India is among the few countries in the world where the employers are optimistic of making new recruitments during this financial year's second quarter while the United States plans to tone down its hiring activity, a survey shows.
While the gap is likely to drop by up to 21 per cent in 2008 from the levels seen in 2006, it is still high enough to keep India's competitive edge as a low-cost market, says a white paper by leading executive search firm Manpower.
Even as one bench of the Delhi High Court is for increasing the manpower of Delhi Police to segregate crime detection from law and order, another bench on Monday said the force is "overstaffed".
As the economy has crossed over 9 per cent growth, the industry is facing the supply constraint of trained manpower, resulting in higher wages.
With manpower supply improving, industry body NASSCOM said on Thursday wages of IT and BPO workers would see moderation beginning next year.
The GoM was apprised that as of now, the death rate is around 3.1 per cent while the recovery rate is more than 20 per cent, which is comparatively better than most of the countries and may be taken as a positive effect of the lockdown in the country, along with the cluster management and containment strategy.
They face two key challenges - manpower and capital. Sadly, these are not on the agenda for reform
The issue of the labour agreement came up during discussions between the Minister of State for External Affairs, E Ahamed and Oman's Minister of Manpower Juma bin Ali Al Juma in Muscat on Wednesday. The draft MoU include various measures for the welfare of Indian workers so as to check many labour-related problems.
'It is not the chief minister who would have rung up and told the local police station to botch up the case.' 'No chief minister or chief secretary or DGP would like a case like this happening in their state.'
Kiran Dighavkar, assistant commissioner of the G North ward of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the civic body had to change its traditional approach of waiting for patients, contact tracing, isolation and home quarantine to begin proactive screening instead.
Frankfinn Aviation Services Pvt Ltd on Thursday said it will start a low-cost airline by 2009
Apart from fulfilling banking services, one can access more than 100 e-commerce sites, book tickets, and even pay for small value groceries through the app. The bank is now proposing to allow other banks to use this to serve their own customers.
Managers need to find news ways to train, retain and compensate staff.
India's employers are predicting yet another hiring frenzy in 2007. But will workers see bigger paychecks
For instance, the size of a central ministry's annual outlay should ideally be a key factor in determining the number of people who need to be employed by it.
Just 5 departments account for about 88 per cent of the Union government's civilian employees. A leaner bureaucracy will help Modi keep his promise of maximum governance with minimum government, says A K Bhattacharya.
The chief minister said the Delhi government was implementing from November 19 its decision to reserve 80 per cent of ICU beds in private hospitals for COVID-19 patients.
'We must look at the entire question of military preparedness anew, taking into account the new realities,' says Vice Admiral Premvir Das (retd).
The PM said there was a need to 'fight' rumours that the lockdown could be reimposed.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that bringing in resolutions against the Citizenship Amendment Act is more of a "political gesture" by the states as they hardly have any role in granting citizenships. The lawmaker said that in the implementation of the National Population Register and the proposed nationwide NRC, the states will have a vital part as it will be their officials who will conduct the exercise because the Centre doesn't have the required manpower.
Manpower, a recruitment firm, is hiring Technical Support Officers, Technical Support Officers and Phone Bankers for US, UK and Australian processes.
'Mucor is an environmental fungus, and it's much more prevalent in hot and humid areas.' 'The amount of fungus in the air is much higher in India than some other parts of the world.'
Given the importance of equipment modernisation, the overall defence budget should rise at least at the same pace as salaries and pensions, so that equipment modernisation is not hit.
As Covid-19 cases surge in India, companies have realised it's a tightrope walk between maintaining production and ensuring employee safety.
The impact of a 'dengue-COVID-19' season would entail two different diagnostic tests and extract a huge toll on patients too, each disease making the other more complicated to deal with and perhaps more fatal.
Income Tax officials plan strikes, stoppage of searches and surveys if their demands on vacant positions, infra aren't met.
Before migrating into the theatre command concept, it would be worthwhile to study the shortfalls experienced by the Tri Services Command in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and make good the deficiencies, suggests Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Manpower Services India is recruiting Customer Support Professionals, Data Associates, Technical Support Agents and Senior Executives for its ITeS Division.
'We are training people to learn AI, machine learning, robotics; it is just new programmes that teach them new things and the raw material, the people, are eager to learn.'
As India rides high on the current global outsourcing wave, experts warn it may not be entirely smooth sailing for the industry in the near future.
Till the lockdown was imposed in March, more than 200 Zee staffers had spent over 2,500 hours across 28 regions in Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to understand the audiences. The effort paid off, again and again.
For both India and China, the most likely option -- and the most challenging -- appears to be a freezing of the status quo.
Although the hiring forecast has softened by about 13 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2005, it is still likely to stay the strongest of the 23 countries that the survey covers.
The CDS will have a significant role in higher defence planning and operational aspects of India's nuclear arsenal.
Indian employers are second most likely to hire more employees in the world after Japan in the second quarter of 2006, according to a survey by global recruitment consultancy firm Manpower.
Leading information technology services company Tata Consultancy Services would add a net of 13,500 people this year, chief executive officer and managing director S Ramadorai said on Saturday.
Manpower ITeS is looking out for Customer Support Professionals, Voice-cum-Data Associates and Technical Support Officers for its call centre and BPO clients.
The operationalisation of the Air India Transport Services Limited, which would carry out ground handling activities, and Air India Engineering Services Limited that would be responsible for maintenance, repair and overhaul activities, would slash Air India's aircraft to manpower ratio by more than half.
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