White-collar jobs return with 2.90 lakh openings in July SECTIONS Share AFP For the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, white-collar hiring in some of the worst-hit sectors such as travel & tourism, hotel & hospitality, retail & recreation, and automobiles is witnessing signs of a recovery. These sectors posted more than 12,000 active job openings in July alone, showed data from LinkedIn and top company job boards, put together by specialist staffing firm Xpheno. The total number of active jobs in the past month was 290,000, amid resurgence of a wider range of commercial activities, green shoots of hiring in sectors that were lying nearly dormant since the start of the pandemic, as well as more employment opportunities in segments that are on an accelerated growth path.