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Recruitment Outsourcing
There are of course, certain reasons driving people to start outsourcing human resources abroad. One of the most obvious reasons lies in the low cost of recruitment. Recruitment outsourcing is also gaining popularity because it makes the whole process faster. Besides, outsourcing centers offer enhanced recruitment quality. The respondents presently delegate the recruitment operations, connected with background checks, sourcing, screening and testing, application tracking systems, and name genera...Published about 22-11-2009 | Rated 0
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3 Tips for Screening Candidates
Sorting Candidates In a slow job market, anyone who posts a job opening these days is sure to get swamped with resumes. I`ve heard stories of 500 resumes for a single customer service opening or receptionist position. So when you are swamped like that, how do your sort them to find the top 3-4 candidates without spending weeks reading each of them? Remember if you are more than 50 employees or do government contracting you have to comply with EEOC hiring practices, so you have to show your...Published about 22-11-2009 | Rated 0
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Hire the Right Person
The million dollar question these past few months has been, "How do I attract and hire the right people in my practice?" The real kicker is that it has to be done now because a team member has left. Does this sound familiar? If you have ever been in this position, it feels very uncomfortable. Your thoughts begin to fill with fear and you wonder if you will ever find someone who will fit well into the position available. Rest assured these are normal feelings and you are not alone. Somewhere o...Published about 22-11-2009 | Rated 0
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Five Steps to Successful Headhunting
In a candidate short market, talented individuals (the very people you need for your clients vacancies) tend to be sitting tight and very content in their jobs. More and more employers are recognizing the need to look after the people they want to keep in their business with plenty of perks, tie-ins and generous pay checks. As a recruiter, I have shunned the persistent calls from job boards peddling their resume databases. I understand that they have the largest number of resumes anywhere ...Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0
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What is Recruitment Processing Outsourcing (RPO)
Businesses have started outsourcing many different tasks these days. It seems like everything from human resources to technical support to billing can be outsources to another company, and if a business really wanted to, they might be able to outsource everything! Well, it may not be quite possible, but there are many different departments that can be outsourced, including recruitment activities. Recruitment processing outsourcing, or RPO, is the process of hiring an outside company to handle al...Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0
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HCL Tech opens centre in Brazil, to hire 300 engineers by 2012
NEW DELHI: HCL Technologies said it has opened a global IT development centre in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, to cater to clients across Latin America, North America and Europe. The centre, which compliments HCL`s operations in Sao Paulo, is expected to hire over 300 engineers by 2012, HCL Technologies said in a statement. The centre will offer a range of services, including enterprise application services, custom applications development and maintenance, and remote infrastructure management to...Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0
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Patni to bring 2007-08 campus recruits on-board
Software exporter Patni Computer Systems expects to complete the process of bringing on-board the campus recruits of 2007-08 latest by March next year. Rajesh Padmanabhan, Executive Vice-President and Global Head of Human Resources, Patni, said that the company had never frozen its hiring programme, despite being hit by the economic slowdown. As reported by Business Line, the recruits have been waiting to join the Mumbai-based company ever since they passed out in June-July 2008. "Out of the...Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0
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Female corporate leaders more risk aversive than male?
More and more women in the corporate space are paving the way for superior leadership roles with firms realizing that the fairer sex are more risk-aversive and focused on long-term interests than their male peers. According to a survey conducted by KPMG in partnership with `Forum for Women in Leadership` (WILL Forum), companies have agreed that women bring substantive diversity to company boards in terms of their composition, skill sets and experiences. The findings indicate that, a higher de...Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0
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AOL to fire 2,500 `volunteers`
In its next step to come out of the bad phase, AOL plans to invest $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff. The company has announced that it will be firing 2,500 employees, and looking for volunteers. The voluntary layoff program begins on December 4, a few days before the company spins off from Time Warner, reports CNET News. Tim Armstrong, CEO, AOL says that the cuts will drop its annual operating expenses by $300 million. Through the first nine months of this year, AOL`s operating ...Published about 20-11-2009 | Rated 0
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Top Ten Recruitment Strategies
Building an effective team is a challenging and daunting job for any business. In a growth-oriented company, managers want to look for key employees that are adaptable, learn quickly, produce quality work in short time spans, are personable and interact well with others both in higher and lower lever positions, and have the ability to multi-task. With competition in the workforce, it’s time to get creative in sifting out those who can fill the bill for key positions. The traditional newspap...Published about 18-11-2009 | Rated 0