Companies Decreasing Top Talent Despite Salary and Job Cuts: No Hiring Freeze

New Delhi: Despite job losses and wage cuts attributable to the lockdown to curb the unfold of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies along with Goldman Sachs and Capgemini are trying to find prime experience in India, significantly tech, digital and core space specialists.

Larger than 200 director-level and above posts have been obtainable over the earlier week, in response to Xpheno, a staffing company that compiles data from job portals, LinkedIn, and agency web sites.

ET reached out to companies along with Goldman Sachs, Vedanta, and Capgemini, which confirmed that they’re hiring.

“We’re devoted and proceed to work together and lease among the best experience in India by means of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,” acknowledged Gunjan Samtani, head of Goldman Sachs Suppliers in India.

Vedanta is filling space of curiosity technical positions and hiring world specialists to assemble performance.

“We proceed to seek for technical specialists and, such experience is turning into obtainable globally all through domains resembling mining, smelting, exploration, and experience,” acknowledged Madhu Srivastava, chief human sources officer at Vedanta Group.

Transearch, an govt search company, has consumers recruiting prime experience for 20 roles. The bulk of these are various hires for CEO, CFO, and experience head positions, managing confederate Uday Chawla acknowledged.

“Most exterior hiring is focused spherical technical space specialist areas of iron, steel, and mining,” acknowledged Dilip Pattanayak, CHRO of JSW Steel.

Capgemini is trying to find leaders in new-age utilized sciences resembling digital, cloud, and data analytics. “In India, there’s no hiring freeze at current,” acknowledged Pallavi Tyagi, CHRO, India, Capgemini.