Online recruitment activities up by 7% in May: Report
New Delhi, June 6: Online recruitment activities for May registered a seven per cent growth on a year-on-year basis with the production and manufacturing sector continuing to exhibit the steepest rise at 56 per cent for the second consecutive month, a report said on Wednesday.
According to Monster Employment Index, the online recruitment activity in the sector, however, slowed by 6 percent between April and May 2018.
"Retail sector (up 39 percent) has exhibited significant growth on the year-on-year basis. The growth momentum paced up 28 percentage points between April and May 2018," it said.
In the telecom/ISP sector, the growth momentum eased further from 28 percent in April this year to 21 percent in May while banking, financial services, insurance also maintained an uptrend in the last month but the growth rate has declined progressively since the past few months.
Commenting on the latest Monster Employment Index trends, Abhijeet Mukherjee, CEO, Monster.com- APAC & Gulf said: "India retained its spot as the fastest growing major economy in the March quarter with GDP 7.7 per cent on the back of robust performance by manufacturing sector, also reflected in the sector's positive y-o-y recruitment growth numbers."
From a negative y-o-y performance at the beginning of 2018, the retail sector is seeing phenomenal e-recruitment opportunities.
This mirrors the addition of retail capacity at global companies as well as recent mergers which has led to an overall growth of the sector, he said.
According to him, telecom sector is treading with caution as recent developments have resulted in layoffs and job losses.
"City-wise, both metros and non-metros are witnessing an eased pace of online hiring activity," he added.
The report said the online hiring activity in the past month slowed in all major metro cities.
City-wise data shows, Jaipur (up 22 percent) and Chandigarh (up 21 percent) led all monitored cities by the way of long-term growth.
Year-on-year, Mumbai registered a decline of six percentage points from 15 percent growth in April to 9 percent growth in May.
Bengaluru registered three percent growth this month down from a six per cent growth in April while hiring activity in Delhi-NCR matched the year-ago level.
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Eight persons killed 17 injured in knife attack in China
Beijing, Nov 16: Eight persons were killed and 17 injured in a knife attack at a vocational school in east China's Jiangsu Province on Saturday, local police officials said.
The attack took place at around 6:30 pm at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing City.
The 21-year-old suspect, surnamed Xu, was caught at the scene and he confessed to his crime, according to a statement released by the public security bureau of Yixing, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
According to the police, Xu, a graduate of the school this year, returned to the school to vent his anger for not receiving his graduation certificate due to failing exams and for dissatisfaction with his internship pay.
Rescue efforts are underway and police are further investigating the case, the report said.
This is the second attack on civilians this week.
On November 12, thirty-five people were killed and 43 injured when a man ploughed his car into a crowd of people at a sports centre in Zhuhai city.
Police who detained a man called Fan said his actions stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the property division outcome of his divorce.
Expressing concern over the incident, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged all-out efforts to treat the injured.
Car ramming incidents, besides knife attacks on civilians, have been taking place periodically in China in recent months. The incidents are routinely blamed on disgruntled elements by security officials.
