Tag: employability

57% of learners in tier-3 colleges are employable in non-technical roles

‘You’ve passed out from a tier-3 college? You will have to settle for the lesser-paying jobs”. This is what students from tier-3 colleges are...

Employment basis false info can be terminated: SC

Employees who produce false information regarding their suitability for a job or get appointed basis their suppression of their past records or history, such...

Class 12 students study from IIT- Madras without JEE score

Now, IIT-level education is accessible to learners across India, even if they haven’t attempted the extremely competitive and tough Joint Entrance Exam (JEE). A...

IIFL Foundation partners with Indian Army & REACHA to skill youth...

IIFL Foundation has launched a retail skill-development programme in collaboration with the Indian Army and REACHA, a non-government organisation, to train 180 youngsters and...

Microsoft’s APAC Enabler Mentorship Programme reaches 9 countries

Microsoft’s special mentoring scheme — the APAC Enabler Mentorship Programme — which focusses on making people with disabilities (PwDs) in the Asia Pacific (APAC)...

Flipkart commits to train PWDs, increase their employability

To create a structured skill-development programme and enabling mechanism for bringing Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) into the mainstream economy, Flipkart, the e-commerce marketplace, has...

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...

Tata Coffee’s ‘Work from Heart’

Tata Coffee has given a new explication to the acronym WFH – Work from Heart. It is a programme for Tata Coffee employees to...

Budget 2021: What HR wants

A new year is here and along with it comes the season of the Budget. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget...

Flipkart launches centre of excellence, to skill unemployed for logistics sector

Flipkart has launched a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in collaboration with the Logistics Skill Sector Council (LSC) under the Ministry of Skill Development and...

Microsoft and SBI collaborate to make the differently-abled employable

Microsoft has entered into a partnership with the State Bank of India (SBI) Foundation to train more than 500 differently-abled people and help them...

Only 46 per cent employable talent for 2020: Survey

Despite the bleak headline, the overall trend is not that bad, according to a six-year survey. This year, the percentage of students ready to...

India’s 3E challenge – Education, Employment, Employability – An apprenticeship looking...

A recent survey revealed close to 76% of Indians view dearth of employment avenues as a ‘very big problem’. And a controversial leaked NSSO report...

How Muthoot Fincorp aims to make 10,000 people employable in three...

The purpose is to create a win-win situation for communities in which they operate and also address the problem of attrition in the business.

Employability of MBAs declining: Study

The overall employability of fresh talent, across professional courses, has increased significantly from 33 per cent in 2014 to 45.6 per cent in 2018.

eClerx partners with NASSCOM for employability enhancement programme

The programme aims to provide specific job-related skills training in analytics and customer relationship management to 350 underserved youths and women.

Study finds that most millennial interns are asked to do menial...

Internship should provide interns the experience required to boost their employability.

How the war for talent has moved to non-technical jobs?

Abhijit Bhaduri, chief learning officer, Wipro, in a conversation with George Anders, popular American business journalist and author of four books, on why a qualification in liberal arts is gaining importance in the corporate world, especially in IT companies.

Indian teachers rate majority of Indian students as inept for employment

While teachers from higher education institutes opined that 64 per cent of their students were incompetent for employment , school teachers felt only 48 per cent were unemployable.

 

What’s inside this cloud company’s in-house happiness portal

ESDS Software Solutions, a cloud services and data centre solutions company, has innovatively embraced the notion of employee satisfaction through a unique survey platform,...

How WOW uses eNPS surveys to foster a collaborative environment

The dynamics of trust and collaboration vary across organisations as everyone will have nuanced differences in their definitions of these terms. The same holds...

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Future of talent acquisition in the age of generative AI

If you've been feeling a bit overwhelmed by the buzz surrounding generative AI, you're not alone. Let us face it, our industry is evolving,...

Innovation in insurance recruitment: Tata AIA’s journey towards high volume, top talent acquisition

Tata AIA Life is a joint venture between Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd and AIA Group. The venture merges Tata's leadership in India with AIA's...

Has leak by employee’s son ruined 1st reveal of video game?

Rockstar Games, the American video game firm, had created quite the hype with its intention to release the first trailer of the Grand Theft...

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Coforge allots shares to employees

Coforge, an IT company, has allotted 19,179 equity shares to its employees on 3 December, 2023. This decision from its ESOP Allotment Committee is...

Debasis Panigrahi is now CHRO, Shriram Properties

Shriram Properties has appointed Debasis Panigrahi has chief human resources officer (CHRO), based out of Bengaluru. Earlier, Panigrahi was serving as vice president and head...

Unity is cutting 3.8% of its global workforce

Unity Software has announced that, as a part of a strategic reset, it plans to trim 265 jobs, which make up 3.8 per cent...

How is capacity building approached at Jindal Stainless?

 Nurturing talent and taking care of the learning needs of employees, is one of the five values that Jindal Stainless (JSL) identifies in its...

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Data analytics and not technology will redefine HR

Q. How satisfying has been your professional journey of 39 years? A. It has been a bagful of mixed experiences. At times I have been...

EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO

Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...

“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....
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