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Data on jobs: Be careful what you wish for

Data on jobs: Be careful what you wish for

The original sin in labour market data and strategy comes from the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (Arjun Sengupta report) that not only created confusion...

Forget all doomsday forecasts, India’s IT employment will double in five years

Forget all doomsday forecasts, India’s IT employment will double in five years

Indian IT companies have gracefully transitioned three S-curves—mainframe, client server and internet—but their ability to reinvent themselves over the next 10 years depends on a massive re-imagining of...

Disrupting Higher Education

Disrupting Higher Education

The first step is policy makers accepting that the future of jobs is unknowable. The 50+ reports by various countries predicting where jobs will be in the future...

Fake agents leave job seekers in port project all at sea

Fake agents leave job seekers in port project all at sea

Public cautioned “We came to know that some agents are collecting bio-data promising jobs in Enayam port,” said a port trust official. Nor is this an isolated case:...

Dismal jobs scene blights GDP growth

Dismal jobs scene blights GDP growth

Worse than NSSO estimates The BSE-CMIE data indicates that the employment situation “may be worse than what is depicted in the NSSO survey,” said Amitabh Kundu, Professor, Institute...

Spurious MBA education – a useless, fancy, label

Spurious MBA education – a useless, fancy, label

Still, don’t parents and caretakers carry out even a semblance of due diligence before shelling out their hard-earned money on little-known institutes with high-decibel claims? However, the lies...