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Over half of all employees feel dissatisfied with their salary September 15, 2016: A study by TimesJobs reveals that 55% Gen Y and 53% Gen Z employees were disappointed with their first drawn salaries. Dissatisfaction with salary is not new however the reasons may have changed with changing aspirations of different generations. “This disappointment with salaries is due to many factors – the lack of a proper benchmark tool is one of the reasons which is not readily acknowledged. However, the thing is, if you can assess your worth basis what the standard payout is in a particular sector for a particular role you will be saved of that disappointment when you actually get the job offer,” says Vikas Deep...

The good news is that number of organizations with a dedicated campus recruitment strategy has increased by a whopping 25 per cent since 2013. However, the biggest issue remains with dropouts – TimesJobs reveals how organizations are devising new ways to attract, engage and retain campus talent. September 7, 2016: Even as the number of organizations with a dedicated campus recruitment strategy is on an upswing, many roadblocks still exist in the process and its implementation. To appeal to new gen workers, organizations are coming up with innovative ways to engage campus talent to reduce dropouts and to retain them for long-term basis. “Drop-outs are a huge challenge for any organization. Limited engagement and low brand-connect are some of the...

For HR managers finding the right talent has become a pain area, still they only want to hire a good employee or not hire at all. September 01, 2016: Reena Gupta, a hiring manager with an FMCG company says that hiring a good employee is the most critical and important thing for them. Understood, but in the current talent scenario where companies are in a war for talent, do we have the scope for this? Is a good or bad hire a matter of choice or a necessity? What do recruiters feel? In a recent study conducted by TimesJobs, 44% employers said it has become exceedingly difficult to find suitable talent over the last three years. A whopping 70% have...

Gaining company insights & interview tips are essential for success in getting selected in a new job, state India Inc. employers and employees August 30, 2016: While changing a job gives a very positive feeling, however facing a job interview unprepared is nothing less than a nightmare no matter at what stage of career one is. It has happened with all of us that a job interview call raises hope and excitement but as the feeling of facing an interviewer sinks in, excitement gets replaced by anxiety. What questions will be asked in the interview? Will I know answers for all of them? What if I fumble or don’t know the answers? Relax, it is not only you, but over...

August 22, 2016: There is a big challenge  – Out of over 1,50,000 engineering students, who graduated in last year from colleges across India, 80 per cent of them were deemed ‘unemployable’ by India Inc. How does one ensure that engineering students and fresh engineers are able to showcase their capabilities in getting the job done? Some of them are lucky enough to get into a ‘branded’ college and get placed from campus… but most are not. TechGig Code Wizards  – India’s biggest recruitment drive for final year Engineering and MCA students is set to change this by providing job opportunities to over 40,000 freshers across the country. CREDIBLE ASSESSMENT – THE SOLUTION TO THE EMPLOYABILITY CHALLENGE The sustainable competitive...

TechGig Code Wizards is Providing Job Opportunities to over 40,000 IT Freshers across the country. THE EMPLOYABILITY CHALLENGE: August 17, 2016: Out of over 1,50,000 engineering students, who graduated in last year from colleges across India, 80 per cent of them were deemed ‘unemployable’ by India Inc. Isn’t that terrifying? It surely is, particularly for companies looking to hire engineers. The employability of engineering students and fresh engineers is a challenge that companies have been facing for a long time. Some employers opted for training the hires in order to make them competent for their jobs. Others took a financial hit, restricting themselves to a limited set of ‘branded’ colleges for conducting their hiring activities, hoping that they would get...

TimesJobs has transformed itself to serve the entire working professional community, rather than just active jobseekers. August 10, 2016: TimesJobs, one of India’s leading job portals has radically transformed its business to address a whole new and completely ignored set of working professionals. It launched this newly transformed and advanced avatar in the form of the ‘Career Enhancement Officer’, supported by a 360-degree marketing campaign. The e-recruitment industry has largely been focused on just providing jobs to active jobseekers, who barely constitute 15% of the larger class of working professionals. Over 85% of working professionals are not actively looking for a job change, however, that does not mean that they are not ambitious and unconcerned about their career growth. In...

TechGig Code Gladiators breaks convention attracting Senior Professionals to test their mettle at India’s Largest Coding Contest July 28, 2016: TechGig Code Gladiators 2016 has seen a record number of senior profiles breaking the widely held belief that only youngsters take part in hackathons and coding contests. After a successful three-year run, and being officially recognized by the Limca Book of Records as the ‘biggest code contest in India’, the number of registrations almost doubled this year as compared to the last year’s edition.  Code Gladiators 2016 had over 1,50,000 coders participating from 15,000+ companies across India. "In a short span of three events, TechGig Code Gladiators has differentiated itself, not just by breaking National records, but by attracting the...

Total Rewards programs are changing business dynamics in India Inc. The latest TJinsite study by TimesJobs indicates that nearly 43% of the surveyed organizations already have a well-built Total Rewards strategy and 23% have it in the planning stage. July 26, 2016: Total Rewards, encompass not just compensation and benefits but include other rewards such as a motivating work environment, learning & development, recognitions, and professional growth opportunities provided to employees as well. Organizations recognize that Total Rewards help them in many ways including increasing business output, retaining and engaging their top performers, etc. and so are investing huge amounts of money and resources on these programs. How does India Inc. implement this concept? The latest TimesJobs study reveals interesting...

TimesJobs unveils what various workforce generations seek from an ideal compensation package July 21, 2016: Compensation conversations have been the tipping point for the Indian workforce for the longest time. Every workforce generation, which includes baby boomers, Gen X and Y have different preferences in compensation components basis their unique requirements. Preeti Jhakar, a young marketing professional in an advertising agency, opted for transport allowance and meal allowance over gratuity and PF money while joining the company. Whereas for Brijesh Mathur, a 45 years old IT head getting a better coverage in health insurance for the family was the priority when negotiating his package. This has been corroborated by about 70% of organizations, which say that there is a distinct...

Cultural mismatch plagues almost 60% employees, who feel intrusive coworkers interrupting their work, are the biggest drain on their performance and productivity. July 14, 2016: Together everyone achieves more – that’s a TEAM. While camaraderie and bonhomie among office colleagues can be wonderful, however many feel that their colleagues are exceedingly annoying too. TimeJobs.com surveyed over 1,400 working professionals to find out what coworker habits appeared to annoy them the most. The significant majority (60%) state that insensitive co-workers were to be blamed for a decrease in their personal productivity. In addition, 42% of employees say middle-level employees are the most annoying set of coworkers, as compared to senior and junior co-workers and most feel male coworkers are more annoying...

Hiring grew by 15% for professionals with over 20 years of experience in June 2016 even as overall talent demand stabilized, according to the latest TimesJobs.com RecruiteX report. July 11, 2016: Talent demand was upbeat across all the experienced categories of professionals, witnessing growth rates ranging from 7-15%, with the biggest demand growth seen for highly experienced professionals, reports the latest RecruiteX – the recruitment index by TimesJobs.com. “Mid-year is the time when a lot of expansions and acquisitions take place, so experienced professionals are needed to manage processes and take key decisions involved in these businesses. Startups and new businesses are also able to leverage the considerable knowledge and strong business networks that these professionals have developed over the...

Nearly 70% of candidates have been rejected in their job interviews at some point in their career. Of these 60% says they were rejected because of non-verbal reasons, reveals a TimesJobs study. July 5, 2016: Seven in ten working professionals stated that they have been rejected at a job interview at some point in their career, reveals a recent TimesJobs study. And more than half of them have faced at least 5 rejections at job interviews in their careers so far. TimesJobs further revealed that 40% candidates have given atleast 10-20 interviews in their career, while 30% said they have appeared in around 5-10 interviews. In addition, 50% of candidates with 0-2 years of experience have given 5-10 interviews and...

New Delhi, June 2016: Investments lead to employment, and one of the concrete leads in this direction is the increased FDI inflows at US$ 55.46 billion in financial year 2015-16, as against US$ 36.04 billion in 2013-14. This is the highest ever FDI inflow for a particular financial year. But how can a working professional capitalize on this opportunity personally? The radical liberalization of the FDI regime announced by the government recently has further encouraged local entrepreneurship, global investment firms to invest in startups as well as global IT companies, such as Google, Apple Inc., Amazon, etc. to expand their businesses & networks in the country leading to income and employment growth. "India, with its recent radical reforms in the...

TimesJobs finds the key workplace elements that bother the current workforce are bad work culture and an unclear career growth path New Delhi, June 2016: A bad work culture tops the list of worrisome workplace elements for employees in India today, reveals a new TimesJobs survey.      In the survey of more than 1,000 professionals across different sectors, nearly 50% cited bad work culture as the most worrisome element of their workplaces. However, nearly 47% employees also said unclear career growth path troubled them the most at their organizations and 30% said a bad boss or reporting manager was the most unpleasant thing to face at the workplace. Nearly 22% of the surveyed employees said they felt a lack of...