Naukri.com's monthly Job Speak index declined to 701 in August as compared to 727 in July, recording a drop of 3.6 per cent. However, the three-month moving average index indicates a positive trend and has inched up by 1.7 per cent to 715 in August from 703 in July.
'Sachin Pilot once calculated that with a million Indians flooding the labour market every month, only an additional 12 million jobs annually could keep unemployment at the same level.' 'That's chickenfeed for the functionaries who cram my e-mail inbox every day with such a constant flow of job offers that trying to empty it is like trying to drink dry the horn connected to the ocean in Norse mythology,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
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Fifty Indian companies, including job portal Naukri.com, MakeMyTrip and consultancy firm MindTree are vying for the Red Herring Asia 100 award for excellence in technology.
They are looking for white-collar jobs, and in industries that are in the forefront of growth.
Just about 54 per cent of employers predict fresh job creation in the second half of this year whereas the same sentiment was shared by 68 per cent entities at the start of 2013, while salary hikes too are expected to be on the lower side, said the survey.
E-commerce job queries have been increasing as well.
With the ongoing appraisal season in most of the companies, recruitment activities were lower in March compared to the previous month, according to the survey conducted by job portal Naukri.com.
Hiring has grown nine per cent this year. And the banking and IT sectors are leading the game.
Sector-wise, IT and BFSI sectors are expected to witness the maximum number of job creation, followed by manufacturing, pharma and ITES.
India Inc's hiring outlook has become the weakest in the past eight years in the Asia-Pacific region, even as job losses have emerged as a critical concern.
Leading job portal Naukri.com said on Tuesday that hiring was happening in selective sectors.
Telecom, banking and financial services sectors were the top recruiters.
The uptick in hiring in October came after three consecutive months of decline, according to job portal Naukri.com.
Hikes will be up to 15 per cent.
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Indicating that recruitment activities have moderated, employment portal Naukri.com's job speak index remained almost flat last month compared to April.
The experience of 99labels, a fashion e-retailing site controlled by InfoEdge -- the same company that owns India's largest job search site, Naukri.com -- is key to understanding big changes sweeping the e-commerce sector.
As per the survey of more than 1,000 recruiters, conducted by leading job portal Naukri.com, about 72 per cent of the employers are bullish about hiring prospects in the first half of 2012.
The survey by leading job portal Naukri.com has revealed a dip in hiring sentiment across sectors, with only 62 per cent of recruiters saying that new jobs will be created in the second half of 2012, as compared to 80 per cent a year ago.
According to recruitment portal Naukri.com's monthly job index, online hiring declined by 16 per cent in October vis-a-vis the month of September as recruitment activities saw a dip in most key sectors, including IT and banking.
There is a surge in number exploring a change at middle and senior levels; recruitment agencies cite restiveness on pay, work patterns.
Professionals in the field of marketing and software development were in demand in February.
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Starting off 2011 on a positive note, job opportunities in the country improved across most sectors in January and hiring activities are expected to gain momentum in the coming months.
Leading job portal Naukri.com's survey showed that 80 per cent respondents anticipate addition of new jobs in the first half of 2011.
A spurt in the economic growth and the improved business confidence resulted in a 23 per cent growth in India Inc's hiring activity in the month of July, as against the same period a year ago.
The index began tracking jobs in the sector from July 2008 and there was a sudden dip of 29 per cent in the month of December 2008, said V Suresh, executive vice president and national head of sales for the portal.
With the economy showing signs of recovery, job market is also picking up and hiring is set to pick up pace, a senior official of a job portal said.
The improved job scenario in industries like oil and gas, auto, construction, pharma and insurance, pushed up hiring in seven cities of Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Baroda and Jaipur, according to the report. On the other hand, Mumbai witnessed a decline in hiring activity by 5 per cent from January.
In terms of the three-month moving average, the index inched up from 715 in August to 719 in September this year, making it one of the best months since April-May when the job index was as low as 664.
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Corporate India's hiring activity saw a decline in April, with the business process outsourcing and IT enabled services industry registering the sharpest drop of 22 per cent, a report by job portal said.
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Banking and IT lead; see September hiring rise 52%, 34% y-o-y, respectively.
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