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Avaya to add India staff strength by 20% over next year: Global CEO

Unified communications company Avaya is planning to increase its India workforce by 20 per cent over the next year, a top company official said. The company has one-third of its global engineering workforce in India who are engaged in core development work, Avaya CEO Alan Masarek told PTI. "In early summer, I said we will increase India's workforce by 20 per cent and we have already completed that hiring. In June, we had 1,200 employees in India and now we are at over 1,500. "We will continue to grow by another 20 per cent over the next year... it will be across the board," he said. The company is looking to hire data scientists and engineers specialised in artificial intelligence. "Every one of three contact centre agents globally uses our solution. We have better and large amounts of data to train AI and have between outcomes," he said. Avaya counts Airtel, State Bank of India (SBI), and the Government of India among its key customers in India. Its contact center solutions are

Why is it harder to find jobs in India's metro cities than in small towns

Smaller towns and cities in India are seeing a thriving demand for manpower, while job creation is still sluggish in the metro areas

IT-focused cities in India seeing job de-growth: Naukri JobSpeak report

The report further suggested that the market is now preferring experienced professionals over freshers

Indian patent office to hire 900 people to enhance manpower: DPIIT secy

Indian patent office (IPO) will be hiring 900 more people with a view to enhance manpower for processing the increasing number of intellectual property applications, a top government official said on Friday. Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Rajesh Kumar Singh said that patent filing has increased by ten times and trademark application filing by six times since 2016. "We are trying to strengthen the capacity of our IPO to process these proliferation of applications. We are going to add 900 new positions for which recruitment is already underway in our patent office," Singh said at the national intellectual property conference. He also said that steps taken by the government has helped India improve its global innovation index rankings. India retained its 40th rank out of 132 economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2023 rankings, according to a report by the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization. Though the ranki

SBI SCO Application 2023: Last date to apply ends today, check details

SBI SCO Recruitment 2023 exam registration has been extended till Oct 21. Interested applicants can apply for different posts at sbi.co.in/web/careers. There are 45 posts and a total of 439 openings

PM Modi to distribute 51,000 appointment letters under Rozgar Mela today

The recruitment is taking place across central government departments as well as state governments and UTs

Punjab govt has provided over 36,000 jobs in past 18 months: CM Mann

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said his government has given 36,524 appointment letters of government jobs to the youth in the past 18 months of being in the office. Addressing a gathering during a function to hand over appointment letters to 427 recruits in power, education, forest and other departments, Mann said it is a rare feat as none of the previous governments have achieved this milestone in such a short span of its tenure. He said in the last 25 days, the state government has given appointment letters to 7,660 youth in the state. A foolproof mechanism has been adopted for the entire recruitment process due to which not even a single appointment out of these 36,524 have been challenged so far in the court, an official statement quoting Mann said. These youths have been given government jobs completely on the basis of merit, he claimed, adding that the sole aim is to ensure that Punjab's youth become active partners in the social and economic growth of the .

Gen AI's impact on Indian jobs yet to become clear: Nasscom senior exec

Generative Artificial Intelligence is likely to be a tool for augmentation of roles rather than replacement of jobs, although the specific impact on the workforce will become clear overtime, Nasscom Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Sangeeta Gupta. Her observation comes in the backdrop of several roles in the tech and non-tech industry being impacted by automation, and an industry push for self-regulation and upskilling with companies like HCLTech and Wipro announcing plans to leverage knowledge automation. "How gen AI will impact jobs in India is still very unclear. Because implementation of Gen AI will happen... we believe it's more a tool for augmentation than replacement," Gupta told PTI on the sidelines of the Nasscom Annual Technology Conference 2023. Speaking at the event, Accenture Managing Director Matt Carroll said AI can potentially replace the 40-hour work week, freeing up time for people to chase their interests. Nassom's Gupta said that the DPDP bill ..

India's booming construction sector could add 30 mn jobs by 2030: Report

Improving business sentiment and conducive policy measures have boosted domestic and global investor interest in construction, India's second largest employer after farming

274,000 posts vacant in Railways, over 170,000 in safety category: RTI

More than 2.74 lakh posts in the Railways are lying vacant as of this month, with over 1.7 lakh of them in the safety category alone, the national transporter has said in response to an RTI query. In its reply to the questions filed by Chandra Shekhar Gaur, a Madhya Pradesh-based Right to Information (RTI) Act activist, the Railways said 2,74,580 posts are vacant in Group C category, including Level 1 or entry-level staff. This includes 1,77,924 vacancies in the safety category, it said. "The total number of non-gazetted posts vacant i.e. Group-C (including Level-1) in Indian Railways, as available in this office, as on 01.06.2023 (provisional) is: 2,74,580," the ministry said. On the safety category, it said there are more than 9.82 lakh posts of which over 8.04 lakh are filled. "Total number of sanctioned, on roll and vacant posts in safety category of Group-C (including Level-1) in Indian Railways, as available in this office, as on 01.06.2023 (provisional) are: 9,82,037, 8,04

Need to create more quality jobs, current rate insufficient: Jayant Sinha

Ruling BJP lawmaker Jayant Sinha on Wednesday said the rate at which India is creating formal jobs is insufficient and there is a need to focus on opening up quality employment avenues for the people. Speaking at a youth conclave organised by IMC Chamber of Commerce, Sinha said creating quality jobs is a major challenge for India at a time when technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are staring at us, which can be argued as "job diminishing" ones, the member of Parliament from Hazaribagh said. "We... need to do a much better job of creating high quality employment for our young people... we have to be able to create high quality, formal jobs very very quickly and that rate is not sufficient right now," the former Union minister said. He said India has over a billion people in the working age of between 18-64 years at present, and over 200 million will be added to the workforce over the next decade, which makes it a significantly important task. "When you ask

Led by IT sector, 84% Indian firms want to hire people with green skills

A new survey, however, showed that the net employment outlook in the upcoming quarter is lower than the same quarter in FY23

Do not see any threat to jobs from current form of AI: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the Centre will regulate AI technology to ensure that it does not harm digital citizens

Industrial development to be encouraged for employment creation: K'taka CM

Emphasis will again be laid on skill development of the youth, he added

Despite world-beating growth, India's lack of jobs threatens its young

Economists say more and more job-seekers, especially the young, are looking for low-paid casual work or falling back on unreliable self-employment, even though the broader Indian economy is growing

Real Estate, BFSI hiring in India continued to grow in April: Report

Among the large metros, Kolkata, Pune, and Hyderabad exhibited recruitment surges of 28 per cent, 22 per cent, and 19 per cent, respectively, in hiring for the real estate sector

79% of employers keen to increase their apprentices intake in Jan-Mar qtr

Around 79 per cent of employers polled are keen to increase their apprentice pool in the last quarter of this financial year in order to develop a strong talent pipeline, a report said on Monday. Teamlease's Apprenticeship Outlook Report for Q4 2022 (January to March 2023) indicates that 79 per cent of employers are foreseeing to increase their apprentice intake in the fourth quarter 2022 (JanuaryMarch 2023). Interestingly, the report revealed that more employers (about 37 per cent) are willing to increase their intake due to the fact that apprentices are real-time skilled talent available in the market. Additionally, 23 per cent of employers feel that apprentices also help unlock business growth opportunities, the report added. The Apprenticeship Outlook Report is based on a survey covering 14 cities and 24 industries. The report has surveyed 597 employers from January to March 2023. The report further revealed that 12 out of the 24 industries see an increase in their Net ...

PwC will hire around 30,000 people in India in couple of years: Chairman

Global consultancy firm PwC will hire around 30,000 people in India in the next couple of years, company Chairman Bob Moritz said on Friday. In a panel discussion at the Global Business Summit organised by the Economic Times, he said India can be a supplier of that talent to the world, thanks to its technology advancements and the use of AI (artificial intelligence), which the rest of the world doesn't have that skill set. "So, today we've got about 31,000 people. Just so we're clear, and some of that's been reported on this, and our plan is to hire another 30,000 in the next couple of years. "That's the boldness," Moritz said when asked about the company's headcount in India. Schneider Electric Chairman & CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire also said he was "super optimistic about India". "There is no other place in the world where we have invested most, more than in India over the past 20 years...India is today our third largest business in the world after the US and China," he ...

CM Gehlot announces 100,000 jobs across Rajasthan current financial year

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday announced one lakh recruitment in the coming financial year as he called the state budget "excellent." Gehlot made the announcement while replying to a debate on the budget for the financial year 2023-24 in the state assembly. "While presenting the budget on February 10, I had announced to ensure recruitment on the vacant posts in the coming financial year in addition to the appointments which are under process," he said. "In this sequence, now I announce one lakh more recruitment in the coming (financial) year," the CM added.

Education challenges of employment

India suffers from a poorly educated workforce that is confined to poor quality jobs. Most employment is informal and in the unorganised sector