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

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...
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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...
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Blue chip firms make appointments to hire at IIMs

Blue Chip companies have already made appointments in advance for the recruiting season four months away in Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which is the first in IIMs to hold summer placements. Day Zero for the first year students of the 2009-11 batch saw blue-chip recruiters like i-banks, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Barclays, JP Morgan, Nomura, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, and consultants like McKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group and Bain returning to the IIM-A ...
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Aspiring for an IT job? Peanuts is what you will be paid

One may boast of being employed in IT in the current scene, however they have to work twice as much for getting an interview and the annual salary is peanuts compared to earlier days. A worsening economic crisis, increased availability of skilled workers and lower demand for software services have brought down the entry-level salaries for IT professionals in the country by up to 20 percent, according to experts tracking the sector. Every year, around 3,00,000 computer science and engineer...
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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...
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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 ...
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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

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Today, an increasing number of companies are outsourcing parts of their recruitment functions to skilled experts. An outsourcing partner like Outsource2india can help search candidates from job boards and internal databases, post advertisements for open positions on job boards, and screen resumes. This can help the business focus on its core functions and reduce the time taken to recruit candidates. An offshore HR BPO like Outsurce2india can also research open positions in other companies on ...
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Recruitment Process in India

The recruitment process in India is designed in such a way that each candidate gets the desired job profile according to his or her own choice. Placing the candidate in the right job profile, in the best company, is the end solution of most of the Indian recruitment agencies. The recruitment process in India involves identifying the vacancies, preparing the job description and person specification, advertising, managing the response, short-listing, arranging interviews, conducting interviews,...
Published about 18-11-2009 | Rated 0