Although hiring momentum between February and March had eased, it said the online recruitment for the information technology (IT), telco/internet service provider and business process outsourcing/IT-enabled service sector grew 13%, year-on-year (y-o-y).
In a statement today, Monster.com said the retail sector continued to fare badly compared with other job sectors, declining 36% y-o-y, a plunge from the 22% y-o-y, recorded in February 2017.
Across the occupational groups monitored by MEI, jobs in the purchase/logistics/supply chain segment were most in demand, registering a 10% growth in online hiring, its sixth month of consecutive growth.
Meanwhile, customer service professionals hiring dropped 58% y-o-y, dipping further from the 55% annual decline recorded in the previous month.
“The persisting gloomy economic outlook has left employers conservative when it comes to hiring across the board, in spite of the short-term positive economic forecasts in key sectors, such as IT, production and manufacturing,” Monster.com Asia-Pacific and Middle East managing director Sanjay Modi said in a statement released today.