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India as the most optimistic among 42 countries in terms of hiring plans for the first three months of
2016.
"In the white-collar space, 2015 saw a huge impetus from highly funded start-ups with the largest
ones ramping from a few hundred to a few thousand people. If the funding continues in 2016, we
will see more jobs being created there," said Harpreet Singh Grover, CEO & Founder of CoCubes
Technologies, an assessment platform.
Experts believe that initiatives like 'Make in India' can entail significant job creation in the
manufacturing, automation sectors in the coming year. The plan to create 100 smart cities is
expected to fuel the job growth further.
"As major expansions are poised to materialise by next September, hiring will become more
proactive, especially before the appraisals in March 2016," Satya D Sinha, CEO of executive search
firm MANCER Consulting said.
According to Spectrum Talent Management's Co-Founder Vidur Gupta, the significant rise in job
numbers in 2016 will be largely owing to a couple of new horizons opened through technology in
engineering/ITeS/Pharma/E-Commerce.
Other promising areas include bio-science which is going to create a slew of vacancies in the
coming year, said Rajesh Tripathi VP and Head of HR at GHCL.
Rituparna Chakraborty, President of Indian Staffing Federation, said the IT sector is likely to create
around 2.7 lakh jobs, while nearly 1.5 lakh jobs can come in e-commerce.
Other major areas for job creation include digital marketing (about 1.5 lakh) and banking and
finance (about 3 lakh).
The retail and automobile sector also have huge job creation potential.
"Overall there will be a significant growth in terms of organised sector jobs in 2016 and sectorwise, recruitment in the startup space is going to be very strong. Other bullish sectors include BFSI,
IT-ITeS and green energy mostly solar," K Pandia Rajan Chairman Ma Foi Group said.
Saurabh Gupta, Director of Clickjobs.com, said, "With an increase in the overall industries across
all sectors, be it telecom, industrial goods, infrastructure or services, the entire hiring activities will
see an increase in numbers and the focus will be on technical qualifications in 2016."