ANIL ETHANUR

Global capability centres (GCCs) were the top hirers of tech talent in the first quarter of FY25, beating out IT services firms for the first time. This is in line with global companies setting up their innovation centres in India. Data shows that G...

A financial audit and top-level reshuffle are in the works at business-to-business (B2B) startup for medical supplies Medikabazaar. Details on this and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

Happy Monday! IT hiring has shown a glimmer of hope in Q1. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

After months of subdued hiring numbers, IT companies are in for good news. Overall, tech hiring has seen a slight improvement in Q1, as per staffing firms, in line with expectations of some green shoots in demand. IT firms seem to be favouring exper...

After an extended lull, major IT companies are showing signs of increased hiring activity — the first such rise in 20 months. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.

IT sector consultants said that the conversation for FY25 is still heavily focused on more dilution of the bench, increasing automation, improving efficiency and targeted hiring mostly in niche areas such as AI and GenAI amid continued macroeconomic...

Data from top 15 unicorns by talent movements– including the likes of BigBasket, Delhivery, Flipkart, IndiaMART, Meesho, Ola, PhonePe, Swiggy, Udaan, Zoho, Zomato - showed that over the last 12 months, this cohort of firms let go 33,000 employees bu...

Indian expatriates in tech sector are increasingly considering job options in India due to the country's resilience to the global tech slowdown. The trend is driven by market uncertainties, layoffs, and high living costs in western countries. IT ser...

Indian software services companies will end FY24 having hired between 70,000 and 80,000 fresh engineers —the lowest intake in over two decades. The decline in fresher hiring marks a significant climbdown for a sector that was once regarded as the ub...

Several company officials and HR heads ET spoke to say a classical MBA degree is losing out to the current market trend of hiring talent with specialised skills and those who come at a lesser cost. Ironically, this fall in demand for MBA degree hold...

Industry officials, however, said the impact of the cut down in hiring is mostly at the senior management and director levels, while companies continue to hire at the top, or the partners level. "Hiring of partners or people who bring in business is...

Overall job creation, however, remains muted in the metros as companies tread cautiously amid macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds, according to staffing companies such as Teamlease Services, Xpheno and Foundit.

The job search for young graduates and entry-level candidates has reached a record high as companies narrow their hiring funnel. In the last 30 days, about 26 lakh entry-level freshers actively sought job openings, which is significantly higher than...

Average salary increases have plunged to 35-40% from 50-100%, across categories of “hot skills” such as full-stack engineers, data engineers, front-end engineers, SRE/DevOps, data scientists and back-end engineers, according to data put together for...

Salary increases for tech recruits have decreased by more than half in the past year due to a hiring slowdown across the tech industry. Companies are no longer desperate to hire candidates with high-end niche tech skills at any cost. Average salary ...

Data showed that for the first time in five months, the IT sector collective-the largest employment segment comprising tech services, products, global in-house centres of multinationals in India, as well as startups-posted a 32% m-o-m rise in open p...

The number of open positions closed with 272,000 in July, up from 230,000 in June, according to data put together by specialist staffing firm Xpheno. Companies both in the technology and non-tech space put out more vacancies in July, with the non-te...

IT services and software service sectors registered growth in active jobs volumes by 17% and 14%, respectively. A rise of 27% (on a low base value) was recorded by the internet-enabled services & start-up sector that closed with 14,000 openings as a...

Companies are prolonging the hiring cycle time, delaying decision-making, being pickier and looking at more candidates for a single position than they did in the last one year that saw a high-pitch hiring action, said head hunters and search consult...