Job Market in Indian Cities

Every fresher’s day starts with Logging into naukri.com, monster.com or job search engines like jobmixi.com to find new job openings across Indian cities. The interesting figures from ASSOCHAM reveal how job market is spread in different cities in India.

Below are the cities with ranking and job share.

Rank	City	Job % share
1	Mumbai	18.52
2	Gurgaon, NCR	15.41
3	Delhi	11.55
4	Bangalore	10
5	Pune	8.9
6	Chennai	8.8
7	Hyderabad	8.1
8	Lucknow	6.61
9	Kolkata	6.49

Interesting fact is that Mumbai is still on the top of the list with finance jobs with Gurgaon second leading with BPO and I.T jobs. Recruitment in south Indian cities is slowdown with slump in I.T and banking sectors. Kolkata with an edge on cost is still 9^th on the list with no change from the previous years.

Believe the above list might help freshers in targeting their jobs appropriately.

JOB Trends In Indian Metros

Millions of young graduates are passing out every year from colleges in India. The big question that arises in everyone’s mind is that if the government is prepared to provide jobs for all of them? Are the companies based in India are able to accommodate all these freshers? Global financial meltdown has created a panic across the world in the job market but we see no such traces hitting Indian market. All the big MNCs are hiring new talent and the opportunities are vibrant in the Indian metros.

New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai are the metros where hiring is a never ending story with fresh recruitment happening presently. Recruitment in KPO areas like banking and financial services is the present buzzword in the job market and this is good news for all the fresher’s in commerce. In the tier 2 cities where there is no significant recruitment happening, likewise we don’t see much of layoff also.

With new infrastructure activities taken by the fortune 500 companies in the Indian metros, it certainly throws the light that there will be more outsourcing going to happen in the coming days and can see a buoyant job market.