Monster Employment Index: Malaysia’s online hiring up 7pc in April
According to MEI, online hiring activity in the information technology, telecom/Internet service provider and business process outsourcing/information technology enabled services industry saw the highest y-o-y growth of 43 per cent in April 2019. — TODAY pic
According to Monster Employment Index , the overall annual growth in online hiring registered a seven per cent year-on-year increase in April 2019 with eight out of nine industries showing positive annual growth. In a statement today, Monster.com said based on MEI, online hiring activity in the information technology, telecom/Internet service provider and business process outsourcing/information technology enabled services industry saw the highest y-o-y growth of 43 per cent in April 2019.
Meanwhile, of the nine job-roles monitored by the MEI, engineering/production, real estate recorded the steepest y-o-y decline of six per cent for the month under review while the demand for software, hardware, telecom professionals recorded the highest uptrend of 41 per cent y-o-y in April 2019.
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