Smartphone makers likely to create 60,000 jobs in next 6-12 months

Smartphone manufacturers are expected to create about 60,000 direct jobs in India in the next 6, 12 months, reported Economic Times citing data from staffing firm Teamlease. The report also mentioned that apart from the direct jobs, there is also a likelihood of 80,000-1,00,000 jobs being created by smartphone manufacturing companies in the next 12-24 months.

This as leading mobile brands, their suppliers, and assembly partners are looking to set up manufacturing in India and thus ramp up their hiring. Chief Executive-staffing at TeamLease Kartik Narayan told Economic Times that the services have over 5,000 vacancies in mobile manufacturing with more positions in the pipeline.

"We are expecting 40,000-60,000 direct jobs in phone manufacturing pan India by March 2024", Kartik Narayan told Economic Times

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Ciel HR Services' CEO Aditya Narayan Mishra also told the publication that there are about 2,000 open positions, with more expected. As per the report, Apple smartphone manufacturers like Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron, along with other electronics manufacturing companies like Dixon Technologies and Tata Electronics, are also likely to increase their manpower.

Tamil Nadu is likely to make the larger part of these jobs along with Delhi-NCR and Karnataka. India is expected to manufacture about 270-300 million smartphone units this calendar year. This also comes at a time when India has become the second largest mobile handsets manufacturer