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.
The top four countries account for 60.3% of the total worldwide HNWI population.
Growing protectionism in their main markets - the US and the UK - has forced them to hire local workers, upending the cost arbitrage model they had built their business on.
At the end of June, 2016, TCS had a total headcount of 3.62 lakh.
Today, however, the major six IT MNCs alone -- IBM, Accenture, Capgemini, EDS, HP and ACS -- account for over 9 per cent of the Indian IT-BPO workforce. Overall, MNCs in India account for an estimated 14-15 per cent of the Indian IT workforce.
Renu Rajani, VP, Capgemini India tells us why it is important for young professionals to make the most of opportunities at hand and not be scared of failures.
Global IT companies will add around 1.08 lakh employees in India by 2010, by increasing the headcount to 2.73 lakh. This would be a 65.25 per cent increase from the 1.65 lakh employed by the end of 2007.
Top five vendors captured more than 50% of the total contract value.
Last year, there was almost 16 per cent increase in hiring by the Global Capability Centres in India.
When the Indian brunost bravely ventured into the international cheese arena in Spain, along with 4,000 others from 45 countries, before 230 judges, its sterling desi pedigree spoke for itself, winning a silver in the brown cheese category and giving India a berth on the global cheese map.
Some 500,000 people joined the ranks of the world's millionaires in 2003 thanks to a roaring stock market and strong economic conditions, a survey showed Tuesday.
Real estate developers are banking high on ultra-luxury projects.
The placement season has brought in positive cheer for students at the IIT Kharagpur this year.
Meanwhile, family businesses in India still see banks as their chief source of funding as nine out of 10 respondents were upbeat about bank financing.
Can the country afford to have problems of such magnitude in the cities of Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, which not only are the major growth drivers but are also the biggest revenue contributors in their respective states?
They were the source for entry-level recruitments in the IT industry before the job market crash.
Colleges are witnessing more offers, with better salary packages. Median salary packages offered have improved over last year.
A growing number of firms are putting in formal policy frameworks to tap into company alumni and facilitate the return of former employees, discovers Sangeeta Tanwar.
Nearly 150 companies visited the campus this year.
Analysts say IT major cleaning up act before new CEO takes over; regulator might take a year
Of the 3.9 million the sector employs, HR experts say at least 100,000 are likely to lose their jobs by the end of this financial year. Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan report.
The whistle-blower's letter to Sebi said future disclosures on any wrongdoing could potentially not be exposed if Infosys is let off the hook now.
5,565 contracts, valued at $201 billion are up for rebids across geographies and verticals by 2018.
Physical security for women, the first step towards getting them into factories and offices, is all but absent in most Indian cities, notes Kanika Datta.
'LinkedIn is supposed to be this super-connected social media network for professionals that I reluctantly joined at the persistence of a former colleague appalled at my lack of self-promotion.' 'Well, I'm out there and I don't know who knows me, but I do know that LinkedIn's algorithm definitely doesn't,' says Kanika Datta.
Collegepond.com, a career guidance company responds to student queries on international admissions.
The companies experienced a drop of 5,436 approved petitions (37 per cent) in 2016 as compared to previous year, a report by the National Foundation for American Policy, a Washington-based non-profit think-tank, said.
With Infosys reportedly increasing the pay packages of senior executives, including executive vice-presidents and a few vice-presidents, threefold, the Indian information technology (IT) services space might well get a new benchmark.
But Indian information technology workers might do better without the companies that held them back, says Mihir S Sharma.
Dept to focus on real estate, infra, mining and manufacturing to detect evasion.
People are not just splurging on clothes, mobiles and household goods through the online route, they are also looking at cars and even houses.
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