Han Digital CEO: AI Shifting India's IT Hiring from Mass Recruitment to Skills-Based Precision Hiring

NewsData.io · United States · Sep 18, 2026

Saravanan Balasundaram, CEO of Han Digital Solution, argues that India's IT-BPM sector is moving from high-volume campus and headcount hiring to precision, skills-based recruitment driven by AI-led productivity gains. He attributes roughly two-thirds of the current decline in workforce additions to AI productivity improvements, with the remainder tied to client spending caution. Strongest demand is expected in AI/ML engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and enterprise platform roles, while L1 support, transactional processing, and entry-level coding face displacement. For staffing firms, the shift signals growing opportunity in flexible and contract models as organizations increasingly seek 'skills on demand' rather than headcount.