By Nishant Arora, New Delhi : With digital transformation comes the daunting task of preparing a workforce for technologies like Big Data, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) that can address the massive demand coming from governments and...
By Sanjiv Kataria, When Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy says the trend of stagnation of starting salaries for software engineers for six to seven years is "worrisome", we should be nervous. What does it imply for the job market? It's only a handful of engineering...
Kolkata : Offers were made to as many as 1,200 students at the end of phase one of the 2017-18 placement season at IIT Kharagpur -- a 15 per cent jump from last year, a statement from the institute said on Thursday. This placement season started with enrolment of...
New Delhi : Online hiring activity registered a 16 per cent growth year-on-year (YoY) during November primarily driven by growth in the non-IT sector, a report by job portal Naukri.com said on Tuesday. According to the survey, the Naukri JobSpeak index for November at...
Kolkata : West Bengal expects its exports to touch Rs 75,000 crore to Rs 80,000 crore by 2019-20, a Minister said on Friday. According to State Finance and Commerce Minister, Amit Mitra, Bengal's export turnover grew to Rs 53,649 crore in 2016-17 against Rs 47,857...
New York : Several big companies are posting recruitment ads on Facebook which are only visible to a certain age group and selectively exclude older workers from seeing those job postings, an investigation has revealed. The joint investigation by US-based non-profit...
New Delhi : The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) continued deliberations on employment generation and boosting economic growth during its third meeting on Wednesday. Taking forward the agenda of the last meeting held in November -- when it...
New Delhi : The Union Cabinet on Friday approved a special scheme for employment generation in the leather and footwear sector entailing expenditure of Rs 2,600 crore over three financial years up to 2019-20. Briefing reporters here following the meeting, Law and IT...
By Nishant Arora, Hyderabad : Armed with Intelligent Cloud and Edge capabilities, Microsoft will give a renewed thrust to nurturing unicorn firms and the start-up community in India next year, Anant Maheshwari, the companys India President, said here on Thursday. "For...
San Francisco : When it comes to jobs in the growing cyber security industry, there is a huge gender crisis, with men holding 87 per cent of the chief information security officer (CISO) roles at Fortune 500 companies, a new report revealed on Monday. According to the...