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Tips to help you decode the salary offer being made to you

Tips to help you decode the salary offer being made to you

With the beginning of the new financial year and the new headcount budget allocations kicking in at most companies, we will see hiring momentum picking up across industries...

GST- A boon for the youth

GST- A boon for the youth

An authored article in People Matters Magazine talks about how the GST Bill will create a single unified market that will benefit will India Inc.; along with inputs...

Budget 2017: Staying the course on job creation

Budget 2017: Staying the course on job creation

An authored article of Manish Sabharwal in Mint talks about how the 2017 Union Budget recognizes that India’s problem is not jobs but formal enterprises. A government focused...

Safety at work: Be alert. Trust your instincts

Safety at work: Be alert. Trust your instincts

While there are complex cultural, sociological and even economic factors at play behind these statistics, women's safety itself is a primary area of concern across the country; what...

US, me, myself

US, me, myself

India’s problem is not jobs but wages, and living wages won’t come from regulatory fatwas but formalisation (our 60 million informal enterprises don’t have the productivity to pay...

Wage a war against informality

Wage a war against informality

Does not recognise diversity: There is no such thing as India’s labour market and our states have very different levels of infrastructure, productivity, clustering, skills, urbanisation and costs...

Budget 2017: 3 interventions each for improving education and skills, and increasing formal employment.

Budget 2017: 3 interventions each for improving education and skills, and increasing formal employment.

Non-fiscal interventions for formal employment Allow low-wage employees (people with less than Rs 20,000 per month salary) to choose mandatory salary confiscation: Today, low-wage employees only receive 55%...

A new story of us

A new story of us

GST and demonetisation have real economic risks like skill hysteresis, demand deferring, and informal employment cratering. But thankfully, demonetisation’s biggest human risks are unrealised; there’s been no change...

Investing in Human Capital

Investing in Human Capital

2. Creating future workforce: building human capital is a long term investment. Like any investment, there are initial costs. For on-the-job training, these costs include the time devoted...

How to draft a perfect CV

How to draft a perfect CV

Do remember the following while writing your CV: Your CV should ideally be under two pages. It should not become a booklet with multiple case studies, stories etc....

Technical education is right train on the wrong track

Technical education is right train on the wrong track

An authored article of Vikrant Pande (Provost, TeamLease Skills University) in DNA talks about how the teaching methodology in technical education is based on a faulty assumption. A...

Build those Lego Blocks Right, Your Recruiter’s Here

Build those Lego Blocks Right, Your Recruiter’s Here

Students at Christ University and New Horizon College of Engineering did not expect that they had to fly drone-like, remote-controlled inflated balloons. That was how USbased digital marketing...

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