White collar hiring in March dips marginally by 1.4%: Report, CFO Information, ETCFO
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 yr, pushed by a decline in recruitment within the retail, oil & fuel, and schooling sectors, a report stated on Wednesday. The Indian white-collar job market remained nearly steady in March 2025 in comparison with the identical interval final yr, regardless of two prolonged vacation weekends resulting from Holi and Eid, in line with a Naukri.com report primarily based on JobSpeak Index information.
The report stated 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 schooling (14 per cent).
The IT sector witnessed a 3 per cent decline, marking an enchancment from the 16 per cent contraction in March 2024.
Apparently, the rising tech sub-sector underneath IT that contains firms working in applied sciences like crypto and blockchain witnessed a development of 36 per cent.
Moreover, IT startups additionally witnessed a development of 11 per cent development in March 2025, it added.
The Naukri JobSpeak is a month-to-month Index representing the Indian job market and hiring exercise primarily based 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 development in unicorn recruitment.
Delhi NCR adopted intently with a 23 per cent development and Hyderabad with a 17 per cent improve.
Banking and Monetary Companies unicorns had been significantly aggressive, demonstrating a sturdy 36 per cent development in hiring, successfully difficult the broader market’s cautious sentiment.
“We had 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 steady v/s final yr is a promising takeaway for us. Sturdy development 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.
