Tag: Hiring

Samsung to hire 1,000 engineers for cutting-edge R&D in India

The new workforce will join Samsung R&D Institute-Bangalore (SRI-B), Samsung R&D Institute-Noida, Samsung R&D Institute-Delhi, and Samsung Semiconductor India Research in Bengaluru next year.

November 30, 2022

India saw 6% decline in hiring in Oct amid funding winter: Report

India saw a 6 per cent drop in hiring activity (year-on-year) in October, amid changing patterns in the start-up ecosystem, funding winter, and fears of an upcoming recession, a report showed on Tuesday.

November 8, 2022

Amazon freezes corporate hirings amid rough economic conditions

Beth Galetti, Amazon's senior vice president of people experience and technology, confirmed the move in a memo that the company had already begun pausing or slowing hiring in various corporate departments in "recent weeks".

November 4, 2022

Hiring platform Fountain raises additional $100 mn, forays into India

 Hiring platform Fountain on Thursday forayed into the Indian market after raising an additional $100 million post its Series C round, bringing its total funding to $185 million.

October 27, 2022

Hiring in India up ahead of festive season, records 13% YOY growth

The job market in India picked up pace ahead of the festive season as a report showcased a spurt in hiring activity this month with the Naukri JobSpeak index recording a double-digit growth at over 13 per cent year-on-year (YOY) and over 10 per cent sequential growth.

September 30, 2022

Hiring boom begins in India as Covid infections decrease

With the successful rollout of vaccines and reduction in Covid-19 cases, most employers (77 percent) now plan on having their people working from the office.

May 11, 2022

Hiring activity dips 30% in Q2, rise in contractual jobs: Report

The pandemic has given rise to a huge number of contract workers for a plug and play model allowing companies to reduce their hiring costs.

October 20, 2020

Hiring in India picks up 35% during April-June: LinkedIn

In India, hiring declines reached a low of below minus 50 per cent year-on-year in April, before starting to slowly recover.

August 17, 2020

Decision of CXO Level Hiring is very important in the times of difficulty

The writer is the Managing Partner, Financial Services, Executive Access.

June 20, 2020

As India’s rental economy rises, are millennials the driving force?

The practical Gen-Y has time and again shown a clear inclination towards the more feasible options in place of the luxurious ones, and it is no different when it comes to choosing how they want to travel.

July 23, 2018

Top Indian startups on hiring spree: Report

The top Indian startups with valuation of over $1 billion each are on a hiring spree and more than half of all job postings by these unicorns are for fresh graduates, says a report. According to recent data from global job site Indeed, four unicorns – Snapdeal, PayTM, ShopClues and Flipkart – make up around...

December 6, 2017

Pitfalls of purely tech-driven hiring

Complete dependence on technology can have its own downside, especially when it comes to the recruitment process and finding right talent.

November 21, 2017

Hiring in IT, software sectors surges 9 pc yoy, job market up 2 pc

After having witnessed a spell of layoffs in the previous quarter, hiring in the IT and software industry has witnessed a surge of 9 per cent year-on-year (yoy) during July 2017, a Naukri.com survey said here on Thursday. According to the survey, the Naukri JobSpeak index rose by 2 per cent in July 2017 indicating...

August 24, 2017

Taking meaningful strides

A time and motion study conducted by the author as a part of a Six Sigma Project gave the following results. For employees who are mapped into a system login/ logout time and utilisation mapped to the last minute the overall maximum work efficiency obtained was at 67 per cent. For employees in desk roles...

April 27, 2017