Bangalore, 1 March 2021: With an aim to help stimulate the growing Indian economy, Karnataka has continued to be a prominent market for job seekers, reveals apna.co – India’s India’s largest professional and jobs platform. The city recorded more than 13 lakh interviews for various job roles across sectors and industries in January 2022.
Bangalore, popularly known as the Silicon Valley of India has also been a crucial commercial hub in Southern India for many companies to hire employees to strengthen their workforce. According to apna.co, the state witnessed a 2.5x increase in the number of users from 2020 to 2021. In fact, the company enabled 1.4 crore interviews in 2021 for various job roles.
Not only Bangalore, but other cities in the state of Karnataka have also transformed into an important market for various companies in the past few years leading to intense hiring from cities, including Bengaluru, Mysore, Hubli, Mangalore, Belagavi (Belgaum). Job seekers in Karnataka were seen applying for a variety of roles including telecallers/BPO, delivery person, sales (Field Work), back-office, accounts/finance, computer/data entry operator amongst many others.
Professionals in Karnataka were also applying for jobs in the healthcare, beauty, lifestyle and hospitality sectors. Professional networking emerged as an important activity with users in the state actively engaging communities such as government exams, business, learning languages, tele-caller, back-office jobs, teacher, computer/data entry, beauticians, lab technicians and cooking.
Not only graduates and post graduates, but apna has been empowering users with qualifications of 12th pass and below, find relevant opportunities around them. The platform’s data reveals that out of all the users in Karnataka who applied for a job in the last three months, 48 per cent of them completed either higher secondary or had an education qualification below that. Since 2019, apna has become the default platform for millions of professionals across the country.
Commenting on the growth, Manas Singh, Chief Business Officer, apna.co, said, “Karnataka has continued to be the epicenter of opportunities for the rising workforce in the country with Bangalore being a crucial hub. In the last few months alone, the city has grown multifold in terms of both jobs and professionals with apna acting as a bridge between them. We are confident that the city will continue being an opportunity provider for millions of professionals in India.”
With apna’s technological prowess, the platform leverages sophisticated algorithms and helps users find the right job, at the right place with the right salary. Government exams, business, learning languages, tele-caller, back-office jobs, teacher, computer/data entry, beauticians, lab technician and cooking were the communities with maximum engagement on the platform.
Apna is the preferred hiring partner for top companies including, Swiggy, Zomato, Rapido, Urban Company, Flipkart, HDFC Life, Reliance Nippon Life Insurance, Kotak Life Insurance, Uber etc among others. With more than 20 Lakh+ users in Karnataka, apna has enabled more than millions of interviews since 2019 in the state.
