New Delhi: The Naukri Job Speak Index for the month of December 2013 was at 1,296 showing a 13 percent increase in hiring activity when compared to December’12.  Monthly comparison shows no change in hiring activity when compared to November’13. Industry wise hiring sentiment was positive with sector like IT Software showing an increase of 33 percent Y-O-Y. Among the top metros, hiring momentum continued in Delhi and Hyderabad with the Naukri Job Speak Index moving up by 25 percent and 20 percent Y-O-Y respectively.

Mr. Ambarish Raghuvanshi, Group President Finance and CFO Info Edge (India) Ltd said “The hiring landscape which is currently holding steady with a slightly positive bias in India is set to improve since bellwether sectors in India like IT and ITES have shown signs of growth with the Naukri job speak for IT growing at an average of 5 percent in the past three months which signals improvement in hiring activity. Since 2014 is an election year, we expect companies to go into an expansion mode either ahead of results or post elections and concomitantly we will see an uptick in hiring activities of companies here.”

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