mumbai maharashtra has emerged as the preferred state for talent acquisition by automobile banking financial services insurance pharma hospitality and core sectors like oil and gas power steel minerals and fmcg according to india hiring intent survey maharashtra ranks among the top three states in skills related to numerical and logical ability computer literacy and english language along with domain expertise pankaj bansal cofounder and ceo of peoplestrong said in terms of hiring maharashtra is only one of the ten states that have maximum percentage of employable candidates also features as the most preferred hiring destination by employers across sectors it thus becomes more clear that focus on matchmaking skills with jobs has huge impact the fourth edition of india skills report 2017 has come up with the new found focus on employability and matchmaking than mere skilling and it is exciting to see that employers academia and the government have started working in tandem to achieve the same some key sectors which prefer hiring from maharashtra are automobile banking financial services and pharma healthcare in all these sectors the employers have shown an increase in hiring intent in the range of 510 from last year apart from maharashtra delhi west bengal and andhra pradesh too feature among the states with most employable population etauto published on nov 23 2016 at 0203 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app maharashtra hiring activity pankaj bansal peoplestrong peoplestrong hr services india hiring intent survey homenewsindustrymaharashtra the most preferred hiring destination by auto sector survey