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India Inc is upbeat about the business outlook for the January-March quarter but will play it safe when it comes to hiring new staff, with most job openings likely to be at entry and junior levels in smaller cities, according to a new study.
The attrition today stand at 17.24 points, according to the Employment Outlook Report for the January-March quarter of 2011 brought out by the TeamLease Services Private Limited, India's largest staffing company.
According to the quarterly report, hiring sentiment saw a marginal improvement with the employment outlook index for the January to March quarter standing at 47 index points, one per cent higher than the previous quarter.
SEZs account for just about a third of India's merchandise exports (and roughly the same proportion of services exports). Yet, the notion of creating global manufacturing centres of the kind that propelled China to superpowerdom retains a durable appeal within the Indian policy-making establishment, notes Kanika Datta.
A conducive labour situation could also help push the nation's per capita income to a $4,100 (around Rs 1,87,554 at an exchange rate of Rs 45.74 per dollar) by 2025, according to the 'India Labour Report 2009', released in partnership with IIJT Education.
Staffing organisation TeamLease Sevices recently conducted a survey across several Indian cities to decipher gender preferences in the workplace. Here are their findings.
Backed by technology banks are expanding the branch network - and adding more to the workforce.
According to the study, the corporate space would witness a gradual but sure advent of aggressive hiring in the first quarter of FY 2010-11.
Bangalore and Hyderabad have seen the highest attrition rates in the country. During the past year, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai had higher attrition rates than other cities. In Bangalore, ITeS lead in employment growth and it was followed by the health sector. On the other hand, financial services sector saw a negative growth in the city.
Job portals like Monster.com and Naukri.com affirmed the observation.
The Temp Salary Primer 2009 noted that over the past few years 'hyperinflation' in employee costs made India a difficult place for entrepreneurship to bloom. This has fillipped broadbased hiring in the temp industry over the past year, besides rewards for skills. However, the temp industry has witnessed deceleration in wage growth since January this year. Another unexpected development is the shattering of the belief that temp hiring sees a spike during an economic slowdown.
Blunders in CVs are common, and poor language skills are only a part of the problem.
'You can't take jobs to people, you have to take people to jobs.'
Kolkata tops the list of Indian cities when it comes to the employment outlook index. It has bounced back after the last quarter, when there was a sharp decline of 41 points on the index compared to the October-December quarter of 2008-09, which saw a dip of 69 index points on the back of Tata Motors' decision to pull out its Nano project from Singur. While infrastructure and financial services were the worst hit, retail, media and FMCG contributed the most towards growth.
The salaries of temporary and permanent staff is starting to converge, at least in some sectors. This has had a positive impact on the attitude of the people towards temping which had till now not been considered by many as respectable, primarily due to the variance in the salaries, according to the Annual Temp Salary Primer 2008 by TeamLease Services.
Retail, logistic, educational services and fast moving consumer goods and durables alone will add around 1.66 lakh, 1.49 lakh, 1.17 lakh and 1.10 lakh jobs respectively.
When it comes to being the big boss, the male gender continues to be the preferred species compared to a female counterpart calling the shots, according to a recent survey on 'Gender Preferences in Bosses'.\n\n
Global companies, e-commerce platforms and software product firms all want skilled digital workers.
As the country launches itself on a higher growth trajectory but with rising unemployment, a report says that unemployability is a bigger crisis than unemployment. "About 53 per cent of employed youth suffer some degree of skill deprivation while only 8 per cent of youth are unemployed," says India Labour Report 2007.
A slowdown in the global economy and the rupee appreciation are expected to hit India Inc's job recruitment plans as the country's employment outlook dipped by six points to 74 points in the April-June 2008 quarter. The business outlook dropped by 9 per cent to 70 points, according to staffing agency TeamLease Services' quarterly Employment Outlook Report.
All in kind! Gujarat's model of employee benefits, as seen in the state's family-owned businesses, retains talent with a human touch.
Around 55.7 per cent of the workers had no qualms in fudging their cost details and almost 61 per cent felt that it is fine to take printouts and photocopies in offices for personal work, says a survey by TeamLease Services.
The report suggests a two percentage point increase in net employment from 82 per cent in April-June 2007 to 84 per cent in the current quarter.
According to draft Code on Social Security, 2019, gig and platform workers will be entitled to life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits, among others.
The net employment outlook index points of 78 per cent down six per cent over the last quarter and net business outlook of 81 per cent for the quarter beginning October is the lowest among all the four quarters in the current calendar year, a report by temp staffing company TeamLease said.
Lower cost and easier termination may well be among the reasons that companies seek to have employees on contract. The share of employees on contract has increased to 57.3 per cent of the total workforce this year as compared to 53.7 per cent in the previous year.
Temporary jobs are fast becoming employers' favourite in cities like Delhi and Mumbai while the gap between salary levels of 'temps' and permanent employees has also narrowed down, a new survey has revealed.
Galloping growth triggered mass hiring and salarys levels soared in its wake.
'The Indian State needs to focus on healthcare, education, infrastructure and law and order, and get out of all these regulatory cholesterols.' 'Then, India will fly.'
Assume the worst regarding how long your unemployment could last and make conserving cash your topmost priority, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Squeezing growth prospects in IT services firms and higher compensation in technology centres run by global companies are the two factors driving this trend.
The government is considering allowing foreign institutional investor investment in Indian news channels and would not touch the 26 per cent sectoral cap.
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