Home appliances, social sector lead online hiring growth in Aug: Monster

Kolkata, Vadodara, Ahmedabad top year-on-year job growth in latest monthly index

Online recruitment activity posted double-digit growth for the third consecutive month in August 2017, up 14 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.

The growth was led by industries such as home appliances at 54 per cent, followed NGO and social services at 38 per cent and BFSI at 35 per cent. On the other hand, industries like BPO/ITeS (minus 20 per cent), Govt/PSU (minus 17 per cent) and import/export (minus 14 per cent) saw a decline in recruitment activity.

As per the Monster Employment Index, y-o-y growth in online recruitment activity has grown in double digits for last