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No recovery in global jobs market from pandemic until at least 2023: ILO

Global unemployment rate seen at 6.3% this year, 5.7% in 2022; uneven stimulus, vaccine access foster inequalities, says ILO

Prioritising expenditure

Govt must focus on providing relief to the needy at this point

Recovery faces demand constraints

While the supply-side has sprung back at least in the large organised sectors, the demand side continues to remain broken. The demand constraints will pose a challenge to the recovery process

Synechron to hire up to 2,000 professionals to boost India plans

Digital transformation consulting firm Synechron announced plans to hire up to 2,000 professionals to specifically boost its India operations in Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai

Job activity declines in most Indian industries in April amid Covid wave

As India battles the lethal second Covid wave, industries like travel and tourism, education and engineering, cement, construction, iron/steel continue to show decline in job postings

Best of BS Opinion: Job losses mount in April, Covid-19 crisis, and more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday

Job losses mount in April

The employment rate fell from 37.6 per cent in March to 36.8 per cent in April

Pessimism on the rise: Consumer sentiment weakens in April amid Covid surge

Consumer sentiments have been battered particularly badly during the last three weeks

Unemployment is falling in rich countries, but not every job is coming back

The pandemic has pushed out older employees and is deepening inequality as lower income workers feel the brunt of the crisis

A career counsellor to navigate your child through a plethora of choices

The best time to approach a career counsellor is when your child is in class nine--someone who will help him dodge the duds and choose a line based on the child's interests, aptitude and ability

Adrift in April

Low employment rates and low labour participation rates leave enough people free to participate in endless political rallies and mammoth religious congregations

IPO boom prompts ICICI Bank to make hiring push in investment banking

ICICI plans to add five mid-to-senior level hires in each of the two units, which currently have 130 bankers in total.

Blocking and chaining resume fraud

A mini-industry has come up to manage employee background checks. Studies indicate that one in five resumes have information discrepancy that is serious enough to be considered a fraud

Stage set for Indian small biz to build global brands: Amazon's Broussard

As work from home became the new normal due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Broussard said thousands of our e-commerce sellers from India played a key role in serving customers globally during this period.

Lockdowns again: Migrant crisis to job cuts, fear has come back too soon

The lockdown will hurt urban employment in April or beyond

Modi needs to learn self-sufficiency won't put food on the table, jobs will

The more Modi tries to relegate Nehru to the back pages of history, the more the first prime minister leaps out

US private sector adds 517,000 jobs in March on labour market recovery

Private companies slashed roughly 20 million jobs in March and April last year amid Covid-19 shutdowns

India's biz reputation at risk as states push laws to make firms hire local

Millions of jobs were lost during last year's nationwide lockdown, dealing a blow to govt's promise of generating adequate employment for the world's youngest and biggest workforce

Best of BS Opinion: The missing foreign bogey, income volatility, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Income volatility: The new gorilla in the room

The consumption problem is one of high volatility in incomes