IANS | 15 Mar, 2024
Around nine in 10 recruiters in India are expecting either new or
replacement hiring to happen over the next six months, as the
white-collar job market is expected to witness optimistic hiring
sentiments during the first half of this year, a report showed on
Thursday.
Despite challenges in the IT sector, a majority of recruiters
still anticipate that IT roles will dominate hiring activities (24 per
cent), according to Naukri’s hiring outlook survey.
This is
attributed to significant IT recruitment taking place in non-IT sectors.
The IT sector is followed closely by business development roles (21 per
cent) and supply chain roles (17 per cent).
In contrast, marketing roles were among the top three during the preceding six months, said the report.
“It
is encouraging to see that 92 per cent of recruiters remain optimistic
about new or/and replacement hiring in the first half of 2024. Coupled
with anticipation around hiring trends returning to normalcy, the
overall hiring outlook, while calibrated, seems to be stable and
balanced,” said Dr Pawan Goyal, Chief Business Officer at Naukri.com.
Professionals
with mid-level experience, ranging from 3 to 8 years, constitute
approximately 53 per cent of the new hiring pool, with freshers and new
professionals following closely at around 36 per cent.
However, 42
per cent of the recruiters informed that campus hiring initiatives have
been put on hold in their organisations, indicative of more lateral
hiring trends, the findings showed.
