Tuesday 6 December 2011

RPO: Making Your IT Recruitment Effective

Today we live in the growing world of technology which are creates by the means of software/hardware development, which has boosted the market for IT recruiting. For which the HR’s of the company had or are moving towards the information technology knowledge base. Most commonly the IT recruitments are done for software companies where all these technologies are developed.

More importantly it should be noted that the recruitment team should have good knowledge about information technology and a brief knowledge about the skill sets like java, xml, html, css etc. Having this would not only help in resume screening but also get the eligible candidate for the company.

Mostly all of the software companies have hiring policies and strategies that they follow to get the best candidate for their organization. They also keep in touch with educational placement departments, recruiters etc. to get the best talent. Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) as its becoming a growing trend, companies are opting them rather than having in house human resource or hiring to save cost and getting the best candidate. RPO firms have talented and expert IT recruiters that can help you to get the best IT candidate matching your requirement with faster time line.

Whenever hiring is done at a level where prior experience and expertise is required it would be a waste of time to hire a person having no knowledge or need to be trained. RPO firms or recruitment process outsourcing can save your waste of time and get the best possible candidate for the job.

It has been noted that RPO (recruitment process outsourcing ) has made your recruiting effective and cost saving to get the best out of the talent pool.

Monday 5 December 2011

Recruitment & Staffing Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

We have to agree to the fact that employees are the backbone of any company & organization, and this truth is also accepted by most of the companies. We should understand that it is the efforts of the employees and their talent, productivity, passion that helps us to get success in the market. A company or an organization that consists of talented employees can provide you the opportunity to compete in the market and stay in the top list and they can also help you develop new products and services to increase their business approach.

To get good results from your recruitment process you have to perform your recruitment process with great attention. Recruitment of a good candidate consists of various inter-related steps that are to be followed efficiently to get the best talent in the market. But in many organization and companies these factors are lacking and some mistakes are encountered, which can lead to undesirable or wrong selection of candidate for the job. Some of the common mistakes are mentioned:
  • Irrelevant Target Sourcing
  • Not Mentioning Job Accomplishments/Benefits
  • Less Communication during the Selection Process
  • Biased Resume Screening
  • Lack in Telephonic Resume Screening
  • Reference Check not Effective

Friday 2 December 2011

An Overview on Offshore Staffing

Offshore Staffing is hiring a professional employee away from the company location or in other countries, from where he/she can perform activities for your company. This is also called “Offshore Staffing”. Many businesses are offshore outsourcing their non-core areas of activities to outsourcing companies that specialize in the required field of work. The major reason for outsourcing staffing or offshore staffing is to reduce the cost to some extent and also focus more on their core area of services.

Hiring dedicated offshore staff is becoming the increasing the trend for many companies, so that they can work exclusively for them and that too at a lower cost having good skills to perform the activities efficiently.

Some of the reasons why offshore staffing or offshore outsourcing is becoming popular are:
  • Exclusively working dedicated staff
  • Minimal/Eliminated cost of internal recruitment
  • Reduction in infrastructural cost
  • Access to the talented pool of professionals
Apart from several benefits there are challenges that are to be faced by the company that is searching for reliable outsourcing companies that can provide excellent talents in reasonable costs and in faster time.

Thursday 1 December 2011

Outsourcing Website Designing

We all know the benefits of outsourcing is to get the cost low, time saving and get the best services or people to do that job. Website designing is not left untouched from outsourcing, for the simple reason that you can get much better work done on your website design with the best sources available. If you get one contracted for you he/she will work as per their capability and work on one module at a time, whereas, by outsourcing you can get the work or the website ready faster because they are experts and team working on different part/module to get your website ready faster and with the best effort & skills.

Outsourcing of your website designing to other companies that are located in distant places especially in developing countries like India, Malaysia etc. can save you a lot of money rather than hiring individuals or private companies. Outsourcing companies those offer you web designing services can provide you professional with great skills and get a great work that you need on your website. They can also create brand logos, banners, images etc for your website.

Mostly people would like to have a website only when they want to launch their business online and by getting your business online you are increasing the approach of the audience towards your business. If your business nature is product based and you want to get it online you can get an ecommerce website designing using the best technology having the option of online payment like paypal, credit card etc. You can create a online shopping cart for your visitor to offer them online convenience of shopping. Outsourcing offers faster turnaround time for your business.

The very simple fact is that if you choose to outsource your website designing work you can avoid extensive stress of creating the website on your own. When you outsource your website designing task to a company you will be involved in the updates that are made in your websites creation. Whenever you feel that you don’t like anything or you want anything added to your website, you can get it notified immediately to the designer. Also, outsourcing can help you focus in more productive work which can generate profits.

Wednesday 30 November 2011

Strategies to Hire the Best Every Time

Apart from strategies, effort, research and experience there is nothing that can help you get/hire the best or the top people in the industry. There are certain strategies and science to be followed to get the best recruitment done in the company. Every company follows strategies to hire the best for their company and this is repetitive every time there is a job opening in the company.

There are some strategies, techniques, processes and tools that are used to get the best hired people for the organization. Some of them are mentioned here and they will also help you understand or rather analyze where you stand and evaluate yourself.

Whenever any hiring is done, it’s done keeping in mind the idea of hiring the top professional and providing the message that you are offering enhanced career opportunity rather than just a job. This message should always be conveyed whenever the jobs are posted, jobs ads are posted, job advertising is done. Some of them are:
  • Offering Attractive Jobs: Rather than mentioning traditional job skills, descriptions, qualification and experience, you can emphasize about the benefits that the employee will get like learning, do, profile and the organization impact that person can make.
  • It’s about career not money: Whenever a job opening is posted it should be about career growth which states what impact he can have over the organization and what are the opportunities for growth.
The above strategies and techniques are just basic, more in details will be published soon.

Tuesday 29 November 2011

The Reasons of Better Outsourcing Services in India

Most of us know that India is the hub of providing outsourcing solutions to companies around the world. There are more than thousand firms that are providing outsourcing solutions like BPO, KPO services. Outsourcing services to India can offer you many advantages like saving operating cost, time and good quality. In today’s economy there is lots of pressure on companies to provide excellent services with low cost to retain or gain new customers.

Outsourcing services to India are profitable and cost effective as you can find great talent and expert professional at low wages to perform outsourcing services. By outsourcing work to companies the businesses/management can concentrate on making profitable strategies to gain profits in the business.

Benefits that achieved by outsourcing services to India are:
  • Increase sales & profits
  • Increased customer base
  • More qualified lead generation
  • Customer retention and customer satisfaction
  • Cost Reduction
  • Good quality of services
Apart from the above advantages, below are some of the reasons why India has been chosen for outsourcing services:
  • Cost effective infrastructure and support services
  • Wide number of English speaking professionals
  • Well educated and talented people
  • Professionally trained executives to provide proper outsourcing services
The above mentioned reasons and points are justifiable enough to get outsourcing solutions to your service and getting quality results out of them.

Knowledge Process Outsourcing or KPO

KPO or Knowledge Process Outsourcing are closely related to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) but in knowledge process outsourcing the people that are required are to be of high skills in comparison to business process outsourcing. In KPO you need experts that have in-depth knowledge in the field that is outsourced.

We all know that information is knowledge and knowledge processing is a continuous task where the information is gathered and created through the industry experts and when that knowledge/information is outsourced it is knowledge process outsourcing.

As we know outsourcing has many advantages of saving costs, skilled resources and good quality. There are many knowledge based outsourcing that are done by many companies like web application, market research and analysis, data management, publishing, content development etc. The biggest industry that shares a major part of KPO is data management and search integration.

India has a vast share in providing outsourcing solutions to businesses abroad and this also applies for Knowledge Process Outsourcing, and it is increasing day-by-day and set to become leader in KPO industry. There are many advantages for which KPO is being outsourced to India:
  • Lower Cost
  • Established Support Infrastructure
  • Government support
  • Experts and qualified professionals
Companies that offer KPO services look for diverse knowledge and expertise in their respective domain and that is why KPO is creating large number of career opportunities for talented and educated professionals.

Monday 28 November 2011

Earn Easy Cash with Outsourcing Solutions

The cost of an organization can increase with the high wages, work delays and turnover of skilled employees and for this reason management faces extreme pressure. The best solution that you can seek is to get an outsourced solution to it. You can outsource the process to developing countries where you can save a lot of money and also get your work done. You can get highly experienced professional at reasonably very low wages.

With outsourcing solutions you can gain easy cash flow to increase the profitability of the organization and also minimize your operational cost as well. With outsourcing you can save a lot of money and precious time in which you can perform more of productive tasks to in-turn increase more profits. Many outsource companies or providers offer you the best services in low price and faster which are competitive to make you earn the benefits.

Outsourcing can be performed for almost very field and every industry, which help you to gain profits and performance. With the fact that these outsourcing companies have experienced professional that can save your training effort and expense and keep you ahead of competition. You can opt for small back-end day-to-day operation to be outsourced and perform productive tasks for the organization like data entry, accounting & book keeping, recruitment process outsourcing and much more.

Reasons for Working with Recruiters and The Process

There are many recruiters working in the recruitment industry and offering many services. The recruiter is a person that can offer a job to the candidate and an employee to the employer.

Looking for a job can be full time job as well as it includes lot of tasks the need to be done in searching opportunities, if you work with a recruiter you can get all this processes done with expertise and also search better opportunity. There are many reasons why should a person work with a recruiter:

  • Effective Job Search: Recruiters have experience in recruitment and they can search better job opportunity for candidates and better employment as they have extensive database and network to get the suitable match.
  • Desired Pay and More Opportunities: As recruiters are partners with many companies they have access to jobs that are not posted or advertised in the market yet. We know that networking is the key to recruiter’s success and these connections can offer them opportunities within or out of the country as well, which is good for career growth.
  • Confidential: There are situations where candidates may be in search for better opportunity while they are still employed and want their name to be undisclosed, recruiters can support you with this.

Things to learn when considering a recruiter:

  • Difference between placement and recruitment: Placements perform marketing of applicants that are searching for employers and vice-versa, they work with a different objective and also the candidate have to identify the right company for them, While, Recruitment is a process of locating qualifies candidates for some employer on a specific search requirement. There are different types of recruiters like internal or providing recruitment outsourcing, contingent and retained recruiters.
  • Specialization: There are many companies that are doing recruitment for all types of available jobs/opportunities within industries. There are also recruitment companies that work on specific industries and specialize in them. So you can choose company that are expert in your domain.

Thursday 24 November 2011

Evaluation of your Hiring/Recruitment Process

Recruitment performed within the company is at times very expensive and getting the right candidate for the job opening is a lot of hard work and obviously the goal of good recruiting. For recruitment every time there is chance of improving your recruitment skills to get the best recruitment within time and cost saving as well.

To know the best about yourself or your recruitment process/skills you have to evaluate yourself on certain aspects like other marketing techniques. As for recruitment you perform various activities like posting job ads with job description, use general media for communicating and after selection/short listing you choose the best person for that job. Similarly, there are some points that can help you evaluate your business image/recruitment process.

Some of them are as follows:

1) Attracting the Right Candidates:

  • Quality & Quantity: There may be times where you can get quality candidates may be 1-100 and some time no one is suitable for the job. So are you able to get both the things fulfilled in terms of quality and quantity.
  • Decision Making.
  • Improvement Scope.

2) Cost Effective Approach:

This is in regards to the media that you have chosen for approaching the candidates and advertising the job posting. Is it cost effective or there is scope of improvements in this.

3) Organizational Image:

This is in respect to the image of your organization in lieu of the recruitment process. Are you known within your industry? How applicants consider/respond to your job opening? How do you sell your business to them?

Recruitment Process Outsourcing – The Benefits of Outsourcing your Manpower Recruitment

In the financial & Economy sector the term ‘outsourcing’ for many people mean saving of money and profits for businesses that opt them and for some its just taking away jobs. But the truth and practicality is that outsourcing keeps your business running smoothly and more effectively (productive). There are many businesses that utilize the process of outsourcing and gain benefits from them. There are many tasks that can be outsourced to save the more productive time of the organization like data entry work, accounting & book keeping, data processing etc.

The same benefit of outsourcing applies to ‘Recruitment Process Outsourcing’ also known as ‘RPO’. There are many companies that opt for recruitment process outsourcing to get more productive response from their HR department rather than making them busy in selecting resumes and short listing candidates for the position. In some company you may have to put a separate department for the hiring process which may turn up to be expensive and at times unproductive. If those resources are put up into some utilization and more productive works like handling payroll, employment benefit structure, employee vacation management etc. they would help in organizational growth and benefits.

Recruitment process outsourcing companies are external recruiting companies which have experienced and skilled recruiters that perform all the recruitment activities and provide you with the best suitable manpower for the position with faster response time. Hiring a recruitment company can make your HR role to be more productive as well as provide organization with lots of benefits like faster turnaround time, excellent quality and money saving. With recruitment outsourcing you can reach a wider and more talented approach for your business as they can perform extensive recruitment process.

Tuesday 22 November 2011

Better Hiring with Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

“Outsourcing” for some people means to take American jobs away, but this is not the truth. The truth is that businesses those are involved in outsourcing increase their efficiency and with this increased efficiency they can have streamlined work which in turns generates profit for the business. They are many businesses that are in competition those are having some sort of outsourcing work done, to increase there productivity and get them profits.

Same is the concept behind “recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)”, basically in RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) a company hires an external company that specialize in hiring process or recruitment for companies. RPO can solve all your hiring needs and you do not have to spend extra time and effort in getting the vacant position filled. We all know that recruitment/recruiting is one of the many processes of the HR department and recruitment process outsourcing can really help in increasing the productivity of HR department towards the companies growth by performing other HR activities efficiently.

We all know that the market is full of potential candidates but this doesn’t mean that these candidates are up to the requirement/standard of the company. Here comes the role of the recruitment process outsourcing company to search an excellent candidate that suits the company profile. With the help of an RPO Service company all aspects related to the hiring can be performed effectively.

An RPO company has experience hiring professionals known as recruiters. They are highly skilled in their work and can provide you with the best candidate for your company which can help you to increase productivity and in turn gain profits from them.

Outsourcing your Hiring for your Business

Most of the companies have an HR department which deals with all the hr activities for the company along with the recurring hiring procedure which keeps on going on. Because of the recurring vacant position HR generally becomes a recruiter and all the other work in the organization suffers and is not complete which in turns may turn into losses.

To avoid such losses and to let the HR do their required most important tasks to improve the organizations work and provide them with fruitful work, you can opt for “outsourcing your hiring process” to some external company that is specialize in getting your work done for hiring.

There are a lot of small businesses as well as large businesses that are opting for hiring their outsourcing work to some external company, these companies are generally called as “Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company” and the process is known as “Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)”.

Once you have outsourced your hiring process, the HR can than concentrate on their primary work as payroll, benefits claim, and other organizational work. This can improve the output of the organization and become more productive. With RPO or outsourcing your hiring process you can get rid of the some pre-hiring procedures like:
  • Placing Employment Ads
  • Check the Responses
  • Pre-Screening of applicants
After performing the above mentioned tasks depending on the requirement the rpo executive or recruiter can perform an telephonic interview to learn more about the candidate and if suitable the candidate is than forwarded to the client for which the position is searched.

There are many benefits of RPO – Recruitment Process Outsourcing like it saves time, provides you good quality candidates and also save a lot of money.

Friday 18 November 2011

IT Outsourcing Solutions: Part 2

In the previous post we have discussed about IT outsourcing solutions in relation to your companies IT staff problems. In this post we would be discussing some pros and cons related to IT outsourcing solutions.

Well if you have an IT professional in your organization you can immediately get your problem solved related to your IT admin. Also he/she will do their best for keep the process to run smoothly and try to not have any kind of IT problems in the operations. But, the disadvantages of it are as he/she would be a full time IT professional they would be taking salary for having no work/issues to solve which can affect your budget. Also at times it becomes very difficult to find an experienced and well qualified IT professional and that too in low rates. So with so many issues related to having a full time IT professional, many companies end up landing to IT outsourcing companies.

If you opt for an IT outsourcing company you only pay for the services that you get rather than paying the full time cost and other costs attached to full time employee. Also you save space that is required to have them, along with that you get an experienced and highly qualified IT professional at a fractional cost for which you can rather afford one specially for small scale companies. But, IT outsourcing also comes with couple of downturns like if your system crashes it may take time for the company to send an expert at your place to fix the problem.

We have seen that there are pros and cons in both the cases but IT outsourcing can save you money and offer you with an expert at lower costs.

IT Outsourcing Solutions for IT Support Services

In this post we would be discussing about IT outsourcing solutions that help many companies in getting their IT problems solved without having a separate IT department.

IT problems are such that every company faces them frequently from time to time whether it is the network that have been shut down or the computer system that are giving problems. For all these solutions it is necessary to have an IT support staff that can solve your issues within time. But there are many companies that cannot afford to have a separate IT staff or IT department. Here comes the role of IT outsourcing company where you can have a contract with them to provide the services for IT solutions to companies. The contract can be off per visit, yearly or one the many deals that they offer.

Having a contract like this means that there would be no one specially working for you when there is no problem, no payroll, no extra costs etc. Whenever you have a problem you can get in touch with the IT outsourcing company and they will send the required staff to solve your problem.

Knowing that you have a solution to your problem without hiring a full time staff can be a money saver along with achieving the desired goal. There are many companies that offer such services for IT solutions to external companies and you can select the one you know about or you can read some reviews about them or can work on a trial basis.

Introduction

This is an introductory post about the blog “Outsourced Solutions”. In this blog you may find solutions to basic business problems regarding outsourcing and much more.

Firstly, we need to understand what we mean by ‘Outsourcing’, well many people may know about outsourcing as this term has been known for almost a decade but still let’s revise what it means. ‘Outsourcing’ in simple terms means to obtain goods & services from an outside supplier or an external source rather than using your internal sources.

In the recent times it has been noted that companies take help from outsourcing companies those who are expert in performing specialized tasks outside the organization. This helps you in performing more strategic activities for the company in the mean while the outsourcing company is doing your job. Outsourcing tasks can be done to other countries and they help in improving performance, functionality and also reduce your costs. By outsourcing you can be freed from operations related problems and you can concentrate on other strategies like marketing, customer service, sales etc.

The advantage of outsourcing has been taken exclusively by IT sector and by using these services they have saved handsome amount of money, which made them requiring the outsourcing services on a regular basis. With so many years it has been noticed that outsourcing work is coming from countries like USA, UK and European countries and they are being outsourced to developing countries like India, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia.

Among the many advantages one that is most impressive is the turnaround time which is pretty much faster.

Generally, there are two categories of outsourcing, firstly, technology based including software development, recruitment process outsourcing, computer programming and secondly, back office jobs like data entry, telemarketing, bookkeeping etc.

Even though outsourcing saves a lot of money, still there are many people those who believe that it’s wrong and rather than outsourcing the work should be given to local people. But, we all know that business is all about yielding profits and outsourcing helps you achieve this goal.