BPOs on a hiring spree again

After a lull in hiring in the $12.7-billion Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) exports industry, players have again started putting up the we are hiring sign. Even walk-in-interviews organised by hiring consultants are back in fashion. While most companies are looking at hiring in the finance and accounting, banking and insurance verticals, the industry is no more recruiting in droves bucking the trend for the last couple of years. In the last financial year, the BPO exports industry added around 7.8 lakh people, according to Nasscom estimates. A lot of hiring was earlier done to fill in the gaps due ...

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