With cost cutting, retrenchments and hiring freezes, there wasn't much to cheer about for employees in 2012 as companies battled a slowing economy and dented sentiments. But as we usher in a new year, experts Sangeeta Lala, senior vice president and co-founder of TeamLease Services; Shiv Agrawal, MD of ABC Consultants and Ambarish Raghuvanshi, group president of finance and CFO at Info Edge India; discuss the outlook for hiring in 2013 and which sectors are likely to see more activity.