Guess who's doing the recruiting now
WHAT DO you do when your boss yells at you and the situation becomes unbearable? Easy. Squirt water on his shirt, smile knowingly and walk out of the job. Well, this is what the unhappy employee does to his boss in the advertisement of one of the leading `job sites' in the country, `MonsterIndia.com.' The punch line in the advertisement asks the viewer, `Guess who has heard about us now?'
Not only disgruntled employees but those looking to better their lot in life and those struggling to land a job these days are increasingly relying on these `job sites' on the Internet to earn that monthly envelope.
In this day and age of business process outsourcing (BPO) it is hardly surprising that many companies too are outsourcing to these portals the process of recruiting employees.
In today's world of instant communication, convergence and home offices, things like filling up an application form, sending it to a company and sitting in an anteroom with a dozen other unemployed waiting for the interview seems antiquated; and indeed they are, thanks to websites such as `naukri.com', `jobsahead.com' and `monsterindia.com'.
Numerous such websites have become the perfect interface between the busy HR executive who does not wish to wade through the applications of hundreds of wannabe-employees and the job-seeker who urgently needs to make his presence felt in the crowded job market. In other words, both the employer and the would-be employee throw in their requirements and demands on to the Net and rely on the services of these sites to play the role of `match-maker'.
If in the earlier years, a candidate had to make dozens of copies of his resume and send it to as many companies in the hope of getting a response from at least one, the smart job-seeker of generation-next punches in his resume into the relevant columns of one of the job sites.
One of the greatest services rendered by these sites is that they carry this resume of the candidates to the offices of hundreds, if not thousands of companies across India and even in other countries.
Moreover, it is not just a blind job application that the candidate posts on the Net; a job-seeker can specify the type of company he wishes to get employed in (IT/BPO company, manufacturing firm, retail firm, banks, etc.), the type of job he is looking for (entry level, middle management, top management), the location where he prefers to work (choice of cities or regions) and, of course, whether he wants a full-time or a part-time job.
What if a candidate does not have a resume, or doesn't know what a good one looks like? No sweat. All that such a candidate has to do is to give the full details regarding his age, qualifications and so on, and the site will do the rest. Any job site worth its salt would have teams of resume writers - experts in gift-wrapping a candidate for a potential employer - who take anywhere between a week and 15 days to come with a top-of-the-line resume designed to take an employer's breath away.
This professionally-written resume is then flashed in the site and instantaneously reaches the offices of all companies registered with the site.
But this service doesn't come free. The sites charge a candidate anything between Rs. 750 and Rs. 1,500 for getting a resume written. Most importantly, the job sites regularly send these resumes to placement consultants too.
G.MAHADEVAN
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