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It might be a while before President Donald Trump gets another chance at creating a new, "merit-based" immigration system, a keystone of his four-part plan that Congress rejected a month ago. Meanwhile, his administration is attempting to make it harder for skilled migrants to come work in the US. The State Department has terminated an Obama-era program which allows foreign entrepreneurs to start companies in the US. It is aggressively scrutinizing visa applications for skilled workers from other countries. In addition, it is considering terminating a provision that permits the spouses of those skilled workers to work in the US. The administration and its supporters claiming that they are trying to mend flaws in the current, employer-centric skilled immigration system while campaigning for a complete revamp of America's immigration system. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports reducing immigration said, "The stuff ...

At 18, Accenture Strategy makes most offers BCG, Amazon make second highest offers of 14 each 125 firms participated for placements 'Dream job' applications rise from 110 last year to 176 out of over 400 batch As against 7 last year, this year 6 students opted out of placements for own ventures Placements for the 2018 batch of the postgraduate programme in management (PGP) at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) concluded, with consulting and e-commerce majors emerging as top recruiters. Accenture Strategy made 18 offers, followed by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Amazon with 14 each. Last year, Amazon was the top recruiter, with 18 offers. IIM-A now follows a cluster-based placement process. Companies across sectors are invited in 'cohorts', spread into different days during the weeks. This year, entities from multiple domains participated across the three clusters in final placements, with students being placed across 23 cohort...

r Recently, the thought of the H1B visa is being extremely scrutinized in the public square of the world's most sparkling IT hub. Anti-H1B posters have been put in famous Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) train stations, which travel through the centre of San Francisco Bay Area. The posters will remain there for no less than an entire month in the midst of the new H1B filing season which opens 2 April through an advertisement campaign worth of $80,000. BART is one of the busiest rapid transport systems in the US with an average of around 425,000 everyday passengers and approximately 124 million yearly passengers in the 2017 financial year. As per Bay Area newspapers, at least three stations — Civic Centre, Oakland's 12th Street and 19th Street are marquee locations. Sponsored by Progressives for Immigration Reform, this anti H1B advertisement campaign is setting off the fumes among the sentiments of anti-immigrants that put Trump into the White House. Twit...

Foodpanda, one of India’s noted online marketplace for food delivery, announced the launch of its dedicated technology centre in Bengaluru, on Tuesday. According to a statement released by Foodpanda, the state-of-the-art tech centre will aim to strengthen the technology infrastructure, product capabilities and end user experience for the company. In fact, a blueprint has also been drawn to hire over 100 team members with strong tech background over the next six to nine months. The tech centre will extensively work on introducing specialised domains in machine learning and data sciences. This development would aim to offer personalised services for their restaurant partners and millions of prospective customers in throughout the country. The statement also added that the centre envisions to become a hub for the best tech talent working in the food tech space in India. The centre will also be used for aggressive research and development functions in the future while leveraging be...

NEW DELHI: Indian companies are the eighth most optimistic lot globally in terms of  hiring  intentions for April-June with 16 per cent of employers likely to add more staff during the period, while Croatia topped the pack, says a survey. ManpowerGroup  interviewed 58,000 employers in 43 countries and territories and noted that Croatia, where employers were surveyed for the first time, reported healthy hiring intentions based on unadjusted survey data. According to the survey released today by staffing firm ManpowerGroup India, workforce gains were expected across all four regions and seven industry sectors including services, finance, real estate, manufacturing, among others. The survey, conducted among over 4,600 employers across India in various segments of industries, noted that although the hiring pace will slow, few staff reductions are expected. Croatia with a net  employment  outlook of 29 per cent topped the list of being most optimistic i...

Increasing fear of cyber attacks has created new market opportunity in cybersecurity sector. The demand for cybersecurity professionals has gone up by 3x in the last one year. The industry has over 15,000 open positions related to cybersecurity. India’s cybersecurity measures are fairly poor as compared to some of the developed nations. The country needs to put in extra efforts to fight against cyber attacks. The adoption of internet and smartphones will further boost the demand in cybersecurity domain. A report by Belong research suggests a great spike in cybersecurity jobs this year. An outbound recruitment solution, Belong has published a report based on job postings by companies that recruit cyber professionals on multiple platforms. The report states, “As companies seek to bolster their defense against data security breaches, the demand for cybersecurity experts in India has outstripped supply of these professionals by three times over the past 12 months.” The de...

Here is good news for Indian IT professionals! Japan is looking to hire 2,00,000 IT professionals from India and will be issuing green cards to settle down in Japan and support the country’s swiftly growing IT infrastructure.   Addressing the India-Japan Business Partnership Seminar on March 8, Shigeki Maeda (Executive Vice President at Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO)) said, "Currently there are around 9,20,000 IT professionals in the country and there is an immediate demand for more than 2,00,000 IT professionals from India which is likely to further swell to 8,00,000 professionals by 2030." It's become essential to fill this widening gap and is looking towards India’s assistance in the IT space, with rapidly emerging technological innovations. Numerous Japanese companies feel the constraints to traditional “in-house innovation” and subsequently moving towards “most-advanced IT Technology Capabilities” for which India is the ideal partner to look ou...