Business of Employment

Google world's most attractive employer: Survey - The Economic Times: "According to Universum's -- The world's most attractive employers 2010 - index, Google retains its number one position for the second consecutive year.

The Universum survey saw auditing majors -- KPMG, Ernst and Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte -- dominating four of the top five positions...
Other world's most attractive employers in the list include Procter & Gamble (6th), Microsoft (7th), Coca Cola Company (8th), J P Morgan (9th) and Goldman Sachs (10th).

In the engineering category, the IT companies continue to dominate. With Google, Microsoft and IBM as the top three most lucrative employers in the segment..."

IIM-A proposes pan-India placement standards - The Economic Times: "MUMBAI: THE IIMs, private B schools and blue-chip recruiters on Fridaytoyed with uniform placement standards, a proposed system that would calculate salary figures as per a common formula and announce placement results in a pre-decided format.

'Indian Placement Reporting Standards', the new system put forth by the IIM-A at a recruiters conclave in Mumbai, sought consensus from other IIMs and B-schools as well as recruiters for adopting the new uniform system, which aims at achieving goals similar to those envisaged in the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)."