Dr. Naresh Kumar Puritipati, President-HR at Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation, is expanding the company’s manufacturing footprint and building a self-paced learning platform to go with it, according to hiring trends reported by ETHRWorld.com. He also cites a number from those trends: 70 percent of employers now use skills-based hiring for entry-level recruitment, up from 65 percent the year before.