Tag: India

TVS Motor Company has announced that it will be halting all manufacturing operations at its India and Indonesia plants, to protect its staff from...

According to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the information technology (IT) sector in India can expect to grow by 7.7...

Jobs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics space have risen 44% in three years. Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM)-related job roles have witnessed...

The employers of today are familiar with Gen Z— a generation born between 1996 and 2010. Though many of them are still aged around...

India and Germany have entered into two formal agreements, to collaborate in the areas of skill development and vocational education. The formal agreements will...

An Airtel spokesperson has confirmed the exit and said that Gautam is leaving due to personal reasons. A little over a year after he was...

Being the youngest of three boys and 11 years younger to my eldest brother, clearly my parents planned to have a third child very...

A report by Microsoft reveals that in two years, India will witness a two times increase in employee productivity due to businesses adopting artificial...

Cognizant, the US-based IT services company, is expected to lay off a significant number of its employees, most of them in India. It is...

Uber is readying to expand its engineering and product teams across its technology centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Presently, Uber Engineering India has over...

The two nations plans to create a framework for skill development and formation of a Joint Working Group (JWG) for smoother operations between the countries.

Under the Study in India programme, 160 top institutes of the country will offer 15000 seats to foreign students.

The event, to be hosted by the governments of India and the US, will have women participants from over 10 countries.

Out of the 63 countries surveyed in the IMD World Talent Ranking 2017, India stands at 51^st position, three places better than last year.

India will now be able to send technical interns to Japan for on-the-job training for three to five years.

According to estimates, in six years, at least 8.8 million youth will be trained and have relevant skills for decent employment opportunities.

According to the Workforce Analytics Institute, rising wage pressure, lack of skills to leverage technology, ineffective leadership and low engagement levels are making it difficult for firms to deliver productivity gains in Asian countries.

The staff of the oil company were told that the office would be closed and they were facing ‘involuntary severance’.

The company is also relocating a few employees to offices in India and Costa Rica from the US.

As per Mercer’s survey, Indian cities are safer than most cities in South Asia with Chennai at the top. Hyderabad tops the list in terms of quality of living.

Increasing workforce participation of older workers is considered to be good for the economy as well as individuals. 

Sebastien Hampartzoumian has relocated to Singapore.

 

Obama’s promises are expected to expand the job market exponentially. However, this would mean enhanced skillsets for new and existing workforce. Is India Inc. ready to roll?

McKinsey & Company’s follow-up study reveals that most companies continue to use traditional capability-building methods, even though their needs have evolved…

Shortage of skilled workers responsible for the low ranking on GTCI...