Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country's largest information technology services company, will hire 50 per cent more students from campuses for 2011-12.
In December, some 400 youngsters aged 15 to 18 years boarded a train for the Tata Jagriti Yatra (TJY), a 9,000-km, 16-state journey of 18 days from December 24, 2010 to January 11, 2011, starting from Mumbai travelling through Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Hyderabad, Orissa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, to Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat and back.
Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest IT services company, has revised upwards its hiring estimate for the current financial year to 40,000 up 11 per cent from the 36,000 projected earlier as the company ramps up capacity to capitalise on emerging opportunities.
Allocation for the sector has been set at Rs 52,057 crore, up from Rs. 31,036 crore in the previous year.
India's second-largest software services company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, plans to hire close to 30,000 this financial year.
S (Kris) Gopalakrishnan speaks on the outlook for Infosys and the sector.
EdServ founder S Giridharan speaks about how he became an entrepreneur and chose the field of education to work in.
The study covers 3,234 SMEs, with sales turnover ranging from Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) to Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion). It includes manufacturing, trading and service companies in 30 industries across 20 states.
The Nikkei India Services Purchasing Managers' Index, which tracks the services sector firms on a monthly basis, stood at 50.3 in February, up from 48.7 registered in January.
The move is aimed at raising funds for the $600 million spending plan to boost security at the porous US-Mexico border.
Kameshwari Rao, director, People Strategy Sapient Corporation, Bengaluru, hosted a chat with readers about job opportunities at the company. The transcript.
US-based Sutherland Global Services announced the acquisition of Adventity Global Services, a business and financial research and analytical services company.
Nasscom recently released its ranking of the top 20 IT-BPO organisations in the country that accounted for over 40 percent of the total employees in this sector.
The current talks on stake sale by its promoters at India's seventh largest information technology services company, Patni Computer Systems, seem to be in the final stages. Whichever way the deal swings, analysts feel the company will lose some business.
'How is this rush to decay to be halted before Indian universities become the laughing stock of the world, the (few) good ones unfairly tarred by the misdeeds of the worst of the lot?'
Infosys, India's second largest information technology services company, which had seen some top-level attrition last year, has both embarked on a leadership development programme and trying to ensure those targetted are contented with their compensation.
Dean at Sastra University asks NASSCOM to allow campus recruitment by IT companies in the 7th semester instead of last.
The organised sector in India has created 739,064 jobs between January and September 2010 and 394,700 more jobs are estimated to be added in the current quarter, according to MaFoi Randstad Employment Trends Survey (METS), an HR services company.
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UK-based telecom company BT today completed the sale of its 5.5 per cent stake in Tech Mahindra to partner Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) for Rs 451 crore ($100.2 million). After the sale, BT has 24.4 per cent in Tech Mahindra.
The jury is still out on whether this will lead to re-skilling.
The Indian who hails from Bengaluru has been working with a Information Technology service company in Thailand and his record was found clear, official sources said on Wednesday.
Of the, four are co-founders of Infosys.
Mid-sized IT and BPO services company MphasiS has introduced a hiring methodology which gives candidates even with very poor academic record a chance to make their way into the company if they are good in their logical and reasoning skills.
Advance tax collections for the first quarter of the current financial year point to a strong growth in corporate sector profits.
Also mandates pursuing other consolidation options.
As per the study of over 40,000 technical graduates by assessment technology company Aspiring Minds, a majority of fresh engineering graduates require additional training to be eligible for any job in the IT/ITeS sector.
Microsoft Corp said on Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months, once it has selected a successor, sending its shares up almost 9 per cent.
Infosys claims it can deliver a full-fledged applications store within 6-8 weeks, with its application platform Flypp.
Stronger rupee likely to take a toll; Infosys results on April 13 to be keenly watched
Morgan Stanley plans high-level management changes, which includes finance chief Colm Kelleher and veteran banker Paul Taubman taking charge of the company's institutional securities unit.
It has apparent "negative connotations" in some mature markets such as the US.
TCS' brand value grew 286 per cent from $2.3 billion in 2010 to $9.04 billion in 2016
Science graduates, non-science graduates and engineers, all are welcome.
International passenger traffic is expected to remain on an upswing as spending on travel during the January-March quarter of 2010 has seen a 24 per cent increase over the year-ago period, American Express has said.
Financial services company Morgan Stanley's Asia chief Stephen Roach is more bullish on Indian economy than China.
Esops, which give employees a stake in the ownership of the company, are provided by the company to employees to boost their motivation and loyalty.
When mid-size information technology (IT) services company MindTree acquired Aztecsoft in May 2008, many believed this would herald a trend in Indian IT, in terms of consolidation of small and mid-sized firms to enable them to viably compete with bigger ones.
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