Online Hiring

The firm's SaaS-based platform has over 500,000 registered educators and 12,750 institutes pan India and matches the right candidate for the right job across regions

Nearly one in five employers also said that virtual hiring reduced bias in the recruitment process

Meanwhile, year-on-year basis the online hiring demand witnessed 16 per cent growth H1 2019 compared to H1 2018

Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore have demonstrated subdued online recruitment trend

Online hiring activity stumbled further in the five key cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi-NCR and Mumbai

Production and manufacturing sector registered the steepest year-on-year growth at 56% for the second consecutive month

The report said that the industry which incurred a record high in terms of hiring was the oil and gas sector

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Among the cities, Kolkata saw the maximum hiring (46%), followed by Mumbai (11%)