Job websites Naukri.com reported a 27% jump and Monster.com 60-65% rise in IT job applicants in January-April period, highlighting uncertainty surrounding Indian IT firms
New Delhi/Bengaluru: Job websites saw an increase in the number of resumés being posted by software engineers between January and April, highlighting the uncertainty surrounding the fate of thousands of employees at large Indian IT firms.
Naukri.com reported a 27% jump from the year-ago period in job applicants from the IT industry in the January-April period; iimjobs.com, a 12.4% increase; and CareerBuilder.com, a 11.5% rise, according to data shared with Mint by each of these portals. Monster.com saw a 60-65% year-on-year increase in the number of software engineers posting resumés in the last month alone.