NEW DELHI: Citigroup
on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000 more jobs,
triggering fears of more layoffs across industries.
A lowdown on some sectors and companies which
are on a hiring spree (TOI) TOI, however,
has decided to be contrarian. Instead of only
writing about pink slips, it hunted out companies
that are actually hiring. Here are the sectors
that are hiring:
SBI will hire 25,000
new hands, according to bank chairman O P
Bhat. Fresh recruitment will be done this
fiscal — 20 ,000 in the clerical cadre
and 5,000 supervisory staff.
Bank of India will hire
10,000 over the next few months. This, on
top of over 30,000 fresh recruits in 2008-09.
In next 2 years, the bank plans to take in
75,000.
Accenture will hire 10,000
people in India by 2010, says COO Stephen
J Rohleder.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,
top global management consultants, is looking
to hire 3,500 in India in three years.
MetLife, a new private
insurance company, will recruit 30,000 agents
and 2,000 managers by March 2009, says CEO
Rajesh Relan.
Aegis BPO Services will
add 1,000 people per month this fiscal.
CAMPUS HIRING
IIM Bangalore and IIM
Calcutta say all their students have got placements
for next year.
TCS will hire 30,000-35,000
people this year, says a spokesperson. TCS
made 24,789 technical campus offers for 2009-10,
a 13% jump over this year.
Infosys is sticking to
plans of hiring 25,000 people this fiscal,
says CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan. Infosys has
made around 20,000 offers for next year.
Satyam plans to hire
8,000-10,000 people this fiscal, says HR head
S V Krishnan.
L&T will hire 10,000
people over the next three years, according
to CMD A M Naik.
Maruti has decided to
hire 1,000 fresh hands despite the sluggishness
in the auto sector, says a company spokesman.
New
Delhi: His life is the kind of spectacle that television
thrives on. One reason perhaps is that Rahul Mahajan
understands television very well.
Amritsar,
November 18 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
condemned the anti-Sikh violence in the aftermath
of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, saying “whatever
happened was wrong”. 
Gulf
of Aden, Nov 19: Within days of preventing the hijack
of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s
warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank
a pirate vessel off the Somali coast. 
NEW
DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday
called on sectors like housing, automobiles, hotels
and airlines to cut prices to boost demand 
NEW
DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000
more jobs, triggering fears of more layoffs across
industries. A lowdown on some sectors and companies
which are on a hiring spree (TOI) 
