Female corporate leaders more risk aversive than male?

More and more women in the corporate space are paving the way for superior leadership roles with firms realizing that the fairer sex are more risk-aversive and focused on long-term interests than their male peers. According to a survey conducted by KPMG in partnership with `Forum for Women in Leadership` (WILL Forum), companies have agreed that women bring substantive diversity to company boards in terms of their composition, skill sets and experiences. The findings indicate that, a higher de...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

Aspiring for an IT job? Peanuts is what you will be paid

One may boast of being employed in IT in the current scene, however they have to work twice as much for getting an interview and the annual salary is peanuts compared to earlier days. A worsening economic crisis, increased availability of skilled workers and lower demand for software services have brought down the entry-level salaries for IT professionals in the country by up to 20 percent, according to experts tracking the sector. Every year, around 3,00,000 computer science and engineer...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

Blue chip firms make appointments to hire at IIMs

Blue Chip companies have already made appointments in advance for the recruiting season four months away in Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which is the first in IIMs to hold summer placements. Day Zero for the first year students of the 2009-11 batch saw blue-chip recruiters like i-banks, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Barclays, JP Morgan, Nomura, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, and consultants like McKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group and Bain returning to the IIM-A ...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

Patni to bring 2007-08 campus recruits on-board

Software exporter Patni Computer Systems expects to complete the process of bringing on-board the campus recruits of 2007-08 latest by March next year. Rajesh Padmanabhan, Executive Vice-President and Global Head of Human Resources, Patni, said that the company had never frozen its hiring programme, despite being hit by the economic slowdown. As reported by Business Line, the recruits have been waiting to join the Mumbai-based company ever since they passed out in June-July 2008. "Out of the...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

HCL Tech opens centre in Brazil, to hire 300 engineers by 2012

NEW DELHI: HCL Technologies said it has opened a global IT development centre in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, to cater to clients across Latin America, North America and Europe. The centre, which compliments HCL`s operations in Sao Paulo, is expected to hire over 300 engineers by 2012, HCL Technologies said in a statement. The centre will offer a range of services, including enterprise application services, custom applications development and maintenance, and remote infrastructure management to...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

What is Recruitment Processing Outsourcing (RPO)

Businesses have started outsourcing many different tasks these days. It seems like everything from human resources to technical support to billing can be outsources to another company, and if a business really wanted to, they might be able to outsource everything! Well, it may not be quite possible, but there are many different departments that can be outsourced, including recruitment activities. Recruitment processing outsourcing, or RPO, is the process of hiring an outside company to handle al...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

Five Steps to Successful Headhunting

In a candidate short market, talented individuals (the very people you need for your clients vacancies) tend to be sitting tight and very content in their jobs. More and more employers are recognizing the need to look after the people they want to keep in their business with plenty of perks, tie-ins and generous pay checks. As a recruiter, I have shunned the persistent calls from job boards peddling their resume databases. I understand that they have the largest number of resumes anywhere ...
Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0

Hire the Right Person

The million dollar question these past few months has been, "How do I attract and hire the right people in my practice?" The real kicker is that it has to be done now because a team member has left. Does this sound familiar? If you have ever been in this position, it feels very uncomfortable. Your thoughts begin to fill with fear and you wonder if you will ever find someone who will fit well into the position available. Rest assured these are normal feelings and you are not alone. Somewhere o...
Published about 22-11-2009 | Rated 0

3 Tips for Screening Candidates

Sorting Candidates In a slow job market, anyone who posts a job opening these days is sure to get swamped with resumes. I`ve heard stories of 500 resumes for a single customer service opening or receptionist position. So when you are swamped like that, how do your sort them to find the top 3-4 candidates without spending weeks reading each of them? Remember if you are more than 50 employees or do government contracting you have to comply with EEOC hiring practices, so you have to show your...
Published about 22-11-2009 | Rated 0

Recruitment Outsourcing

There are of course, certain reasons driving people to start outsourcing human resources abroad. One of the most obvious reasons lies in the low cost of recruitment. Recruitment outsourcing is also gaining popularity because it makes the whole process faster. Besides, outsourcing centers offer enhanced recruitment quality. The respondents presently delegate the recruitment operations, connected with background checks, sourcing, screening and testing, application tracking systems, and name genera...
Published about 22-11-2009 | Rated 0