HR practitioners and L&D professionals welcome Union Budget 2017-18
New Delhi: The Union Budget 2017-18 has proposed many initiatives in the various areas of the skill landscape: Job creation, skill development and improving quality of higher education. HR fraternity and Learning & Development (L&D) practitioners have given a thumbs-up to the Budget. Commenting on the Union Budget, Ms Achal Khanna, CEO, SHRM India said,”The […]
Read More →How to surface the elephant in the room? L&D global Mumbai Chapter Meet has the answer
Mumbai: At the L&D global Mumbai Chapter Meet on 28 January 2017, Mr Shyam Iyer, Tata Power SED HR Head, shared some great insights on surfacing the elephant in the room. “We have all heard about the elephant in the room. Everyone have different types of elephants in their personal and professional lives. Some have […]
Read More →Prosci expands presence in India as Marg joins the Prosci Global Affiliate Network
Colo/Bangalore: Prosci, the world leader in change management products and benchmarking research, announced that Marg, based in Bengaluru and with offices through the country, will start offering Prosci services including our Certification training, advisory services and enterprise licenses in India as a member of the Prosci Global Affiliate Network (GAN). Marg will initially provide open […]
Read More →India CHRO Forum, an exclusive platform for senior HR Professionals, launched by Sodexo India and Paul Writer
Mumbai: India CHRO Forum, an exclusive platform for senior HR Professionals, is launched by Sodexo BRS India in association with Paul Writer. It is the first-of-its-kind community in India for senior HR professionals where strategic themes and topics of current HR practices will be shared, discussed and mentored. The India CHRO Forum has an online […]
Read More →More than half of employees do overtime at work: TimesJobs study
Mumbai: Work-life balance is a pipe dream for employees in India. Working overtime under work load pressure is principal road block for achieving Work-life balance. A new TimesJobs study revealed that nearly 40% of both male and female employees put in around 10-12 hours in a regular day at work. Further, more than 70% male […]
Read More →AasaanJobs kickstarts new vertical Pharma Recruitment service
New Delhi: AasaanJobs (www.aasaanjobs.com), one of India’s leading online recruitment marketplace that connects entry-level job seekers with employers, has launched its new service in pharma recruitment, in a bid to expand its verticals in job search and employment. Now, AsaanJobs will provide its services in pharma staffing for both permanent and contractual job roles. Job […]
Read More →Quotas and Technology are the only ways to fix gender gap in workplace: World Economic Forum Meet 2017
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland: What are the solutions for gender gap in the corporate world? Quotas and technology appear to be the most powerful tools to address the issue. “In the last few years, progress has slowed down,” said Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the 47th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. IMF Chief […]
Read More →Artificial Intelligence must be designed to augment human capability instead of replacing them
Davos, Switzerland: We are at the Fourth Industrial Revolution. To cope with emerging challenges, development of artificial intelligence (AI) must be guided by one overarching principle – technology must augment, not replace, human capability and opportunity. Experts speaking at an interactive session on artificial intelligence at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting agreed that technology […]
Read More →ZingHR receives CIO CHOICE 2017 Award in HR & Global payroll services for SMEs
Mumbai: ZingHR, the new age employee-centric cloud HCM Platform, bagged the CIO CHOICE 2017 Award in HR & Global Payroll Services for the SME category. CIO CHOICE celebrated its 5th Anniversary, the only independent ICT Vendor Recognition platform – Voice of CIOs in India. The marquee 5th Annual CIO CHOICE Recognition ceremony saw a gathering […]
Read More →Emotional intelligence makes business sense: L&D Global Pune Meet
Pune: Learning and Development (L&D) Global’s Pune Chapter meet was held on 14 January 2017 with the theme “I am still learning”. Two key note sessions have been hosted at the chapter meet. Prof MS Pillai, Director, Sadhana Centre for Management & Leadership Development, delivered talk on how to measure learning effectiveness through positive behavioural […]
Read More →Attrition rate for TCS falls further in Q3FY17
Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services exporter, added 18,362 employees on a gross basis in Q3 FY17 while 6,978 employees on a net addition. The total employee strength of TCS at the end of Q3 stood at 378,497 on a consolidated basis. There is impressive performance in the human resources department of […]
Read More →BankBazaar takes cloud HR route via PeopleStrong Alt
Gurgaon: BankBazaar, the world’s first Neutral Online Marketplace to provide instant rate quotes on loans, has selected PeopleStrong Alt, a born-on-cloud HR SaaS technology, to implement cloud technology in their HR practices. The company, which has more than 1000 employees spread across five locations, is planning to transform the employee experience by automating HR specifically […]
Read More →IIM Bangalore presents Annual Women Leadership Summit on 15 January 2017
Bangalore: Women in Management (WIM) Club at IIM Bangalore will host the 3rd Annual Women Leadership Summit on Sunday, 15 January 2017 at the IIM Bangalore campus. The theme of this year summit is To the Helm while this year edition has a stellar line-up of speakers. The Annual Women Leadership Summit is a flagship […]
Read More →Axis Bank launches Axis Academies to strengthen its learning and skill architecture
Mumbai: Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank, has launched first of its kind Academies, dedicated skill and learning platform, with reputed partners to enhance productivity of its 56,000 workforce. Axis Banks plans to nurture the traditional banking skills with a new age lens, titled Twin-Tracking. This employee skilling and learning initiative aims at […]
Read More →Edify Consultants launches Mobile App to measure ROI accurately on training & development
Mumbai: Edify Consultants Pvt. Ltd, a Mumbai based people development and training consulting company, has designed and developed a complete training management solution. By leveraging this platform, Learning and Development (L&D) professionals can now track and measure training effectiveness end to end. This solution is known as NODL, an intelligent Smartphone Enabled mobile application, has […]
Read More →Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2017 to remain pen-paper based
Jamshedpur: Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2017 will be on the similar pattern like previous years. The entrance test is to follow the Pen-Paper format like every year. XAT 2017 will be held on 8 January 2017. It will have four sections (i) Verbal and Logical Ability (ii) Decision Making (iii) Quantiative Ability and Data Interpretation […]
Read More →Companies turning to technology to reach out to right talent: SHRM India–CareerBuilder report
New Delhi: Nearly 80% organizations use technology mostly for job/social media posting, career websites, internal/external database search and background searching. However, a whopping 17% of organizations are completely unaware of the existence of any such tools for the same. These trends are revealed by Talent Acquisition & Automation research report released by Society for Human […]
Read More →Future HR leaders: People Matters honours 15 Emerging HR Leaders of India
Gurgaon: Who are the future HR Leaders in India? People Matters in association with DDI crowned 15 young HR professionals who are going to be the change-agents of the HR fraternity. In its 5th year, ‘Are You In The List 2016’ saw some of the best young HR minds battle it out in an intense […]
Read More →HR department lags behind in resolving people-related concerns: TimesJobs study
Mumbai: Addressing people-related concerns is one of the key areas where HR lags behind, considerably and which needs immediate attention along with the improved time management in acting on employee concerns. The majority of employees say they do not have good access to HR for advice and assistance, reveals the latest TimesJobs study. Nearly, 60% […]
Read More →Abhijit Bhaduri, Prabir Jha among others receive XLRI Distinguished Alumnus Awards at Annual Homecoming 2016
Jamshedpur: XLRI- Xavier School of Management, a premier B-School in India, hosted two days long celebrations of ‘Annual Homecoming 2016’ on 10th – 11th December, 2016. Around 250 XL Alumni participated in this year’s Homecoming held at XLRI Campus, Jamshedpur. On the occasion, eight prominent alumni of the institute received the Distinguished Alumnus Awards in […]
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