Tag Archives: Human Resources

IT business leaders have for long been complaining that the quality of people graduating from most engineering colleges is very poor. It really seems hurting the industry, with the IT companies’ cost of training the fresh recruits in order to Continue reading →

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has joined its rival Infosys in increasing the annual remuneration packages for its top management executives in line with the economic revival witnessed by the IT industry towards the latter part of the previous Continue reading →

SAP Labs India is shedding some of its traditional diffidence as it attempts several “game-changing” tactics in response to the changing market Continue reading →

Infosys BPO, which has announced establishment of rural BPOs in all the district headquarters, has decided to go to Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKCs) campuses to recruit people. It has announced a schedule in the next week for its campus drive. The Continue reading →

With customers demanding more from IT companies than just lower cost, Infosys Technologies is retooling its employee skill Continue reading →

Infosys Technologies has opened a “green channel” to woo back its former employees as it casts its net wide for experienced mid-level software Continue reading →

The job market in India – across sectors – has witnessed a revival in recent years, and this seems to have opened up new vistas for Continue reading →

A handful of American staffing firms and IT associations led by TechServe Alliance have challenged the USCIS’ (US Citizenship and Immigration Services) controversial memo that allegedly restricts IT staffing companies from applying for H-1B Continue reading →

The Chief Minister Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, has called upon youngsters to tap the opportunities emerging in the IT fields as IT-related jobs being generated in the State will exceed the expectations of the Continue reading →

BPO recruitment is shifting to a higher gear after a one-year lull. But the industry is starting to see a significant drop in the offer-to-joining Continue reading →

As rebound in demand for back office services lifts the lid on hiring, the BPO industry – confronted yet again by rising attrition – is busy rolling-out new HR initiatives to retain staff. This year, BPO players are handing out plum Continue reading →

Cognizant Technology Solutions, the US-based technology company, has added nearly 3,000 employees from its last eight acquisitions done in the last five years. It has invested over $275 million in acquiring these companies, according to the Continue reading →

Notwithstanding a slight pick-up in filings since April-end, the H-1B demand continues to be sluggish overall, with US receiving 18,000 H-1B applications against the annual cap of Continue reading →

With the industry lifting its two-year freeze on salary hikes and bonus payouts, Indian IT employees are on a high. But this time round, their consumption pattern tells a different story. While the younger techies are again the high spenders, the Continue reading →

BPO firm ExlService Holdings, Inc is planning to recruit 3,800 professionals by December this year on a gross basis. This is in addition to 1,200 professionals hired by the company during first quarter of Continue reading →

Nearly 65,000 employees of the US-based Cognizant Technology Solutions in India will get a 14 per cent hike in salary while the increment will be in “very low single digits” for their colleagues in the US, according to a company Continue reading →

Employee attrition in top-tier IT companies has started inching-up once again as offshore service providers gear up for aggressive hiring to meet the upsurge in demand from key markets in the US and Continue reading →

The Group of Technology Companies (GTECH), the common platform for IT companies in Kerala, has decided to annul the extant ‘gentleman’s agreement’ that prevented member companies from ‘poaching’ each others’ Continue reading →

Just Dial, virtual directory service, is now gearing up for the US market. According to a press release, the operations will be handled out of India for the moment, though plans are under way to hire up to 1,000 people in the US. Just Dial also Continue reading →

Business process outsourcing company 24/7 Customer has said that it would hire 500 employees in the next two months for its Hyderabad operations. Currently, the company employs 1,000 people in the seven-year-old delivery centre here. It has 8,000 Continue reading →

Aegis, the back office outfit of the Ruias-owned Essar Group, plans to add around 11,000 employees to its rolls this fiscal, according to a top company Continue reading →

The top three Indian IT companies have added to their employee base in fiscal 2009-10 (FY10) as much as they did the previous Continue reading →

The software-to-soaps company Wipro will add about 11,000 freshers during the current fiscal (2010-11) with 65 per cent of them being engineers and the rest from other Continue reading →

The Technopark-based Toonz Animation India’s education division has rolled out a series of seminars christened ‘Careers in animation and multimedia’. The first leg began in Marthandam, near here, on Monday. Rest of the seminars will be held Continue reading →

The Essar group’s back office outfit, Aegis announced on Wednesday that around 1,000 of its employees will now be acquired by the US-based Customer Operations Performance Centre (COPC) in what is the ‘world’s first quality process Continue reading →