Press Release

Naukri Job speak DEC - Pune - 2014

January 8 2015

Maximum Growth for Pune, 30% yoy increase in hiring activity inDecember &rsquo14: Naukri Job Speak Index

  • IT and ITES sectors contribute to growth with a year on year increase in hiring activity of 12% and 9% respectively in December &rsquo14
  • BFSI also leads the tally with a 17% upsurge in hiring for the same period

Pune, 8th January 2015:
The Naukri Job Speak Index for Pune in the month of December 2015 at 1726 indicating a30%increase in hiring when compared to December 2013. Sectors such as IT-Software, ITES and BFSI contributed to this growth with a 12%, 9% and 17% increase in hiring as depicted by the index.
V Suresh, Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer,Naukri.com said, &ldquoJob Market in Pune witnessed a huge rebound backed by strong hiring activity in sectors like IT,ITES and BFSI.We can expect hiring to gain further  more momentum in the coming months.

Industry Sector Analysis:
Apart from the leading sectors such as IT-Software, ITES and BFSI, the insurance and Capital Good sector also contributed to the growth with a 1% and 6% increase in hiring activity in December &rsquo14 when compared to December &rsquo13. However, certain key sectors such as Construction & Engineering and Auto saw a reverse trend of marginal year on year decline of the order of 1% and 3% for the same period.

Functional Area Analysis:
As expected, the demand for IT-software professionals grew steadily in December &rsquo14 over December &rsquo13. Also registering high growth were the Accounts & Finance and HR fields with their hiring activity witnessing a year on year upsurge of 21% and 20% respectively in December &rsquo14. The demand for professionals in the Sales and Marketing fields also increased by 6% and 7% respectively for the same period.  However, the hiring activity for the project management domain decreased year on year by 8% in December &rsquo14.

About Naukri.com
Naukri.com, India&rsquos No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edge introduced the concept of e-recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997, Naukri.com witnessed continuous growth while outperforming its competitors in every sphere. Info Edge was the first internet Company to be listed in India. The site enjoys a traffic share of 69% as per Comscore. Naukri.com is a recruitment platform that provides hiring-related services to corporates/ recruiters, placement agencies and to job seekers in India and overseas. It offers multiple products like Resume Database Access, listings and Response Management Tools. With more than 1,60,000 jobs live at any point and over 38 million CV&rsquos, Naukri.com serviced over 48000 corporate clients in 2013-2014. The company employs over 3100 people operating through 56 offices in 42 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.

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