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HSSC Clerk Recruitment 2019: Job vacancy for over 4800 posts; check details

The HSSC Clerks 2019 online registration of application was open from 24th June 2019 till 8th July 2019

Investment data to be cleaned up after overstated jobs claims

The DPIIT figures are in sharp contrast with other official statistics

Retail, FMCG sectors to add 276,000 new jobs in April-September: Report

Retail and fast moving consumer goods and durables (FMCG&D) sector together is likely to add 2.76 lakh new jobs in the first six months of the current financial year following the entry of foreign retail giants, the report said. According to TeamLease Services biannual 'Employment Outlook' report for the April-September 2019-20, the retail sector will witness a 2 per cent increase in net employment outlook, resulting in the addition of 1.66 lakh new jobs while (FMCG/D) will see a 1 per cent growth adding 1.10 lakh new jobs. With 27,560 new jobs Delhi will top the list in retail followed by Bengaluru with at 22,770 new jobs, it said. The report revealed that the exponential growth witnessed by the sector coupled with entry of foreign retail giants, capacity expansion and acquisitions are some of the key drivers of the job growth. The report was done across 19 sectors and 14 geographies, surveying 775 enterprises in India and 85 businesses across the globe to evaluate

It's about high-quality jobs

We need millions of high-quality jobs to become a developed nation

Numbers show next govt's job at hand is to boost employment in India

There is no comparable data for the previous year since compilation of this data started from September, 2017

92% of jobs created over 22 years post-liberalisation were informal

'It is better to be employed and earn something than remain unemployed', say economists

Delhi, Bengaluru top list of cities attracting talent in India: Report

The report, capturing the trends between July and December 2018, provides insights about top jobs across the largest and fastest-growing industries

Jobs and outcomes

If hundreds of thousands of additional professionals can be harnessed to provide these services, we would do a great service to the nation while also providing jobs to the technically qualified

How Medha is bridging gap in skilling youth and making them employable

India, they both felt, was at the epicenter of the global employability crisis. 300 million would enter the workforce over the next 20 years but less than 20 per cent had the knowledge, skills

India needs jobs, not dole

India cannot afford to allow its policy to be constrained by failed dogmas about government deficits and debt, writes Srinivas Thiruvadanthai

Guaranteeing urban jobs

There is an urgent need to strengthen urban local bodies and re-imagine their functions as drivers of job creation, skill-building and ecologically sustainable development

Collapse in farm jobs reason behind rising unemployment, shows NSSO data

In 2017-18, only 39.7 per cent of rural men and 17.4 per cent of rural men in the working age were employed in agriculture

Govt's performance below expectations on jobs, health care, agri: Survey

The survey was conducted between October and December, 2018

Job creation dips 6.9% in January to 1.12 million, says ESIC data

During September 2017 to January 2019, as many as 2.08 crore new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme, the data showed

India second globally in job optimism among senior executives: Survey

Following Brazil, around 57% of Indian senior management executives expect job growth

India generated record number of jobs in January 2019, shows EPFO data

Critics, however, don't find EPFO data robust as the bump is seen in the data because of the requirement that any establishment employing at least 20 people has to cut provident fund

Urgent need to address threat to jobs due to technology: Niti Aayog CEO

According to Kant, if the threat to employment is not immediately addressed, it can have serious repercussions on India's future generations

61% office goers want commuting time counted as office hours: Survey

The survey suggested that businesses that do not have a flexible workspace policy risk losing out on top talent

As India's employment crisis deepens, fresh engineers struggle to find jobs

They highlight Prime Minister Narendra Modi's difficulty in fulfilling a promise he made weeks after coming to power in 2014: creating millions of jobs by boosting manufacturing

Hiring activity sees 16% growth in Feb led by IT, software industry: Report

IT and software industry has been on a hiring spree in February 2019, registering a growth of 38%