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USCIS to accept H1B applications from April 1 – fiscal 2011 H1B

The USCIS to start accepting the applications for H-1B visas from April one for the fiscal 2011. H-1B is the most sought visa by Indians.  In a statement, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it will accept petitions for 65,000 H-1B visas as mandated by the Congress.

The first 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on [...]

20 – 50 % rise in Salary for IIM-C grads

Indian Institute of Management – Calcutta has also recorded Rs 1 Crore per annum Salary offer like IIM-A & IIM-B.  The highest annual package offered was Rs.18 lakh, the average being Rs.11.37 lakh. Despite the slowdown in the manufacturing sector, all 28 self-sponsored students of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C)’s post-graduate programme for executives [...]

India – More women workforce to join Corporate this year

Recruitment experts say that more women are likely to join the corporate workforce in the country this year, with overall hiring prospects are picking up and companies increasingly believing in maintaining a healthy male-female ratio.

IT services firm ITC Infotech’s HR Head Anand Talwar said, “Yes, more women are expected to join this year into the [...]

Jobs at Convergys : Convergys set to hire 1K

Here is some good news for the job-seekers in NCR region. Convergys Corporation is all set to hire more than 1,000 employees in India, over the next 3 months. All of these openings are at their Gurgoan centre. 
Convergys is listed on the NewYork Stock Exchange and has around 75,000 employees world-wide. It deals in relationship [...]

IIM-B Final placement season: Raining jobs there

..Already around 100 students out of the total 250 have got jobs from investment banks and consulting firms with salary in the range of 15-20% higher than the last year’s salary. People familiar with the placements said the firms will be offering average domestic salary in the range of Rs 13-22 lakh per annum. On the other hand, international salary package, when converted into Indian rupees, is expected to reach Rs 1 crore..

Mega Outsourcing deals are back: Billions of $ rolling in

Mega size outsourcing deals for Indian companies are back. One such example was the latest $1.5 billion British Petroleum ’s IT contract worth $1.5 billion awarded to Indian vendors TCS, Infosys and Wipro early this year. Experts suggest that there are more such projects in pipeline. With US trying to bring in anti-outsourcing laws and [...]

Record salary at IIM-A placements: Job market in green again

In a striking proof to the theory that the worst is over for the job market, Deutsche Bank which had set the upper ceiling in 2008 by offering a Rs 1.44-crore package, has broken that record this year at IIM-A.
Deutsche Bank, back at the campus after a year, bettered its previous offer and had made [...]

Jobs at Maruti : Maruti Suzuki to hire 3,000

Maruti Suzuki is set to hire 3000 people over the next three years. Maruti Suzuki, the market leader in India, has been doing high on sales number, as said here earlier. Thanks to the news of hike in car prices, coming in from everywhere.

It currently has 7,500 employees and is looking forward to more hiring [...]

Jobs at Wipro : Wipro to hire 7,500 freshers

After the hiring news from Infosys and TCS, we have hiring news from another Indian IT giant, Wipro.

Wipro is also back on its hiring spree, and is set to hire 7,500 freshers. For this, Wipro will visit the campuses to get a hold of the 2010 pass-outs. It plans to recruit both engineers and non-engineers.
Wipro [...]

Infosys to hire 15,000

Indian IT giant, Infosys announced today that it is looking forward to acquistions & is also back on its hiring spree.
It plans to hire 15,000 in this year. And has already started visting campuses for recruitment. 
They had already given a raise (in salary) in October, about 8 per cent on an average in India.
The company is looking [...]