White collar hiring activity up 40% from year ago in May, shows Naukri.com jobs index

The key sectors that led the growth were travel and hospitality (+352% year-on-year), retail (+175%), real estate (+141%) and insurance (+126%). Other key sectors that saw an uptick in hiring trends as compared to last year were banking and financial services (+104%), education (+86%), automobile (+69%), oil & gas (+69%), fast moving consumer goods (+51%) and IT-software/software services (+7%).