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In 2023, Meesho plans to resume hiring on campuses and hire 150 candidates.

In 2023, Meesho plans to resume hiring on campuses and hire 150 candidates.

By Kajal Sharma - 24 Jan 2024 05:54 PM

Meesho, an online retailer that stopped hiring on campuses in 2022, reported that it had hired 150 people in 2023. In 2024, the business supported by SoftBank plans to hire more young workers, it said."Meesho put a halt to campus hiring in 2022 because its main goal was profitable expansion. Without adding more employees, the company's primary goal was to become profitable, Chief HR Ashish Kumar Singh told Livemint.Meesho is hiring in the following areas: business, finance growth, consumer experience, analytics, monetization, technology and product, and human resources.Salary packages for non-tech positions like strategy and operations have increased compared to the previous year, the company stated. In search of campus hiring opportunities, the e-commerce platform traveled to the following locations: Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Indian Institute of Information Technology (III) Allahabad, BITS Pilani, Indian Institute of Management (IIMs)-Lucknow and Kozhikode, National Institutes of Technology-Delhi, Bhopal, Surat, Calicut, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), and Management Development Institute (MDI).

All of these locations were visited by the e-commerce platform.According to the e-commerce startup, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad and IIT BHU are the campuses with the highest number of hirings. Meesho announces first profit in July and plans to go public in 12–18 months. Meesho hired 150 students in total in 2021 for both tech and non-tech positions. Meesho just added IIIT Bangalore, IIIT Lucknow, IIIT Jabalpur, and IIIT Kota to its roster of institutes for campus recruiting. The online retailer announced in December 2023 that it had posted consolidated profit after taxes for the second quarter that ended in September 2023, making it the first unicorn in e-The company put the rise in sales down to a number of factors, including a rise in the number of shopping apps downloaded in India in 2022 and 2023, an increase in the frequency of transactions for current clients, a diversification of the product line, and an emphasis on enhancing revenue generation through different value-added seller services.

 

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