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Boston Consulting Foresees More Global Recruitments Business Standard Indian companies are turning geography agnostic while recruiting their senior staff. Companies especially in emerging sectors such as retail, insurance, real estate and BPO are expected to increase the recruitment of global talent since finding local talent, especially at senior levels, is becoming tougher for such companies, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Why Technology Careers and Women Don't Go Hand-in-hand Computer World What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave--most of them during their mid- to late 30s. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce and Lisa J. Servon describe the Athena Factor, their research project examining the career trajectories of such women Genpact-NIIT in JV to Create Skilled Talent Pool Global Services NIIT Institute of Process Excellence, the joint venture (JV) of Genpact and NIIT, will offer training programs in business and technology services industry CEOs' Compensation: A Matter of Concern for Executives Global Services The concerns over middle managers', team leaders', or agents' salary are passe. A recent survey shows that the executives are getting increasingly concerned about their CEOs' compensation U.S. Senators Write to IT Firms on H-1B Visa The Hindu Amid a raging debate in the U.S. on raising the cap for H-1B visa for employees from foreign countries, two Senators have written to 25 organizations, including half-a-dozen Indian IT companies such as Infosys and Wipro, seeking details on utilization of visa IT Job Security Plummets Five Times Faster NetworkWorld Outsourcing to foreign locations, weak economy puts employees in peril IT Staff Disloyalty Silicon.com Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. There's been a shift in attitudes among IT workers. Employees have assumed the mentality of the freelance workforce. This change of mentality has eroded a sense of community in IT and in the business environments servicing IT workers Another Wave of H-1Bs on the Way BusinessWeek With visas set to max out quickly again, technology companies want more. Amid rising joblessness, does America need more skilled foreign workers? Reverse Outsourcing Back on the Radar Global Services As the providers feel the need to be close to their customers but face the challenge of stringent visa legislation, they are expanding into the foreign soil by recruiting the locals Americans Seek Employment in India NDTV.com In the past two years, the New York Consulate has issued work visa to more than 900 people. Figures from the Indian Embassy in Washington show about 300 work visas being issued in the past two years, while Houston Consulate down South issued nearly 100; indicating India is gradually emerging as employment destination for the Americans as job opportunities in the U.S. has increasingly been shrinking in the past two years Want More Engineers? Provide Jobs for Them Wall Street Journal The declining number of students enrolled in technical programs has nothing to do with the quality of our schools or the natural talents and interests of our students. It has everything to do with the massive loss of domestic technology jobs to outsourcing, offshoring and the importation of foreign technology workers through the H1-B visa program Business 'Onshores' Foreign IT Staff Contractor UK More and more multinationals are hiring staff in low cost markets just to transfer them to their subsidiaries in high cost markets, like the U.K., to work in mid-level IT jobs |
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