Placement Update At a Glance

INTERNATIONAL PLACEMENTS
- Schwarzenegger announces job training funds to fight unemployment, USA
- Government of Canada invests in employment programmes in Lower Mainland, USA
- Job training in high demand, USA
- Around 1.6m Indonesians employed in 43 countries
- Entry to IIM-A tougher than Stanford, Harvard
- TCS plans to hire over 3,500 in China
- 165 Chandler jobs to be eliminated in Bank of America consolidation, USA
- Almost half a million jobs await OFWs in 2009: POEA, Philippine
- Yahoo slashes 1,500 jobs worldwide; 60 Indian employees shown pink slip

INDIAN PLACEMENTS
- Banks, insurers may resume hiring in 2009, India
- Growth reduces rush of job hunters, India
- Tech companies go slow on campus hiring; TCS, Infosys buck trend, India
- Overseas business grads target Indian job market
- Union Bank to hire 5,000
- Reliance ADAG says no firing; hiring up to 90,000 people, India

CAMPUS PLACEMENTS
- TCS to hire PhDs from IITs without interviews, India
- Management students turn to PSUs for placements, India
- Slowdown to affect placements at ISB, India
- Bouncing Back: Broking firms start hiring again, India
- Grab any offer coming your way: Pune B-Schools to students, India
- Yahoo announce no hiring freeze, campus recruitments as per plan, India
- IIT Bombay approaches start-up companies for placements, India
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