Page 3 - Job Market

Technology hiring consistently above pre-pandemic levels: Report

Digitisation has increased in the country due to the pandemic

Job market continues to improve led by IT, agro-based industries: Report

Job market continues to improve sequentially across the country and job postings in some industries have improved, with some doing even better than the pre-Covid levels, led by IT, agro-based sectors

S&P 500, Nasdaq scale new highs on stimulus progress, job market rebound

J&J files Covid-19 vaccine application with the FDA; Indexes up: Dow 0.48%, S&P 0.37%, Nasdaq 0.11%

India's Jan factory activity at 3-mth high, manufacturing PMI rises to 57.7

The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index , compiled by IHS Markit, rose to 57.7 in January from December's 56.4, above the 50-level separating growth from contraction for 6th straight month

Hiring to bounce back as most organisations lifted freeze: Naukri.com

Hiring is set to bounce back as most organisations have lifted the freeze in hiring, according to a Naukri.com survey

Indians most optimistic in Asia-Pacific about 2021 career prospects: Study

The findings come from job site 'Indeed'

Tech-driven changes in jobs threaten social contract with workers: Experts

"Technology has a major, if not the most important, role in shaping the future of work," said C Vijayakumar, President and CEO of HCL Technologies

Job market bleakest in 15 yrs, only 5% of India Inc plans to hire in Q2

According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey that covered 695 employers across India, the net employment outlook stood at 5 per cent for the July-September quarter

Coronavirus outbreak delays job offers in Asia's biggest financial hubs

Recruiting has become less of a priority as firms including DBS Group Holdings Ltd. have highlighted the revenue impact of worsening business conditions.

India among top 3 countries confident about retaining jobs in future

Nearly two-third believes that their current jobs will be replaced by automation

Corporations are using slump to upskill talent: Korn Ferry's Monica Agrawal

The slowdown hasn't hit the job search market too hard as a lot of replacement positions are opening up, says Agrawal

Continental to slash 5,500 jobs globally by 2028 to save 500 million euros

The jobs cull would support Continental's "urgently needed technological transition and thus the strengthening of our competitiveness and future viability", CEO Elmar Degenhart said

The job market paradox

More education has not translated into more working women in India

Job market squeeze: Education loan defaults rise 30% in Uttar Pradesh

The NPAs during 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 stood at Rs 1.42 bn, Rs 2.25 bn and Rs 2.51 bn respectively

Letters: Tune into the job market

With reference to the report, "New technology making employees obsolete: Naik" (July 5) by Shivani Shinde Nadhe and Sheetal Agarwal, the poor quality of education in India neither satisfies the belly nor the soul.Two recent surveys revealed that 80 per cent of engineering graduates and 93 per cent of B-school graduates are unemployable. It seems the government and the educational institutes are yet to realise that by not imparting practical skills required by employers they are making the situation worse.All hopes of innovation, entrepreneurship and the much-vaunted demographic dividend will come to naught if the education gained after spending so much money is useless and does not give students the confidence to face the world and achieve something.On the other hand, there is the threat of redundancy of workers due to automation and loss or lack of skill development. While the first problem is supposedly being addressed by retraining, at least by software companies, what about the sec