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I was asked on my earlier post on What is the piece of advice .... I wrote this.. Well if you ask me what can be done to curb this then actually or almost nothing can be done. Basically when the candidates simply fail to answer your calls or reply to your emails, disconnects the call seeing your number and the worst simply disconnect the mobile connection if he leaves that particular city, their could be no recourse to this. But yes the companies are taking a note of such issues and makes sure every candidates approaching them , they do check in their history if they have encountered he/she previously and if the candidate was genuine earlier. Candidates shopping for jobs was definitely in for a long time, some candidates uprightly say they want to know their worth in the market and hence they shop !! Very little can be understood from such candidates if they are actually serious for the job. Most of the times they go back with the offer to their own employers to get a counter offer fro...

Green Jobs interview. I recently came this terminology of Green Interview process… in any layman understanding it would mean some recruitment process invented by a gentleman by the name Mr. Green. But that’s not true, Green interview simply means interviews conducted by companies through Video conferencing and through any virtual networks, which includes telephonic too. The reason being is that when the companies organize interview at the company premises the candidate will have to travel using his own transportation or either any public transport to reach the venue for the interview, which in turn will raise the level of carbon emission from the fuel! And to curtail the same and to avoid spoiling the eco system in the long run corporate are going virtual!! Can you believe it, but yes this is the latest buzzword in the RPO industry!! And hold on there would certainly some more in the making … And there is more to it, there is also something called video resume, which is when you yours...

Here is wat i posted to the question, what would be the piece of advice that you would give to the candidates when you are recruiting.. Read this ...... Have a great Day !!

I was asked how much will US slowdown affect the Indian recruitment industry.. and i gave this input to him .. Well,we rather than waiting for it to get affected i think its effect has already started, i have recently come across an assignment with an IT MNC in which had actually shared the active positions with us ,(we being the vendor to the company )suddenly after the slowdown hits the newspapers , the MNC has withdrawn their hiring plans as they do not expect the work to come to them and hence they are cutting short on the resources, i think the mediocre setups have already started to know their existence lies in the dark. This has also added up to the fear amongst the candidates and trust me they are not actively looking out for a change because they do not want to go through the transitions of the new company and their ad hoc manipulations as per market demands. The rise in the compensation is also minimal and that's not exciting to the candidates. If you talk about sectors i...

Some Freelancing i got indulged in ... !! Some one is worried about his career.... need expert advice. “Hi Sunny, I dont know how did it reach me but i am glad to express my thoughts on the same. See i am an HR consultant and deal with such situation every day where i am selling jobs and selling candidates at the same time.Regarding your friend you have given a personal touch to his case where every HR manager who reads his case will feel to extend his/her help to this candidate. Well its fair enough on your friends part to look beyond horizon and see for himself where he stand apart from the rest of the peers.See boss, any individual or rather an employee in any organization stay in the position assigned to him because of his service and offerings to the organization and at the end of the day ( in pure business terms) how much revenue is he worth to the organization. Education does matter for placing any person in the organization but yes there is always the experience and application...

Here is what i feel on freelancing ... Its definitely a good way to reach out the masses without any confinement and its easy to revolve in the work space that you create but at the same time it would need a aggressive way of networking with the executives and sell the best solution that you could offer them..

Sometime back or rather few months back i had to take a decision of changing my city and work place because of several commitments towards a new beginning in life... i moved on .. came to the new city called bangalore .. heard its the slow moving city unlike mumbai (where i am originally from !)and yes i found it to be the same way as heard.. initially issue with the food and the environment as you need to know the local language to refrain and avoid from the silly issues that could take on to your nerves but i could not get the grip on the language as i understood i lack the basic ingredient .. thats the urge to learn !! Moved on to the next issue which could be the transport, opted to stay at a walkable distance to my workplace and found so, not really thats could make me feel at home but yes gave a good feeling when ever i was back home ... I learned to choose my own problems and learned to feel sorry, disgusted and bad about the same... and to a certain extent it helped me ... to ...

These days an aspiring candidate has choices to make as he is getting offers across the boundaries. Its publishing everywhere that corporates are on hiring spree, they are adding numbers ... for evidence read this . Companies are adding numbers as the businesses are growing and the supporting element to it is that corporates are also engaging themselves with the B- schools and lot of engineering institutes so that they can imbibe the fresh graduates in thier system and train them accordingly. Current scene has added a lot of responsibilities on the hiring managers as they are entering even the rural market to source the right talent. Its not only IT sector that needs people. Here is another article which has very different scene as in why is this sector needing poeple .. this . Its jobs .. jobs every where .. did u get one .. or are u looking for one . You are not late to bag one !!!

How is that you can quantify the concept of redesigning a process or restructuring has helped a organization or rather to be more specific a particular department. You often find HR people busy with bringing out the best within an employee and how they can improve their efficiency in their performance. They carry out training programs , open up employee friendly forums and stuff which tries to make every employee feel worth himself that he ultimately affects the business of the organization and how he can relate himself as an individual and as a professional to the other person.. The next or rather the best the management could think of a remedy for the best result could be restructuring within the dept.. the reporting struture , the heirarchy and also there could be a new level could be introduced just to struture the process flow withing the deptt. and it could also be the fancy titles given to the employees . May be the job content could be same but yes a "feel good factor...

Coming from consulting back ground or rather to frame it in an apt manner from one of the hr outsourcing function called as recruitment, i review how is that my efforts to source a candidate and then trying to place him at my client "dream- job sort after organization" hold significance when after the management review when they have met the candidate - comes up with a illogical or rather illegitimate feedback which may not run in favor of the business. The dimensions to make jobs available to the right candidate is changing as management try to make tailor-made roles which may help the candidate to deliver the best with his skills of expertise and the kind of experience he may bring onto the table . Was going through an article which tried to make the reader believe that an interviewer should not have a biased opinion of an employee or rather a prospective employee in the organization. Be the way the person is dressed or rather the kind of dialect he may have. When busine...

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Recently i came across a survey report published by Accenture reflecting on contemporary HR issues and its relevance to the business. The survey explains how is and can business be related to HR. The point to be taken here is that is business really benefited by HR or is HR just a parasite which cannot be chucked out as it demands to stay. Being in recruiting you may get a chance to explore the two sides of the coin. The demands of businesss gets difficult to align itself with the HR as HR has a slow pace to reach out. Business guys may have a pecular image and specifications of the guy they need to achieve their target but is that put across correctly when HR comes into the picture and here is when the tiff starts. All functions needs its importance and space to showcase their existence. The syncronized behaviour of the HR with the business is rarely noticable. Recruiting business gives you an idea of politically different boundaries within an enterprise and great walls surrounding ...

Life demands so many things that sometimes u realise you have so little to give it back. You are left in a such a traffic signal where they could be no way out and you just cannot define the equlibrium of life. Life's journey is subjective to circumstances your encounter in life. Which crossroad of life comes your way, it's not what you can be prepared for but yes you can definitely assume things will fall in place. Your efforts today describes you status tomorrow. You wish to do so many things of your choice in life and you may also channelize your efforts in that direction.Still there is mismatch in the expectations. Acceptance is the path to succeed.Suceed in life, suceed is getting mental peace. Accept life and life will accept you.

We read about companies trying to fix their employees in the organization by giving them extra perks ( more than they deserve ), untimely promotion, perks related to families and so on. Very little for an employee to understand that these are strategies for the employee to continue his stay in the organization, which helps the company curb its cost to a certain level. After a person gets promoted, implications - jobs responsibilities increases or made to be increased by his seniors just to make him feel empowered,KRA's redefined or may be his base location is also changed!! There have been several occasions, i have encountered where my candidates have been given counter offers by their companies so that the management could avoid the cost to get in a new person and lapse in the process they were involved in, not to be surprised, but, yes the candidates accepted the counter offers made by the companies. These strategies are helping the companies to avoid the uncertainities of a cand...

Just putting my thoughts together.. i had read some where, an article about how people fail to decide what do they want out of their personal and professional life. Very few poeple have it in them to stand out and put across their point which seldom have relevance to others and they let it go in drain. I personally believe its essential for any individual to craft his identity and prove to be different from the rest in the play.what it takes is patience and opportunity. i spend most of my time at my work place and come across people, whom i question why have they chosen that field which they are currently in life. there are various reasons i get and what i perceive of them is, most of them opt their profession not by choice but because it implies to their educatinal background. you may still be naive to decide on your academia, as the support system is the family, but as the time progresses you definitely learn new aspects of the stream you choose and at some time you could have though...

HR has always been a technical course to me. Dealing with people is what HR is, thats what HRgurus speak about & is definitely percieved to be, but HR also has its fine lines of demarcation in its subjects and practices. For me, HR is playing with minds of people and its evident in the recruiting business. Books impose HR as- putting right people at the right place at right time with right skills, how much of this Gyaan is true ?? Being in Business HR i have encountered such instances where my clients demanded not the right skills but candidate with low on aspirations, so that they can look upto their seniors and abide to their unspoken and unwritten laws. It may sound hilarious, but a client of mine wanted to recruit a Trainer for the company, specs - he should be 25-27 years old. Clarifications - the person whom he was suppose to report was 30 years old, so the incumbent should look up to him and should have no reservations in the reporting structure. Techincal knowledge was set ...

Having All the Information Needed to Start a Search… In any given search, a recruiter’s main contact is usually the human resources representative. While HR knows what they have been told to look for, what sometimes they don’t realize is words or information gets lost in translation. The best way to ensure you are going to get a quick turnaround for the open position to be filled is to give the 3rd party recruiter all the ammunition they need. Since starting up the recruiting for the client side – marketing and advertising positions, I have learned how different it is then traditional recruiting for the ad agency side. There is so much more detail that needs to go into a search. A marketing manager may mean one thing to one person and another to another person. So with that being said, it’s important to get all the information the recruiter can possibly obtain. One of my searches I have been working on is a brand manager. I love the HR contact. He is full of good information and...

The Truth Hurts. It’s tough being Number 14, out of let’s say 15. Yes that’s right - not No. 1, not No.5, not even No. 10. But sometimes you are. When a candidate hears about an opportunity with your group, they say "Who?" and the challenge begins from there. One of the toughest conversations I have with our Clients is the conversation where I tell them they’re not going to see candidates from Crispin or P&G. They sometimes don’t have the brand equity as an employer, sometimes in such a remote location that great Talent isn’t likely to find a home there, or sometimes the work simply isn’t good enough to attract someone from the top company in the field. It hurts to hear, but often the truth in fact, hurts. Setting realistic expectations is a big part of being a successful Recruiter. We have intimate knowledge of the marketplace and who’s considered ‘hot’ and who’s ‘not.’ We know what’s making candidates tick these days, what the going rates are for salaries, and j...

I always thought of relating myself with the blogging community, defintely had a remote idea but really could not get the stream to flow.. conditions will follow... but i strongly feel of getting into it.