India Business News: The number of active job openings rose marginally last month to 205,000, from 200,000 in April, with a majority of those added in the last two weeks o
According to Karanth, it is clear that the IT sector is going to be driving the job growth this year as it is showing "huge bullishness" in terms of hiring. "We see close to 30,000 active jobs getting recruited by the IT sector every month for the next 12 months," he said.
Country s demand for cybersecurity professionals to rise 200 per cent by 2024
Demand for Chief Security Officers and other security professionals has increased over 100 per cent in 2021 after cybersecurity emerged as one of the key concerns of CEOs after the pandemic hit the world a year ago, says global executive search firm, Kingsley Gate Partners.
In the last year, technology permeated every function of an enterprise like never before. Remote working, new ways of managing workflows and efforts to ensure business continuity have only made these companies increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats, as per the firm.
Umesh Ramakrishnan, Senior Partner and Co-CEO at Kingsley Gate Partners said, “This has exponentially increased the risk of security failures. To combat this, global enterprises are beefing up their security to avoid any possible catastrophes. As a result, we are seeing a 100 per cent spike in demand for CSO jobs and other cybersecurity positions in India and abroad.�
January has seen a 50% spike in jobs over December, according to a survey
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Entry level jobs and the technology sector have contributed the most to job openings in January. At 110,000, this is the highest for entry level jobs in the fiscal.
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NEW DELHI: The job market is reviving as the Covid vaccine programme rolls out across the country and the economic outlook improves. Total job openings rose almost 50% to 265,000 in January from 180,000 in December, according to Xpheno’s recent Active Jobs Outlook survey shared exclusively with ET.
The post-lockdown months of June and July recorded the lowest active jobs figures for FY21 at 132,000 and 142,000, respectively.