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PeopleLogic Research Team

The PeopleLogic Research Team writes PeopleLogic's hiring insights, State of Hiring reports and talent market analysis for India. Our recruiters and analysts draw on live mandates across IT, GCCs, BFSI and manufacturing.

The Cybersecurity Skill Gap in BFSI : Building Resilient Teams for the Future

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A bank had invested millions in AI-powered fraud detection. Weeks before launch, the project stalled – not because the technology failed, but because two critical cybersecurity roles had sat vacant for over four months unfilled. The biggest risk wasn’t the software. It was the missing talent behind it.

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AI-Powered Banking: The Intelligence Revolution Reshaping BFSI – And the Talent Race Behind It

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Picture a Monday morning at a mid-sized private bank. A loan officer logs in and reviews five credit applications — but before she reads a single line, an AI model has already scored each borrower using 400+ data signals, flagged two anomalies in transaction history, and cross-referenced all five against AML watchlists.

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When Your Colleague Is an Algorithm: AI Agents Are Reshaping the World of Work

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The AI agent revolution isn’t creeping up on us — it’s already arrived. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, which analyzed trillions of anonymized Microsoft 365 productivity signals and surveyed 20,000 workers across 10 countries, found that the number of active agents in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem has grown 15x year over year, rising to 18x in large enterprises.

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India GCC Hiring Is Accelerating — Here’s What Smart Employers Are Doing Differently

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The GCC ecosystem has grown 32% since FY2021.
In short: this is no longer a trend. It is infrastructure. And the organisations that understand the new rules of competing for talent in this market — rather than the rules of five years ago — will build better teams.

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The Manufacturing GCC Talent Blueprint: 20 Roles You Need to Hire in Year One

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One of the most common mistakes manufacturing GCCs make when entering India is applying a technology GCC hiring template to a fundamentally different talent brief.
The roles that a manufacturing GCC needs in Year One are specific, sequenced, and in several cases, exist in talent pools that standard IT-centric pipelines simply do not reach.

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Why Manufacturing GCCs That Start with RPO Ramp Faster — and Hire Better

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Most manufacturing GCCs in India start the same way: they open two or three agency relationships, post JDs, and begin hiring role by role. By month four, they are frustrated. By month eight, they are behind plan.
The GCCs that ramp on time — and with the right quality of talent — almost always do something different from the start. They build their hiring as a system, not as a series of individual transactions.

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The Hardest Hire in Any Manufacturing GCC: Cracking the 8 -15 Year Talent Band in India 

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Ask any Head of HR at a manufacturing GCC in India what keeps them up at night, and the answer is almost always the same: “I can find freshers. I can find CXOs. What I cannot find is the layer in between.”
This is the 8–15 year problem — it is the defining challenge of GCC talent acquisition in India today — and it is most acute in the manufacturing GCC wave.

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Why Global Manufacturers Are Setting Up GCCs in India — And What They’re Struggling to Find

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When global manufacturing leaders gather in boardrooms in Basel, Stuttgart, Tokyo, or Melbourne today, the conversation has shifted. The question on the table is no longer whether to build in India — it is what more can we build from India?

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When Should Your Organisation Use Contract-to-Hire? A Practical Guide for TA/HR Leaders

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A role opens. The permanent headcount is stuck in approval.
Or the last hire for this function didn’t work out.
Or the skill is so specialised that three months of interviews have produced no confident shortlist.
So someone suggests contract-to-hire, and the team agrees — not because they’ve thought it through, but because it feels like a way to keep moving.

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