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Our regular briefing on skills, learning, employment, emerging careers and women at work — bringing together sector updates, data insights, and expert perspectives for practitioners and decision-makers. We also develop customised editions around specific program themes, sectors, and geographies.
The labour market softens further as urban unemployment falls to a one-year low. AI reshapes technical trades and IT talent, clean energy could create 44 lakh jobs by 2030, and states deepen gig-worker protections — alongside a first global ILO standard for platform work.
The labour market softens with structural shifts in rural employment. Creator jobs grow ninefold, home-services apps recruit women at scale, and public-sector bank hiring crosses 50,000 in FY26.
The labour market softens and tech entry roles stall. Women's employability and retention improve, green jobs surge despite a widening skill gap, and new financing models like a Skills Outcomes Fund take shape.
Female employment strengthens the headline numbers even as youth job pressures persist. White-collar hiring grows, the drone sector opens a new jobs frontier, and NITI Aayog proposes a National Job Skilling Policy.
Quick-commerce hiring expands beyond delivery into white-collar roles and GCCs attempt capability democratisation, while India's AI and semiconductor ambitions run into a talent test.
Employment stays resilient even as urban stress and skill gaps remain. AI hiring scales from start-ups to mainstream enterprises, India's energy transition promises millions of jobs, and the country prepares its first nationwide adult skills survey.
Unemployment hits a multi-month low with a positive outlook for 2026. The IT sector pivots to specialised skills, states act for women workers, and green-skills hiring outpaces supply.
Employment holds steady with strong white-collar and gig pockets. India steps up global skills diplomacy with the G20 Africa-Skills Multiplier, rolls out new Labour Codes, and states push fresh skilling initiatives.
India's job outlook stays buoyant in a two-speed market, with Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities emerging as new hubs. Karnataka unveils a seven-year skilling policy, and India moves to align its skills with global standards.
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