Online hiring in India witnesses 9% growth in September

New Delhi: September proved to be a good month for job-seekers it seems. According to Naukri Jobspeak’s report on hiring activity in India, September witnessed a 9 per cent increase in hiring. While it may be disappointing compared to the 17% growth in August, growth is still growth. Auto industry hired the most employees last month.

Compared to the auto industry, insurance industry recorded 28%, construction sector 12%, IT sector 10%, Oil and gas, BPO and Pharma sectors recorded 9%, 7% and 1% hiring respectively. Hiring in banking sector shrunk as it dropped to -9%. As for the hiring percentage change across different functional areas, HR recorded 22% change, Production 20%, Sales 11%, marketing 11%, IT-software 7%, banking 4% and finance saw -10% change.

When it comes hiring across cities, Delhi/NCR’s hiring activity grew by 9%, Chennai by 14%, Mumbai by 2%, Hyderabad by 5%, Bangalore by 2%, Pune by 18% and Kolkata witnessed 25% rise. When it comes to hiring across different experience levels, data revealed that hiring of people with 16 years plus experience grew by 16%. Good news for freshers is that the demand for them also increased by 13% in September.

Worth mentioning here is that recruitment has grown positively across the metropolitan cities and skill-based hiring was focused in the fields of – HR/Administration (22%), Production/Maintenance (20%), Sales/BD and Marketing/Advertising (11%) each. The IT industry in the past six months witnessed the emergence and demand for new technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, robotics, augmented reality etc and this has resulted in the creation of new job opportunities which has accelerated the pace of hiring with a rise of 10% in September 2018 vs September 2017. Also, re-skilling and upskilling of the workforce pushed hiring activity further north.