Virtual hiring process survey
The JobsForHer conducted a survey around women professionals and job seekers. The survey that gathered the opinions of 1,000 women professionals, revealed that over 40% respondents consider ‘flexible options that allow a certain amount of work from home’ in the post-COVID world as the deciding factor. The option of working from home and/or visiting the office only when required is the best one according to them as they adapt to the changing corporate world and family needs.
Neha Bagaria, founder-CEO, JobsForHer, said: “This in tandem with the 62% increase in job applications that JobsForHer saw on its platform between April and July and a 55% average increase in the number of work-from-home jobs posted by companies. We hope to see more companies hire capable women professionals to fill their roles in the coming months.”
Another survey conducted on the platform showed that out of 1000+ respondents, 90% women were comfortable with the virtual hiring process as it saves time and is convenient because it opens up plenty other opportunities to attend interviews at otherwise far-away locations thereby cutting down on the commute.
Realising the need for online recruitment, the platform organised its biggest virtual career event — HerRising 2020 for women professionals across the country on September 19, 2020 aimed at bridging the gender gap at work, the overarching goal of the event is to provide jobs to women professionals who are ready to start, restart and rise in their careers.
AI Models to Process Text in 11 INDIAN Languages
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras faculty have developed AI models and datasets to process texts in 11 Indian regional languages. This was taken up jointly with AI4Bharat.
The faculty have made the resources free and accessed by anyone at (https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/). Dr Mitesh M Khapra, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras, said: “As we move towards a digital economy, it is important that our languages find a space online. This requires innovation in creating input tools, and AI models for Indian languages.”
RICS School of Built Environment session starts
The RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University has started successfully for students in their Noida and Mumbai campus inonline mode. The classes have started and the school prepared themselves to comply with current regulatory directives to conduct sessions online until it would be permissible for students to attend classes physically at the respective campuses.
Ashwani Awasthi, MD, RICS School of Built Environment, said: “It's good to know that students of our ongoing batches are very happy with the quality of our online class mode and the willingness and availability of the teachers to help them when they need it; but we are eager to shift back to the traditional face to face system and as soon as the government considers it safe, which may be soon, we will move to the face to face on campus classes.”