Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday directed recruitment of 10 lakh jobs in various departments and ministries in the next 18 months, a deadline which will end barely four months before the next general elections in 2024, highlighting the ruling BJP’s imperative to neutralise the opposition’s criticism on the issue of unemployment ahead of its
On the Thursday before he was supposed to start his new job at Coinbase, Sam Maher got an email with the subject line “Update to your Coinbase offer.” The update was that there was no offer. In response to “current market conditions,” the startup had eliminated a number of incoming positions, leaving Maher suddenly unemployed…
DETROIT — General Motors has dropped a four-year degree requirement for many jobs, opting for a skills-based, people-focused hiring process instead. “From a soft skills perspective, we really needed people who can connect with people,” said Tammy Golden, GM’s executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion and head of the automaker’s work force strategy. “When…
President Cyril Ramaphosa says lack of resources means that government is unable to assist Comair to solve its financial troubles. Comair, which operates the local British Airways and low-cost carrier Kulula.com, announced this week that it had applied for liquidation. The airline operator’s business rescue practitioners (BRPs) had stated they “no longer believe that there is a reasonable prospect…