Updating Results

India’s Hiring Pattern for 2022

Team Prosple

India’s hiring pattern for 2022 looks positive with 35.96%, however, employable talent increased merely by 2.8% to 48.7%, leaving room for vast improvement for skilling activities.

With a favourable hiring goal of 35.96%, the market is expected to expand in 2022 with a considerable shift from the previous year according to the India hiring intent survey. This number is a positive sign of employment chances made accessible to the Indian youth workforce, given the vast pool of employable talents among the youth in the nation. Males make up 67.2% of the workforce, while females make up 32.8%. Gender involvement is somewhat lower than last year, but it remains a priority for India's 2030 sustainability vision. The Internet Businesses sector had the highest female involvement rate, at 54.5%. Given the increased proportion of the employable young female population, the gender distribution of workers between men and women is predicted to even off. Men made up 95% of the workforce in the retail sector, followed by 88% in manufacturing, and 80% in the automotive industry. Women made up 52.67% of IT employees, followed by 35% in the pharmaceuticals industry and 30% in BFSI.

A more scattered workforce is envisaged in several sectors as remote work options and hybrid models become more prevalent. Pune has the largest proportion of employable youth with 81.3% between the ages of 18 and 21. Kolkata is second, with 78.5%, and Bangalore is third, with 65.87%. Hubli has the highest proportion of employable youth between the ages of 22 and 25, with 75.97%, followed by Bangalore with 67.13%. Candidates with work experience of over 1-5 years are still in great demand, with a positive inclination of 35.76% in Non-tier 1 and 2 cities throughout India. There is a talent deficit in the business, according to 75% of all organisations polled, and 100% of employers in the retail sector say that a skill gap will be addressed in the future year. More than half of the companies polled recruit from government-run skilling centres, with the vast majority expressing satisfaction with the quality of the hires and stating that the candidates met their expectations.

In the following year, it is projected that 46% of eligible professionals would have a favourable employment intent in the Software, Hardware, and IT area, with optimistic resource availability to support the demand. In comparison to the previous year, the total availability of employable resources has grown by 2.8% to 48.7%, indicating a significant improvement in ongoing skilling activities and awareness of emerging occupations as a top priority for India's government, companies, and education institutions.

The main thing to remember is that the freshers are in high demand. The Internet Business, IT, Pharma, Core, and Energy industries are likely to stimulate demand for inexperienced workers. Engineers are in high demand, and this trend is projected to continue in the following year. In a battle against time, the large skilled youth group should compete with global patterns, to come out employable as new occupations are projected to appear in the economy.