Google India has bagged the Randstad Award 2015 for Most Attractive Employer in India, while Sony India has been adjudged the runner-up.

The sector-specific special recognition awards this year were awarded to Tata Steel (manufacturing), P&G (FMCG), and Honda India (Automobile). The 5th edition of the Randstad Awards event will be held in Delhi later today.

In line with the Randstad Award philosophy, Microsoft India has been inducted into the Hall of Fame category this year for winning the coveted Randstad Award title for four consecutive years.

The Randstad Award is hosted each year to encourage best practices for talent attraction and to identify the best ‘Employer Brand’ in the country based on the perceived attractiveness of a company. Globally, this research covered 23 countries, capturing the views of over 225,000 respondents (8,500 in India).

In a statement, Moorthy K Uppaluri, CEO, Randstad India said, “The revitalised Indian economy and the job market continues to gain momentum, and this puts pressure on corporate India to retain and attract the best talent.”

Key findings

This year’s research clearly shows that salary and employee benefits continue to be the top priority among the Indian workforce while choosing an employer. The importance of salary has increased even further since last year (7 per cent increase from 2014) followed by long-term job security.

Salary & employee benefits (54 per cent), long-term job security (49 per cent), work-life balance (39 per cent), pleasant working atmosphere (39 per cent), and financial health of the company (38 per cent) are the top five preferred criteria while choosing an employer.

The survey highlights that men in India are more often driven towards companies with good financial health, a strong management and one that offers career progression opportunities, while women prefer a pleasant working atmosphere, good work-life balance, convenient location, and flexible working arrangements.

According to the survey, the Indian workforce prefers to work or move to sectors such as IT and Communication (72 per cent), followed by FMCG and retail (68 per cent) and automobiles (67 per cent).

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