Launched in May 2010 with data collected since October 2009, the Monster Employment Index is a broad and comprehensive monthly analysis of online job demand in India conducted by Monster India. Based on a real-time reviewof millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large, representative selection of online career outlets,including Monster India, the Monster Employment Index presents a snapshot of employer online recruitment activity nationwide. The Monster Employment Index.s underlying data is validated for accuracy by Research America, Inc. . an independent, third-party auditing firm . to ensure that measured online job recruitment activity is within a margin of error of +/- 1.05%.
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| December 2011 Index Highlights: |
» Annual growth rate at three percent in December, slowest year-over-year growth recorded in 2011
» Agro-based industries followed by Real Estate lead all industry sectors in annual growth. Logistic/Courier/Freight/Transportation exhibit maximum decline
» Demand for Sales & Business Development and Arts/Creative professionals continues to grow fastest annually. Engineering/ Production, Legal and Marketing register slowest growth on an annual basis
» Among the large metro markets, Bangalore, continues to record strong growth of 10 percent.
Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai continue to weigh down the Index recording negative annual growth in December
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