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Hiring in non-IT sectors surges

By Kukil Bora, SiliconIndia

Thursday, 14 April 2011, 07:13 IST

Bangalore: The year 2010-11 has turned out to be a decade of selective hiring by the big ITgiants. An incredible figure of 1,14,038 was registered by the top 5 IT companies from the quarter March 31, 2010 to December 31, 2010, as compared to 47,462 additions in the previous year. According to consulting firm Deloitte, the Indian IT industrywill add over 2.25 lakh employees in 2011 and will clock revenues of $71.7 billion by the end of the year. However, non-IT sectors are also not legging behind in hiring activities.

India's net employment outlook, an indicator of recruitment intentions, rose to 51 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis for the three-month period starting April. The same stood at just 43 percent for the first three months of this year. According to leading job portal Naukri.com, hiring activities improved in most of the sectors in the first three months of 2011. Last month, hiring trends were most bullish in the auto sector, other than IT. Telecom, BPO and banking segments also saw improving recruitment activities.

Auto:

As per a report published in the Indian daily The Hindu, Indian auto industry is likely to increase its headcount by 50 lakh by 2012. The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India has said it will hire at least 2,300 people, mainly for its upcoming two new plants in Manesar within next two years. With induction of these people, the company's workforce will expand by about 27 percent to nearly 11,000 employees.

Tata's Jaguar Land Rover will be hiring 1,000 engineers this fiscal as it looks to scale up product development in its bid to close gap with global luxury car rivals. The company employs 18,000 people globally, and it plans to increase the employee count to more than 20,000 overall by 2012.

Two-wheeler maker Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has also announced that it will hire about 1,500 people for its second plant at Tapukara in Rajasthan, which will commence operations from July-August this year.

BPO:

According to NASSCOM, Indian BPO industry will hire about 2.5 lakh personnel including 1.2 lakh campus recruits next fiscal year. Outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) said it will hire about 2,000 people in the next fiscal to ramp up its headcount to 22,000. The company currently has close to 20,000 employees. Apart from HGS, Global IT and BPO service provider HTC Global Services also plans to hire 3,000 people by next fiscal.

Healthcare:

According to Industry insiders, hiring in the pharmaceutical industry has grown by 11-12 percent last year and the bullish trend is likely to continue in 2011. With the consistent upward trend in the healthcare Industry there is huge demand for specialist doctors and experienced Nurses in the respective specialties.

Country's leading healthcare chain Apollo Hospital announced last year that it has plans to hire nearly 23,000 people in the next three-four years. Similarly, Wipro GE Healthcare also said towards the end of the last year that it will hire up to 600 people to enhance its marketing force in the next two years, as part of plans to clock revenue of $1 billion by 2015.

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