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

Are engineering students being fooled by IT firms?

"Infosys, TCS or Wipro! Somehow I need to have a placement in any of these IT companies," voiced over 400 students, who took admission in a Chennai-based engineering college in 2005. Among all those voices, was a frail, but a determined voice of Raman Sharma, a boy from Chhattisgarh, who studied day and night to get admission in this college. Dressed in white shirt, black pant and leather sandal on the first day of his fourth-year engineering course, Raman thought that he had crossed the firs...
Published about 26-11-2009 | Rated 0

5 Things You Can do to Avoid Payroll Mistakes

Besides fines and angry employees, you also want to avoid penalties placed by the government because of mistakes made on your payroll taxes. Unless you outsource your payroll to a payroll service, like a professional employment organization or hire a properly trained payroll person to do your payroll and payroll taxes there are bound to be a couple mistakes. Here are five things you can do to avoid payroll mistakes. 1. Ensure Direct Deposit Info Is Entered In Correctly Are all of your employe...
Published about 25-11-2009 | Rated 0

Top 3 Tips For Hiring in a Soft Economy

Everyone knows we are in the midst of a pretty soft economy. It is not yet clear here in March of 2009 how long it will last. Most bets are it will be a long time. This means a lot of things to business people but it particularly impacts hiring...if you are lucky enough to do any hiring. Pure and simple, a bad hire can put you out of business. Here are 3 tips that help you hire right in a bad economy. Tip 1 - Define Success in Increments This means you need to define what success means in a ...
Published about 25-11-2009 | Rated 0

Top aviation firms to generate 6 Lakh jobs in India

Bangalore: As top aviation companies such as Boeing and Airbus intensify efforts to leverage India as their maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) hub, experts say it will create a large number of jobs for skilled professionals in the country over next 10 years. "With the current fleet size expected to reach 612 planes by 2015 from around 391 currently, these MROs are expected to create 6,00,000 jobs within the next 10 years," said Chethan Kambi, Senior Research Analyst for Aerospace and Defe...
Published about 24-11-2009 | Rated 0