasts for business leaders
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A good number of podcasts are also available for business professionals, executives in varied formats – talk show format – conversational, interviews, solo casts, or story telling.
Government Jobs, an ocean of opportunities
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With the uncertainty of job security, the demand for government jobs is constantly on the rise. A data released by the Center for Study of Developing Societies highlighted that attraction of youth towards the government job sector has not witnessed a decline over the past decade. But, finding a suitable government job for yourself is…
Raining placements at IIT’s for 2020 batch
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It’s raining jobs in IITs this year with students receiving placement offers from across the globe. Over 4000 job offers have been made so far with core engineering profiles receiving maximum number of placements. The core sector includes companies that work on main engineering disciplines such as mechanical, civil, computer science. Apart from that, job…
Deciding when to quit your job
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While deciding to quit, you may want to take a hint from your Mondays. On a lighter note, all Mondays are painful. However if the feeling of drudgery comes to time and again, you need to think carefully about your willingness to carry on. At the end, every thing boils down to your your happiness, overall satisfaction, and motivation. There are a host of factors at play – your personal life, your expectations from workplace, work life balance, compensation, managers, workplace etc.
India’s joblessness, challenges of CDO’s, CEO severance packages
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Curated Posts from Last WeekIndia’s joblessness, a story unfolds In India about 1.2 crore people enter the workforce every year but the pace of job creation remains far below than what is needed, even though the economy is growing at over 7 percent. read more.. Challenges faced by Chief Digital Officers; resistance to change, talent…
Changing workplace mentality regarding mental health
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Good mental health at work and good management go hand in hand and there is strong evidence that workplaces with high levels of mental well being are more productive.
India’s joblessness, a story unfolds
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In India about 1.2 crore people enter the workforce every year but the pace of job creation remains far below than what is needed, even though the economy is growing at over 7 percent.
Challenges faced by Chief Digital Officers; resistance to change, talent gap
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However, the increasing relevance of a CDO position is still being debated, and to put an end to the debate, MindTree recently published its findings from their survey about the “relevance and staying power of the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) position”.
Understanding Gen Z – A simple guide for employers
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Generation Z (Gen Z) defines the generation succeeding the millennials. With the new batch of talent entering the workforce, its imperative that the workplaces are prepared to ensure that their relationship with Gen Z talent is meaningful. While human psychology at a basic level still aligns with the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, every generation entering…
EdTech platforms making learning easy and accessible
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EdTech or Educational Technology is the combined use of physical equipment, programming, and instructive theory to provide learning and encouraging education by improving the execution, creation, and usage of technological resources. It encompasses several domains including online training, computer based-education, and m-learning (learning through mobiles).
Why fired CEOs get multi million dollar severance packages?
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Imagine, you’re getting fired from your job and your employer pays you a hefty amount to sweeten the good bye. Wouldn’t it be an icing on the cake, if you are handed over sizable stock options as well? And when we say – sizable – it’s really sizable – maybe a few 10’s or 100’s…
Summer placements for 2020 at the IIMs
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Most of the IIMs have released stats for their summer placements for the 2019-2021 batch. This year there has seen a good rise in the international roles offered to IIM students. Students at the leading IIM’s continue to get picked up by leading brands in consulting and finance domain. E Commerce, tech start-ups had an…