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Former VMware executive Rajiv Ramaswami made president and CEO of Nutanix

Rajiv Ramaswami, a longtime industry veteran who had been leading VMware’s cloud products and services development for the last four years, has joined Nutanix as its president and CEO.

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Talent Ecosystem

IIT Kharagpur receives 1000 job offers

IIT Kharagpur students have bagged a total of 1000 job offers in the first phase of placements of this academic year.

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News Talent Ecosystem

IIM-A sees 15 offers from the biggest recruiter TCS

IIM-Ahemdabad saw 50 firms participating in the third cluster of the Summer Placement process for the PGP class of 2022.

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News Talent Ecosystem

Flipkart to hire 300 graduates

The Walmart owned company, Flipkart, has announced its plans to hire around 300 graduates. Around 80 of these recruitments will be done from the IITs where placements are currently going on.

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News Talent Ecosystem

632 offers made in IIT Roorkee

IIT Roorkee saw 147 recruitiers offering 632 offers till the end of the sixth day of the placements. The offers also include pre-placement offers (PPOs).

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Global News

Anil Soni, an Indian origin health expert, appointed as CEO of WHO Foundation

The WHO Foundation has appointed Anil Soni, an Indian origin health expert, as its first Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will assume office from January 1, 2021.

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Insights

Opportunities in Data Science

The number of vacancies for data science jobs on the top job portals in India increased by 53% from when India eased the lockdown restrictions on June 8 to Nov 30

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Corporate News

Malavika Hegde appointed new CEO of Coffee Day

A year after the late founder and former chairman V G Siddhartha’s death, his wife, Malavika Hegde, is appointed as the new CEO of the Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd, the owner of the Café Coffee Day chain.

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Global News

The pandemic has hit women and low-paid workers the hardest

In the Global Wage Report, the International Labor Organization analyses the impact that the Covid pandemic has had on jobs in the world.

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News Talent Ecosystem

IITs see a rise in placements even amidst the pandemic

There was an increase of 20% in the numbers of offers and salary offered by comapanies on the first day of IIT placements, a trend which continued on subsequent days.

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Global News

Southwest Airlines warns that it could layoff at least 6,800 workers

The largest airline in the US, Southwest Airlines, has announced that it is planning to lay off at least 6,800 workers. This will be the first involuntary job cuts in the 49-year long history of the carrier.

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News Talent Ecosystem

IIT-Bombay receives highest package of Rs 1.39 crore pa

On Day 1 of the placement process, IIT-Bombay saw participation of 135 companies including Optiver, Microsoft, Uber, Texas Instruments, Apple, Bain amongst others.

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Future of Work

How workplaces can better adapt to the pandemic using advanced technology

Around half of the world’s 3.3 billion global workforce is at risk of losing their livelihoods due to Covid-19…Frost and Sullivan has released a report Top 5 Growth Opportunities in the Connected Work Industry for 2021

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News Talent Ecosystem

IIT-Delhi and IIT-BHU see an increase in salary packages even amidst pandemic

In the first phase of placements, IIT-D received 300 offers. This also includes pre-placement offers. Whereas, IIT-BHU saw 396 offers in the first slot. IIIT-BHU saw a total of 30 companies making job offers on the first day of placements. They offered 217 jobs with annual CTC ranging from Rs 64.2 lakh to Rs 11.50 […]

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Global News

Canada to impose digital tax on Google, Facebook amongst others

The Canadian government has announced plans to impose digital tax on tech giants like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, etc.