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Software major TCS on Tuesday said it will hire close to 15,000 people in the January-March quarter and with addition the company will exceed its target of hiring 60,000 people for the 2011-12 fiscal.

If you look at the gross, we have already done 51,000 and as far as this quarter is concerned, we will do close to 15,000 more. So the 60,000 number will go up, TCS Vice-President and Head (Global HR) Ajoy Mukherjee told reporters here.

At the beginning of the year, TCS had said it expected to hire about 60,000 people during FY 2012.

The company has added 18,907 (gross) and 11,981 (net) employees during the October-December quarter, taking its total headcount to 2,26,751 employees.

In the previous quarter, TCS added 20,349 people, which was the highest addition by the company in any three-month period.

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  Make 2012 the year you take steps – even if they’re baby steps – to boost your career! We’ve put together ten ideas for you to consider.   “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson 1: Assess Yourself   Create a focus group of your friends and family members – those who know you best and where you’re coming from, and those who will give you relevant feedback. Ask them what they consider to be your foremost talent, and write down what each of them tells you. Next, ask Read full article…

We recently wrote about how to ask for the salary you deserve, but how do you know in the first place what you deserve? We obviously can’t tell you that, but we can give you some tips for finding out for yourself what your market value is, as it were.

We use the term ‘market value’ because, as an economic worker in the labour market, you are of value to employer organisations. Whether you’re in your first job or in the latter stages of an executive career, you have something of worth to offer to your current organisation—and your next employer—in terms of your labour. Your precise value is dependent on many factors. These inclu

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama administration official says the White House will reject a Canadian company’s plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced, says a February deadline set by Congress doesn’t allow for a proper review of the $7 billion project.

The Feb. 21 deadline was set by a GOP-written provision as part of a tax bill that Obama signed into law just before Christmas. Obama had until that date to decide whether the pipeline was in the national interest.

The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas. I

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