JULY 20229Harappa, an indigenous edTech business and India's foremost online institution for behavioral skilling, has also announced plans to double its team size in FY 2022 by hiring almost 150 additional staff across verticals, ahead of planned strategic expansion2022. Yellow.ai, a Bengaluru-based startup that helps organizations automate their customer experience service, will increase its worldwide workforce base from over 700 to over 1,000. In India, 85 percent to 90 percent of the company's staff is based. "We are looking to ramp up hiring across our sales, marketing, service and core engineering, that is, product and platform, departments. The bulk of our hiring would be from a pool of experienced candidates, with 20 percent of it focussed on hiring freshers", said Co-Founder & CEO Raghu Ravinutala.DealShare, a social commerce firm, plans to hire over 5,000 people by 2022. A major portion of the new hires will be employed to improve the company's technological capabilities. To attract more customers, the company relies on gamification and personalization. DealShare intends to invest extensively in employee skill development and training programmes due to a scarcity of qualified tech personnel in the market. MyGate has about 200 open positions, mostly in the tech, product management, and business development departments, according to the company. Spinny, a new unicorn, plans to hire over 5,000 new staff before the end of the year. BeatO, a digital app-based health platform, says it will focus on augmenting middle and senior leadership across product, technology, data science, growth, and operations in 2022. With plenty of capital and increased customer interest in new-age products and services, Indian companies are making big recruiting plans for the coming year. The competition in this market is fierce; a slew of new startups promising unique services appear nearly immediately, forcing enterprises to constantly innovate and deliver. Most startups have assigned the majority of their recruitment resources to the product, tech, and data science divisions, which is unsurprising. DPIIT secretary Anurag Jain highlighted the way ahead on January 6th, citing the roadmap for CY22, and noted that the DPIIT is currently focused on creating 20 lakh new jobs in the ecosystem sector by officially registering 50K+ new businesses over the next four years.
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