by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Private Jobs
New Delhi : Over 680 offers were bagged by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee students in the first week of placement season, including 13 from international companies, a statement from the institute said on Friday.
A total of 681 offers — 286 in core sector and 395 in non-core — came from 168 participating companies during the recruiting exercise which began on December 2, it said in a statement.
“This has been a great start to the placement season. Over 50 per cent students have already got offers within the first week and we expect the same pace in the coming week as well,” N.P. Padhy, Placement In-charge, IIT Roorkee said in the statement.
The premier technology institute said the placements this year so far had increased by 21 per cent from last year’s, when in the first week 562 offers were made.
All international offers came from Microsoft, Webstaff Co. Ltd. and Mercari.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Markets, Networking, Online Marketing, Overseas, Private Jobs, Technology
New Delhi : Online recruitment activities in the month of November registered a year-on-year (y-o-y) growth rate of 24 per cent with the home appliances sector in the lead with 72 per cent growth, a report said here on Thursday.
According to the Monster Employment Index, online hiring in banking/financial services, insurance increased to 56 per cent in November 2017 from 34 per cent in October 2017, with a four per cent increase in month-on-month demand.
The report said e-recruitment activity in production and manufacturing surpassed the year-ago level by 31 per cent.
The sector recorded a seven per cent increase in month-on-month growth. The IT sector has also shown growth with a jump from 23 per cent in October 2017 to 42 per cent in November 2017, it added.
“Interesting thing to observe is that tier II markets were seen outpacing metros in terms of online hiring but in November, we have witnessed a significant surge in demand in key metros such as Kolkata (51 per cent), Mumbai (23 per cent) and Chennai (13 per cent),” said Sanjay Modi, Managing Director, Monster.com, Asia Pacific and Middle-East.
“Another noteworthy development has been in the IT sector, where the recruitment has displayed a positive growth and showcases an optimistic scenario from a long-term perspective and recovery of the sector,” he added.
City-wise data in the report showed there has been improvement in online recruitment activity, with Kolkata recording the most notable annual growth rate among all monitored cities at 51 per cent, followed by Baroda (up 46 per cent).
“In Mumbai, the year-on-year growth rate paced up from one per cent in October 2017 to 23 per cent in November 2017. Bengaluru (up 16 per cent), Chennai (up 13 per cent) and Delhi-NCR (up 6 per cent) also witnessed positive growth on the year,” said the report.
The Monster Employment Index, which was launched in May 2010 with data collected since October 2009, is a broad and comprehensive monthly analysis of online job posting activity in India conducted by Monster India.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Markets, Private Jobs, Social Media, Technology
London : YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children.
In an interview to The Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned video-sharing site, said on Monday that “bad actors are exploiting” YouTube to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm”.
“We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018,” Wojcicki was quoted as saying.
YouTube along with Facebook, Google and Twitter have come under scrutiny over the availability of terrorist material and propaganda on their platforms.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has also asked social media platforms to remove terror content after a series of terror-related attacks this year in the country.
“The tech companies have made significant progress on this issue, but we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to reduce terrorist content online,” May said in October.
YouTube last month announced it will remove content on the platform that attempts to pass as being “friendly for kids”.
“While some of these videos may be suitable for adults, others are completely unacceptable, so we are working to remove them from YouTube,” Johanna Wright, Vice President of Product Management, YouTube, wrote in a blog post.
The Google-owned company will apply machine learning technology and automated tools in order to discover potentially exploitive content.
YouTube has terminated 50 channels and removed thousands of videos as also advertisements from 5,00,000 exploitive videos under the current set of guidelines.
The company will also continue to work with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to report potentially illegal behaviour to law enforcement, said Wright.
Meanwhile, YouTube Kids has announced new measures for parents if they find children watching inappropriate videos at home even by mistake.
With over 800 million learning video views per day, YouTube Kids is now live in 37 countries.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, News, Politics
New Delhi : Delhi Labour Minister Gopal Rai on Monday said that workers should not be employed on a contract basis for jobs which are permanent in nature like cleaning, security and clerical work.
Rai said that the Delhi Advisory Contract Labour Board was formed last month to address problems faced by contractual employees and its first meeting will be held on December 20.
The board, headed by Rai, will have representatives from all major workers’ unions, employers, two legislators and representatives from the government.
Rai said that the two main agendas of the Board will be similar pay for similar jobs and not hiring workers on a contract basis for jobs that are permanent in nature.
The Minister said that the board will identify all such jobs and develop a new system and also take the opinion of others who work on the issue.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Jobs, Corporate Reports, Employment, Media, News, Private Jobs
New Delhi : The media and entertainment industry will be able to generate both direct and indirect employment of four million jobs in the next four to five years, according to a report.
The finding is part of the CII-BCG Report Media and Entertainment – The Nucleus of India’s Creative Economy, to be released at the CII Big Picture Summit 2017 on Tuesday.
The sixth edition of the Summit is themed ‘M&E: The Digital Takeover’, and organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
It will bring together bright minds of industry leaders to navigate a successful growth path at a time when digital transformation, convergence of technology and disruptive ideas are changing the rules of the game, read a statement.
The report encapsulates the strong growth of the media and entertainment sector and the need to address large talent and skill gaps.
“The Indian media and entertainment sector has huge room for growth and can create four-five million jobs without much spending from public infrastructure.
“Digital platforms are proliferating and there are tremendous opportunity that never existed before – especially for creators, storytellers and technology providers,” said Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII.
“Skilling is a major challenge as well as an opportunity for M&E industry as it can open new job prospects for young India,” he added.
According to the CII-BCG report, media industry workforce will be unrecognisable in 2022.
Major shifts around adoption of technology, big data and analytics as well as structural changes will mean many new job roles and a massive reskilling of the current workforce.
The industry also promises to continue a strong double digit growth of 11-12 per cent in the next five years, and needs to embrace itself for the consumption explosion.
The key consumption drivers for long-term growth are driven by rise in growing rural demand and media consumption, capturing more time of digitally connected consumers and strategically supplying to segmented audiences.
Given this, Kanchan Samtani, Partner and Director, Boston Consulting Group, said: “It’s the need of the hour, for the industry to identify the creative, technological and analytical skills that will be required over the next five to seven years to restructure its business model for the upskilling exercise.
“The talent agenda is the key aspect for the expansion of the sector. To achieve this, there is the need for concentrated efforts required by the government, academia and the industry bodies”.
Currently, direct economic impact by the media and industry is Rs 135,000 crore and employs over 1 million people.
Taking total economic impact, including indirect and induced benefits to the economy, media industry output is Rs 450,000 crore, contributing 2.8 per cent to India’s GDP, the statement read.
—IANS
