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Himani Chandna is a Senior Special Correspondent at BW Businessworld covering issues around pharmaceuticals, healthcare, job market, talent acquisition and management of human resources
India adds nearly one crore new workers into the existing workforce, annually -- roughly equivalent to the total population of Czech Republic or Portugal. However, India created just 2.31 lakh jobs in 2016
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With price control over cardiac stents and generic prescription proposal, medical device makers and pharmaceutical giants are expected to hand over pink slips to their employees
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Meet Paul Dupuis, new chief executive officer of Randstad India. He took over the company from Murthi. K Uppalari, CEO & MD of Randstad from past 4 years. Dupuis has served the industry for 24 years and worked in Asia, Japan and Korea. He shows distinctive leadership qualities in recruitment and business development. Talking to the BW people's Himani Chandna, Dupuis said he wants to take Randstad from peer place staffing to a professional services and total HR solutions partner. Edited Excerpts
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Amid fears of massive job cuts in the IT sector, Tata Motors added another layer of turbulence in the job market. The company, in May, has slashed its managerial workforce by up to 1,500 people as part of an organisational restructuring exercise.
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Pilot cum politician, Rajiv Pratap Rudy is excited to see the countries such as Afghanistan, Malawi, Bangladesh and Bhutan which are absolutely keen to learn from India’s experiences of skill training. Rudy, union minister of state (independent charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), who had already served as a minister in the Vajpayee government, believes there is a very stable government at the centre, which has given certain directions that are visible. In conversation with BW Businessworld’s Suman K. Jha and Himani Chandna, Rudy says that more and more women candidates are coming forward to learn skills. Edited excerpts:
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Meet the chief human resource officer of world’s largest human resource (HR) managers’ lobby. He is Jeff Pon, chief human resource and strategy officer of United States based association, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In a casual chat with Himani Chandna of BW People, Pon said with Donald Trump’s tightening of hiring of foreigners, many more protectionist measures are expected to come up across countries. Hence, the need of the hour is to build talent pipeline locally.
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The corporate training market, which is over $130 billion in size, is on the verge disruption. Companies are bidding adieu to traditional tools such as Learning Management Systems (LMS). Infact, globally, the companies have started buying new tools for digital learning, and rebuild a whole new infrastructure to help employees learn. Experts believe that the impact of platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Workplace by Facebook could be enormous. Gillermo Miranda, Vice President, Global Learning & Employee Enablement at technology giant, IBM shares the latest trends in corporate learning in a chat with BW People’s Himani Chandna.
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An American multinational technology company, International Business Machines Corporation, commonly referred to as IBM, is known for its disruptive technologies that are aimed to change the way workforce management functions. IBM leverages neuroscience, curates content, and reuses digital patterns to enrich the learning experience from initial contact with the learner through post-learning follow-up and measurement.
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IT jobs are being replaced by robots, for cost optimization companies are letting go some employees.
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Coursera, India's largest online education company appoints Raghav Gupta as India Country Director.
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