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The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) has issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were found to be fake.   Talking to indianarrative.com on phone from Toronto, Chaman Singh Batth said that after passing +2,...

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When I was reading a newspaper in January 2023, I was amazed to see the variety and kind of careers that young people today work at, and their juniors can aspire to do likewise. And I think back to the times 60 years ago, when I was young and the choices were—science, commerce and arts. And...

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Continuing with raids after catching BJP MLA's son red-handed while accepting Rs 40 lakh bribe, the Lokayukta authorities have recovered Rs 7.62 crore in his and his aides' residences, sources confirmed on Friday, adding that raids are going on at MLA's places.   Lokayukta sleuths...

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“What could he do, poor fellow,” said my friend, “he had no choice. Naukri ka sawaal tha, na?”   He was talking about a friend of his (whom I didn’t know) who had retired from a senior position in a public sector bank (PSB).  The story was about how this 'poor fellow' had but to...

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IANS 27 February 2023
Professional networking major LinkedIn has been hit by several state-of-the-art recruitment scams after massive tech layoffs, and fraudsters are cheating those sacked by offering them jobs that do not exist.   According to the Financial Times, phony recruitments are being run by...

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The third step (probably the most important) is to understand yourself and the kind of manager you are - in order to train yourself to manage politics. Once you have a clearer understanding of yourself, your aspirations and your managerial style, you can deal with problems with others and...

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IANS 21 February 2023
At a time when the job market is hit by rising layoffs, Wipro has written to fresh recruits who have been offered Rs6.5 lakh per annum (pa), asking if they would be able to work for Rs3.5 lakh pa.   The move has come from Wipro following delays in onboarding 2022 batch of...

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IANS 17 February 2023
The National Informatics Centre (NIC), which provides critical e-governance support and state of the art solutions to the Central government as well as states, has been grappling with acute human resource shortage, as since 2014, almost 1,400 posts are lying vacant there.   According...

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A. In a pharma company where I worked at the start of my career, I found that the general manager (GM) for packaging and design, never got started on any request from the sales department unless the request came to him directly from the GM—sales (there was no marketing those days – it was...

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IANS 10 February 2023
Chinese short video-making app TikTok has sacked its entire India staff—about 40 employees—and February 28 will be their last working day.   The ByteDance-owned platform, banned in India in June 2020 over national security concerns, told its employees they would receive up to nine...

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IANS 09 February 2023
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Thursday, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said that more than 500 posts of Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) are currently vacant in the country.   The Ministry said in its reply: "As on January 31, 2023, the sanctioned strength of Air Traffic...

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There are five factors that, alone or together, provide the right ambience for politics to flourish in the corporate world. These are:   A Weak Leader   A leader consciously or unconsciously casts a shadow across the whole organisation. A strong leader, strong on intellect and...

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IANS 23 January 2023
As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.   At Google, laid-off employees included those who had previously received high...

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IANS 23 January 2023
Amid the layoffs come another bad news for employees, especially from India in the US, as Google has paused its Program Electronic Review Management (PERM), a key step in acquiring an employer-sponsored green card.   Google has sent an email to foreign employees, notifying them that...

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It is not power itself but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely.   -Lord Acton   Power and politics are an inevitable part of human life, especially if you wish to achieve success. One cannot speak of success without discussing two critical...

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One of the reasons work certificates come in so many different forms is that managers are never sure to what extent they should be transparent or opaque. Strangely, many managers are included in opacity. They avoid feedback or block it and therefore miss opportunities for self-correction and...

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The ability to resist the temptation to declare ‘I know it already’, is an ability to be discreet. Discretion is a very important attribute for a manager because carelessness and indiscretion in corporate life can do great harm to others and to the organisation. In many cases, even harm to...

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IANS 14 December 2022
Two government-owned general insurance companies—National Insurance Company Ltd and Oriental Insurance Company Ltd—have not recruited a single person for the past four/five years, Parliament was told.   The Delhi-headquartered Oriental Insurance has not hired any fresh employee for...

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A friend of mine, Supriya, recently told me that she was co-authoring a book on ‘purpose’. And this casual remark made me think on a subject to which I had not given much thought. Purpose is an aspect of life which is missing in much of our working population. Maybe, the younger and better...

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IANS 24 November 2022
As more and more companies across the spectrum sack employees amid the global meltdown, at least 853 tech companies worldwide have laid off about 137,492 employees to date, and the tally is only going north amid recession fears.   According to data from layoffs.fyi, a crowdsourced...

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