The e-commerce space continues to hum with activity and a good many start-ups too are beefing up their teams especially those in technology, healthcare, essential services, food production or edtech.
It’s not all gloom and doom in the jobs market. The number of openings may have fallen from around two lakh in April to an estimated 1.67 lakh in May end but the good news is 90% of these are permanent jobs.
Despite the uncertainty about the economy, there are opportunities in spaces such as IT, banking and financial services, online retailing and manufacturing. The demand for specialised knowledge in areas such as cybersecurity, cloud computing, risk management, robotics, IoT and analytics remains high across sectors. Most of all, every company is scouting for technology specialists — whether in engineering or analytics — with experience. But HR experts say companies are also looking for salespersons, collection agents, managers and account servicing executives.
With restrictions on travel and movement being gradually eased and the ‘unlocking’ of the country under way, companies are focusing on re-staffing. Nicolas Dumoulin, managing director, Michael Page India, confirmed there has been a mild uptick in hiring, of about 10%, in the last two weeks.
“We have also observed that positions that were put on hold in sectors such as technology and healthcare are now being filled where companies are open to hiring,” Dumoulin said.
Source: Financial Express
