White collar hiring in March dips marginally by 1.4 laptop: Report, ETCFO
Mumbai, Hiring traits in India’s white-collar job market dipped marginally by 1.4 per cent in March in comparison with the identical month final 12 months, pushed by a decline in recruitment within the retail, oil & fuel, and training sectors, a report mentioned on Wednesday. The Indian white-collar job market remained nearly secure in March 2025 in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, regardless of two prolonged vacation weekends on account of Holi and Eid, in accordance with a Naukri.com report based mostly on JobSpeak Index knowledge.
The report mentioned recruitments in a couple of sectors ended up within the purple as in comparison with March 2024, together with retail (13 per cent), oil & fuel (10 per cent) and training (14 per cent).
The IT sector witnessed a 3 per cent decline, marking an enchancment from the 16 per cent contraction in March 2024.
Curiously, the rising tech sub-sector underneath IT that includes firms working in applied sciences like crypto and blockchain witnessed a progress of 36 per cent.
Moreover, IT startups additionally witnessed a progress of 11 per cent progress in March 2025, it added.
The Naukri JobSpeak is a month-to-month Index representing the Indian job market and hiring exercise based mostly on new job listings and job-related searches by recruiters on the resume database of Naukri.com.
In the meantime, the report revealed that Chennai emerged because the unicorn hiring powerhouse in March, delivering a 29 per cent progress in unicorn recruitment.
Delhi NCR adopted intently with a 23 per cent progress and Hyderabad with a 17 per cent improve.
Banking and Monetary Providers unicorns have been significantly aggressive, demonstrating a strong 36 per cent progress in hiring, successfully difficult the broader market’s cautious sentiment.
“We have been anticipating some transient dips owing to the prolonged vacation weekends in March, and the JobSpeak index is taking part in again the identical, particularly in a couple of sectors. Nevertheless, the general Index and most main sectors staying secure v/s final 12 months is a promising takeaway for us. Sturdy progress in pockets like AI-ML, rising applied sciences and senior professionals’ cohort added a silver lining to the March traits,” Naukri Chief Enterprise Officer Pawan Goyal added.
