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Friday 24 February 2023

HR News: 24 Feb, 2023

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Akrivia HCM to hire 500+ in engineering, implementation, support functions

The HRMs platform is expanding business internationally across South East Asia. With ambitious plans to expand its business in South East Asia (SEA), Akrivia HCM, the Indian enterprise HRMS platform, is on the lookout for talent. It is all set to hire over 500 people in the engineering, implementation and support functions in 2023. Engineering talent with expertise in full stack development, data engineering, DevOps and other cutting-edge technologies will be preferred by this Visakhapatnam-based startup. The company, which offers multi-country localisations to unite the entire employee lifecycle in-house, has been steadily expanding into Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, as well as Qatar. Rahul Varma Kalidindi, CEO and co-founder, Akrivia HCM realises that technology is critical for “empowering the HR function to accommodate the shifts” happening in the world of work and in the job market today. Therefore, Akrivia is “consistently re-innovating every module in the Indian HR stack system. We are spreading wings across two new geographies and growing our customer base at a rate of 200 per cent to touch 10 lakh users by the end of 2023”. According to Kalidindi, “20% of the new hires will support India operations, while the remaining will facilitate the company’s growth in international markets”.

 

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TCS won’t lay off, will hire those laid off from startups

It is reported that the IT major will soon announce increments as per its normal practice. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has made it clear that it has no intentions of laying off staff. In fact, the Indian information technology (IT) multinational is all set to focus on grooming talent and is keen to hire those laid off by startups. Milind Lakkad, chief human resources officer, TCS, reportedly indicated that the IT major will soon announce increments as per its normal practice. According to Lakkad, the Company has been hiring cautiously and considers it its responsibility to ensure that the people it hires remain productive for the organisation and keep adding value to it.

 

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Pinnacle Industries announces a women-only recruitment campaign

EvolutioNARI is committed to creating an equivalent opportunities ecosystem in the automotive manufacturing space, with the first hiring drive to begin from 23 to 24 Feb, 2023. Pinnacle Industries has announced the largest women-only recruitment campaign in an attempt to widen the pool of women in the workforce, in the automotive manufacturing sector. Aptly called ‘EvolutioNARI’, the initiative aims to provide a platform for talented and experienced women professionals and engineers, who have been on a sabbatical or career break, to return to active professional life. Women engineers and professionals whose careers may have taken a back seat due to family commitments or other personal reasons can now hope to restart their career, hone their skills and even upskill themselves as an active part of the corporate culture.

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