The LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index showed a modest increase in India's overall workforce confidence, with a composite score of (+) 50, up from (+) 48 in June 1-14.

Indian professionals are increasingly becoming optimistic as businesses slowly reopened last month and resulted in better hiring prospects across varied industries such as e-commerce, IT services, insurance and gaming, a survey said on Tuesday. 

The LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index showed a modest increase in India's overall workforce confidence, with a composite score of (+) 50, up from (+) 48 in June 1-14.

This uptick in hiring has fuelled the confidence of active job seekers towards career progression as findings show that about two in three professionals will increase their time spent searching for and applying to jobs in the next two weeks, LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index noted.

Besides, the lifting of the lockdown in several states and the continued adversities caused by COVID-19 have instituted a new set of workforce demands, thus creating new economic opportunities across the country's industrial landscape. 

The findings also highlighted the active job seekers' clear intent to upskill for a safer tomorrow as 68 per cent said they will increase their time spent on online learning for long-term job security and career progression.

The survey further noted that senior professionals are more confident about job security than juniors.

Further reinforcing the confidence of senior executives towards job security, findings showed that only 16 percent of 'Director+' professionals (decision-makers) would increase the number of jobs they apply to when compared to 48 percent of the junior workforce.

(PTI)