Pierre Gauthier, a computer engineer who set up his own tech company 18 years ago, applied for the role of director of engineering at Google and was rejected.
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The MoU signed by the two will ensure that all colleges affiliated with AICTE will adopt LinkedIn Placements.
The most-in-demand top skills have been identified after analysing the recruiting activity on LinkedIn since January 2016.
The year-long programme is designed to attract students from the world’s leading universities.
The campus contest saw 5,271 young minds in 520 teams from 15 B-Schools across India, come together to predict and design the future of retail.
Data Analytics as a career is growing in importance with each passing day. The demand–supply gap of talent in the field remains a huge concern. This is what, where, how one can make it.
In 2016, the total number of banking jobs is expected to grow by 20–25 per cent and there will be around three million new banking jobs in 2017.
The course will be co-designed and integrated into the five-year MBA (Tech.) programme at MPSTME, the Technology Management School of NMIMS.
So what, if you are fired? Don’t fret. This is the best time to explore other opportunities or even alternative careers.
Mobile developers in e-commerce firms enjoy twice the salary and monetary benefits in comparison to their counterparts in the IT services and software companies across the nation.
Here are some strategies employed or measures taken by reviewees, to which the managers often fall prey and end up forming biased notions.
Around 2500 college students are expected to benefit from this upskilling exercise, which will be delivered through vocational training providers and governed by the NASSCOM Foundation.
In 2016, digital marketing courses emerged as one of the most sought after professional courses, followed by Android app development, Big Data & Analytics and The open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF), according to simplilearn.
It is designed to provide ample space to study, relax, interact, innovate and engage in lively discussions.
The transformation from a nation of skill dearth to skill surplus, requires some serious collaborative effort. Here is how:
Do you really need to go to a fancy B-School and spend big bucks to get an MBA? What if you reframed the problem and decided to get the education needed (without the degree and the fat fee paid to a B-school)? Here’s a person who has done just that.
Laurie Pickard, of NoPayMBA fame, completed her MBA-level education using only MOOCs —Massive Open Online Courses. She is the facilitator of the No-Pay MBA Network, a learning community dedicated to help its members get the benefits of business school, at a fraction of the cost —less than $ 1,000! She now lives in Kigali, Rwanda and has documented her studies to serve as a resource to other learners.
Abhijit Bhaduri, chief learning officer, Wipro, chats with Pickard to know more about the NoPayMBA and MOOCs. Excerpts!
An interesting fictional story on how changing the horse of a winning team to a donkey cost the team its very existence.
The batch comprising 50 students, boasts of a total of 54 offers made to 44 candidates.
Companies believe that apart from identifying the right talent, the exercise will increase visibility and enhance employee brand image among students.
This year, the company promises to fund live projects within Accenture and also provide an opportunity to be part of the company’s Open Innovation initiative.
The programme is focussed on inspiring unconventional thinking, a solutions mindset, leadership behaviour and client-service competencies among the future workforce.
The use of social media, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technologies has the potential of transforming the HR function.
Critical Thinking is essential in all spheres of life. It has a role to play in HR as well.
Bosses are humans too, and they have their preferences and dislikes. If you play your cards well, you will be able to work not only for them, but also with them.
Keep calm, be patient and learn from mistakes to provide innovative solutions.
The real pleasure for a corporate mother-in-law leader is to stress out others by the virtue of their authority. Negotiating employee happiness with unrealistic and impatient demands is at the core of their leadership. They convert an organisation into a dungeon.