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India / Unskilled, unemployed and angry
India’s key to future success — its youth — is a ticking time bomb. It is a growing mass of largely undernourished, undereducated, unemployable young people who aspire for a better life but don’t have...
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Declining advantages for U.S. companies from offshoring
Three economic and financial experts forecast an improvement in U.S. employment as the continuing globalization of national economies continues to lift overseas wages, blunting the advantages U.S....
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India / 11.3% average pay hike expected in 2013
India Inc is expected to offer average salary increments of 11.3 per cent this fiscal and those working in sectors like pharmaceuticals, healthcare and life sciences are expected to get a hike of 13.1...
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UK / Tata Steel Europe to shift two R&D centres to India, Netherlands
Tata Steel, Europe’s second-largest steel producer after ArcelorMittal, plans to close down two research and development facilities in the UK and shift them to the Netherlands and India, resulting in...
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India / Employability / Classle launches ‘Ready Steady Jobs’
Classle has launched Ready Steady Jobs, a programme to tackle the employability issue. The training, according to Vaidya Nathan, Chief Executive and Founder of Classle, would consist of a series of...
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India / From Job Centres to Employability Centres
Minister for Labour and Rehabilitation Shibu Baby John on Saturday said that the employment exchanges in the state would be converted into Employability Centres with the introduction of the Additional...
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India / Youth hit by the Jobs Gap
“There are just no jobs in the market,” says Manjunath (26), who works as a carpentry apprentice in Shivajinagar. After completing his polytechnic diploma, he attended a dozen job fairs. “They take...
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India / A “demographic dividend” ?
ONE of India’s bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on...
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India / 69% of the workforce looking to upgrade skills
A large chunk of the workforce in the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific is looking at skill enhancement and career development when compared to their global peers, says a recent study conducted by a...
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India / A summit on employability of engineers
Expressing concern over the lack of employability of engineering graduates in the state, the Odisha Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) has decided to hold an educational conclave on May 17...
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India / U.S. firms have generated 350,000 jobs between 2007 and 2011
Painting a buoyant picture of the Indo-U.S. trade ties, Jennifer McIntyre, Consul-General of the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, has said the bilateral trade in goods and services between the two...
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India / An Employability Centre
An employability centre to help job-seekers enhance their skills will be launched here on June 22 by the District Employment Exchange. This is in line with the exchange’s plans to expand its reach...
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India / One in four to switch jobs
As the growth trends firm up in job market, India is set to witness highest attrition rate globally with possibility of one in four employees switching jobs in the country, a survey said on Friday. The...
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India / SMEs employ close to 40% of workforce, but contribute only 17% to GDP
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been the backbone of the Indian economy. That is both a good and a bad thing. The good part first. Employing close to 40% of India’s workforce and contributing...
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India / Poorer states creating most jobs
Most of the poorer, less industrialized states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Bihar appear to have done well in increasing their work force in the past decade according to recently released Census...
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India / A million graduating engineers struggling
Somewhere between a fifth to a third of the million students graduating out of India’s engineering colleges run the risk of being unemployed. Others will take jobs well below their technical...
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US / India’s unfair trade practices are putting jobs at risk says the...
More than a dozen U.S. business groups are banding together to resolve what they argue is a sharp rise in discriminatory trade practices by India. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and...
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India / A hard time to find jobs
A day after official data showed unemployment had increased 10% in a gap of two years till June 2012 in India, a survey by US-based Gallup revealed respondents were more pessimist about finding jobs...
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India / 47% of graduates unemployable for any job says Aspiring Minds
At least 47% of graduates in India are not employable for any industry role, according the latest report by employability solutions firm Aspiring Minds. The report is based on a pan-India study of...
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