Report Overview India's AI hiring is accelerating, but the demand curve isn't uniform — it's concentrated in applied, implementation-focused roles rather than a broad IT recovery. This report provides a market intelligence view of "AI Developer – Product Support" positions: engineers who deploy, integrate, and operate within existing LLM/AI architectures, as distinct from AI research or model-building roles. Drawing on 2026 hiring and salary data, job-description and hiring-pattern analysis,...

For years, hiring in India followed an unspoken rule: no degree, no discussion. Educational qualifications acted as gatekeepers, often deciding a candidate’s fate before skills ever entered the conversation. But that model is rapidly breaking down. Today, Indian employers are rethinking what “qualified” truly means—and increasingly, the answer lies in skills, not degrees. This shift towards skill-based hiring isn’t driven by ideology. It’s driven by necessity. When Degrees Don’t Equal...

In the last three years, the global workforce — especially in technology — has experienced some of the most significant layoffs since 2008. Companies that once competed fiercely for talent have been forced to restructure, compress teams, and rethink their operating models. And in the middle of this shift lies a service that was designed decades ago but is now showing its age: outplacement. Traditional outplacement had a straightforward purpose. When an organization had to let people go, it...