It’s a strange time to be alive—but if you’re alive and looking for a job, it’s probably even stranger. Be it students who’ve graduated into not just a pandemic but also a recession, or those who’ve been furloughed or laid off—looking for a job right now can be painfully tough. With 122 million Indians having lost jobs in just the last month, the situation seems particularly bleak. But offering a tiny ray of hope in this are these ventures helping people get jobs and internships in a reality no one saw coming.
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Skillr
The website launched at the beginning of April, with about 2,400 companies listed on the platform. Currently, almost 2,000 companies are hiring on the platform, with the number of actively hiring companies within the top growing industries going up by over 41 percent in the last week on their platform. As the data on their website suggests, the current hiring trends are the strongest for IT, marketing, and software-based industries, steady for financial and healthcare industries, and low for hospitality and retail industries. The website also provides a service where they allow you to send in their résumé to them, and they then connect this résumé to a company looking to hire someone with similar skill sets.“it is a very tough time because it's difficult to verify information, to know if the leads you’re chasing are right or wrong,” says Durga. “So you shouldn’t look at agencies and consultants, and instead, go to the companies directly for the hiring process. Keep researching which sectors are hiring. Many companies have now realised that remote working is possible, so they’ll be cautious in opening office spaces, so keep that in mind. The employment landscape will only open up when the industry bounces back—which is not when the lockdown ends, but in fact, much, much later."
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