White-collar hiring sees 8.6 pc decline in September: Report

White-collar hiring witnessed an 8.6 per cent annual decline in September, following a negative trend in sectors including IT, BPO or ITES and FMCG, a report said on Monday.

On a month-on-month basis, however, there has been a growth of almost 6 per cent in job postings.

In September, there were 2,835 white-collar job postings, down by 8.6 per cent compared to the same month last year when 3,103 jobs were posted, according to Naukri.com’s monthly ‘Naukri JobSpeak Index’.