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2005 belongs to freshers, says recruiter
Business Standard - New Delhi,India
Entry level hiring in the IT sector will grow 28 per cent
this year over last year, says an online recruitment
business, based on feedback from several human resources
(HR) managers in IT firms.
The year 2005 is seen as the “year of freshers”, the
recruiter says, following a panel discussion with human
resources heads from many companies. Recruiting firms will
have to grapple with filling more entry level posts while
ensuring the minimum quality standards are met, says
Monster.
“The trick,” says Charles Judy, who heads recruitments in
India, for Deloitte, “will be to differentiate and identify
the brightest.”
A majority of the companies will continue to target
engineering colleges through campus recruitment.
Anita Padwal of Onward Technologies says, “We will be hiring
mechanical engineers with distinction.” Though the focus
will be on the top eight cities, organisations are likely to
go after talent in tier II towns also.
T V Prasad, a senior human resources manager at Mentor
Graphics India, says, “The accent will definitely be on the
quality of talent.”
So colleges will feel the heat to turn out graduates rich
with soft skills also. Companies will have to focus on
branding efforts to entice potential recruits away from
competition, says Shalil Nair, chief human resources
manager, Siemens.
Companies will also find it difficult to persuade fresh
recruits to work on areas like quality assurance and
testing, says Mahesh Ramalingam of Computer Associates.
“Everybody is keen to work mainly on development-relate
work.” Matching a recruit’s profile to the organisation’s
needs will take up much of the HR managers’ time this year,
says Rajnesh Khosla, an HR manager at Agilent.
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