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Temp staff hiring to rise as consumers return to stores in festive season

During the festive season, more than 500,000 short-term jobs are expected to be created

Delhivery plans to hire over 75,000 employees to expedite parcel sortation

Logistics firm Delhivery on Friday announced its plans to hire over 75,000 staff for seasonal jobs over the next one-and-a-half month and expand its parcel sortation capacity by 1.5 million shipments per day. Of these, over 10,000 people will be off-roll employees across Delhivery's gateways, warehouses, and last-mile delivery, the company said. The hiring is aimed at meeting the expected higher volumes in both parcels and express part-truck load business during the festive season, it added. The company's fully-automated mega gateway, which is equipped with the automated parcel and hub sortation at Tauru became operational in April this year. The company said it will also double down on its various partner programmes by onboarding individual bikers, local retailers, business partners and transporters with plans to roll out a revenue payout of Rs 150-crore across all programmes. Delhivery said it will hire 50,000 last-mile agents under its Last-Mile Agent programme alone, which off

Indian job market unfazed by inflation, hiring up 29% in Q1: Report

The job market in the country remained unfazed by inflation in the first quarter as most companies believed that it is not going to change hiring and salary of their employees, according to a report. Despite fears of inflation, most jobseekers are not adversely affected by inflation as far as their livelihood and expenses are concerned, with six in 10 jobseekers saying they are not affected much, the quarterly hiring tracker by global job site Indeed revealed. In line with the employee sentiment, 89 per cent of employers interviewed said inflation will not change the way companies hire and pay employees, it added. The Indeed Hiring Tracker of Q1, FY23, is based on a survey of 1,229 employers and 1,508 employees during April-June 2022. Indeed's hiring tracker also indicated a positive job momentum growth with employers increasing hiring by 29 per cent in April-June 2022 compared to a 20 per cent increase in the previous quarter. The findings further revealed that 37 per cent of all

Netflix ramps up hiring for Cloud gaming services, plans to launch 50 games

Streaming giant Netflix has ramped up its dream to make it big in Cloud gaming, as the company hunts for professionals to take on Cloud gaming services

Virtual reality jobs die down at Meta, Google amid hiring freeze: Report

The VR job postings have also slowed down at other Big Tech companies like Apple and Google amid the hiring frezz and layoff season owing to the global economic meltdown, according to Revelio labs

Avenue Supermarts to Bata India: Retailers are now hiring, but on contract

According to a TeamLease report for the quarter, the intent to hire in retail is higher in the June-September quarter than the April-June period

Lifestyle & grocery retailers reverse FY21 trend, hire over 180,000 people

The total number of employees in eight of the top retailers in India went up 57 per cent to 4,90,000 in FY22, with Reliance Retail hiring the most number of people at 1,61,000

PriceLabs raises $30 mn from Summit Partners, plans to accelerate hiring

PriceLabs was founded in 2014 to bring Artificial intelligence (AI) and analytical tools to owners and managers of vacation homes and short-term rentals

Jet Airways starts hiring pilots for A320, 737NG and 737Max aircraft

The airline which received air operator certificate from aviation regulator DGCA on May 20 is yet to place an order for aircraft with either European planemaker Airbus or American firm Boeing

Casual workers PSUs hired fell 44% in first Covid-19 pandemic year

Experts say lockdown and near stalling of business may have prompted the decline

Hiring takes off in India's aviation sector as air traffic revives

Akasa Air to hire 175 people per month. Will have around 2,000 employees by March 2023

No signs of slowdown in attrition at TCS; firm says it has enough hands

TCS which had shared in Q4 of FY22 the hiring target of 40,000 for FY23, said the target remains

Mass leave by the cabin crew an aberration, ready for growth: IndiGo

IndiGo is hiring for replacement and expansion. Around 1,500 in the cabin crew are under training and will join operations over the next few weeks

Demand for CXOs doubles as companies race to hire top executives: Report

The firms are also hiring more leaders at top roles as companies are also reportedly weeding out CXOs who did not meet their performance targets

Few vacancies, delayed appointments: Why ex-servicemen fail to find jobs

The data shows that absorbing the first batch of 34,500 retired Agniveers in 2026 will require additional vacancies

Jet Airways starts operational hiring, invites former cabin crew to rejoin

Jet Airways began its operational hiring on Friday and asked its former cabin crew members to rejoin the airline

Spotify to reduce new hiring by 25% amid global market volatility: Report

Swedish music streaming giant Spotify is reportedly reducing new hiring by at least 25 per cent as tech companies navigate through volatile market conditions globally

Spotify to slow hiring by 25% amid economic uncertainty, shares rise 7.1%

The world's largest on-demand audio service has been on a hiring spree for years, adding more than 2,000 employees between 2019 and 2021

Snapchat slows down hiring, to only hire 500 more people this year

CEO Evan Spiegel told employees that company plans to hire 500 people this year, versus 2,000 it hired over past 12 months, after warning investors that its revenue wouldn't grow as fast as expected

Piramal Capital & Housing Finance to hire 6k, to increase branches to 400

At present, the PCHFL has a loan book of around Rs. 2,100 crore in UP, and 21 branches covering all the key markets in the state