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 Cognizant and CoreLogic enter into service agreement
27 July, 2011
Cognizant will acquire CoreLogic Global Services Private Limited (CoreLogic India), the India-based captive operations of CoreLogic. The purchase price will consist of a cash payment of approximately $50 million, plus adjustments for working capital and other charges or credits which will be determined at closing.Together, they expect to provide end-to-end business process and analytics solutions across the mortgage value chain, from loan origination, escrow, title and closing services through s...


Read from the former global HR head of Infosys about the golden rules of campus recruitment
June 24, 2011             Category : Campuses - College / Universities


It is the start of yet another campus calendar and smart companies are already sitting down to chalk out their game plan for the coming year.

Clarity on requirements and realism in shortlisting campuses are cornerstones for a successful sourcing strategy. Why target a tier-1 institute, unrealistically, when the requirement is best met at a relatively lower-tiered institute?

Infosys, Tata groups ahead of Google and Facebook in thought leadership
22 June, 2011
According to UK based consultancy firm, Infosys and Tata Group are ahead of Google & Facebook in thought leadership. While the country's second largest IT services provider Infosys took the top slot in the list, that defines thought leaders as organisations or individuals that change attitudes and behaviours, Tata Group made it to second spot. Some of the other top ten thought leaders included L&T, Maruti-Suzuki and State Bank of India . Amongst the global firms, Applet took the top sp...  

Four medical students expelled for ragging
20 June, 2011
Four medical students from, The Agartala Government Medical College (Agartala) were expelled for six months for ragging first year student. Sravan Saini, from Rajasthan joined the college through central quota and has been ragged over the days by four 2nd year students and when things seemed to be out of control, he complained to the principal through his father. Minister for higher education Anil Sarkar has directed the college authorities to take strict action against students found indulgin...  

100 million jobs by 2025
10 June, 2011
India will soon have a national policy on manufacturing that will help create 100 million additional jobs by 2025 and boost economic growth. "For the first time we are going to have a policy dedicated to the manufacturing sector. Industry welcomes the in-principle nod given by the prime minister to the draft National Manufacturing Policy and hopes that a final policy will be announced within a month," Harsh Mariwala, president of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) sa...  

Do you want to join Infosys
09 June, 2011
Each employee at Infosys - India's second biggest tech firm -- is worth over Rs 1 crore, the company said in an additional note filed with regulatory exchanges last month. As India's outsourcing sector continues to grow bigger and more complex, experts and software professionals want these companies to start valuing their staff on their balance sheets.  With over 2.5 million professionals and nearly $70 billion in revenues, India's top technology firms like Infosys are now valuing their staff i...  

Banking sector has a great future
06 June, 2011
The explosion of banking sector leading to creation of lakhs of jobs should be grabbed by the youngsters as a career in banking not only gives social status but also professional satisfaction of serving the society, said Mahpara Ali, Chief General Management and Head of Strategic Training Unit of State Bank of India. Ms. Mahpara Ali, who is one of the first woman officers to join SBI in the early 70s, said the banking sector is vibrant today and it has a great future with services bound to expa...  

IITs, IISc. are not the best in the world, says C.N.R. Rao
06 June, 2011
Even as a debate is raging on the quality of premier higher learning institutions in the country, noted scientist and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister C.N.R. Rao on Tuesday observed that “IITs and the Indian Institute of Science [IISc.] are not the best in the world.” Addressing the inaugural session of a one-day seminar on “Frontiers of nanotechnology” organised here by the Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Professor Rao said: “The saddest thi...  

Students need motivation, not just guidance
06 June, 2011
If you find your way into the top ten engineering colleges, then do not bother about the stream you opt for, said educational consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi. According to him, Computer Science and IT, Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering are the areas that will generate jobs in the next few years. “Students must make a career choice by tracking the future trend only and not going by trends in the past,” he said. There is a major boom in energy sector as well around the...  

Techies quit job to 'milk' dairy
03 June, 2011
Four software engineers, former employees of Wipro in Bangalore quit their jobs four months ago and made a paradigm shift right out of the world of technology. They turned entrepreneurs, and set up a milk dairy in Kodihalli village of Channarayapatna taluk of Hassan district. In the milk business, there's no escape from mooing cows, dung and calving, but Shashi Kumar, Ranjith Mukundan, Venkatesh Sesasaye and Praveen Nale have no regrets about giving up 15 years of high-flying careers and plum s...