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Sakaar Anand, VP-HR, CA Technologies advises you on questions to ask at your next job interview! Candidates often wonder if it is actually right to question their prospective employer about the job. Will the employer like it or get offended? It is an important window for a candidate to understand the mindset of their prospective employer. And, if candidates' feel they will fumble during the interview, it is wise to prepare a list of questions to grill the interviewer. However, the real trick is to choose the right questions. For mid and senior level jobs, some important questions that candidates should get answered are: * Please describe the top three things that really drive results for this company. * What is the company's culture and leadership philosophy like? * What do you expect me to accomplish in the first 60 to 90 days in this role? * What is the typical career trajectory for a person in this role and this role's contributio...

It isn't intended to crush young dreams. But for over a million engineering students who are stepping into placement season this month, Nasscom President Som Mittal's confirmation that IT hiring will indeed decline 22% to 1.8 lakh this year does just that. "Ten years ago, we could hire half the graduating engineering students, but now, there is global uncertainty, automation, non-linear growth," Mittal told ET even as a new engineering placement season gets underway in a rather bleak economic backdrop. "We cannot provide jobs to all." As it is, a fifth to a third of engineering graduates run the risk of being unemployed. Many others will take jobs well below their technical qualifications, an ET special feature had reported recently. That's the environment in which hundreds of non-IIT and second-tier colleges are now getting into a placement overdrive. They are roping in newer industries, inviting more compa...

Rising automation and low attrition in IT sector may act as a dampener for job seekers with industry body Nasscomexpecting hiring to decline by up to 17 per cent to 1,50,000 in the current fiscal. The 108-billion dollar Indian IT-ITeS sector provides employment to about 3 million professionals. "I think we will have net additions of 150,000-180,000 this year. Last year it was about 180,000," Nasscom President Som Mittal said when asked about the hiring environment. Explaining the decline, he added: "It might be less than last year, as it is getting non-linear and lower-end jobs are getting automated. The profile is changing and we need more Domain experts." Attrition levels have also come down to around 14-15 per cent against the industry average of 20 per cent earlier. Mittal also said that campus hiring may fall significantly due to change in hiring patterns. "Campus hiring may be 60 per cent of what it was last year," he said, adding that now ...

 Kerala aims to have at least 3,000 IT companies by 2020 under the state's new Seed Support System for early-stage investment to assist new entrepreneurs under the new IT policy of nurturing "one product startup a day", Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said Sunday. Speaking via video link at the Weekend@Startup Village celebrations, he also announced the setting up of a state-of-the-art Kerala Technology Innovation Zone at the Kinfra Hi-Tech park where India's first telecom business incubator, Startup Village, is currently located. Startup Village is the first public-private partnership incubator in the telecom sector of the country located here and has already an innovation zone set up byBlackBerry. The new hub will have a built-up space of 500,000 square feet with all facilities required for a world class innovation ecosystem and will nurture startup companies across a number of sectors including IT and biotechnology. The ...

More or less everyone has a grudge or two against their job. LinkedIn has brought out some reasons as to why employees may be hating their job, the Huffington Post reported. A recent study by Dale Carnegie Training showed that nearly 75% of workers are not fully engaged at their jobs. One of the major reasons is that an employee's friends are having an amazing experience at another company, which makes them envious. The transparency of employee benefits and perks at other companies can sometimes lead them to dream about working elsewhere. Another reason could be that the workers believe that he/she is not valued. A person also feels dissatisfied with his/her job if they find no room for advancement. Many workers feel stuck in their company, which often leads to job hopping. Being paid less than what is deserve also leaves employee disenchanted with their work. Rules can also ruin a team, as it becomes frustrating when an employee is not able their own decisions. The pass...

Over the past couple few weeks, I have been reading & thinking about the salary hikes that the companies are doling out. This year, it has been challenging to provide “good” pay hikes to most of the employees and most of them are ending up feeling disappointed, cheated even. There were even  dharnas staged because companies could not fulfil their promises of hiring them after graduation. There was a time in the early – 2000s when the IT industry was the sunrise sector in India. 20+ % pay hikes were very common for even average performers in organizations. This behaviour carried on till 2008-09 when the global financial crisis unleashed itself. The financial crisis affected most mid to senior level employees and things changed for most of them. Even during this time, young graduates ( The last 1 year has been tough on the Indian IT sector  Most companies are reporting flat growth, squeezed margins, and record low utilization levels. A few of the companies have reported that...

Recruiting firm CyberCoders has released new data about the skills most in demand for the highest paying technology jobs this year. The company analysed over 10,000 tech companies and their hiring requirements to compile the list of the hottest skills in the tech space.  Data from CyberCoders reveals that candidates who have experience with iOS development,cloud computing programming and front-end development skills are most in demand in today's tech career landscape. The top 10 tech skills for 2013, as per CyberCoders are listed below: 1. Mobile development (iOS, Android);     2. Cloud computing (AWS, Azure);     3. Front end development (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript);     4. UX/UI design;     5. Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL);     6. C#;     7. Ruby on rails;     8. Java;     9. PHP; and     10. Linux   "A common theme among these technology skil...