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Talent demand spiked up in Petrochemicals, Infrastructure and Hospitality in January 2018 while BFSI and Healthcare sectors reported stable hiring during July-December 2017 period As hiring grew in these sectors, demand for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, quality control, travel & hospitality professionals has shot up in the economy, shows latest TimesJobs RecruiteX data. Overall talent demand grew by 3% during the month. Hiring trends from July-December 2017 Recruitment data from the second half of 2017 shows that BFSI and healthcare sectors posting stable talent demand, indicating that the government’s Make in India, Digital India and Skill India initiatives have started paying off. Overall talent demand index during the July-December 2017 was also stable. Similar to the trends in first half of 2017,...

As India’s biggest coding contest TechGig Code Gladiators is rolling out its 2018 edition, senior technologists and IT employers recount multiple opportunities and benefits provided by hackathons. New Delhi, February 26, 2018: When Deloitte Consulting’s Managing Director, Sandeep Kumar Sharma wants to assess his company’s skill strength vis-a-vis the competitors, he trusts hackathons as a talent benchmarking tool. "For companies, events like Code Gladiators are reality check to analyse where they stand in terms of coding, and understand their strengths and weakness,” he says as he discusses the benefits of code contests, and elaborates on Deloitte Consulting’s association with TechGig Code Gladiators. For Dr. Siddhartha Chatterjee, Chief Technology Officer, Persistent Systems, the biggest use of coding contests is to explore...

TimesJobs powered ‘Artificial Intelligence’ community – Times AI Hub – conducted its maiden event at IIT Delhi to discuss the industrial uses of AI. The event brought together AI industry stalwarts and students and highlighted real-life use cases from farming to telecom. New Delhi, January 16, 2018: When Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to humanoid robot Sophia, most people didn’t know how to react to the fact that a life-size bot was ‘living’ among them, dressing up meticulously and talking about her aspirations of having a family. Bots have long been used to facilitate basic, repetitive jobs in many industries. In India, we may not have a bot as celebrated as Sophia, but bots are already serving food in a Chennai...

TimesJobs powered ‘Artificial Intelligence’ community – Times AI Hub – conducted its maiden event at IIT Delhi to discuss the industrial uses of AI. The event brought together AI industry stalwarts and students and highlighted real-life use cases from farming to telecom. New Delhi, January 16, 2018: When Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to humanoid robot Sophia, most people didn’t know how to react to the fact that a life-size bot was ‘living’ among them, dressing up meticulously and talking about her aspirations of having a family. Bots have long been used to facilitate basic, repetitive jobs in many industries. In India, we may not have a bot as celebrated as Sophia, but bots are already serving food in a Chennai...

While India takes pride in its IITs and IIMs, a large number of girls quietly drop out from education school-level onwards. Want to change that? Here’s your chance with ‘Hack4Her’ – a unique hackathon organised by Women’s Education Project India, in association with TechGig and Random Hacks of Kindness India. You swell with pride when your child bids you ‘bye’ happily at her school gate. Her education is her passport to an independent life and a confident future. But are all girls in India this fortunate? Female literacy in India stands at just 65.46% (2011 census), when the world average is 79.7%! Further, the school dropout rate amongst adolescent Indian girls is 63.5%. Which means that most girls going to...

January 9, 2018, New Delhi: With the New Year cheer and celebrations all around, India’s job market too is hopeful for an upswing in 2018 as the quarter ending December 2017 recorded an average 1% rise in talent demand. Compared to last year (between Oct-Dec 2016 the hiring outlook saw negative momentum) this is a certain hint that the overall market is headed for better times, and hiring activities will pick up pace gradually in the new year. RecruiteX – a hiring trend report by recruitment portal TimesJobs – noted that although overall job market saw a drop of 3% in December 2017, the Oct-Dec 2017 period posted a 1% rise in talent demand. Among key functional areas, a rise...

Massive job cuts in the IT sector have made for troubling news since a long time. A heartening note is that most of the IT workers, who face the axe, get a job soon enough! TechGig’s exclusive survey reveals this fact, and many more related to the fate of laid off IT employees. Read on… December 13, 2017, New Delhi: Layoffs are a harsh reality of an inter-connected world, volatile economic situations and business scenarios have an equal and daunting impact on all the stakeholders. An apt example being the last US election, where even before a clear winner was announced, many companies put off their hiring plans, or increased hiring in a particular locale. This is a grim reality,...

The JobBuzz Workplace Index for October 2017 identifies 10 sectors who offer a great work culture and keep their employees highly motivated. October 10, 2017: Research shows that if the culture of an orgainsation is good it helps reduce the stress of the work-at-hand. Employees of such companies look forward to going to their jobs. Organisations that offer a great work culture have employees who have a hard time leaving them because they enjoy the workplace, job challenges, their co-workers, and the atmosphere. The JobBuzz Workplace Index for October 2017 identifies 10 such sectors who offers a great work culture and keep employees highly motivated. This month, Consumer Durables emerged as the best sector with the highest index value for...

12 December, 2017, Noida: Salary is no longer that glue that binds the employees with their employers or workplaces! The ground rule of the new-age work world is that more than salary, it is the overall benefits that keep modern-age employees interested in their workplaces for long. This, and many facts related to workplaces concluded the TimesJobs Compensation and Benefits Conclave 2017 held in Noida recently. This daylong event – which witnessed the presence of more than 300 C&B and HR leaders – discussed the relevance of salary v/s benefits debate, the evolution of benefits and of course discussion on HR practices prevalent at the Indian work floors. The conclave saw companies like Mercer pointing out that they device benefits...

The new web-based platform aims to be the biggest and most credible, peer-to-peer learning and networking platform for HR professionals, students and influencers New Delhi, January 15, 2017: The economy and industrial segments are undergoing the fourth revolution – and this one is led by technology. In simple terms, it means that all known processes and tasks are being redefined, mostly due to technical intervention and digital interpretation of functions. With the work world undergoing so much transformation, its custodian – the human resources function too is undergoing a rapid metamorphosis. The HR professional required in today’s world should be a tech savvy individual with an industry-wide know how and global outlook. Since most industries change HR plans in accordance...

November 8, 2017: The latest portal from TimesJobs aims to connect the employers seeking front line staff with verified job seekers. This mobile-ready site boasts of many ‘first of its kind features for this category’ like a geo-map based job search facility for candidates to connect them with nearby recruiters Can one imagine the success of ecommerce majors like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal or even the local grocery vendor or dry cleaning service without the contribution of their front-line staff? In fact, every festive season is preceded by news of bulk hiring of front line staff by major retailers. Government estimates suggest that India has a total workforce of 47 Crore and close to 85 per cent of these are in...

With its third consecutive edition, TechGig Geek Goddess aims to bring the unsung women coders into forefront and present a bevy of latent talent to tech employers. This year’s edition hosts three new exciting coding genres – UI, Data Science & IoT – and hence expands the scope of participation for women coders. Here’s more… The ‘diversity harbours talent’ tenet is now a well-accepted fact on the corporate floors. Hence the race to bring more diverse talent to the work floor and retain it. Industry reports suggest that even conventional industrial segments like manufacturing and production have ramped up the strength of their women workforce divisively. Therefore, many novice women-friendly policies and practices like pre-planned work sabbaticals and return to...

While India takes pride in its IITs and IIMs, a large number of girls quietly drop out from education school-level onwards. Want to change that? Here’s your chance with ‘Hack4Her’ – a unique hackathon organised byWomen’s Education Project India, in association with TechGig and Random Hacks of Kindness India. You swell with pride when your child bids you ‘bye’ happily at her school gate. Her education is her passport to an independent life and a confident future. But are all girls in India this fortunate? Female literacy in India stands at just 65.46% (2011 census), when the world average is 79.7%! Further, the school dropout rate amongst adolescent Indian girls is 63.5%. Which means that most girls going to school...

– Amazon snagged the first position, while Motorola stands second – Study conducted basis Employee Rating October 24, 2017: India’s leading company rating platform JobBuzz, powered by Times Job announces, India’s Top 25 New-Age Employer 2017. JobBuzz study facilitates individuals to consider and rate company basis factors like overall work satisfaction, career growth opportunities, salary, learning and development and work-life balance.Compilation on company reviews provided by employees were assessed by JobBuzz. Amazon emerges as India’s best new-age employer 2017 followed closely is Motorola ranking second. Larsen and Toubro Ltd., Asian Paints Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., bags the position third, fourth and fifth respectively. Accenture, Genpact India Pvt Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd., Ericsson Pvt Ltd.,...

The JobBuzz Workplace Index for October 2017 identifies 10 sectors who offer a great work culture and keep their employees highly motivated. October 10, 2017: Research shows that if the culture of an orgainsation is good it helps reduce the stress of the work-at-hand. Employees of such companies look forward to going to their jobs. Organisations that offer a great work culture have employees who have a hard time leaving them because they enjoy the workplace, job challenges, their co-workers, and the atmosphere. The JobBuzz Workplace Index for October 2017 identifies 10 such sectors who offers a great work culture and keep employees highly motivated. This month, Consumer Durables emerged as the best sector with the highest index value for...