How we count. Who writes.
Every number in our career guides and articles comes from real job posts, with the sample size next to it. Here is exactly how those numbers are made, what they can and cannot tell you, and who stands behind the advice.
Latest read: 12 November 2026 · 2,33,776 open jobs (4,31,061 posts before repeats were folded) at 33,566 employers.
The rules behind every figure
- Where the jobs come from
- Employers' own career sites and applicant systems (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, SuccessFactors and many more), public recruitment notices, and jobs employers post on Highlisted directly. Every job links back to the original posting.
- What we leave out
- Job listing sites and aggregators (so no job is counted twice through a middleman), jobs abroad, posts that are not a job (training courses, admit cards, results), posts whose title names a past year, and notices whose last date has passed.
- One job, counted once
- The same job posted in several cities, or re-posted by the same employer, is folded into one. Cities still count a multi-city job in each city it names.
- Employers
- Every employer with an open job is counted. Recruitment and staffing firms, and career sites with no readable company name, are counted in the totals but never ranked in "who's hiring" lists.
- Pay
- Only full-time posts that state pay, and at most three posts from any one employer in a figure, so one big recruiter cannot set the number. We quote a median and the middle half (25th to 75th percentile) and always the number of posts behind it: a figure needs 30 posts, an experience band 20, a stipend 20. Pay is CTC a year unless it says a month.
- Experience
- Fresher means the post asks for under a year. Experience bands come from what the post states; posts that state nothing are shown as "not stated", never guessed.
- Skills and qualifications
- Read from the post's title, requirements and description by our tagger, counting only what the employer states as required or preferred. Words every office job asks for (communication, MS Office) are left out because they say nothing about a field.
- Which jobs belong to a guide
- Each guide uses the same audience definition as its Telegram channel, so the guide and the daily alerts describe exactly the same jobs.
- When a guide is published
- Only while it has at least 300 open jobs from 75 employers, and only with its written half. Below that bar it is not listed or indexed until the jobs come back.
- How often
- Every week, from the open jobs at that moment. The date on each guide is the day its figures were read.
What the numbers can't tell you
Our jobs come from employers big enough to run a careers page, so small firms, shops and local contractors who hire by word of mouth are under-counted. Fields like nursing, ITI trades and government jobs hire heavily through channels we cannot read. Posts that state pay lean towards smaller employers and frontline roles; large companies usually reveal pay only at offer stage. Read every figure as "what the posts we can see say", not as the whole Indian market.
Who writes the guides and articles
The Highlisted Editorial Team writes for job seekers in every field, from CA students and engineers to ITI apprentices, nurses, teachers and delivery partners. Every rule, fee, stipend and law is checked against the official source (ICAI, ICSI, ICMAI, the apprenticeship portals, the Labour Ministry, regulators) and listed under each piece. Articles carry the date they were written and the date they were last checked.
We never take money to rank an employer or write about one, and we never name a company in a negative light. If you spot a mistake, write to support@highlisted.com and we will fix it and note the change.
Start with the career guides by field, the articles, or the monthly India Hiring Index.