A number of e-commerce Co’s are set to hire more than 4,000 fresher’s from some of India’s top technical institutions this year.
Portals such as myntra.com, commonfloor.com, paytm.com and savaari.com are tapping into Indian Institutes of Technology, BITS, Indian School of Business and Indian Institutes of Management with pay packages ranging from Rs.12 lakh to Rs.15 lakh a year.
The $16-billion e-commerce industry is creating more jobs in the areas of mobile app development, big data and analytics by giving a push by encouraging more transactions over the mobile platform.
According to Vishal Baijal, COO at mobile and application developer Adeptpros, m-commerce is catching up fast with all the online firms, already witnessing over 35 per cent of sales coming through mobile apps.
Saurabh Nigam, Vice-President (HR), Snapdeal, said: “Mobile computing is the next big thing in m-commerce and we will be hiring aggressively in this vertical.”
Online firms are hiring in areas relating to digital marketing and supply chain, technology.
Ambareesh Murthy, Founder of Pepperfry, said: “We are always on the lookout for folks who thrive on fresh challenges and we will hire an additional 30-50 such people this year across functions.”
Mehul Agrawal, co-founder, FabFurnish futher said: “Given our aggressive plan of achieving an annual run rate of Rs.500 crore in the coming 12 months, we expect a good 30-50 per cent expansion in our current team size.”
According to Randstad, global recruitment and consulting firm, hiring is likely to increase by 30 per cent in the next two years.