Online hiring in India rose in January, says report

In a shot in the arm for the Narendra Modi government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, Monster.com’s employment index, a monthly gauge of the country’s online job demand, has said that online hiring activity registered 6 per cent year-on-year growth in January. 

The outlook for the year looks bullish too. The country’s online job demand stood at 151 during January compared with 142 of the corresponding period last year.

“The Monster Employment Index continues to show a positive growth momentum with a six per cent growth in January 2015. The production and manufacturing sector grew by 38 per cent year-on-year followed by travel and tourism and IT sectors," Monster.com (India/Middle-East/South East Asia/Hong Kong) Managing Director Sanjay Modi said.

“The indicators suggest that we are moving in the right direction in strengthening our ‘Make in India’ initiative,” he said.

The index, which had gone up to 160 in December, ended the year for Indian  job market on a cheerful note as online hiring activity had registered 19 per cent year-on-year growth in December last year.

“With the Budget 2015 round the corner, we expect some robust steps from the government that would boost the employment scenario in the country,” Modi added.

City-wise, online opportunities exceeded the year-ago level in nine of the 13 cities monitored by the Index.  Baroda (up 29 per cent) led all monitored cities by the way of long-term gain for the second month in a row.

Among metro markets, Delhi-NCR (up 12 per cent) exhibited the highest growth, the report said.