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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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,…
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…
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…
CLAT 2024: Today is the date of release of first allotment list for counselling; check all details here
The date for the release of the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs)’s initial allotment list for Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2024 counselling is today (December 26, 2023). Those who took part in the CLAT 2024 counseling process can…
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…
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-II, III and IV cities and…
sustainability: Majority of working professionals concerned about job redundancy due to emerging tech: Report
A majority of working professionals are concerned about job redundancy due to emerging technologies and believe that upskilling could help them navigate in the rapidly changing work landscape, says a report. The report drew insights from a comprehensive survey that…
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…
Just 1 in 10 engineering grads may land a job this fiscal
Hiring of fresh engineering graduates is likely to fall by over 30% this fiscal amid a freeze on fresher intake at major IT and technology companies, according to a report by tech staffing and solutions provider TeamLease Digital. Only about…
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…
Amid continuing global headwinds, many senior execs from tech companies join ‘big four’ as partners
Mumbai: Nearly two dozen senior executives from technology firms have joined the ‘big four’ professional services firms – Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG – as partners in the past year, amid continuing global headwinds for the technology industry, according to…