Mumbai : India’s top three telecoms Bharti Airtel<\/a>, Vodafone Idea<\/a> and Reliance Jio<\/a> are likely to tamp down hiring over the next year while battling the pandemic and fighting to keep costs under check and the only space that will see some recruitment is the digital segment, with likely job offers rolled out in the cloud, security and automation segments, staffing firms and headhunters said.
\"The hiring for the three telcos<\/a> will be almost negligible for the next one year. Recruitment in the senior segment is happening in profiles like head for B2C, digital head, or someone responsible for bringing in automation across the company,\" said Navnit Singh, managing director, India, for search firm Korn Ferry.
The growth in senior profiles for automation may not have happened now, had the pandemic not accelerated automation and digital adoption, Singh said.
But others are not as optimistic.
\"There will be de-growth in the total number of people employed in the telecom services company. The hiring will be strictly need based,\" said A. Ramachandran, senior partner at search firm EMA India.
Bharti Airtel's employees for India business in the September end quarter was down by 529 to 15,518, while competitor Jio has 15,000-20,000 employees on its payrolls.
Rival Vodafone Idea had 11,705 permanent employees but that was before it bunched 22 circles into 10 clusters towards a leaner operating model in May this year. Since then, 1200-1500 permanent employees across marketing, sales and business operations functions were asked to leave, ET had reported earlier.
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