Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Staffing firms make head-hunting easier
| Business Standard - 30th May, 2007 OUTSOURCING: For corporates that are finding it difficult to find the right talent, HR sourcing firms may be just the answer. |
| For start-ups, getting all resources in place in the right quantity and of the right type can be a seemingly insurmountable challenge, as can finding the right manpower. |
| This is also true of firms that may have secured projects for which they may not have the personnel with the required domain knowledge. How would they go about finding people in the shortest while and at minimal cost, at the same time ensuring that they are not left with personnel who may not be required once the project is through? |
| Earlier, when firms bid for projects, they ensured that they had the people with expertise in the domain the project covered. But a firm cannot afford to have specialists from all domains on its rolls. Once a project is through, the firm may not have got another project requiring specialists with the same domain knowledge. |
| This is where IT HR search and staffing firms, with personnel having knowledge in practically all domains, play useful roles. |
| Says Madhusudan N, a team leader in Perot Systems: "When we want people with four or five skill-sets we secure them through IT staffing firms. It is one of the methods of sourcing. Though sourcing firms may not find us just the right people, we manage to get people who meet most of our needs and in many of the domains." |
| Perot Systems has engaged the services of Focus Infotech, an IT consultancy services and career management organisation, for about nine months to secure people with the required skill-sets. |
| Focus Infotech's placement offering is only meant for middle and senior-level IT professionals in select functional and technical domains like ERP, CRM, EAI, Web Technologies, Open Systems and Mainframes. |
| Finding resources through a HR sourcing firm is cost-effective. Focus HR, for instance, is a HR IT outsourcing firm, which provides manpower. |
| It supplies people with the right kind of domain expertise required to meet a firm's needs, or for the firm to meet its commitments. Focus calls itself a 'career manager' in addition to being a manpower provider. Until now, 8,000 people have passed through Focus. |
| Another such firm is Hyderabad-based TMI Network, which once recruited a multinational BPO's first 1,200 employees in great secrecy. |
| TMI has worked with BPOs, SMEs that are professionalizing and organizations that want to diversify into new businesses, according to the managing director, T. Sreedhar. |
| Mahesh Guru, a manager at iGate, finds such sourcing firms a good way through which to find people for short periods and save time and resources expended by the firm on recruitment and training. The firm does its hiring on the basis of projections, says Guru. It defines specifics to the sourcing firm, without diluting resource requirements, he adds. |
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