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Desperate in finding software engineers in India, headhunting centers are forced to apply the "super fast" idea to recruitment.

Source: AFP Gautam Sinha, executive director of TVA Infotech, one of the 300 employers based in Bangalore, has rented a 20,000-seat indoor basketball court to facilitate customer companies to meet. with candidates. Holding the CV in your hand, the candidates will queue for your turn to be interviewed.

" It's like dating fast trains. We had six months to recruit a person the day before, now only 6 weeks, " Sinha revealed. 400 candidates came to meet TVA's customers and there are 80 job seekers, from the engineering engineer to Cisco network equipment giant to experts of SAP - the largest enterprise software company in the world.

" This is the first time we have applied this technique and obviously it has resulted, " Sinha said cheerfully.

These job fairs are blooming throughout Asia, where job seekers come to apply and go through the initial interview. But the difference is that the requirement to "fill the vacancy" of businesses has reached an urgent level, and many candidates get jobs right at the battle.

Despite the initial success, headhunters are still worried that their "matchmaking" service will soon be difficult, when the number of qualified candidates decreases.

According to India's National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the country's crude processing industry currently employs 700,000 people and is expected to grow to 40% within 5 years. to reach $ 5.1 billion in revenue this year.

However, by 2012, this 5-year-old industry will lack up to 262,000 professionals, because college graduates are lacking the necessary skills to satisfy employers' requirements.

The "fast ship" war

The competition to win the best IT staff, the brightest star is equally fierce. " Today all revolves around three words of speed, speed and speed, " BRSheaker, CEO of Mind Group, a headhunting company whose customers are Wipro, Google, Yahoo, Amazon ., for know.

Once the candidate's resume has landed in the Mind Group mailbox, it will be categorized and immediately sent to the relevant companies within a few seconds. The reason they have to act very fast is because the candidates always send documents to dozens of employers at the same time. To avoid losing business, firms like Mind Group have to book airline tickets for potential candidates to fly to their rendezvous and rent hotels for them to live in (essentially a quarantine method) before the interview.

" If we don't move quickly, they will switch to another invitation right away. It means losing a chance. Our customers always make very brief requests: 100 people in 2 weeks , and that is a tremendous pressure on us , "Sheaker said.

To stand out among the recruiting forest, companies like Infosys TVA have launched a special web portal to attract resume and hold interviews in 5-star hotels. " Candidates today are like ripe fruits, very easy to be picked and easily damaged by candles that put them in an inappropriate environment ," Sinha said.

Recruitment fever

Seduced by a team of talented engineers, willing to work at a salary of only 1/7 of US colleagues, big tech giants are massively outsourcing to India.

Recently, Dell announced plans to double the number of employees here to nearly 20,000 in the next 3 years. Meanwhile, LogicaCMG will hire about 1,000 employees. In addition to Dell, big guys like Cisco, IBM and Accenture have all publicly announced their intention to expand their employees in India "significantly".

For every "hunter" employee, headhunters will receive from 50,000 rupees ($ 1111) to 150,000 rupees ($ 3,333). However, in the future, when job hunting becomes difficult because the candidates do not have the necessary skills, headhunters will have to do the job of "training" candidates according to their job as well.

" We have to manage every way to attract candidates: to set up kiosks in markets, bookstores in young or la. We also deploy SMS services to hunt people and receive CVs. the stage where headhunters have to become warm and smart salesmen , "Sheaker said.

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