Govt sees 800% jump in job seekers on hiring portal Sampark

The number of job seekers enlisted on the Modi government’s job portal to help small businesses enlist talented youth MSME Sampark has jumped an incredible 800 percent even as the increment in the number of recruiter’s representatives was just 10% in a little in the last one year.

The portal had 4,68,804 job seekers and 5,951 recruiters’, as indicated by the information accessible with MSME Sampark as of January 20, 2021. This was up from 53,295 job seekers and 5,397 selection representatives as of December 31, 2019, as indicated by the FY20 yearly report of the MSME Ministry.

Significantly, the number of competitors placed via portal had expanded 170 percent in around two months’ time from 10,388 applicants as of November 17, 2020, to 28,029 candidates till now.

Financial Express Online had in November a year ago revealed that the general placements had converted into around 358 candidates placed each month on an average since the launch of the portal by the President Ram Nath Kovind in June 2018.

The rise in the quantity of applicants set takes every month average to 904 competitors. In any case, the number of vacancies recorded on the portal was 819 just for 4.68 lakh job seekers.