OYO to hire 5,000 people over the coming eight months

OYO Rooms, the budget hotel room aggregator headquartered in Gurgaon, is looking forward to adding a full-stack hotelier model to its asset-light marketplace model. For this, it would be hiring 5,000 people across department of sales, marketing, technology and hospitality over the next eight months, a person aware of the developments told ET.

Most of this hiring would be done via recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). It’s been just a few days back that Oyo entered into a seven-year multi-million dollar contract with leading RPO service provider PeopleStrong, valued at $2 million per annum.

Confirming the deal, Shelley Singh, co-founder of PeopleStrong, said, "We have signed up with OYO Rooms but beyond that we cannot divulge details".

Even though Oyo didn’t confirm the size of the hiring, he said that OYO will continue its focus on a variety of skills while recruiting professionals from relevant talent pools.

"We take pride in our pioneering technology-led approach and leadership in this industry, because of which we will focus on continuing to employ technology as a primary enabler," said Dinesh R, chief human resource officer at OYO. "However, there are key skill sets, which are important, and we will bring more talent there."