Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), followed by Healthcare, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals and Retail were the top five industries with the highest job openings in 2023, the report said
The spectre of generative AI and automation hangs large over the IITs at this year’s campus hiring, with companies showing a preference for engineers with specialist skills beyond coding
Edtech platform Great Learning has observed fresher enrolment from smaller towns like Madurai, Nagpur, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Lucknow, Indore, Jodhpur, Mysuru, Guwahati and Bhubaneswar surge to 42-44% of the total in 2023 compared with 30-32% a couple of years ago.
Tech majors, once hiring mainstays at engineering campuses, are skipping the exercise this year. ET finds out what this means for the scores of engineers graduating from Indian colleges this year.
This is in stark contrast to one of the toughest placement seasons in recent memory faced by students at the country s top B-schools and engineering institutes as the technology sector — the biggest recruiter of white-collar talent — has cut fresher hiring amid macroeconomic uncertainty.