{"id":984265,"date":"2026-01-09T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984265"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:32:56","slug":"white-collar-hiring-ends-2025-on-strong-note-up-13-in-december-naukri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/white-collar-hiring-ends-2025-on-strong-note-up-13-in-december-naukri\/","title":{"rendered":"White-collar hiring ends 2025 on strong note, up 13% in December: Naukri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s white-collar job market closed 2025 on a robust note, with the Naukri JobSpeak Index rising 13% year-on-year to 3,001 points in December, up from 2,651 a year earlier. The strong finish lifted the October\u2013December quarter to 9% growth, the best quarterly performance of the year \u2014 signalling a positive outlook for 2026. <\/p>\n<p>According to Naukri.com, the momentum was led by Hospitality (+29%), Insurance (+34%), and Real Estate (+21%), alongside sustained demand in AI\/ML roles (+53%). Hiring for freshers rose 18%, while high-value roles commanding over \u20b920 lakh per annum grew 27%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s white-collar job market closed 2025 on a robust note, with the Naukri JobSpeak Index rising 13% year-on-year to 3,001 points in December, up from 2,651 a year earlier. The strong finish lifted the October\u2013December quarter to 9% growth, the best quarterly performance of the year \u2014 signalling a positive outlook for 2026. According to Naukri.com, the momentum was led by Hospitality (+29%), Insurance (+34%), and Real Estate (+21%), alongside sustained demand in AI\/ML roles (+53%). Hiring for freshers rose 18%, while high-value roles commanding over \u20b920 lakh per annum grew 27%.<\/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-984265","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\/984265","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=984265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}