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We at CareerMosaicIndia.com recently conducted a research to find out the latest employment trends in the job market, based on industry, location, function and level. This information has been culled over a period of 6 months covering 29 dailies and magazines from the Indian print media.

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INDUSTRY WISE

                                                 Jobs in top 5 Industries - August-January
Jobs in top 5 Industries - August-January


Based on our research, we have homed in on the top 5 industries, which have created maximum employment opportunities in the last six months. Out of the 48 industries covered the top 5 employ 60% of the total. They are -

IT/Communication - 30%
Software development - 13.8%
Engineering - 7%
Academics - 5%
ERP/Business solution - 3.5%


  Level wise employment within the top 5 industries August-January

Employment level wise within the top 5 industries August-January

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Furthermore, the employment opportunities created in these industries have been analysed according to the level of management, namely junior, middle, senior and top.
Junior level management includes employees with up to 3 years of work experience; the middle level requires an experience of three to ten years (e.g. project managers). Senior level management calls for about 10-15 years of work experience and includes General managers to Vice-Presidents. The top level refers to CEO's and directors with work experience of 15 years and above.

The huge demand for junior level employees is extremely encouraging. The two main reasons being-
A flat hierarchy
The project worth is calculated on the man-hours put in. Therefore the greater the manpower, the higher the project worth. This is especially true in the IT industry.

Levels within the industries
Employment opportunity
Junior Level
56%
Middle level
30%
Senior level
12%
Top level
2%


FUNCTIONWISE

Each of these industries has functional areas, some of which have high employment opportunities and others that barely allow vertical mobility. A few of the industries and functions overlap, such as software development, which is both an industry as well as a function.

Function wise-Software Over the last six months IT and IT/communications have dominated the job trends in the functional areas. The areas with maximum employment opportunities are as follows -
Software development, which leads the way with 48 percent, followed by engineering with 14 percent. Marketing a close third at 9 percent, sales that accounted for 6.04 percent and academics 5 percent.The months of December and January witnessed a slump in the software sector. (read more)
             
                Function wise-Software


LEVEL WISE - ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES


Level wise, the highest number of jobs was observed in the junior level (43%), followed by middle level (35%), senior level (19%) and the top level (3%). The trend shows that the number of jobs created at the junior level experienced a sharp rise and would continue to climb for the next few years. For freshers, its good news. Employment opportunities at the entry level are promising.

 


TOP EIGHT JOB LOCATIONS

The cities that offer the highest employment opportunities in the country are :

CITIES
PERCENTAGE
Mumbai
17.44%
Hyderabad
13.61%
Delhi
13.12%
Bangalore
12.61%
Chennai
9.73%
Pune
4.48%
Calcutta
4.31%
Ahmedabad
4.3%


A close look at Hyderabad
Industry wise, the total number of jobs available in Hyderabad amount to 3612. Out of which the IT industry takes about 1928 of the total (53.37 %). Within the IT industry maximum job openings are in IT communications, followed by software development.

Based on our research, we know how the job market has behaved and how it is likely to behave in the future.
Total no of jobs in the last six months showed cyclical fluctuation.
Jobs in top industries both function wise and level wise, also showed cyclical fluctuations.
More number of jobs has been created in junior level, than for any other level.
IT continues to be the major area where almost 40% of all the jobs are advertised
Jobs in IT would grow in spite of present slow down (cumulatively) after the first quarter of 2001.

Location wise Bombay, Hyderabad and Bangalore would be the attractive places for job opportunities.

We hope you find this information useful and look forward to your feedback on the mailer.

We would like to leave you with a thought…
"Nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself " - Andy Grove

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