Hiring activities continue to improve in April

Monster.com Managing Director India/Middle East/South East Asia Sanjay Modi said there is an 8220;elevated demand for IT and management professionals aligning with signals of mounting business confidence across the economy and continued focus on India8217;s role as a global technology centre8221;.

The index has been improving since October,2010,indicating better recruitment activities.

Good hiring trends were witnessed in oil/gas/petroleum,power and IT,among others,in April.

The Finance amp; Accounts and Marketing amp; Communications segments registered the steepest annual declines of 6 per cent each in the index,reflecting relatively restrained recruitment conditions for the respective professionals in early-spring 2011.

Coimbatore,Baroda and Jaipur were among the cities that saw bullish recruitment activity in April.