Unique methods adopted by firms to recruit candidates

TNN When was the last time you were recruited over the phone or perhaps given an ipod during the final round of interview just because you failed to make it to the final selection? Interesting, isn’t it? Well, at a time when recruitment has come to a standstill and the repercussions of the current economic situation have been tremendously felt by companies across India Inc., there are a few others who are adopting unique methods of recruiting candidates. “Recruitment has definitely slowe...
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Accenture to hire 8,000 in India by end of next year

Global technology and consultancy giant Accenture on Monday said it is going to add around 8,000 people in India by the end of next year taking its total employee base in the country to 50,000. "We are 42,000 right now and we imagine we will be about 50,000 by the end of 2010," Accenture Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William D Green told PTI on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit. Indicating a recovery from the global downturn, Green said the company will continue to focus in...
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Strong companies kept hiring during slowdown: Genpact CEO

Back office service provider Genpact on Monday said the companies that kept hiring during the economic slowdown were viewed as "strong" firms and would benefit from this perception when the economy begins recovering. "People know that you (hiring companies) would look after them. You would not do a knee-jerk reaction, and I think that is very good," Genpact India chief executive Pramod Bhasin told IANS here on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum. "Employe...
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Infosys BPO to hire 1500-2000 by end of 2010 fiscal

Infosys BPO, the back-office unit of IT firm Infosys Technologies, on Monday said it would hire 1500-2000 people by the end of the current fiscal. "We plan to hire 2000 people in the next four-five months or by the end of this fiscal. Currently we are 16,000 people in India," Infosys BPO CEO Amitabh Chaudhry told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. The 300-million Infosys subsidiary recently signed an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government to set up rural BPO cent...
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Draw up your HR strategy with `Best cos to work for` study

India’s Best Companies to Work For has drawn a great deal of cues from one of the most acclaimed organisation studies worldwide. It Best companies to work for has helped many organisations turn workplace environment into a powerful source of competitive strength, while creating collaborative and successful relationships among people at all levels. The reason why you should participate in the study this year is not far to seek. Currently inviting registrations, India’s Best Companies to W...
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Job street in India to get flooded next year

If the plans of global banks and consulting firms are anything to go by, the current trickle of job offers in India may turn into a flood next year, marking a complete transition from a global downturn that eliminated thousands of jobs. Global consultancy firms Accenture, Deloitte, banks StanChart and Barclays and Indian IT giant Infosys all have announced hiring plans that would see the creation of at least 13,000 jobs in India by the end of next year. Analysts are not surprised by the bu...
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Oracle DBA with cognos required urgent Direct client requirement

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India needs 5 Lakh project managers: PMI

According to a research by Project Management Institute (PMI), India will need about five lakh project managers in the future to complete 591 projects being carried out in the country. About 591 projects each worth more than Rs. 100 crore were being executed in the country and it required a great number of project managers in order to finish them on time, said Raj Kalady, Managing Director (MD), PMI. "The initial estimates of Rs. 5.25 lakh crore for the total projects have aroused to R...
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Top honchos in small firms see higher salary growth

Whether, it is good or bad times, top executives of Indian firms have always got a bumper salary deal. It may have been the year when India saw its mass scale layoffs and salary cuts, but the gap between the salaries of the top management and that of the other employees only got wider. The analysis done by Economic Times, reveals that despite the slowdown, salaries of the senior management at small-cap and mid cap companies still managed to grow at a pace which far outdid the growth in the pa...
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StanChart to recruit 3,000 employees by 2010

Standard Chartered, a British bank headquartered in London with operations in more than seventy countries, plans to hire 3,000 employees in India by the end of 2010, a year that would also see the British firm listing its shares on the bourses here. Madhavi Lall, Regional Head for Human Resources, StanChart said, "We are planning to add close to 2,500 employees to our payroll in India during 2010, while we are likely to hire a staff of 500 in the last two months of 2009." StanChart, w...
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