by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Private Jobs
Bengaluru : Driven by demand for a skilled workforce in emerging technologies such as cyber security, Internet of things (IoT) and Big Data, India will generate over 14 lakh new IT jobs by 2027, a Cisco-led study said on Thursday.
This represents a whopping 46 per cent growth in jobs primarily driven by essential digital transformation skills that organisations are seeking today, said the global networking giant Cisco who commissioned International Data Corporation (IDC) to conduct this study.
According to the findings, jobs like social media administrator, Machine Learning (ML) designer and IoT designer are among the most in-demand job roles in the country in the coming years.
“Nearly 89 per cent of hiring managers reported a higher level of trust on candidates having certifications, while 88 per cent of customers experienced an improvement in the level of service and support to end users,” showed the study.
“Witnessing the growing importance in a rapidly changing technological landscape, nearly a fifth of employees self-funded their certification courses while about 50 per cent of them underwent some training in 2017,” it added.
According to the study, as skill sets required in this digital age change for most industries, it’s also transforming how and where people work.
As a result, IT organisations might find it difficult to fill these niche roles which calls for upskilling the employee skill sets through certification programmes.
“Cisco, being a leader in certification courses, offers some of the most sought-after IT courses which were one of the pre-requisites for the 5.9 million new job postings in 2017,” according to the IDC “InfoBrief” study.
A Nasscom report in July highlighted the fact that nearly 1.4 lakh jobs are vacant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics segment across various sectors in the country, out of the total demand of 5.1 lakh employees.
Of the total demand, 3.7 lakh jobs are filled, it said. By 2021, the employee deficit would increase to 2.3 lakh, as the total demand goes up to around 8 lakh employees, as per the report.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
New Delhi : Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday took a dig at the BJP for promising statues and temples ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, after failing to fulfil its earlier poll promises of development and jobs.
“At the beginning of five years, the promise is for development, jobs and money in every citizen’s bank account,” the Congress veteran tweeted.
“Nothing achieved, at the end of five years, the new promise is for grand temples, giant statues and doles,” he said as he reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his earlier promises of vikas (development), providing two crore jobs annually and bringing back black money stashed in foreign tax havens and filling up the poor man’s coffer with Rs 15 lakh each.
Chidambaram’s latest jibe at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party comes at a time when the saffron brigade has been raising the pitch for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Markets, Private Jobs, Technology
New Delhi : As India pushes its boundaries towards achieving digital growth, a new report said on Tuesday that over 50,000 positions in the fields of data science and Machine Learning (ML) are vacant in the country owing to a lack of skilled workforce.
A state of the industry report by leading ed-tech platform Great Learning found that despite the number of job postings and job seeker interest for data scientist reaching an all-time high in 2017, there are no skilled professionals around.
“The job market in this space is heavily tilted towards job seekers, with twice the number of jobs than available talent,” said the report based on a study of 28,000 participants across 3,000 organisations in the country.
“With more and more jobs increasingly becoming data driven, the need of the hour is for professionals to upskill themselves to stay relevant,” said Hari Krishnan Nair, Co-founder, Great Learning.
“Over the past one year, we have seen heightened interest from companies across IT, BFSI and telecom for professionals in data science,” he added.
Companies like Edelweiss, Verizon and TCS have recruited several students from Great Learning for various roles in Machine Learning and data science in the last six months.
According to Gartner, out of 10 lakh registered companies in India, 75 per cent have invested or are going to invest in ML and data science.
When it comes to the demand for professionals in this space, banking and financial services lead the pack having created almost 44 per cent of jobs in the domain.
According to the report, skills in Cloud, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are going to be critical for data science professionals to grab the available jobs.
A similar study last year by online analytics training institute Edvancer found that nearly 50,000 job vacancies related to analytics are currently available in India.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Buzz, Corporate Jobs, Employment, Private Jobs
Bharatpur : Leading heritage hoteliers in Rajasthan on Friday said hospitality industry in the state can play a big role in ensuring dignified job opportunities for the state’s available work force of over two crore.
On the second day of the 7th Annual Convention of the Indian Heritage Hotels Association (IHHA) held in Bharatpur on Friday, IHHA President Gaj Singh of Jodhpur said protecting the built heritage and conserving the local traditional and cultural values of communities is a must for sustainable development.
“The industry needs to continuously innovate keeping in mind the architecture and historically significant features of heritage properties to generate new activities for the tourists,” Singh said.
The convention also took up this year’s theme of ‘Reinventing India as a Heritage Destination’. Conference Chairman and Honorary Vice President IHHA, Steve Borgia said: “We must realise that our heritage is in danger. Without heritage, there will be no tourism and no stories left to tell the visitors.”
Co-Founder and Chair of Neemrana Hotels, Aman Nath, contended that it is the government vision and the citizens’ aspirations that need reinventing “not the country as the destination.”
“Hoteliers should create an experience which is so unique that it remains with the people throughout their lives,” Nath said.
Head/Chair at Australian Museums, Vinod Daniel, highlighted global approaches in managing heritage, both tangible and intangible. He also threw light on several best practices both on national and state level. Placing emphasis on curating a well-devised strategy, he said the plan needs to be implemented over several political cycles.
Author of Destination India, International Tourism Consultant, Navin Berry, said over the decades the understanding of tourism has dramatically enlarged and has transformed into a completely different entity.
“From sightseeing, it has expanded to cover a much wider gamut of activities. It encompasses weddings, experiential tourism, among others. While travel has become a hassle-free exercise owing to technology, the tourism industry itself has been found reluctant in chasing these new streams,” Berry said.
In her presentation, Director, Preservation of Sites and Monuments- National Heritage Board, Singapore, Jean Wee, shared some of Singapore’s experiences as well as reflections on how some projects from around the world have achieved success.
She said often heritage preservation brings out the worst in everyone as it starts with a major difference in opinion. “However, preservation must be a shared pre-occupation. It should offer all stakeholders a value proposition for commitment, participation and support,” she said.
Director, Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Telangana, N.R. Visalatchy outlined the efforts being made for preservation and excavation of monuments in the state.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Government Jobs, News, Overseas, Politics, Private Jobs
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy
Agartala : People who flee their countries due to genuine fear of persecution are refugees while those entering another country in search of employment or economic opportunities are infiltrators, the Tripura Governor said on Tuesday.
In a series of tweets on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft in Assam, Tathagata Roy said: “Only those who flee their countries because of genuine fear of persecution because of religion, ethnicity, political belief are refugees. People entering another country in search of employment or economic opportunities are not refugees. They are infiltrators.”
Roy, who came here on Tuesday evening from Kolkata, also said that those howling about the exclusion of people from the Assam NRC were advised to read the definition of the word ‘refugee’ given by UNHCR.
“Any old person crossing from his country to another is not a refugee.
“As per UNHCR definition, which, for some reason, is still not formally accepted by the Indian government, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists fleeing Bangladesh and Pakistan are refugees.
“Muslims entering India are not refugees because they faced no persecution in their home countries,” said Roy, a former President of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal.
Over 40 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants have been excluded from Assam’s draft NRC released on Monday, sparking concerns about their future.
—IANS
