No hiring freeze: Companies hunting top talent despite salary, job cuts

New Delhi: Despite job losses and salary cuts caused by the lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies including Goldman Sachs and Capgemini are looking for top talent in India, especially tech, digital and core domain specialists.

More than 200 director-level and above posts were available over the past week, according to Xpheno, a staffing firm that compiles data from job portals, LinkedIn and company sites.

ET reached out to firms including Goldman Sachs, Vedanta and Capgemini, which confirmed that they are hiring.

“We are committed and continue to engage and hire the best talent in India during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,” said Gunjan Samtani, head of Goldman Sachs Services in India.

Vedanta is filling niche technical positions and hiring global experts to build capability.

“We continue to look for technical experts and, such talent is becoming available globally across domains such as mining, smelting, exploration and technology,” said Madhu Srivastava, chief human resources officer at Vedanta Group.

Transearch, an executive search firm, has clients recruiting top talent for 20 roles. The bulk of these are replacement hires for CEO, CFO and technology head positions, managing partner Uday Chawla said.

“Most external hiring is focused around technical domain specialist areas of iron, steel and mining,” said Dilip Pattanayak, CHRO of JSW Steel.

Capgemini is looking for leaders in new-age technologies such as digital, cloud and data analytics. “In India, there is no hiring freeze currently,” said Pallavi Tyagi, CHRO, India, Capgemini

Source : The Economic Times

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Published On : 2020-05-08

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