Economic Times , 26 Jan 2013
How do companies hire? And where are those recruits coming from? These are big questions for an economy that has the world’s second largest workforce at over 450 million but is creating few jobs and has millions of unemployed and underemployed youth. The recently released “India Skills Report 2014” offers some answers to these questions and is based on the assessment of 100,000 students in 28 states and over 100 firms in 10 sectors.. The study, done jointly by HR consultancy firm PeopleStrong, Wheebox.com and industry body CII, captures the hiring and talent trends within the country.
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