MSME job portal Sampark dips 85% in 12 months; only 133 openings for 4.77 lakh job seekers

New Delhi, April 25 (KNN) The number of job openings listed on the MSME Ministry’s recruitment portal Sampark has remained low in the past 12 months in comparison to the number of job seekers registered on the portal. 

As of April 24, 2022, there were merely 38 open job postings on the portal with only 133 vacancies for 4,77,083 lakh passed out trainees of MSME Tool Rooms and technical institutions, data from the portal showed. 

Importantly, job postings recorded a 71 percent dip from 131 as of April 19, 2021, while the vacancy count also declined 85 percent from 936, indicating slower adoption of the Sampark portal last year among recruiters even as the registered job seeker count increased by 5,487 from 4,71,596.

Active job seekers and recruiters currently on the platform were 37,429 and 2,156 respectively vis-a-vis 31,941 and 1,913 respectively as of April 19 last year, data showed.

The number of recruiters including national and multinational firms, on the portal, had increased by only 243 to 6,323 from 6,080 during the said period. Moreover, in terms of placements, only 2,635 job seekers were placed in the past 12 months to take the total count to 31,381 so far from 28,746 placed till April last year. According to the portal, MSME technology centres offer training to around 1.5 lakh students annually.

The portal was launched by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind in June 2018 to be leveraged by job seekers and companies in the MSME sector for hiring and manpower needs respectively.  (KNN Bureau)