Education and training sector posted the highest talent demand in September 2020: Study

A combined push of the online classes and the phenomenal rise of Edu-Tech domain proved to be a blessing for the employment scenario in the Education and Training sector. Historically, education-related jobs and work profiles see seasonal upticks around the time when new sessions start. However, COVID-19’s lockdown has pushed the talent demand for these profiles into a continuous upward rally ever since March 2020.

TimesJobs RecruiteX Sept 2020 edition noted that the Education/Training sector posted the maximum talent demand growth of 27% M-o-M and 7% Y-o-Y in the study period. Functional area wise too, Teaching/Education profiles saw a growth of over 30% in the monthly analysis.

Sanjay Goyal, business head, TimesJobs and TechGig said: “The Education/Training sector’s talent demand performance is like a comeback story of an unconventional sector. Typically, education-related work profiles are all-weather jobs with seasonal spikes. However, the COVID-19 lockdown forced all classes to go online, and education continuity became a stronger resolve. Add to that the stupendous rise of the Edu-Tech domain in the past months. In Sept 2020, the Education/Training sector posted more talent demand than the other high volume sectors as IT/Telecom, BFSI, FMCG and Retail combined together. Now that the educational institutes have started re-opening - partially though - I feel this growth in talent demand will continue for some more time”.

Industry-wise analysis:

The Education and Training sector saw the maximum (27%) growth in monthly talent demand study, followed by the recently reopened Hospitality sector which noted 23% M-o-M uptick. Together both these sectors shadowed the combined talent demand of all high volume sectors as IT/Telecom, BFSI and Retail. In fact, IT/Telecom and Retail shed talent demand by 2% and 1% respectively, in the monthly analysis

These sectors had the most talent demand:

Education/Training: 27%

Hospitality: 23%

BFSI: 12%

 Functional area-wise analysis:

Ever since the COVID-19 induced lockdown came into effect earlier this year, two work profiles saw a continuous rise - teachers and the gig workers. In Sept 2020, both these profiles saw maximum talent demand, followed by the BFSI-related profiles. For the first time since June 2020, IT/Telecom noted a 1% dip in M-o-M talent demand analysis. HR/Training profiles too noted a dip in the monthly demand study.

These profiles had the most talent demand:

Teaching/Education: Over 30%

Business Mgmt./Consultants/Freelancers: 24%

Banks/Insurance/Financial Services: 18%

Location-wise:

Mumbai and Pune witnessed the maximum rise of 14% and 11% in talent demand in Sept 2020 respectively. Chennai – which topped the talent demand list in Aug 2020 – saw a 3% uptick in Sept 2020. Delhi-NCR location saw a dip of 3% in M-o-M talent demand, similar to its Aug 2020 trend.

Location-wise top three cities with the most demand were:

Mumbai: 14%

Pune: 11%

Lucknow: 3%

Work experience wise:

The Sept 2020 data shows that the mostly middle-level professionals were most sought after in the study month. At the same time, people with over 20 years of experience noted a 10% dip in demand, followed by freshers (less than two years of work experience) where demand tanked by 5%.

Work experience wise, the top three most sought after categories were:

10-20 years: 14%

5-10 years: 9%

2-5 years: 3%