New Trends in Careers
                     NEW TRENDS 
IN CAREERS
AI and Machine learning job 
demand estimated to grow
With rapid tech adoption across industries and 
entirely tech-enabled sectors such as IT and 
BFSI, the role of AI and Machine learning will 
only continue to grow in 2022, with a significant 
increase in the demand for related roles.
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Chatbots to empower 
customer support services
To enhance customer engagement, more and 
more organisations are adopting chat-bots 
which are forecast to empower approximately 
45% of organizations’ customer support 
services by 2022.
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Growth of FinTech in 
2022
The Indian FinTech market expanding rapidly, 
and is estimated to become the third largest 
market in the world by 2025.
The future holds increased digitization and 
digital adoption opportunities across the 
industry, with a positive outlook for talent 
demand in the sector.
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Continued spike in IT 
talent demand
Indian IT has continued to hire through the 
course of the pandemic, and will exhibit similar 
trends in 2022.
It is encouraging to note that the IT industry is 
forecasted to grow 7% in the current year, and 
likely to see a gross employee addition of 
around 450,000 in the second half of FY22.
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Big Data Analytics roles 
to witness huge demand
Basis reports, 96% of companies are definitely 
planning or likely to plan to hire new staff  with 
relevant skills to fi ll future big data analytics 
related roles in 2022.
This is most likely going to be the most in-
demand role in 2022. Data Science, Cloud 
Computing and Machine Learning roles captured 
most of the e-recruitment market.
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Skilled manpower to be the 
future of the workforce
The demand for skilled manpower or 
professionals adept in digital skills is likely to 
witness a surge in industries such as BFSI and 
new sectors such as crypto.
The top skills organizations are on the lookout 
for are data science, cloud computing, artificial 
intelligence, blockchain, and machine learning.
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Sales professionals in 
demand
The demand for sales professionals is estimated 
to increase especially in industries such as 
FinTech, Retail, E-commerce, and Social 
Commerce.
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Location-agnostic 
future
The future of working is certainly hybrid. 
Location-agnostic working goes hand-in-hand 
with this, especially for tech companies with 
large workforces.
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Optimistic outlook for 
fresher hiring
Hiring for freshers has picked up over the last 
three months of the year, and is estimated to 
increase considerably in 2022.
The continuing emergence of startups will 
further contribute to the demand for entry level 
professionals across industries.
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