Ciber, the $1.2-billion US-headquartered IT services company, will be doubling its manpower in India to leverage on the offshore advantages as well as increased demand from its customer base.

Emboldened by easing credit flow, a raft of senior officials straddling across sectors are leaving their jobs to branch out on their own. Fall in love with your job | Job Switch

Here are some practical steps that can help make even a dead job appear far more stimulating than what it appears.

Private sector insurer IDBI Fortis Life Insurance is planning to double its headcount to 2,000 as well as expand its branch network in the country.

While employers may be in the driver's seat, top talent, as always, is hard to obtain, executives told the Reuters Global Finance Summit this week.

The cuts are part of a plan to save $300 million at AOL and return to profitability at the earliest for Sony Ericsson. Top companies that are hiring in India | Pink slip blues

AOL said it will impose the cuts on a voluntary and involuntary basis, hoping to trim annual costs by about $300 million.

Although much of the world appears to be emerging from the economic crisis, joblessness is expected to remain high in the US and Europe at least until 2011, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Thursday.

The next time you arrive late for work, don't start giving excuses to your boss, for a new study has found that employers don't believe excuses for not being in on time.

Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites worldwide as it retrenches against what it expects will be a tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally.