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GCCs open multiple career opportunities for freshers
India's economy has experienced significant growth due to the establishment of global capability centres (GCCs), which benefit from the country's skilled workforce, low operational costs, and digitisation. These offshore units, set up by multinational corporations, centralise various business functions and operations to improve productivity, presenting numerous job and career advancement opportunities, especially for early career professionals.
Digital India sparks rush for new-age software engineers
Demand for software engineers trained in emerging technologies is rising, creating 9-10 lakh additional jobs in the next 18 months. The surge is fueled by advancing technology and digital adoption, leading to fresh opportunities in AI and related fields like AI specialists and data scientists. GenAI is enabling non-technical employees to become citizen developers.
Ciel HR’s Aditya Narayan Mishra on IT hiring and salary trends
Aditya Narayan Mishra highlights the impact of AI, ML, cloud, and full stack development on pay packages. Global competency centers pay freshers more for problem-solving skills. Market shifts towards newer technologies, impacting attrition rates and skill demand. Further, Mishra says five years ago, the percentage of people on contract staff were less than 10%, but today it is closer to 20%.
79% IT/ITeS employers foresee increase in apprentice hiring: Quess Corp
Currently, more than 900,000 youths who are apprentices are in the age group of 23-26 years. As per the Quess report, employers in the IT/ITES sectors are likely to pay Rs 11,000-75,000 per month to apprentices aged 20-24 years. However, the stipend pay for other sectors differs depending on educational qualifications. In the current scenario of apprentice hiring, registration of women candidates has seen nearly a sevenfold increase in the past five years, to about 148,000 in 2022-23 from 22,427 in 2018-19.
Looking for a job in IT sector? Develop these skillsets to be in demand
Kapil Joshi, Deputy CEO, Quess IT Staffing, a provider of staff augmentation solutions, says that they have observed a sustained demand for early career professionals in roles related to data engineering, development (Java, Angular), ERPs, Power BI, network engineering, cybersecurity and UI/UX.
Of engineering and beyond: Choosing STEM careers of today and tomorrow
The demand for engineering seats is declining as competition intensifies and employability becomes an issue for engineering students. However, emerging technologies are creating new opportunities in STEM careers. Engineers of the future need interdisciplinary learning, digital technology skills, and a broad social perspective. There is a gap between college curriculum and industry requirements, highlighting the importance of upskilling.
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Google Cloud, ChatGPT top upskilling list of working professionals: Report
According to Udemy's Q2 Workplace Learning Index, there has been a significant increase in demand for courses on emerging technologies. Enrolment in Google Cloud courses saw a 515% increase, while courses on ChatGPT experienced a 504% increase in consumption among Indian learners. Design Thinking also saw a rising demand, with a 145% increase.
Privacy-focused AI firm DynamoFL raises $15 million from Nexus, Canapi Ventures
The company said it will use the fresh raise to double down on its team strength, while bolstering its engineering capabilities across the machine learning domain, and strengthening its devops function. With the current infusion, DynamoFL has raised $19.3 million till date.
Tech gigs: Having this skillset will make you most wanted in the IT sector
More IT firms are hiring gig workers amid the current volatile business environment, with 6 out of 10 organizations preferring to employ contract-based professionals. As per Awign, a leading work-as-a-service platform, there is a high demand for gig workers in tech roles such as Java developers, mobile app developers, data engineers, front-end developers, and cloud architects/engineers.
Degree apprenticeship learnings and outlook
The degree apprenticeship programme in India provides the opportunity for young Indians to generate income while undergoing industry-specific training. The programme takes place under a contract between an employer and apprentice and is now mandatory for companies with over 30 employees. Results from the last quarter indicated a 3% decline in the net apprenticeship outlook for the Jan-March 2023 period, but industries such as engineering, industrial, and electrical and electronics have been seeing an increasing demand.
Non-metro cities drive jobs growth in March, shows Naukri JobSpeak index
Indian companies approached hiring with caution during March with the Naukri JobSpeak Index flat compared to the previous month, and up only 5% year-on-year. The size of the non-tech sectors and non-metropolitan areas that led employment activity prompted the 7% decline in new positions in the IT sector compared to March 2018. Recruitment for tech professionals in areas including big data engineering, DevOps and software development fell by up to 20%.
Around 45,000 AI job openings in India; data scientists, ML engineers most sought after
According to TeamLease Digital’s research, freshers who become data engineers can earn up to Rs. 14 lakh per annum, ML engineers up to Rs 10 lakh, data scientists up to Rs 14 lakh, devops engineers up to Rs 12 lakh, data architects up to Rs 12 lakh, BI analysts up to Rs 14 lakh, and database admins up to Rs 12 lakh.
Eight in 10 women employed in tech roles work in non-tech companies: Survey
The survey was conducted with more than 20,000 engineering graduates from various streams across India. It revealed that the average score of women stood at 27% against 31% of men in 2020, which increased to 40% as against 39% of men in 2021, thereby showcasing how women were better prepared for employment than men. However, in 2020, the average score of women declined to 25% as against 28% of men, the first decline in three years mainly due to the adoption of the hybrid mode of learning.
How to build a career in software quality assurance. Here are three tips
Every organization, big or small, offers IT QA opportunities based on the available roles and candidate fit. Aspirants must conduct their own research on the roles that would match their techno-functional skill combination and their personalities. This can help them craft their CV to move closer to their target role.
Industry-ready IT professionals still in high demand across companies
“While the hiring landscape will revive in a few quarters, the need for skilled, industry-ready talent will always be the need of the hour, across domains in the IT sector,” Srikanth Karra, chief human resources officer, Mphasis, told ET.
Telecom sector intent to hire rises ahead of 5G roll outs: TeamLease
The telecom department has completed the allocation of the 5G spectrum to the telecom providers and the three largest players are readying themselves to launch their services.
Skills, experience more important than academic qualifications, degrees: Survey
Scaler, an edtech startup for upskilling students and working professionals, capturies the current hiring trends and demands of the Indian tech industry in its Hiring Trends Report 2022, which surveyed 81 major IT product and services companies in India.
Ness Digital acquires Risk Focus, deal likely to close in Q2 FY21
The acquisition of Risk Focus strengthens Ness’ position as a full lifecycle digital engineering firm, CEO Ranjit Tinaikar says.
Credit Suisse to hire 1,000+ IT employees in India
The hiring plans are part of the organisation’s continued commitment to its presence in the country and its vision to establish India as a centre for technology innovation across the bank globally.
Tech Mahindra acquires DigitalOnUs
The acquisition will help augment its hybrid-cloud offerings for enterprise customers globally and strengthen cloud-native development, hybrid cloud infrastructure and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) automation.
Zoom to open technology center in Bangalore, hire talent
The company will immediately begin recruiting DevOps engineers, IT, Security, and Business Operations headcount in the area.
It’s raining big offers for cloud technology talent
Large technology companies such as Amazon, TCS, Accenture and NTT-Netmagic, and banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) firms are offering up to 30% pay hike for roles such as cloud infrastructure engineers and chief information security officers as cloud migration picks up pace across sectors, staffing firm executives said.
More women across India Inc, but very few make it to top roles
From less than 15% of the workforce around 2010, women now make up significant number of hires.
DevOps offers highest tech pay: Study
The median salary for devops specialists is $125,000 in the US, while their Indian counterparts get $15,000 for commensurate skills. In the UK and Germany, it’s $60,000.
‘The software industry in India needs to reinvent itself’
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India to see over 1 million cloud computing job roles by 2022: Report
Companies are currently investing 4.5 times the rate of traditional IT spending in cloud infrastructure, and it is expected to grow even faster by 2020, according to a report by ed-tech platform for executives Great Learning.
CBRE appoints Vima Philips as head of Product and Engineering, Asia Pacific
CBRE launched its first dedicated real estate technology centre for the Asia Pacific region, in Gurugram, India earlier this year.
Bengaluru: The destination of choice for aspiring minds
2018 promises to be a compelling one for IT sector as companies look to ramp up headcounts & focus on providing upskilling opportunities.
Startups all set to engineer hiring rush at tech colleges
Up for grabs are roles of data analyst, AI engineer, user-experience engineer, mobile software developer and AG engineer, with annual pay of Rs 9-16 lakh.
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