India’s attractiveness among the expat professionals as a potential workplace has taken a major hit in the wake of recent cases of rape incidents and attacks on foreigners, a survey says. The survey, conducted among 2,200 expat professionals, found that 72% of the respondents who were keen to work in India in the first half [...]

By Hemali Chhapia & Samidha Sharma, TNN MUMBAI: In a throwback to the late 1990s, a traditional job at an FMCG firm is now, once again, the ultimate destination for an Indian business school graduate. In the hierarchy of preferences, a stint at a management consultancy, the top choice four years ago for graduates, stands [...]

HYDERABAD: India’s information technology industry is expected to generate between 1.3-1.5 lakh new jobs this financial year, as it slowly deploys the excess number of engineers hired last year when business growth turned out to be less than expected. The hiring estimates by industry body Nasscom pales in comparison to the just completed year when the industry [...]

28 Mar, 2013, 01.19PM IST, Anita Bhoir, ET Bureau MUMBAI: Banks such as Standard Chartered, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which have offices in London, Frankfurt and New York, are planning to use plum foreign postings to hold back employees as the Indian banking industry prepares for its biggest churn in nearly two decades with [...]

24 Mar, 2013, 12.25AM IST, PTI NEW DELHI: More job opportunities are likely to emerge in the next three months as over 60% of domestic employers are predicting an increase in their workforce, a survey has said. The survey by MyHiringClub.Com covered 4,431 employers and a majority (67%) of them have predicted an increase in [...]

MUMBAI/BANGALORE: Placements at the Indian Institutes of Management ( IIM), which got off to a brisk start, are now feeling the impact of the downturn gripping the Indian economy. The pressure is being felt by both old and new IIMs, which have 5-15% of their batches left to place. Officials in charge of placements say [...]

20 Mar, 2013, 10.20AM IST, Sreeradha D Basu,ET Bureau MUMBAI: In 2012, when State Bank of India invited applications for 1,000 probationary officer posts, around 5.1 lakh candidates across the country lined up for a shot. This year, when the country’s largest bank advertised for 1,500 vacancies for the same roles, 1.7 million candidates applied. [...]

18 Mar, 2013, 01.39PM IST, Sneha Shah & Rica Bhattacharyya,ET Bureau MUMBAI: Deal-making in India continues to be a male bastion. Women have struggled to break through the glass ceiling in this high-stakes sector. According to a recent study, the better half of humanity represents just 2% of the workforce in some of the top [...]

New Delhi, March 17, Press Trust of India, Hiring activity in the IT sector is likely to be muted this year, Infosys co-founder and executive co-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan has said. “Hiring position seems to be muted this year because many companies still have deep bench (strength), in other words their utilisation rate is still low,” [...]

Mar 15, 2013, 03.20PM IST TNN[ Mini Joseph Tejaswi ] BANGALORE: Market intelligence, social media and data analytics firm, blueocean market intelligence has unveiled today the results of its ‘2013 Social Effectiveness Index (SEI) 20 ‘, a study on Social Media Effectiveness among 20 companies that operate in IT, BPO, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Apparel, FMCG, [...]