Two-time World Cup winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday inaugurated his first global cricket academy in Dubai.
Fresher hiring sentiment is highest in India, with 17 per cent employers keen on recruiting fresh graduates in the July to December 2021 period against 6 per cent globally. According to the Career Outlook Report by TeamLease EdTech, conducted across 18 sectors and 14 cities, the hiring sentiment in the country has registered a 2 percentage point increase over the February-April 2021 period. In terms of sectors, those that have been able to withstand the impact of the pandemic and witnessed a stronger hiring sentiment are information technology (31 per cent), telecommunication (25 per cent) and technology start-ups (25 per cent).
Of the 1,145 offers made this year, consulting firms made up 34 per cent, followed by banking, financial services and insurance, pharma/healthcare, IT/ITeS and FMCG/retail.
Consumer companies have started taking orders via phone calls and are also pushing retailers to order through their B2B applications.
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The refresher course will help participants complete ongoing projects in their respective departments via close coordination with other departments and the bureaucracy.
Cholamandalam DBS is looking for Management Trainees and Relationship Managers-Sales/ Credit/ Collections for its personal loans and home equity departments across major cities in India.
Each state will plan it in two districts and preferably in five different session-type settings -- district hospital, community health centre or primary health care centre, urban site, private health facility and rural outreach.
The campus placements process usually starts in July-August, but is likely to start earlier this year.
State BJP president Chandrakant Patil blamed "insensitive and lackadaisical" approach of the administration for the incident.
Mercantile Advertising is looking for an account manager, business development executives, management trainees and copywriters.
Rahul, son of K P Singh's elder daughter Renuka, has joined DLF India Ltd as a 'senior management trainee' with a pay package of Rs 57,725 per month, besides other benefits.
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Largest software exporter TCS will be hiring more than 40,000 freshers from campuses in the country in the financial year 2021-22 , a top executive said on Friday. The company, the largest employer in the private sector with a base of over 5 lakh employees, had hired 40,000 graduates from campuses last year and will do better on that number, its chief of global human resources Milind Lakkad told reporters in Mumbai. He said the COVID pandemic-related restrictions do not pose any difficulties in hiring and added that last year, a total of 3.60 lakh freshers had appeared for an entrance test virtually.
Availability of jobs at India's auto companies has shrunk significantly over the last two years, as the industry goes through one of its worst slowdowns. More than 60 per cent of the total workforce fell by 24 per cent in 2019-20, against 2017-18.
Along with a robust set of numbers, the management too sounded confident of its growth prospects
SAIL currently employs a little under 1,21,000 people. The freshers, to be roped in as management trainees (technical and administrative), would handle the extended operations of the company in near future. The company is in the process of expanding its production capacity to 26.3 million tonnes by 2010-11 for which its would be spending in excess of Rs 78,000 crore.
The airline in a statement attributed the decision to slash salaries to developments in the market, including the Gulf region.
Politics is his first love, but it is downright business that he is trying to learn, at the Godrej group. Some three weeks ago, Pirojsha Godrej, Adi and Parmeshwar Godrej's 23-year-old son, joined the family business as a management trainee.
Striking workers lacked support in the Pimpri-Chinchwad-Chakan belt.
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David, is set to join Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a senior VP for Enterprise Services Delivery.
TCS will have to deliver higher revenues in the succeeding quarter of FY15.
Mueen, who works as an Information Technology manager at Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Pampore was offering late afternoon prayers with colleagues when three militants entered the campus on Saturday.
Some are heading the top banks in India, while others are calling the shots as company's CFO.
Ajit Issac started as a management trainee at Godrej.
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is India's most tourist friendly railway station. It has an executive lounge, gaming zone, shower facilities, frequently cleaned platforms and effective solid waste management techniques.
Management campuses are expecting the rise in pre-placement offers to ease the final placement process.
With almost 25,000 seats up for the taking the Common Written Exam for Probationary Officers is a golden opportunity for candidates aspiring for jobs in India's public sector banks.
With almost 25,000 seats up for the taking the Common Written Exam for Probationary Officers is a golden opportunity for candidates aspiring for jobs in India's public sector banks.
While Wipro leads the pack on absolute numbers, analysts for Infosys for reporting consistent growth, revising FY22 guidance and beating TCS on revenue growth.
ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar has been ranked as the most powerful businesswoman in India for the third consecutive year by Fortune Magazine.
They are witnessing, or anticipating, a double-digit growth in job offers over the same period last year.
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Employees of some top Indian companies were in for a pleasant surprise when they received a mail from their HR team announcing a hike in salaries and bonuses. Led by IT firms and start-ups, HR managers say that while some have offered cash and stock options, others are in a wait-and-watch mode and add the trend will pick up in other sectors. For example, IT giant Cognizant - which had an attrition rate of 19 per cent in the December quarter - has established a $30-million employee retention fund in order to bring down the high attrition rate.
