{"id":1032896,"date":"2026-09-03T08:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032896"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:56:14","slug":"hiring-activity-picks-up-in-august-after-five-month-slide-it-hiring-remains-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/hiring-activity-picks-up-in-august-after-five-month-slide-it-hiring-remains-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring activity picks up in August after five-month slide; IT hiring remains weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The job market has shown early signs of revival in August with the foundit hiring index rising 5% month-on-month last month after falling for five consecutive months. Despite the latest rebound, the index is still 18% below its February peak. <\/p>\n<p>Travel and Tourism Soar <\/p>\n<p>The biggest trend is the widening gap between IT and travel &amp; tourism hiring. Travel &amp; tourism remained one of the strongest-performing industries through much of 2026 with hiring growing 22% in August. The sector has been supported by the recovery in domestic and international travel, capacity expansion in hospitality and aviation, and rising demand for digital and revenue-management roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The job market has shown early signs of revival in August with the foundit hiring index rising 5% month-on-month last month after falling for five consecutive months. Despite the latest rebound, the index is still 18% below its February peak. Travel and Tourism Soar The biggest trend is the widening gap between IT and travel &amp; tourism hiring. Travel &amp; tourism remained one of the strongest-performing industries through much of 2026 with hiring growing 22% in August. The sector has been supported by the recovery in domestic and international travel, capacity expansion in hospitality and aviation, and rising demand for [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032896","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=1032896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032933,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032896\/revisions\/1032933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}