'Next wave of hiring in India will be defined not by degrees, but by demonstrable job readiness'Indian workplaces are prioritizing practical skills over degrees. Companies are partnering with educational institutions and finishing scho...
31 Oct, 2025, 12.37 PM IST
Five in 10 GCCs planning to increase workforce: ReportIndian GCCs are poised for talent expansion in 2025, with half planning workforce increases. Early career talent remains the focus, but ris...
31 Jul, 2025, 12.50 PM IST
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India's young workforce saw a 7% in employability this year. The Wheebox ETS India Skills Report 2025 revealed that B.Tech and MBA graduate...
19 Dec, 2024, 04.20 PM IST
India needs to tweak the definition of job to include self-employed: Mansukh MandaviyaIndia's labor minister, Mansukh Mandaviya, called for redefining "job" to encompass self-employment and aligning skills training with indus...
10 Dec, 2024, 11.54 PM IST
India Inc looking at year on-year growth of 9.75% in hiring for 2025-26Indian companies project a 9.75% hiring increase in FY 2025-26, driven by global capability centers, core sectors, and BFSI. Replacement hi...
10 Dec, 2024, 06.32 PM IST
Hiring activity set to gain pace in 2024: Taggd India reportManufacturing will lead the way with an increase of 25% in hiring intent, underscoring a positive outlook for industrial expansion, while a...
19 Dec, 2023, 11.34 AM IST
At 52.8%, India has higher percentage of employable women than men, says India Skills Report 2023Wheebox National Employability Test (WNET) taken by 3.75 lakh candidates or freshers revealed women have higher employable percentage than ...
02 Jan, 2023, 05.36 PM IST
India Skills Report 2023: Indian employable talent leaps from 46.2% to 50.3%The report also points out that 89% of graduates were actively seeking internship opportunities. The survey indicates that candidates from ...
29 Dec, 2022, 04.31 PM IST
India Inc expects hiring to witness 31% growth in 2022, says Decoding Jobs Industry Sectoral Reports 2022According to the report, the top three sectors that are expected to ramp up hiring in 2022 are automobile, IT/ITes and internet businesses....
03 Feb, 2022, 07.48 PM IST
India’s employability improves marginally to 46.2% from 45.97% last yearAmong the cities, Pune, Lucknow and Trivandrum have the most employable talent while the most preferred cities for work by graduates are Ba...
09 Dec, 2021, 04.05 PM IST
Hospitality sector professionals looking for greener pasturesWith continued uncertainty over the sector returning to normal operations and surging job losses with many establishments shutting shop or ...
22 Jul, 2021, 07.36 AM IST
As IT hiring improves, executives get huge pay hikesThe current job market is favouring IT employees as they can demand as much as 50-70% hikes while switching jobs, compared with 15-30% befo...
13 Jul, 2021, 07.27 AM IST
Employability of women in India higher than men, shows Wheebox National Employability Test survey“Finally gender gap in employability is improving with Indian digital revolution. One great structural change that we found is that women p...
18 Feb, 2021, 04.50 PM IST
1 in 4 hires likely to be gig or contractual staff this yearThe hiring intent for variable, or flexible, workforce shows a sharp jump from 18% in 2020, and is a result of increased remote working due...
18 Feb, 2021, 12.58 PM IST
Covid-19 is reshaping the job market in a big way. Are employees equipped for the new environment?As digital transformations happened and the bottom of the pyramid workforce reduced, the number of people managing this workforce has reduc...
20 Dec, 2020, 11.55 PM IST
Pharma, life sciences companies scale up hiring as production increasesAccording to Xpheno, a staffing firm catering to the pharma sector, as many as 30,000 vacancies exist across the pharma space, in areas of ...
16 Jun, 2020, 09.24 AM IST
Recruitment up at fund-rich logistics firms looking to expand turfRecruitment companies such as Quess and PeopleStrong said there would be a 20-25% uptick in jobs in sorting and packing centres and in midd...
07 Jan, 2020, 08.18 AM IST