People with AI skills are getting jobs, companies are changing the criteria for hiring them.

On one hand, AI means Artificial Intelligence is a problem for IT companies. Many big IT companies have thrown many people out of jobs citing AI. Now another report has come to light regarding AI. After knowing this report your worry is going to increase further. In fact, instead of recruiting on a large scale, companies are now giving priority to employees with AI understanding, quality and special skills. This has come to light in a report by Upgrade Recruit, a unit that provides information about the recruitment of employees.

According to the report titled Jobs in India: Recruitment Trends for FY 2026-27, the country’s recruitment market is entering a new phase, where companies are focusing more on quality-based recruitment rather than quantity. The study is based on the opinions of 11,418 senior human resources, talent management and business executives from 12 sectors.

this is how the scale is changing

Hussain Tinwala, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Upgrade Recruit, said, India’s recruitment scenario is no longer based on numbers but focused on accuracy. Sustainable growth in an AI-based economy will not be defined by how many people a company employs, but by how it identifies and selects the talent it needs. According to the report, almost eight out of 10 companies could not achieve their set recruitment targets. This makes it clear that the current challenge is more related to the implementation of the recruitment process than the availability of qualified talent.

What is the problem of companies?

The report said that professionals with three to eight years of experience have emerged as the most in-demand employees in various sectors. At the same time, due to the restructuring taking place in information technology services and global capacity centers, there is a possibility of increasing the availability of experienced technical experts. According to the report, 70 percent of the companies consider the recruitment situation to be stable for the financial year 2026-27, but it is taking time ranging from eight to 12 weeks to 12 to 20 weeks to fill important positions.