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DPDP Act for Recruiters: What Hiring Teams and Agencies Must Do Before May 2027
Hiring runs on personal data. A single candidate profile can carry a name, phone number, email, address, work history, current salary and expected salary. That ...
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DPDP Act for Recruiters: What Hiring Teams and Agencies Must Do Before May 2027
Hiring runs on personal data. A single candidate profile can carry a name, phone number, email, address, work history, current salary and expected salary. That ...
Want Better Candidates From Your Agencies? Give Feedback Within 48 Hours.
When a company is unhappy with the candidates an agency sends, the complaint is usually about quality. It is much less common to ask a simple question first: di...
Hiring in Tier-2 Cities: How to Reach Talent Where You Have No Local Network
India's GCC hiring is on track to cross five lakh jobs in 2026. Bengaluru still leads with about 30% of it. But the fastest growth is somewhere else. According ...
India's Hiring Market Is Steady but Selective: What the Naukri Data Means for Your 2027 Plan
Two months, two very different headlines. Naukri's JobSpeak Index showed white-collar hiring up 14% year on year in August, then only 2% in September. If you pl...
65% of Indian Employers Plan to Hire This Quarter. Here Is How to Close Your Roles Before the Year Ends.
If you have open roles right now, you are not alone. ManpowerGroup's Q4 2026 survey found that 65% of Indian employers plan to increase hiring between October a...
GCC Hiring in India: The Problem Is No Longer Too Few Candidates. It Is the Wrong Ones.
India's Global Capability Centres keep growing. India now hosts more than 2,100 of them, up from about 1,600 five years ago, and GCCs now hire more people than ...
How to Screen Candidates Properly (And Why Most Recruiters Skip It)
Keyword-matching a resume to a job description isn't screening. Here's the real 5-step process that gets candidates to interview, not just submitted.
The Rise of Flexi Staffing in India and What It Means for How Companies Hire
India's flexi staffing industry is growing at roughly 15% a year, as companies increasingly build workforces that mix permanent employees with contract and flex...
Recruitment Marketplace vs. Job Board: What's Actually the Difference?
If you've come across Highring and wondered whether it's another job board, you're not alone and it's a fair question. On the surface, both involve companies hi...