Team Blitz India
MUMBAI: There has been a steady increase in job postings for skilled healthcare professionals in the last 2 years as hospitals continue to expand across tier I and II cities bolstered by the government’s push on healthcare and nursing.
The healthcare sector in India recorded a 22.4 per cent rise in job postings between January 2021 and January 2023, according to data from global job site Indeed, media reports said on April 27.
The data for this report was based on job postings and clicks for healthcare job roles on Indeed’s portal in the period under review. The report further revealed that jobseekers too are increasingly looking for opportunities in the healthcare segment, which witnessed a 52 per cent increase in clicks for healthcare roles.
The top roles among the healthcare-related jobs posted on the platform are nurses (13 per cent), lab technicians (10 per cent) and physicians (8 per cent), it noted.
Bengaluru leads in the number of jobs for healthcare with over 8 per cent of the total jobs share, followed by Delhi (7 per cent), Mumbai (6 per cent), Chennai (6 per cent) and Hyderabad (5 per cent).
In addition, there was an increased demand in terms of job postings from tier II cities for healthcare jobs, said the report. These tier II cities were Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Ahmedabad, Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi, it added.
