the demand for managers and executives : a survey

ITeS industry veteran Ms. Shailaja Puranik, COO, Hays Business Solutions, remarked, “ Hiring has started across all levels in the last three months, across the ITeS & BPO industry, though at half the pre-September 2008 levels. However, the major change now is that the hiring is happening for the core groups of business and not for support functions. Hiring is taking place in new areas or where outliers have been weeded out. Salaries have remained at earlier levels.”

Mr. Ravishankar B, Senior Vice-President, Human Resources, HCL Technologies, added as the company is scouting for niche skills in the experience range of three plus years. franchising is a key enabler of these emerging opportunities as enterprise like www.rozgarkendra.blogspot.com are offering these days, this trend is quite visible in north india.

TimesJobs.com Research collated feedback from a wide range of corporate employers in Delhi Mumbai & Bangalore spanning sectors as diverse as IT, BPO & ITeS, Engineering, Logistics, Healthcare, Architecture, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Finance & Accounting and Sales & Marketing.

According to the study Delhi appears to be the most bullish with 81% of employers surveyed recruiting to Ramp Up for Growth over the next year. A majority of Mumbai corporates (57%) are also hiring to grow their businesses.

The demand for Managers, with 3 to 8 years of Experience in Delhi is at 22%, Mumbai at 36% and Bangalore recruiting 21% of their total recruitment demand from this grade. The demand for Executives with 1 to 3 years of experience have requirements from Delhi arriving at 52%, Mumbai at 39%, and 55% in Bangalore of total demand. This is closely followed by Freshers with 0 to 1 years of experience, constituting 17% of the demand in Delhi, 19% in Mumbai and 24% in Bangalore.

What is hearting to note, is this trend on employment. The TJ InSite Survey has shown that the major drivers of recent growth and employment in India, namely, the Sales and Marketing, IT, ITeS & BPO, BFSI, Engineering sectors have not just initiated replacement hiring, but have started recruitments to Ramp up for Growth.

TJ InSite survey also captured the hiring sentiment amongst companies in India recently. The recruitment outlook amongst employers in the nerve centers of Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore is once again on the upswing as employers plan to increase hiring in the next quarter, as reported by 42% of the employers in Delhi, 44% in Mumbai and 24% in Bangalore.

the signs of hiring and growth are there, it's happening and people with niche skills and some experience are being sought, It is still too premature to comment whether this is a spike or a regular trend but we advise candidates to take advantage of this scenario, says ER KRISHNA P SINGH, an advance trainer in hr practices from carl duisberg-gesellschaft germany, presently associated with rozgarkendra in India.

(inputs courtesy : timesjobs.com)