New jobs posted on Naukri.com, India’s largest recruitment website, showed an increase of 8% in September compared to the same month last year. However, the headline number was boosted by strong demand for IT and BPO professionals, even as other sectors showed weakness. The biggest declines were shown in the automobile sector, which saw 20% […]
Info Edge, one of India’s pioneering dotcom companies, said four of its websites were taken offline by a hardware failure at the data center. However, said the company, the websites are now working normally, and business is unlikely to be affected. The suspected hardware failure took place on Tuesday evening. The websites impacted were the […]
Quess Corp, the ‘business services’ subsidiary of Thomas Cook India, announced two major acquisitions, purchasing the Asia business of Monster.com and the Indian service center business of HCL Infosystems. Quess Corp will pay up to Rs 30 cr for the service center business of HCL Infosystems. It did not disclose the consideration for the monster.com […]
Hiring activity fell 8% October this year compared to the same month a year ago, according to Naukri.com’s Job Speak Index. This dip was primarily caused by the festive season which saw Dussehra, Durga Pooja and Diwali fall in October, the company said. “Hiring activity generally tends to slow down around these festivals as recruiters […]
Naukri.com, one of India’s leading job sites, said that hiring increased by 10.2% in August as compared to last year, contributed by over 40% hiring growth in Banking and Insurance industry. Banking and financial industry experienced a growth of 42% whereas the insurance industry witnessed 49% growth during the same period, said the company. Real Estate as […]
An uptick in the job market in the second half of 2016 is the key sentiment that has emerged from Naukri’s Hiring Outlook survey 2016, conducted among 1300 recruiters and consultants representing more than 20 industries. According to the survey, 77% of the recruiters predict that new jobs would be created in the coming months, […]
The Naukri Job Speak Index reported a jump of 27% in hiring activity in May this year compared to last year. “Sustained growth in IT-Software and ITES during the year led to an impressive hiring sentiment for these sectors. On the other hand, Telecom and Real Estate reported a negative sentiment in Y-o-Y index for […]
More companies gave double digit increments in the first six months of this year compared to the number that had expected to give such increments six months back, according to Naukri Hiring Outlook survey. At an overall level, 68% recruiters gave increments more than 10% in 2015. “The percentage of recruiters who actually doled out […]
Following a similar report from Monster India, the biggest hiring portal of the country — Naukri.com, has also pointed to a sharp increase in hiring in June this year. Naukri’s Job Speak Index for the month of June 2015 stood at 1749, up 11% over June 2014. Essentially, the index compares the number of new […]
