Talent Management

Allegis Group names Venkat Shastry as new India managing director

Talent solutions firm says executive will focus on revenue, customers and partner relationships

CIEL HR acquires talent assessment company, plans IPO in Q2 of FY24

Skilling solutions firm is in talks to acquire two other professional staffing companies before its goes public

Monster.com makeover: Renamed foundit.in, it's now a talent management firm

Platform will offer comprehensive solutions to recruiters, highly personalised services to job seekers; firm says transition is in line with its mission to connect talent with right opportunities

Technology and talent two pillars of India's development journey: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said technology and talent are two pillars of India's development journey and emphasised on the importance of technology as an agent of inclusion in the country. In a video message to the Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress-2022 being held here, the Prime Minister said the country has been working on a vision of Antyodaya, which means empowering the last person at the last mile in a mission mode. It is the mission that has guided us in last-mile empowerment and that too on a massive scale, he said. "Providing banking to 450 million unbanked people, a population greater than that of the United States. Insuring 135 million uninsured people, about the size of the population of France. Taking sanitation facilities to 110 million families and tap water connections to over 60 million families, India is ensuring no one is left behind," Modi said. India is the world's number one in real-time digital payments and even the ...

France's Teleperformance bets on India for mid to senior leadership talent

Indian is also significant in the company's stated target of becoming a Euro 10 billion company by 2025

Salesforce plans to focus on India from revenue, talent perspective

US cloud-based service provider Salesforce has a big focus on India from a revenue and talent perspective, its executive vice president of real estate and workplace services Relina Bulchandani said on Thursday. According to Bulchandani, the future is incredibly bright for India. The San Francisco-based company is really committed to increasing its headcount in India, she said. "We have a big focus on India from a revenue and talent perspective... India is an incredible country from a growth perspective,' she told PTI on the sidelines of Salesforce's Dreamforce 2022 conference. Currently, Salesforce has offices in six Indian cities -- Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Gurugram and Jaipur. Bulchandani pointed out that Salesforce increased its headcount significantly during the pandemic period to 7,500 from 2,500 in April 2020. "Currently, we are growing rapidly. Like I said, in the last two years, we have grown 3x. "So, I would like to see that growth continuing going forward,"

How can India Inc stay ahead of the curve on moonlighting?

While most IT firms discourage employees from taking up side jobs outside regular working hours, some like Swiggy or CRED are encouraging it. Can India Inc stay ahead of the curve on moonlighting?

Firms to give 9.1%, salary increments in 2022, beat pre-Covid levels: Study

Almost all 450 organisations that participated in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu survey are planning to give hikes.

What is Sekhar Garisa's take on the job trends for 2022?

In an interview with Business Standard's Krishna Veera Vanamali, Monster India CEO Sekhar Garisa says demand for talents is back to the pre-pandemic level across industry sectors. Let's join the chat

Short-term incentives here to stay post-pandemic to retain talent: Mercer

Respondents in survey say it imperative the HR team structures short- and long-term incentive plans to ensure the incentives are aspirational, sizeable, fair and simple, while also being achievable

Singapore govt lauds foreign talent policy as Oppn targets India

Singapore could lose good investments and jobs if it imposes tighter restrictions on global companies' ability to employ the talent they need, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said on Tuesday

Banks need to increase focus on AI, data management, talent creation: IDRBT

Established by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1996, IDRBT spearheads efforts in providing state-of-the-art technologies for the country''s banking and financial sector

How a clutch of talent management firms is changing entertainment industry

Besides putting together writers' rooms, these firms help talent with brand and endorsement deals and, most importantly, set a price benchmark for their work