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, Markets, Social Media, Technology
London : Facebook has opened a new office in London and has announced that it would hire 800 people which will take the total strength of its employees in Britain to 2,300 workers by the end of 2018, the media reported on Monday.
The new seven-storey office building in central London will make the British capital Facebook’s largest computer engineering base outside of the US, The Telegraph reported.
“Today’s announcements show that Facebook is more committed than ever to the UK and in supporting the growth of the country’s innovative start-ups,” said Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Facebook opened its first office in London 10 years ago. The new building will house developers and sales staff.
Google, Apple and Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, have expanded their operations in London since the Brexit vote last year, the report added.
“It’s a sign of confidence in our country that innovative companies like Facebook invest here, and it’s terrific news that they will be hiring 800 more highly skilled workers next year,” Chancellor Philip Hammond said.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Government Jobs, News, Politics, Private Jobs
R.V. Deshpande
Bengaluru : Karnataka has created about 13.91 lakh jobs in the last four years and is close to achieving the state government’s target of generating 15 lakh jobs by 2019, state Large and Medium Industries Minister R.V. Deshpande said on Thursday.
“In the past four years, Karnataka has generated about 12.03 lakh jobs in the micro, small and medium enterprises sector and about 1.88 lakh jobs in the large industries sector. Another 5.79 lakh jobs are in the pipeline,” he said at the Vendor Development and Investors Summit 2017 being held here.
The state aims to create more jobs in “every possible” way, he added.
Terming Karnataka as one of the “fastest growing” states in India, Deshpande said: “People- centric transparent policies and hassle-free investment procedures are making the state as a global investment and manufacturing hub.”
The state is also working to become home to the world’s largest solar park, currently being constructed in Pavagada in Tumkur district. The 13,000-acres Pavagada Solar Park is expected to generate about 2,700 MW electricity by 2018.
“Karnataka has been the leader in providing conducive policy environment for the industries and in investing in technology and centres of excellence. We are the only state in the country to have a sector specific aerospace policy,” Deshpande, who also holds the Infrastructure Development portfolio, told investors and vendors at the summit’s inaugural event.
The entrepreneurs of Karnataka have an opportunity to create many jobs, said Biocon Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
“In times of jobless growth, the entrepreneurs of Karnataka have the opportunity to create a large number of jobs. We are the start-up capital of the country. We have been successful in creating new age jobs,” she said.
Leading Swedish home furnishings retailer IKEA, which is planning to set up its third store in the country in Bengaluru, after Hyderabad and Mumbai, is working to employ more workers and suppliers from the state, said IKEA India CEO Peter Betzel.
“The Bengaluru store will directly employ 800 people out of which 50 per cent will be women. We are keen to open three stores in the city in the near future.
“We have had close to 50 suppliers for over 40 years in Karnataka, with 45,000 people working in the supply chain. We are looking to source more from India, especially Karnataka,” he added.
T. Suvarna Raju, Managing Director of state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, said that the city-based aerospace and defence company plans to make 1,000 helicopters in the next decade.
“We have the highest expectation from vendors for the large volumes of aircraft to be produced. In a milestone, a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was fired successfully (from a fighter aircraft) on Wednesday. Many partners from Bengaluru have made many parts of this 2,500 kg missile,” he said.
The two-day summit which began on Thursday is expected to witness the participation of over 2,000 industry leaders, over 600 MSMEs in sectors such as agriculture and food processing, innovation and manufacturing start-ups, aerospace and defence equipment among others.
The event will also host seminars on growth opportunities and trends in the industry sectors.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, News, Overseas
Guwahati : The Assam government on Wednesday signed MoUs with its Singapore counterpart for skilling over 78,000 rural youths in the state by 2019 and greening Guwahati.
The Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and Terms of Reference (ToR) for setting up the North East Skills Centre (NESC) and Greening Guwahati City was inked in the presence of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at the Administrative Staff College here.
The MoU and ToR for NESC was signed between Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship Department and ITE Education Service of Singapore. The NESC will train up to 400 students each year.
The MoU for Guwahati city’s greening was inked between the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority and Singapore Corporation Enterprise.
“The Assam government aims to create a workforce empowered with upgraded skills, knowledge and internationally recognised qualifications to gain access to employment and ensure India’s competitiveness in the dynamic global market with support from government of Singapore,” Sonowal said at the event.
The skill development training will be imparted to 78,500 poor rural youths during 2016-19 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana.
Sonowal said an innovative project — Guwahati Open Space and Park Integrator Network — for the beautification of Guwahati and improvement of quality of life of its inhabitants had been initated.
The Chief Minister highlighted the state’s natural resources and tourism potential and sought the Singapore government’s cooperation for showcasing it to a global audience.
The Singapore Minister said the joint endeavour will mark the beginning of a lasting friendship, beneficial for both Assam and Singapore.
—IANS
