Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Friday announced setting up of its second data centre region in India in Telangana that will be operational by mid-2022, and will see the tech giant investing about Rs 20,761 crore. While AWS did not comment on the investment detail, Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao tweeted that AWS will invest Rs 20,761 crore ($2.77 billion) to set up multiple data centres in the state.
Be brave to fail, learn, and lead, advises Abhilash R, founder and CEO, Bloombloom Dreambiz (P) Ltd and B-HUB Lifespaces.
Engineering graduates specialising in artificial intelligence and machine learning can earn up to 24 lakh a year, says Saran Balasundaram, founder and CEO, HanDigital, a talent consulting firm.
Damien Fleming termed Jasprit Bumrah as the 'x-factor' in the Indian bowling line-up
'30 to 40% of the industry needs to be reskilled as existing jobs will go to automation.' 'Reskilling is required as some existing jobs will not be required in the future.'
Starting afresh in a new domain or with a new employer or opting for entrepreneurship can be the brighter side of job loss.
The new rules will bring down people's mobility and as a result flexibility in scaling businesses
Adapting to the new hybrid normal of remote and office work, cautiously optimistic corporate are looking to hire more people and provide better appraisals in the new year as they step out of the pandemic-ravaged 2020. The coronavirus pandemic emerged as the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape. For the corporates, work-from-home and remote workers became the new normal and for the professionals, online learning and digital skills took centrestage.
You must learn to strategically set task priorities and set practical yet challenging deadlines for all your tasks, says Sarvesh Agrawal.
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Individuals who can understand data and go for data driven decisions making using their critical mind will be highly valued.
Experts at coding, Web development, and digital marketing, will be on every organisation's hiring list, points out Narayan Mahadevan.
The ability to collaborate with your team and unlock synergies towards a common goal while operating from a remote location is one of the top and evergreen skills you can highlight on your resume.
Employers are now looking to hire professionals who can demonstrate their skills rather than reel off a catalogue of undirected theoretical qualifications.
'The focus for IT companies will shift from adding scale to building a smaller, more specialised, talent pool with specific domain expertise,' says Shyamal Majumdar.
Speculation is rife that the number could go as high as 2,000.
'No one realises that people with 90 days waiting period are shopping around which naturally increases the cost of hiring.'
N Ganapathy Subramaniam, chief operating officer (COO), discusses the strategy to concert digital opportunities to larger deals, focus on reskilling own people instead of acquiring a company to get access to skillsets and demand from newer verticals in an interview with Romita Majumdar
Millennials crave career progression, though 66 per cent are under-prepared, reveals Monster's 'MyFirstJob' survey.
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'The faster you accept it, the faster you start running and the sooner you will reach your destination -- your next role.'
Infosys is planning to hire the first 500 within two years.
In an effort to enhance communication skills of the umpires, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, as part of the Umpire Development Program has decided to host an English language upskilling course.
If you keep asking for a raise, your employer will feel that you are here because of the money, and the company doesn't matter to you.
A new motivation needs to spread through the existing ranks to upskill and reskill themselves in the 55 new job roles for digital, says Ganesh Natarajan.
We must work in the direction of an innovation and technology driven economy which could boost up creation of jobs and open advanced and newer avenues of employment within the country.
Disparity in India during last six years, senior managers have been paid 11.7 times more than their lower level workers
'Many who have experimented with online education will adopt a blended model once things return to normal,' edX CEO and founder Anant Agrawal tells Anjuli Bhargava.
'It could take 12 months or more for hiring to get back on track.' 'New opportunities would come up and there will be demand for skillsets that can help dealing with the current situation.'
If you want to grow in your career you should be open to learning, have problem solving skills and be a team player, says Shrutidhar Paliwal.
While Norway tops the list, India's ranking is the lowest among BRICS economies
Indian IT workers accounted for nearly 90 per cent of visas issued under the intra-company transfer route
The initiative, whose founding partners also include Accenture, CA Technologies, Cisco, Cognizant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Pegasystems, PwC, Salesforce and SAP, aims to bring competitive training content together on one platform to serve the greater good.
Even though North America still accounts for 60 per cent of Infosys's revenue, the company is starting to see good growth in Europe, which contributes around 25 per cent to the company's top line. Even Australia also has emerged to be a strategically important market, with a contribution of 10 per cent to the overall revenues.
Finding an increasing pool of professionals being dismissed, start-ups and others are improvising to offer emotional support and career guidance.
Jargon-heavy management bluster is taking over everyday office chat.
"Protectionism is not new. The attention that is given is because there is a political and emotional element to it." TCS COO N G Subramaniam on why his company is optimistic despite global headwinds.
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New rules are expected to make it tougher for British companies wanting to bring in foreign professionals from outside the EU, including countries like India
Every month you should work on these questions: Who am I? What skill set do I have? What experience do I have?
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