Hiring up 9% in April; to pick up further: Naukri.com

Hiring up 9% in April; to pick up further: Naukri.com

PTIUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 01:48 AM IST
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New Delhi: Hiring activity registered 9 per cent jump in April driven largely by IT, banking and financial services as outlook remains bullish, says a report. The Naukri Job Speak Index stood at 1,736 in April 2015, recording a 9 per cent increase in hiring activity over April 2014.

“The Job market continues to sustain the momentum gained in February and March 2015,” Naukri.com Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer V Suresh said, adding that it “looks like good times are ahead for jobseekers as there is a huge war for high quality talent in some of these sectors.”

Besides BFSI, accounting and IT-Software industries which led the growth charts, the healthcare and pharma industries witnessed a year-on-year growth of 9 per cent and 3 per cent respectively.

IT-hardware and retail industries recorded a marginal growth of 3 per cent in April this year over the corresponding period last year. City-wise, all metro cities registered an increase in hiring activity in April 2015 in comparison to April 2014.

Bangalore topped the charts in terms of hiring activity in the April this year, followed by Pune and Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai. Meanwhile, Delhi-NCR registered the lowest year-on-year growth rate in hiring activity among metros (3 per cent).

During April, the demand for professionals in banking and insurance and IT-software saw a year-on-year growth of 30 per cent and 26 per cent respectively, the report said.

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