2011: India is new destination for job seekers !

Bangalore: Next year new destination for job seekers would be in India. India has pulled ahead of China with a whopping 42 percent net hiring outlook for the first quarter of 2011. China follows close behind at 40 percent, a 2 percent decrease from last quarter. Taiwan comes in third, with a net employment outlook of 37 percent.

Manpower surveyed 64,000 human resource directors and senior hiring managers from public and private concerns worldwide to come up with its list. It asked each of them about their expectations for hiring in the first quarter of 2011. Almost half, 47 percent of them, came from 10 countries in the Americas, 24 percent from eight countries in Asia and the Pacific, and 29 percent from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "This is very much a macro-economic look at new job creation," says the staffing firm's Chairman and Chief Executive, Jeffrey Joerres.

Next in line, after Brazil, Turkey, at 27 percent. "There are 75 million people in Turkey," Joerres notes, "more than people realize". And so, despite a lingering debt overhang, there are plenty of consumers buying stuff and driving growth and hiring. Next up after Turkey, Singapore, with a net hiring outlook of 26 percent for the first quarter.