Delhi supercedes Mumbai in white collaried jobs

New Delhi, Apr 23: Delhi may be overtaking Mumbai as the country's top white collared job-creating city.

Of the 6175 job placements covering first two months of the calendar 2006, employers in Delhi advertised for 1495 vacancies, followed by Mumbai which advertised for 1344 placements.

These were the facts brought out in an ASSOCHAM Eco-Pulse (AEP) study released here today.

Interestingly, India's financial capital was at the top of the white collared job-creating chart in January 2005.

Bangalore bagged the third position, while Chennai was fourth among employment generating cities this year, says the study.

The IT and IT-enabled (ITeS) sector maintained its supremacy in terms of generating employment for graduates and post-graduates passing out from universities and professional colleges.

Within the sector, even though the BPOs were leading with 57 per cent of the 2,579 positions in the sample survey, the recruitment in Software services have also bounced back and companies are on a hiring spree, says the study.

According to the industry estimates, IT and ITeS Sector is estimated to grow at 28 per cent and account for 4.6 per cent of GDP in the year finamcial year 2006. The software is poised to become a 60-billion dollar industry in 2010, providing direct employment to more than 2.2 million people and nearly thrice that number by way of indirect employment.

The breakup of the total placement advertisements tracked by AEP revealed that 2,579 insertions were for IT and ITes, 1,727 for Marketing, 1,050 for engineering, 677 for Finance, 353 for Human Resource and 240 for Academics.

While sales and marketing bagged the second position among employment generating sectors snatching it from the finance sector, the boom in the infrastructure development and construction activities gave engineering the third position.

Advertisements in newspapers in major cities indicated that engineering firms sought to fill up as many as 1,050 vacancies which was 17 per cent of total jobs advertised, most of these being in the civil engineering sector.

Finance which enjoyed the second place in the previous study, slipped to fourth position this time with a share of 11 per cent in the total tracked job offerings. Mumbai was the largest job provider in this sector with 220 vacancies.

Bangalore, maintained its position as third best job city, recording 19 per cent of the total placement tracked. The city lived up to its name of being the IT Hub of India and created maximum opportunities in the high-end IT jobs. As many as 365 jobs openings (69 per cent) were recorded in the IT sector.

Chennai also reaffirmed its fourth position with 623 employment offers.

IT and IT enabled sector had a major share of 32 per cent with 197 offerings, closely followed by engineering with 185 positions to be filled, 30 per cent of total vacancies.

Hyderabad continued to attract IT companies, creating major job market for high end IT positions. Of the total vacancies in the city, IT and ITes sector had a majority share of 56 per cent.

In absolute terms, 178 of the total 527 openings in the city, accounted for IT and 115 for ITes.

The IT sector in Kolkata, which did not offer even a single job opening last year, had 41 openings this year.

UNI