But MNCs like IBM, Accenture, CSC and HP likely to get affected more.
Professionals with erratic incomes need to make lump sum decisions in terms of buying insurance and investing.
The survey confirmed that companies were shifting their focus away from cost control and returning to growth.
Hitesh Agarwal spells out his reasons for getting into a B-school and tells you how to prepare for it
India and China's young working population has emerged as the world's most intensive users of corporate technology practices.
Spammers are now devising innovative methods to abuse and cheat online users.
Elliott Capital's letter to Cognizant, detailing how the latter can reinvent itself, has many lessons for its India-listed peers like TCS and Infosys, says Akash Prakash.
Prominent recruiters were Flipkart, Urban Ladder, AskmeBazaar etc
Right now Infosys is somewhat on the up.
'Jobs openings are scarce, but these companies are either hiring or laying off relatively few workers,' Forbes said. The magazine noted that technology and service firms dominate the 'list of job creators.' These firms are among the world's 2000 biggest companies compiled by Forbes and the league is topped by American industrial conglomerate General Electric. It also includes 47 Indian entities.
TCS, Infy, Wipro among those that have bagged a five-year deal.
The Fortune's 40 under 40 list for this year was topped by Adam Neuman, Co-founder and CEO, WeWork.
Pricing pressure in traditional technology services and slow growth in emerging technologies may turn out to be the spoiler for Indian infotech companies, says Ayan Pramanik.
Indian women business professionals were more confident of their career in a downturn, were willing to ask for a pay rise and promotion, compared to their global counterpart, but were reluctant compared to their Indian male counterparts when it came to relocating themselves to advance their career and travelling globally.
As nations across the world make reshaping the financial services industry a key priority in their efforts to put the global economy back on track, they are likely to take a leaf out of the regulatory models of countries like India, an Accenture report has said.
Tech-driven skills will be in demand in the post pandemic era, alerts Sonya Hooja, COO and co-founder, Imarticus Learning.
Indian students are worried that the economy's current instability may adversely affect their job prospects, according to a study by global management consultancy Accenture.
The highest salary rose by 14.22 per cent from last year.
Marquee recruiters made premium offers, with consulting leading the pack by making 25.04% of the offers, followed by IT/ITeS (18.59%), e-commerce (10.55%) and BFSI (10.13%).
'After some time, they all want to know what is happening in their companies.' 'It is better they remain board members rather than talk outside.'
Low-cost carrier Deccan and Vijay Mallya-led Kingfisher Airlines on Wednesday decided to merge and create a single corporate entity to cut down operational costs and accelerate their journey to profitability.
WNS Global Services, India's second largest business processes outsourcing company, has signed on Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga as its brand ambassador. It has thus become the first Indian IT services firm to have a brand ambassador. Accenture, a multinational company, is another one that has ace golf player Tiger Woods as its mascot.
Ian Poulter broke his American duck when he outplayed fellow Briton Paul Casey 4&2 to win the Accenture Match Play Championship at Dove Mountain on Sunday.
Tata Consultancy Services has been named as one of the world's top BPO providers by The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals for 2006, a release said in Mumbai.
Accenture announces opportunities for experienced professionals.
In India to take part in a board meeting, Martin Sorrell, chief executive officer of WPP, spoke to Alokananda Chakraborty on a wide range of subjects.
Decline in hiring is not a surprise and is consistent with slowdown in growth rates and efforts of Indian IT to drive up productivity, says the report
5,565 contracts, valued at $201 billion are up for rebids across geographies and verticals by 2018.
The board of Deccan Aviation, India's largest budget carrier, will meet in Bangalore on Wednesday to consider the merger with the UB Group's Kingfisher Airlines, which bought a stake in the carrier recently.
Geoff Ogilvy enhanced his status in the game by clinching his sixth PGA Tour title with a commanding 4&3 victory over Britain's Paul Casey in Sunday's final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
A day after his hotly anticipated return to the PGA Tour Tiger Woods made a premature exit from the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship after being upset 4 and 2 by South African Tim Clark on Thursday. The top seed and defending champion, who had been sidelined by a knee injury after winning his 14th major title at the US Open in June, surrendered an early one-hole advantage in the second round before losing on the 16th green.
Tiger Woods ended his eight-month absence from the PGA Tour in triumphant style by beating Australian Brendan Jones 3&2 at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona on Wednesday. The American world number one, sidelined by injury since his US Open victory last June, launched his title defence with a birdie at the opening hole before sealing the win on the 16th.
The skill base growth of Chinese IT professionals is also very limited and largely focussed on modern language skills such as J2EE.
In a clear sign of how global recession has affected placements, Day 2 of the Slot Zero at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad saw consulting firms emerge as the clear favourite over the traditionally-preferred investment banks.
Gujarat may have missed the IT/ITES bus earlier, but the two upcoming IT/ITES SEZs by K Raheja Corp and DLF are all set to drive the growth of the industry here. As many as 50 companies are likely to set up shops in the two parks coming up in Gandhinagar.
Infosys is binding its employees with a contract that forbids them from joining the company's customers and competitors when they quit. Is this fair?
The average stipend on campus zoomed 25 per cent as compared to last year. Accenture Business Consulting and Boston Analytics offered the highest domestic stipend at Summer Placements 2008 - Rs 50,000 per month.
"The cumulative total contract value of human resources outsourcing (HRO) transactions reached $ 21.2 billion in 2006 and is expected to be $25.4 billion by the end of this year," according to the study by the Everest Research Institute. Accenture, Convergys and IBM have gained significant HRO market share in terms of total contract value while Hewitt remains the market leader in terms of annual contract value, the study notes.
The denial rate jumped from 4% to 41% for Tech Mahindra, from 6% to 34% for TCS, from 7% to 53% for Wipro and from just 2% to 45% for Infosys.
Swede Henrik Stenson squandered an early four-hole lead before holding off Trevor Immelman to win a marathon encounter in Thursday's second round at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
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