{"id":1025224,"date":"2026-07-31T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025224"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:08:26","slug":"indias-it-sector-shifts-from-mass-hiring-to-ai-driven-workforce-planning-and-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/indias-it-sector-shifts-from-mass-hiring-to-ai-driven-workforce-planning-and-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s IT sector shifts from mass hiring to AI-driven workforce planning and recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s largest information technology companies are moving away from the mass hiring model that defined the sector for more than two decades, replacing annual recruitment targets with quarterly workforce planning, selective hiring and internal AI training as productivity improves and demand shifts towards specialised skills. <\/p>\n<p>In the latest earnings season, several companies either declined to give annual hiring targets or said recruitment would depend on business demand, utilisation and specialised skill requirements instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s largest information technology companies are moving away from the mass hiring model that defined the sector for more than two decades, replacing annual recruitment targets with quarterly workforce planning, selective hiring and internal AI training as productivity improves and demand shifts towards specialised skills. In the latest earnings season, several companies either declined to give annual hiring targets or said recruitment would depend on business demand, utilisation and specialised skill requirements instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025231,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025224\/revisions\/1025231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}