Maharashtra, New Delhi on top position in ‘job availability’ in India

Telangana, October 16: Maharashtra tops with 19.72% in jobs availability, followed by New Delhi with 16.99% - according to the report of Aspiring Minds. Gujarat stands on the third position with 5.63% followed by West Bengal 4.47% and Madhya Pradesh 4.11%, Telangana with 3.47%, Uttar Pradesh 3.7% 

Job positions and skill demand were collected through an automated survey of various job portals. The study has examined more than 10 lakh open jobs spread across 29 Indian states and 7 Union territories. Each job opening was automatically mapped to a generic role and further to the skills that are required to perform that job.

Despite Hyderabad emerging as a major hub for software development over the years, Gujarat is ahead of Telangana in software development. Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu are in top positions in software development due to their traditionally strong IT industry.

Telangana engineering colleges are producing run-of-the-mill kind software professionals reflects in the fact that the State engineers lack deductive reasoning, another key skill in the job market. On the availability of the jobs measured on per lakh of population Telangana stands at the 7th position with 56.66 jobs. Chandigarh is on the top with 1,054 jobs per lakh of population but that is due to the fact it is a urban state with best of institutes and companies offering jobs.

The report found that Software Development and Sales are the most sought-after professions, and English Comprehension and Reasoning are the most in-demand skills. CEO of Aspiring Minds Himanshu Aggarwal said that students spend time and money learning the wrong skills for the wrong jobs.