Dr Dipankar Dutta will answer your questions related to preparing for a career in engineering or technology.
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh has indicated that offers given to freshers will be honoured by the company and followed with joining, although there has been some change in dates. The comments of Infosys top honcho assumes significance amid reports that the company has delayed onboarding of 2,000 fresh engineering graduates from 2022-batch.
About 640,000 professionals were employed in the domestic market and 23,24,000 in outside the country.
Unique benefits, work-life balance, and fair share of profits were the top three areas where MNCs fared better over Indian companies
The booming ITES-BPO industry, faced with shortage of talent and high attrition, is trying to now attract under graduates.
Domestic IT and ITeS market is likely to reach Rs 1,10,000 crore mark in 2008, as revealed in a study.
The IT and ITes sector will contribute to seven per cent of the country's GDP by 2007-08 from 4.8 per cent in 2005-06, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
The IT and ITeS sectors expect a reduction in minimum alternate tax (MAT) and dividend distribution tax in the next month's Union Budget, a senior economist said on Tuesday.
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on April 26 Sunder Ramachandran of WCH Training Solutions guided them on how best they can improve their employability skills to get meaningful employment in the IT/ITES sector. Here is the unedited chat transcript.
The Indian information technology and related services industry is predicted to become a $100 billion plus industry by 2011, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 18 per cent, states an IDC report.
Every rupee spent by the IT-ITeS sector (on domestically-sourced goods and services) translates into a total output of Rs 2 in the economy.
'80% of start ups fail because they don't have a support system to help them in the very early phase.' 'It's not just an idea that takes an entrepreneur through the initial three years of journey.' 'What plays a definitive role in making a start-up successful is idea+team+capital+mentors+access to a larger ecosystem.'
According to IDC report 'India Domestic IT/ITeS Market Top 10 Predictions for 2009', the country's IT/ITeS market growth rate is expected to fall to 16.4 per cent in the coming five years till 2013 from an average of 24.3 per cent during 2003-08. This slower rate of growth will see enhanced competition leading to a rapidly changing strategy and continuous market re-alignment on the part of players, IDC said in a statement.
Indian IT-enabled services companies can attain high profitability in the long term and growth of such services will be highly sustainable, according to report by CRIS INFAC, subsidiary of CRISIL.
They remain a popular choice for the young generation and offer numerous job opportunities for graduates from various backgrounds.
Genpact has been ranked India's best third party ITES-BPO company, followed by WNS Global Services at the second spot and Transworks Information Services taking the third slot.
... and there is no stopping its pan-Islamic agenda, cautions Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
R Karthik Shekhar took the lead to float the Union for Information and Technology Enabled Services in September 2005.
Out of 24,230 IIT and NIT grads, about 8,000 students didn't find any takers during campus placement drives this year.
The Rs 10,000-crore (Rs 100 billion) Hero group on Thursday spun off its IT-enabled services unit into an independent company to facilitate the division's initial public offering and acquisition plans.
Tech giant Microsoft regained the top spot in the list of best employers to work for in India in 2024, followed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Amazon, according to a Randstad Employer Brand Research report released on Wednesday. Microsoft had topped the list in 2022, but slipped to fifth in 2023. The 2024 list is based on responses from 3,507 people.
IT companies are dependant on headcount for their revenues and fringe benefits forms a part of the compensation payable to employees.
Companies wanted continued fiscal support from the government in form of extension of the provisions of section 10 A/10 B of the Income Tax Act 1961, according to the results of the study released on Friday. The income tax holiday under sections 10 A/10 B are set to expire on March 31, 2010.
A survey of more than a 1,000 plus salaried IT/ITES taxpayers from Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad has revealed interesting facts about how they plan their taxes, medical insurance, life insurance and investments.
The company, which serves financial services, telecom and white goods verticals and has overseas presence including offices in US and UK, is also looking at entry into newer verticals besides going public soon. \n\n
Buoyed by growth in exports and strong domestic demand, the Indian IT-ITeS industry has recorded $39.6 billion in revenues in 2006-07, up 30.7 per cent against a projected growth of 27 per cent, according to Nasscom.
Information technology and IT-enabled Services will continue to drive the employment generation in the country for the quarter July-September 2005, according to a Ma Foi Employment Survey.
While Nibin Maxwell, from Kollam in Kerala, was killed in the attack, two other Keralites -- Bush Joseph George and Paul Melvin -- were injured and are hospitalised.
The Indian Embassy in Israel issued an advisory on Tuesday, urging its nationals to move to safer areas in the country, a day after a missile fired from Lebanon killed one Indian and injured two others.
White-collar hiring witnessed an 8.6 per cent annual decline in September, following a negative trend in sectors including IT, BPO or ITES and FMCG, a report said on Monday. On a month-on-month basis, however, there has been a growth of almost 6 per cent in job postings. In September, there were 2,835 white-collar job postings, down by 8.6 per cent compared to the same month last year when 3,103 jobs were posted, according to Naukri.com's monthly 'Naukri JobSpeak Index'.
India's value proposition and overall shift towards offshore information technology and IT-enabled services will lead to an annual growth rate of 35 per cent in the sector.
The recent 'revelation' by TN fishers freed by Sri Lanka after they had paid up Lankan rupees 50,000 each in fines, that their hair was tonsured in prison and they were forced to remove their garments other than the underpants, and were also made to clean toilets, as if with vengeance, has touched a raw nerve this time, just as another issue or issues had done it ahead of the Jallikattu protests, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
As much as 86.64 per cent of Mumbai's population has developed antibodies against coronavirus as per the latest sero-survey, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) claimed on Friday.
'These companies hired in high numbers last year and are balancing that out this year by recruiting fewer freshers.'
