Meesho back as campus recruiter after a year-long gap, plans to hire over 150 students
Ecommerce platform Meesho is back at college campuses as a recruiter after skipping campus placements in 2022 for the class of 2023 as it had slowed hiring to boost profitability. It plans to hire more than 150 students from the…
Girls Sainik School, India’s first, opens in Vrindavan. Admission process explained
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday dedicated the first Sainik school for girls at Vrindavan. Along with a CBSE curriculum, military training will also be provided to students. The Sainik school will have…
CTET 2024 on January 21: How to download exam city information slip and admit cards
The Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE will conduct the 18th edition of Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) 2024 on 21 January. The test will be conducted in 20 languages in 135 cities all over the country. CBSE will…
CUET PG 2024: Registration on, link now active on official site; here are some key details
The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) PG 2024 notification has been released by the National Testing Agency (NTA). The registration link has been activated as well. Registration for the CUET PG 2024 began on December 26. One can find the…
National Insurance Company: NIACL AO recruitment 2024 notification released for 274 posts: Last date, eligibility, exam pattern, salary
NIACL AO recruitment 2024: PSU general insurance major, the National Insurance Company, announced NIACL AO Recruitment 2024. The insurance company has invited applications for 274 vacancies for Administrative Officers (Generalists & Specialists, Scale-I). As per the official notification, the registration…
SSC GD Recruitment 2024 application last date today; here’s how to apply
SSC GD Recruitment registration for 2024 is scheduled to end today (December 31). The registration is for these posts: Constable (GD) in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), SSF, and Rifleman (GD) in Assam Rifles. Registration can be done at the…
IT executive exodus: Explainer: A primer on breach of contract, lawsuits
Senior C-suite executives moving to rival companies is common. As are non-compete clauses as part of employment contracts by employers while making top management employee appointments. Yet lawsuits against employees for contract violation are not a frequent phenomenon in India….
LSR: Class of 2024: LSR tops DU as undergrad lands record Rs 49 lakh offer
Mumbai | New Delhi: A final year economics student from the Class of 2024 at Delhi University’s Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) has landed a job with an annual salary of ₹48.9 lakh offered by a global bank…
Both men and women seek white-collar gig jobs, but for different reasons
New Delhi: It is an unequal world when it comes to white-collar gig jobs. While women take up white-collar freelance roles primarily to enable them to stay in the workforce, men choose independent roles to build their professional brand, according…
TeamLease EdTech, IIT Patna and NSDC ink MOU to strengthen graduate employability
TeamLease EdTech, IIT Patna and NSDC have signed a MoU to mark their partnership and accelerate the development of employability-focused large-scale innovative learning programs. This collaboration intends to provide the option of work-linked hybrid degree programmes. The MOU between TeamLease…
AI, diversity, inclusion will take centre stage in 2024: Indeed survey
Employees and employers geared up to adopt artificial intelligence at the workplace, with 59 per cent of employees are very confident in their ability to adapt and utilise AI tools, says a survey. According to an Indeed survey, going ahead,…
India attrition rate: Attrition levels drop as executives stay put in uncertain business environment
Attrition levels across India Inc dropped to 17% in 2023 from 19.7% in 2022 on the back of a subdued job market, macroeconomic headwinds, layoffs across sectors, and an uncertain future environment. As the tech industry faced a global downturn…
Assam puts up advertisement for 14,223 school teacher posts
Assam has issued an advertisement for recruitment of 14,223 school teachers across the state, Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said on Wednesday. In a series of posts on X, Pegu said the Directorate of Secondary Education has released the advertisement for…
XAT 2024: Admit Card released at xatonline.in, direct link and key dates here
The Xavier School of Management (XLRI) has released the admit card for the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2024. Aspirants can download the admit card from the official website www.xatonline.in, using their XAT ID and Date of Birth. Scheduled for January…
Career Wrap: Terms that defined Work and the workplace in 2023
Back in 2022, we heard about the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting as people got ready for back to office norms post COVID. 2023, with its return to office and hybrid work shifts on one hand and the ongoing technology…
Career Wrap: The evolution of hiring and firing in 2023 and beyond
In the spirit of Albert Einstein, who once remarked, ‘Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving,’ HR Heads and Job Seekers are finding new grooves to create alignment. 2023 job market was extremely…
UPSC Civil Services Exam: Free coaching admission dates announced by BHU
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has announced the admission date for its free coaching program for the Civil Services Examination 2023-24. The admission process for the free UPSC coaching is scheduled for December 30, from 9 am to 5 pm. Around…
hiring: Hiring at top companies remains on track in 2024
At least half a dozen sectoral bigwigs are leading from the front in hiring in 2024. Top companies like L&T, Tata Steel, PepsiCo, Airtel, ITC, among others, told ET that their hiring plans are on track for the coming year…
CEO searches: Stretched timelines: What’s extending the duration of CEO & CXO searches?
Mumbai: CEO and CXO searches have gotten unusually longer – sometimes extending up to 6-9 months or more from 3-4 months earlier – as many seasoned pros are dropping off at the fag end of the notice period even after…
CXOs much wanted; demand likely to exceed supply in 2024
New Delhi: Corporate India has intensified hiring for leadership roles despite a slowdown in entry-level recruitment, according to search firms, which expect a possible shortage of senior executives to meet the demand in the new year. Executives at search firms…
White-collar hiring down 6 per cent in 2023
MUMBAI: White-collar hiring in the country declined 6% on year in 2023, pulled down by sectors such as IT services, BPO/ITeS, retail, FMCG, education, and healthcare, show data put together by online jobs platform Naukri.com exclusively for ET. Companies in…
New job additions to the formal sector decline in October
New subscribers to the government’s three social security schemes declined in October, showing further stress in the formal job market, data released Friday showed. The number of new subscribers to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) Scheme declined for the third…
IIT Delhi placements: 1,000 IIT Delhi class of 2024 students have job offers in hand after phase 1 of placement
Class of 2024 at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has bagged around 1,050 job offers, including pre-placement offers (PPOs), after conclusion of phase 1 of campus placement for the academic year this month, the institute has said. Out…
CAT 2023 results announced. 14 candidates score 100 percentile. How it is calculated?
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow today announced the release of the CAT 2023 scorecard. Candidates who have appeared for the Common Admission Test can now access their scorecards on the official website of IIM CAT at iimcat.ac.in. To check…
Non-metro Cities and Towns Outpace Metros
Non-metro cities and towns were ahead of metros in the race to add white-collar jobs in 2023, driven mostly by the manufacturing and financial services sectors, according to a study by a recruitment startup. Tier-2, -3 and -4 cities and…
Women job seekers posted 44 applications every minute in 2023: Job portal
Jobs and professional networking platform apna.co said it received 23 million applications in 2023 from women job seekers for sectors like BFSI, telecom and ecommerce. “This translates to an impressive rate of 44 applications every minute,” the company said in…
industry: Fresher hiring by IT cos likely to decline in FY24: Report
Hiring of freshers is likely to decline in the current fiscal as major IT companies look to freeze intake of freshers, according to a report. In its hiring outlook for fresh IT/engineering graduates in the fiscal year 2023-24, TeamLease Digital…
Class of 2024: AI to agriculture, job aspirants have a wide menu to choose from
The next few months are crucial for final-year college students. It involves selecting a line of work, going through placement processes and interviews, and generally taking the first steps towards the rest of their lives. The process can lead to…
AI will not take away jobs, will just change the nature of it, says Eric Loeb of Salesforce
While Salesforce’s top leadership recognises the transformative power of generative AI (artificial intelligence), it believes that cannot succeed without trust and ethics at its core. ET Online caught up with the company’s executive vice-president, Global Government Affairs, Eric Loeb in…