Top Ten Recruiting Tips

Finding the best possible people who can fit within your culture and contribute within your organization is a challenge and an opportunity. Keeping the best people, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. These specific actions will help you with recruiting and retaining all the talent you need. Here are ten tips for better recruiting. Improve Your Candidate Pool When Recruiting Employees Companies that select new employees from the candidates who walk in their door o...
Published about 30-11-2009 | Rated 0

Parag Patankar appointed as MD and CEO of 3i Infotech BPO

Mumbai: Global technology solutions and services provider, 3i Infotech, has appointed Parag Patankar as Managing Director and CEO for its BPO sector. "With his deep knowledge of BFSI industry coupled with his long experience in technology and operations relating to BFSI, Parag will be able to add immense value to 3i Infotech BPO," said 3i Infotech Managing Director and CEO, V Srinivasan. Prior to this, Patankar was working as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations and Technology Off...
Published about 29-11-2009 | Rated 0

Lay-offs fine, downturn should not be the excuse

Mumbai: Layoffs are an inevitable aspect of the corporate world, especially in recession. But a poor economy should not be an excuse to cut jobs, says NR Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys. "In today`s economic downturn, the challenge lies in having the courage to set an example that responsible profitability is a realistic achievement. And by using data to demonstrate that it is possible to preserve jobs in an economic downturn, while innovating to increase profits, productivity and effic...
Published about 29-11-2009 | Rated 0

Consortium of HR professionals launched

Bangalore: The Consortium of HR Professionals (CHRP) is an exclusive association of HR Professionals for HR people worldwide that was officially launched yesterday. On this occasion, CHRP organized a program on `Personal Branding Positioning Yourself in Your Career.` The program delineated the positioning of an individual in their career planning and advancement and was attended by delegates from the HR sector as well as other domains. Some of the prominent luminaries who were part of this im...
Published about 29-11-2009 | Rated 0

To be recruited for a high position? Ask for a car

Bangalore: After an extensive job search, multiple interviews and job offers, most people make the decision to join a company based purely on the salary they are offered. However, every company provides employees some kind of perks. Hence it is important to understand that there are other factors that you have to consider before taking up a new job, reports iDiva. Here are some important criteria that you need to look at before you make your selection: The reputation: Make sure you select ...
Published about 29-11-2009 | Rated 0

Indian IT firms back to their hiring ways

Indian IT service firms are looking to throw open their gates yet again to prospective employees as the gloom of the global recession lifts from the $60 billion industry and demand for outsourcing services improves. This is in stark contrast to the scenario a few months back when most of them had frozen salaries, promotions and, in some cases, saw their first ever declines in quarterly headcount additions. The sector, which employs more than 2 million people, has been one of the biggest ...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0

India needs 500 Million skilled workers by 2022

India needs about 500 million (50 crore) of cummulative skilled manpower by 2022, of which Maharashtra alone needs 50 million (five crore), a senior Maharashtra government official said. "The country needs about 50 crore of skilled manpower but there is a huge gap today. Presently, India has a training capacity of only 30 lakh people and the need of the hour is aggressive vocational training," said J S Saharia, Principal Secretary, Department of Higher and Technical Education. The department...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0

Raining job offers in India, over 5 lakh join in Q2

Shrugging off the effects of slowdown, the Indian economy is creating job opportunities. The government data shows that sectors such as textiles, automobiles, and IT/BPO, among others, generated around five lakh jobs in the July-September quarter this fiscal. As reported by Economic Times, the public sector banks are getting ready to spread the cheer as they embark on a large-scale recruitment drive in a bid to replace their estimated 40 percent of their workforce that retires over the next ...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0

Infosys may hire 20,000 people next year

Infosys Technologies may hire around 20,000 people at a gross level for the fiscal starting April 1, 2010. However, the number of freshers to be hired in 2010-11 would be lower than this year, which saw 16,000 campus recruits. During 2010-11, the company plans to visit fewer colleges as compared to 600 this year. "In the current fiscal, we have said that we would be hiring around 20,000. Assuming reasonable growth rates and an attrition rate of 10 percent, we think we would need a similar num...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0

Mahindra Satyam to appoint 1,000 freshers

IT firm Mahindra Satyam plans to appoint 1,000 freshers by December 15, a top company official said. "The process is on and we will give appointment letters to 1,000 freshers out of the 8,000 selected during campus recruitment by December 15," Mahindra Satyam`s Chief People Officer Hari Thalapalli said. He, however, said that the company might not call all of the remaining 7,000, who got selected during campus recruitment, reports PTI. Asked if employees at Mahindra Satyam have been give...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0