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.