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HR today requires a tighter alignment of talent skills, and needs to augment its capabilities to anchor change within management processes. 

The cloud-based, data-driven, standardised assessment test, evaluates over 200 skills, spanning language, cognitive and functional competencies, personality traits and situation handling.

This effort is aimed at retaining and incentivising key employees for their contribution to the growth and profitability of the company.

The internship drive saw the entire batch of 360 students getting placed, with the average stipend offer of Rs 65,000 per month.

The company has increased the maternity leave from 12 weeks to 52 weeks—the longest offered by any organization in India.  

Kandangire from Volkswagen, Pune, is among 45 young talents from 19 countries and five continents, to bag this award.  

This PLB will be equivalent to 78 days’ wages for the financial year 2014–2015, which  has been estimated at Rs. 1030.02 crore

Presently, the country lacks skilled manpower in the fields of advanced technologies, such as semiconductors.  

The new team will include names such as SV Nathan, Nishchae Suri, Pankaj Bansal, Hema Ravichandar, Suresh Tripathi and Ritu Anand.

HRBS is a dominant player in the compensation and benefits space for inbound multinationals and has established market leadership in the luxury goods, retail and apparel-sourcing sectors across Asia.

K.Raheja Corp will financially assist its employees and provide paid leave for the adoptive parent-employee. 

The first batch, comprising 1500 Airports Authority of India (AAI) employees, will receive theory and practical sessions.

The new online job portal has launched a ‘missed call service’ allowing entry-level job aspirants, with no Internet access, to create online profiles.

Telenor India has also adopted a six-month paid maternity leave policy, making it uniform benefits for all Telenor employees across the globe. 

The agreement will be implemented with effect from April 1, 2015 till March 31, 2018. The arrears will be paid in three instalments over three years.

With this acquisition, the organisational advisory firm will have an edge over rivals in attracting top talent and designing compensation and reward incentives.  

The integrated, two and a half year-long ‘Work while you study’ programme, will see selected students working for three days and studying on campus for two days.

Employee performance and productivity play an important role at any workplace. Minor factors, such as no-clutter, good lighting, better infrastructure and a fun environment can go a long way in facilitating efficiency at work. 

Google and the Tatas have come together to launch Android Nanodegree programmes in India.

The students have been offered salary packages between Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 10,000 per month.

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the newly formed company hopes to reduce costs by $ 2.7 billion through this layoff. 

The strategic alliance aims to facilitate the training of senior and mid-level managers working in Indian companies and enable them to face business challenges—both immediate and future.

CBREX is an exchange meant for recruiters and recruiting firms across the world that will facilitate cross-border hiring.

In a landmark judgement by the European Court of Justice, the travel time to reach the place of work, in case there is no fixed place of work, and the return journey back home will be counted as working time under the law.

Air hostesses with a BMI (body mass index) of over 27 were categorised as obese, while those with BMI between 22 and 27 were called overweight.

The KRA programme aims to analyse the performance of employees and also make them capable of multitasking, like their private-sector counterparts