Kolkata has a distinct preference to recruit young job seekers having experience of 1-4 years, especially in administrative and accounts disciplines.

The city, however, stands a poor fourth in terms of total employment generation compared with Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. The city is also a laggard when it comes to salary hikes on lateral job switches.

A Ma Foi Randstad survey during January-June 2011 points out that more than half (57 per cent) of the 11,700 recruitments in the city during the period had 1-4 years of experience.

This was the highest incidence of such recruitments in the eight major cities surveyed by the staffing and HR outsourcing agency.

IT and ITES, Transporation, Storage and Communications were amongst the top employment generating sectors in the city.

Despite the high numbers, Kolkata was ranked fourth in terms of employment generation with Delhi & NCR (55,800), Mumbai (53,100) and Chennai (30,800) being the top three cities.

In terms of trends on salary increase for lateral job shifts amongst different cities, Pune reported the highest increase in average salary by a little over 17 per cent followed by Bangalore and Mumbai with over 16 per cent salary hikes.

Kolkata ranked seventh with over 15 per cent hike in salary for the first half of the year. Trends in the segment are expected to remain the same for the second half of the year, the report stated.

Nationally, a significant increase in hiring by the IT and ITES sector led to 17.9 per cent growth in salary for lateral job shifts in the segment.

However, there was a significant decline in employment in the real estate and construction sector. In terms of employment generation, healthcare followed by hospitality and IT and ITES remained the highest employers in the country for the first half of the year.

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