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Only 22% of candidates trained under PMKVY found a job, shows data

The government has allocated Rs 11,880.5 crore under PMKVY since 2015

Will my job be threatened?

Decoding the post-ChatGPT angst

US tech firm Eventbrite to hire 120 for its development centre in India

Eventbrite will host a virtual career fair on April 14, hiring for roles across engineering, data, product management, product design and program management

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Transition to vulnerable employment subsides in recent years: Report

Fewer distress-induced job transitions occurred in Q2CY2021, and only around 20 per cent of salaried and self-employed workers transitioned either into casual-wage work or exited the labour force

Amazon.com Inc lays off about 100 employees in its gaming divisions

Amazon has struggled to capitalize on its resources in gaming, including through its Crown channel, an entertainment show on the Twitch streaming service

India's unemployment rate rises to 3-month high of 7.8% in March: CMIE data

Higher borrowing costs are already weighing on India's economy, data show

Over 18,000 get offers in Rajasthan's IT job fairs in in the last two weeks

At least 70 companies, which were present during the job fair in Bharatpur on March 23-24, selected 5,700 youngsters out of the total 25,000 who took part in the event, the officials said

McKinsey to kickstart layoffs this week, 1,400 jobs cuts likely: Bloomberg

Overall layoffs will amount to 3% of the workforce. According to Bloomberg, the company's workforce has risen to nearly 47,000 from 28,000 in the past five years. It was around 17,000 in 2012

Credit Suisse bankers seek new jobs, flood headhunters with calls

"If they aren't going to CSFB they will have to be emigrated into UBS fixed-income, which is a much smaller business than Credit Suisse," a headhunter said in an interview

Employment in agriculture soars in Maharashtra

The largest provider of employment in Maharashtra is the agricultural sector

Integrated textile park to bring over 300,000 jobs in Telangana: Reddy

The Union Minister said the Central government is investing around Rs 4,400 crore in the textile parks. The Telangana textile park will get more than Rs 10,000 crore of investments

Packaging industry growing at 17%, can bring district level jobs: Experts

The packaging industry is growing at 15-17 per cent and the sector has the potential to create employment opportunities in the country, industry experts said. The experts also called for the promotion of domestic players and setting up the packaging industry in every district on the lines of the one district one product' initiative to create jobs at the local level. "Presently, the demand for packaging of all things has increased a lot and there is a lot of scope for employment in this sector," Prof Tanveer Alam, Director of the Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) Delhi, said at the Asian Packaging Congress here on Saturday. The event was organised by the Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), an autonomous body under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, a release said. The packaging business in the world is worth USD 79 billion and has a growth rate of 15-17 per cent, Alam said. Industry experts opined that to boost the industry, packaging units should be set up in every ..

'2 million new jobs to be created under PM MITRA', says Piyush Goyal

Of the 13 states that competed, seven - Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra - were selected

Marginal increase in e-recruitment in white-collar space in Feb: Report

A marginal increase of 1 per cent in e-recruitment in the white-collar space was seen in February this year despite growing macroeconomic challenges, according to a report. foundit Insights Tracker (fit) on Thursday released its report that provides comprehensive monthly analysis of job posting activity online across recruitment platforms. It noted that the rise in e-recruitment was driven by entry-level positions. "Despite rising concerns at a macroeconomic level, there is a rise in hiring freshers as well as enabling a diverse and inclusive workplace. In February, there was a marginal growth of 1 per cent in e-recruitment space compared to same month last year. The tech industry, despite a few setbacks, remains the single largest employer of fresh talent and women," foundit, a Quess company, CEO Sekhar Garisa said. foundit was previously known as Monster APAC and ME. The tech industry has been instrumental in leading India's post-pandemic recovery and will continue to drive the

Start-up Y Combinator estimates 100,000 jobs at risk due to SVB collapse

Around 10,000 small businesses that had deposits in Silicon Valley Bank will fail to make payroll in the next 30 days and around 1 lakh jobs are expected to be impacted due to the collapse, Y Combinator said in a petition to the US government on Sunday. In the petition to US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen, FDIC chairman Martin J Gruenberg and other senior government authorities, Y Combinator (YC) said that one-third of startups within its community used Silicon Valley Bank as their sole account and will fail to have the cash to run payroll in the next 30 days. "By that measure, we can estimate that payroll-related furlough or shutdown will impact more than 10,000 small businesses and startups. If the average small business or startup employs 10 workers, this will have an immediate effect of furlough, layoff, or shutdown, affecting over 100,000 jobs in the most vibrant sector of innovation in our economy," the petition said. The petition has been signed by more than 3,500 ...

Moderna to hire around 2,000 employees amid mRNA development push

The firm had about 3,900 full-time employees as of Dec. 31, according to a regulatory filing

As jobs elude ITI graduates, industry calls for a course correction

Large recruiters relying more on private institutes for vocational talent, which they is is quicker in catching up to their job requirements