Tag: AI
Googler sent on leave post revelations about chatbot
When Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, started engaging in chats with the language model for dialogue applications or LaMDA, little did he know...
Openings across the country
The Central University of Punjab is hiring for teaching and non-teaching positions. It is looking for professors, assistant professors and associate professors, as well...
SuperBot announces 300% hike in talent pool this fiscal
SuperBot, an intelligent, AI-powered voice agent SaaS startup, has announced increasing its manpower by around 300 per cent. It is looking for talent for...
How Infosys plans to hire 50,000+ freshers
Infosys — which employs over two lakh people in India— is preparing to hire 55,000 freshers by the end of the financial year 2023....
Affine to hire 200 AI and cloud engineers
Affine, an AI and data science solutions company plans to hire around 200 people by the end of this financial year. The company aims...
YES Foundation, FUEL collaborate to skill disadvantaged youth
YES Foundation and Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL) have come together to launch a future skills training programme for disadvantaged youth and make...
Is the use of AI in hiring leading to talent spillage?
Given the continuous growth and development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, it is highly unlikely for any facet of our...
ZEE5’s Albino Mascarenhas joins Pyxis One as head – HR
Pyxis One, a US-based startup which provides AI infrastructure for marketing and business growth, has appointed Albino Mascarenhas as its new head - human...
iXceed to expand globally, hire 100 across regions
iXceed Solutions, the global recruitment organisation, is preparing to expand its team in India. It is planning to hire 200 more people to its...
“Optimal blend of HI & AI, is the future,” Girish Menon
2020: What to learn – what to erase
That 2020 has given all businesses an opportunity to think harder about what really matters as opposed...
DeepMind hires AI researchers, is growing NY team
DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) lab, which was acquired by Google, is putting together an AI team in New York. It has already...
ZingHR to collaborate with Savex Technologies, focus on SMB space
ZingHR, the HR tech firm, has decided to focus on improving its foothold in the mid and SMB markets by partnering with Mumbai-based Savex...
upGrad partners with Loyola Inst. for HR, AI, ML courses
upGrad, the Indian higher edtech company is expanding its online programme portfolio. It has partnered with Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) to train...
AI, automation to take away 5,000 jobs at Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra, which is part of the Mahindra Group, is working towards reducing the workforce in its business process services (BPS) wing by 5,000...
53% Indian cos to hire more, 60% to give increments: Report
While the pandemic led to a dip in hiring activities by 18 per cent in 2020, across India, things seem to be looking up...
DcodeAI, launches new AI learning platform for students
Indian edtech startup, DcodeAI, has launched a new do-it-yourself (DIY) learning platform that aims to equip the next generation of learners with skills in...
China-based ByteDance recruiting for its AI drug-discovery team
Tik Tok's parent company, ByteDance, is diversifying into the health industry. It will start hiring for its AI drug discovery team. At least five...
9,000 tech roles up for grabs at EY India
Ernst & Young (EY), the Anglo-American multinational professional services company, will hire about 9,000 technology professionals in India, in 2021, as it focusses on...
IIT Jodhpur, WhizHack Technologies collaborate to set up CoE
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur and WhizHack Technologies have together signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a new centre of excellence...
Will L&D get a larger share in HR budgets post COVID-19?
In any organisation, the human resources budget takes into account a lot of parameters — from selection and placement, compensation and benefits, background checks,...
Randstad Skilling Academy launched by NIIT and Randstad India
National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), a global skills and talent development company, has partnered with Randstad India, a leading HR-service platform to launch...
92% Indian professionals prefer robots for mental-health support
Of the over 1,000 professionals surveyed by Oracle and Workplace Intelligence, 92 per cent feel that they would prefer robots helping them in case...
Can Big Data lead to HR stereotypes?
Big data helps human resources create a quicker way of selecting the ‘right-fit’ candidates and also do away with many unconscious human biases that...
It pays to learn AI at OLX India
Under the flagship programme of the company, called ‘AI Accelerator’, all employees at OLX India have been given quarterly targets to learn different aspects...
Pitch for jobs, not just apply
‘What is the right way to apply for a job? The answer is, ‘Many’. Right now, there are hundreds of individuals actively applying. All...
IBM launches Watson Works to ease return-to-work worries
Workplace re-entry is a source of much anxiety for companies now considering the many rules and regulations that need to be in place to...
AI-driven ‘Distance Assistant’ to encourage social distancing at Amazon
American multinational company, Amazon, has turned to technology to ensure that its employees maintain social distancing at the workplace and are protected from the...
‘Microsoft co-sell ready partner’ status for Zwayam
Zwayam, the recruitment startup, has achieved ‘Microsoft co-sell ready partner’ status. The hiring startup, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), provides a SaaS platform for...
Microsoft’s $75mn expansion plans in Atlanta to create 1500 jobs
Tech giant, Microsoft, has announced its expansion plans for the coming year. It aims to invest $75 million on building a new office at...
Tech Mahindra and BPUT tie up to train students on AI...
Tech Mahindra and the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) have collaborated to set up a Centre of Excellence (COE) at the College of...
5000 freshers sought by Kotak Mahindra and Axis Bank
Kotak Mahindra and Axis Bank, are gearing to recruit at least 2000 fresh graduates each. They are seeking candidates with tech and design skills.
It...
How to create an inspirational learning journey for employees
There was a time when learning was not taken so seriously by the corporates. But as times changed, the business world underwent transformations too....
Wipro to promote 5000 employees by December
Wipro has not only been giving good salary increments to people possessing digital skills, but has also revealed plans to promote about 5000 of...
Skillate raises $1M in Pre Series A round funding
Skillate, the tech startup, recently raised $1 million in a pre-series A funding from a host of angel investors, such as Mynavi Corporation, Incubate...
Is it the skill gap or demand for multiple skills?
A research paper by Alicia Sasser Modestino, Daniel Shoag, and Joshua Balance, which was presented at the annual conference of the American Economics Association,...
HDFC’s HackitUp challenge to hire people in AI and machine learning
Hackathons are becoming rather popular today, with several companies in the IT and tech industry using these hackathon challenges to hire the best of...
6 robots wait on diners at Bengaluru restaurant
A Bengaluru restaurant has now got six robots that serve food to its customers. Of the six robots at this Robot Restaurant in Indiranagar,...
How to write a perfect CV to beat AI
Guess who created the first CV ever? None other than the greatest polymath of the 15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci! Although a true genius...
AI-enabled chatbot, Amara, from HireXp to be launched in India
HireXP, the HR tech company, is officially launching Amara, an embodied conversational chatbot in India today. This artificial intelligence (AI) enabled bot will converse...
Why STEM skills will gain relevance in future jobs
There is no dearth of discussions and debates on the future of jobs, and whether automation will take away jobs or create more opportunities,...
India’s agriculture-sector jobs to be transformed by AI and IoT
India’s agriculture sector is all set to undergo massive transformation, with the Union Agriculture Ministry signing a Statement of Intent (SoI) with IBM India...
Impact of AI on employment: What is the truth?
Much has been talked and written about on the effect of AI on employment and jobs. The early soothsayers predicted that AI will take...
Microsoft’s new AI digital labs will make Indian students future ready
Microsoft is all set to contribute in a big way in creating a future ready workforce in India. The Company will launch ten artificial...
AI will cause two-fold increase in employee productivity in India by...
A report by Microsoft reveals that in two years, India will witness a two times increase in employee productivity due to businesses adopting artificial...
Prisoners are now cheap labour for startups
Finnish aritificial intelligence (AI) startup, Vainu, has taken on prisoners to perform the menial and tedious tasks that have emerged as a result of...
Facebook to mentor and support promising startups
At a recent summit hosted by Facebook, the social-media giant announced the India Innovation Accelerator programme. Within this programme, it will lend support to...
AI and talent acquisition: A marriage made in heaven
We are at the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Automation has changed the manufacturing process and the HR function is also going through...
Training on AI for 5 lakh youth by Microsoft India
In accordance with the climbing demand for the latest technologies in India, Microsoft India is all set to upskill approx. 10,000 of its developers....
Big data, analytics, machine learning and AI development will be highest-paid...
The Indian IT industry is expected to invest majorly on automation and artificial intelligence in the New Year. The IT sector in the country...
Can Artificial Intelligence peep into the hearts and minds of the...
The HR personnel in any organisation work hard to put the right talent in place. They also help arrange for the new entrants to...
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
27 years of perfect attendance for what?
After 27 years of hard work and perfect attendance, an employee looks forward to being rewarded for his service. While Kevin Ford, an employee...
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IKEA opens stores in Bengaluru & Oman; creates jobs for locals
IKEA, the Swedish home furnishings firm, recently opened two stores — one in Nagasundara near Bengaluru in Karnataka, India, and the other in the...
CWT appoints Laura Watterson as CHRO
CWT, the business-to-business-for-employees (B2B4E) travel-management platform, has announced the appointment of Laura Watterson as executive VP, chief human resources officer, starting 5 July, 2022....
Loneliness at workplace: Increasingly becoming fatal
Loneliness at the workplace is so rampant across organisations that it has started affecting the bottom line. An analysis by Cigna in 2020, suggests...
India Inc. believes that Agnipath Scheme will create a great talent pool for hiring
The Agnipath Scheme announced by the Central government has sparked widespread violence in various states of the country. While many people have expressed their...
DIALOGUE
“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
“A CEO needs to acknowledge the silent majority who create the company’s fortunes” S...
Q. RPG is a diversified group with businesses spread across sectors and domains. however, its brands have a strong individual identity unlike other business...
