Synopsis
While it is a common practice for fresh talent, hiring for mid-management roles on where a potential employee studied nearly a decade ago can be construed as discriminatory, said Vikas Vats, president of Human Resources Association of India.
ETtech
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Some of India’s leading technology companies, including Lendingkart, upGrad, Nykaa, Cars24, Mobikwik and Amazon India, have listed open positions that require a potential employee to be from IITs/IIMs or other premier institutes for mid-management roles, according to an ETtech analysis of postings on professional networking site LinkedIn and online recruitment platform iimjobs.com.
This comes even as companies across the world have moved toward skills-based hiring.