Things are looking better for students on the lookout for banking jobs, says Robbie Brown
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For two years in a row, Kwame Yankson, a business school student at the University of Virginia, has sent a flurry of résumés to investment banks. He has cold-called Wall Street recruiters. And he has landed coveted interview slots.
But the [...]

Busy executives must make time for themselves if they want to avoid burn-out  More than three-quarters of working men and women say they would gladly trade some of their income for more time flexibility. No wonder, the number of people suffering from burn-out has almost doubled in recent years.
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And yet companies are not exactly tripping [...]

A V-shaped recovery of the American economy is unlikely.
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The US faces the prospect of a jobless recovery, with painfully slow employment growth and the economy not operating at its full potential until 2013, a top Federal Reserve official said.
The official, Janet L. Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said that a [...]

Despite the increase in employment and hike in salaries, loyalty in corporate culture is fast diminishing
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In November last year, human resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates reported that India had had the highest pay rise in the Asian region with an average overall salary increase of 6.3 per cent. (Indonesia was second with 6 per [...]

Although recovery has been slow on Wall Street, bonuses look good this year, writes Graham Bowley
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It’s about as official as it gets: the big money is back on Wall Street. Flush with record profits in 2009, investment banks and securities firms paid employees in New York City an estimated $20.3 billion in annual bonuses, [...]

Vocational Education Private education firms are forging alliances with top global trainers to impart job-oriented skills to millions.
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IndiaSkills, a joint venture between Manipal Education and the UK-based vocational trainer City & Guilds, aims to train, assess and offer certificates in 500 centres all over India to a million people.
IndiaSkills is in good company. IndiaCan, [...]

If you know the kind of boss you have, things are easier to handle.
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Here are some of the common types :
Sound ’’ fury
The screamer boss seems to think that he will get his way if he raises his voice to an unconscionable level. How does a screamer end up as a boss? Some [...]

Fame doesn’t mean the world has to know you; rather you should be an icon of your environment
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The cost of fame is $18.95. If you want it second hand, you can get it cheaper at $12.89. It’s not the real thing, of course. What’s going for the price of an upmarket haircut is the [...]

European firms, unlike US ones, have tried to sustain both employment and a cutting edge,as reports NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
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The soaring glass and iron Siemens factory in Berlin opened almost exactly a century ago. At first, it churned out electricity turbines, then munitions during World War II before being looted by the Soviets, which required it [...]

The biggest beneficiary of economic liberalisation in India has been the financial services segment, which is commonly referred to as the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) segment. Liberalisation has brought in new products, new services, new players — all of which have resulted in multiple choices for financial consumers. While more choices leave consumers [...]