We explore the latest trends and innovation in the recruitment industry
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India’s overall white-collar hiring fell 5% month on month and 9% year on year in June 2026. In the same…...
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No central law in India actually requires a probation period. That surprises a lot of employers who assume it is…...
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86% of Indian organisations now say AI or agentic AI is actively transforming how they recruit, according to Deloitte India’s…...
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Eighteen months into its rollout, roughly 83% of Indian organisations still haven’t begun serious DPDP Act compliance work. That gap…...
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Cognitive ability tests predict job performance with a validity of 0.54. Structured interviews come in at 0.51. Unstructured interviews drop…...
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Candidates spend an average of just 14.6 seconds reading the requirements section of a job posting before deciding whether to…...
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Only 44% of companies have a formally defined and communicated Employee Value Proposition. The other 56% are running without one.…...
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Somewhere between 30% and 47% of executive hires fail within eighteen months. The more research gets published on why, the…...
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India’s flexi-staffing industry is on track to hit $6 billion in 2025, and formal employment placed through staffing agencies is…...
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Most businesses run on a job board subscription and a habit of posting roles the week someone resigns. Nobody’s actually…...
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For senior roles hired the traditional way in India, only about 55 to 65% of offers now get accepted. A…...
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Post a role on Naukri or LinkedIn and 400 applications can show up within a week. Nobody’s reading all 400…...
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A department needs a new skill. Headcount is frozen. The obvious move used to be a job posting and a…...
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CEO turnover hit an eight-year high in 2025, at 12.5%. External CEO hires jumped from 18% to 33% of all…...
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82% of Indian employers say they struggled to fill roles in 2026. That’s well above the 72% global average, according…...
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A founder asks a friend for a “recruitment consultant” recommendation and gets referred to what is, functionally, a recruitment agency.…...
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Four interviewers spoke to the same candidate. One called her clearly the strongest they’d seen all quarter. Another said she…...
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A company removes “bachelor’s degree required” from its job postings and calls itself skills-first. Its interview scorecard still has a…...
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A staffing agency fills a role. A genuine talent acquisition partner builds the pipeline, the employer brand, and the process…...
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Quality of hire has topped LinkedIn’s list of most valuable recruiting metrics for 9 consecutive years. Yet only 35% of…...
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Every extra day a role sits open costs money, whether anyone is tracking it or not. Industry estimates place the…...
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A background check costs somewhere between ₹500 and ₹8,000. A bad hire who lied to get the job routinely costs…...
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A generalist staffing agency and a specialist tech recruiter can hand a CTO the same job title and produce two…...
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A company posts a glossy culture reel on Instagram every month. Its AmbitionBox rating still sits at 2.9. Job seekers…...
