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PhysicsWallah to hire 2,500 employees, partner with supply chain firm

Company hiring at a time when large Indian start-ups, especially in edtech, are laying off employees

Amid layoffs, demand for non-tech jobs grew during December 2022: Report

Amid reports on layoffs by multinational technology companies, a report has revealed that there has been an increase in demand for talents in non-tech sectors in India, including healthcare, food services, construction and education in December 2022. Global job site Indeed's monthly jobs insights showed that healthcare allied fields such as dental and nursing have the highest job postings on its platform at 30.8 per cent in December 2022. This was followed by food services (8.8 per cent), construction (8.3 per cent), architecture (7.2 per cent), education (7.1 per cent), therapy 6.3 per cent, and marketing (6.1), among others, the report added. The report noted that the relative resurgence of business normalcy in a post pandemic world has brought buoyancy back in sectors like construction and civil engineering. Even sectors like marketing, which was one of the earliest to see layoffs during the pandemic, has picked up steam, it said, adding that last year, brands have realised the

Cars24 plans 500 new hires across verticals in next three months

Recruitment is for both tech and non-tech roles; firm plans to scale up services in smaller towns where it is seeing an rising demand for pre-owned vehicles

BharatPe makes 3 hires for corporate governance, compliance, data security

Fintech firm says it is essential to strengthen the roles as it 'focuses on getting IPO ready'

India Inc likely to face hiring slowdown in Jan-March quarter: Survey

A looming recession and deepening global slowdown have caused apprehensions among Indian employers

98% of e-commerce companies looking forward to hiring in Q4FY23: TeamLease

Recruitment activity to go beyond blue- and white-collar staff, will embrace apprentices as well

Dec manufacturing PMI at 26-month high of 57.8 as production picks up

Growth in new orders and output enable factories to end 2022 on a strong note: Survey

Business Standard CEOs poll: Capex tops India Inc's 2023 to-do list

Firms plan to go on a hiring spree; flag rising rates, weak demand as major concerns

Indian firms lead in intending to hire first-time jobseekers: Report

IT sector expected to hire 100,000 freshers in FY23 to meet the rising demand

Uber to hire 800 women techies for two new programmes by next year

The ride-hailing firm said it has gained by hiring women techies in terms of improving quality and productivity

No hiring downturn at IITs as international firms pitch job offers

Consulting, finance, core and international trading companies take the lead in chasing talent

Will Elon Musk's plan to hire engineers in India still find takers?

Engineers wary, given Musk's unpredictability; HR experts and campuses not so much

IT sector hiring down 43% in Oct; recovery likely in Jan-March: Study

Ukraine war, funding cuts for start-ups, companies tightening spending among reasons for hiring decline

Done with layoffs, Elon Musk says he wants to go on hiring spree

Plans engineering teams in India, japan Indonesia, and Brazil

TikTok to hire nearly 3,000 engineers across globe as competitors shed jobs

Chinese short-form video platform TikTok said that it would add about 3,000 engineers in locations across the world, including the US.

Larsen & Toubro hires more than 3,000 engineering trainees in FY23

Engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said it has hired more than 3,000 fresh engineering trainees in the current financial year. The onboarding of over 3,000 graduate and postgraduate engineering trainees in the ongoing fiscal marks a more than three-fold rise as against 1,067 trainees last fiscal. The number of female engineers hired has more than quadrupled to 1,009 trainees in FY23 from 248 trainees in FY22, L&T said in a statement. "It is worth noting that 30 per cent of current batch of fresh engineers are women which is commendable given the fact that 75 per cent of the fresh engineers are hired from mechanical, civil and electrical streams where women candidates are less. "Currently, women employees comprise 7.6 per cent of the total workforce at L&T, and they have already successfully forayed into fields long considered to be male bastions," company's Executive Vice President & Head, Corporate Human Resource C Jayakumar .

Byju's-owned Great Learning likely to cross Rs 1,000 crore revenue in FY23

The firm is expanding in regions such as India, North America, Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia and is also planning to acquire various companies in these markets

Gaming industry to add 100k new jobs across domains in FY23: Report

The gaming industry is likely to add one lakh new jobs by 2022-23, across domains, including programming, testing, animation and design, according to a report. The sector is likely to grow by 20-30 per cent and add one lakh direct and indirect new jobs by FY23, TeamLease Digital said in a report - Gaming: Tomorrow's Blockbuster. Currently, the sector directly employs about 50,000 people of which 30 per cent of the workforce are programmers and developers. Over the next year, the sector will add new jobs across domains like programming (game developers, unity developers), testing (games test engineering, QA lead), animation (animators), design (motion graphic designers, virtual reality designers), artist (VFX and concept artists) and other miscellaneous roles (content writers, gaming journalists, web analyst). From a salary perspective, the highest-paying profiles in the gaming industry include game producers (Rs 10 lakh per annum), game designers (Rs 6.5 LPA), software engineers (R

Indian IT industry to hire 200,000 people in near term: Kris Gopalakrishnan

'Ups and downs' in global economy will not impact Indian industry for long, he says

Singapore still hiring tech talent amid mass layoffs at global heavyweights

Despite mass layoffs at tech firms -- from Meta and Twitter to Amazon and Shopee -- professionals are nonetheless still in demand as companies of all stripes look to develop digital capabilities. Hotspots of business activity and recruitment remain even as parts of the tech industry cool amid rising inflation and interest rates as well as the changing post-pandemic landscape, Channel News Asia on Wednesday cited analysts as saying. At Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), one of the largest local banks in Singapore, some technology teams have doubled in size over the past two years, such as those in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. New hires came from a mix of backgrounds, including banks, tech companies, start-ups, and the government sector, said Praveen Raina, head of group operations and technology at OCBC. The bank announced in March that it was hiring 1,500 people in tech roles over the next three years in positions such as application develope