Recently , NICS ( National Institute of Career
Services - Noida ), conducted a ground-based job fair
NICS
plans to conduct one such job fair , every month , with the next one planned in
Hyderabad
Recruiters from three dozen companies sat in small
cubicles , handing out forms and registration numbers and asking some candidates
to go to a nearby hostel building for a written or oral test
For 5,000 vacancies , some 11,000
jobseekers turned up but only 640 got shortlisted ( just 6 % )- utter chaos !
CANDIDATES GROUSE :
# Recruiting companies did not disclose the profiles on
offer or the salary structure
# Had to spend nearly entire day at the venue, after
travelling hundreds of kilometers
# Had to return without knowing the result of the interview
# There was a lot of confusion as some Company recruiters
never turned up for the interview
# There was
ambiguity in the entire selection process since the Company Display Boards and
the Profile
Requirements mentioned during the registration
process did not match
# Overcrowding required hundreds of job aspirants to stand
in the sun, for hours !
PROBLEMS FACED
BY THE RECRUITING COMPANIES
:
# Candidates were not job-ready . Even after
interviewing 15 candidates , could not zero in on one !
# English
language proficiency of the candidates was very poor
STATISTICS :
# In 25 years ( between 1991 - 2012 ) , employment in
Organized Sector grew by 2.85 million jobs
( just above 1 lakh per year as against addition of some 120 lakh
jobseekers entering job market per year ! )
# In 2014, eight
key manufacturing sectors created 4.2 lakh jobs and in 2015 , just 2 lakh jobs
MY TAKE
:
#
Whereas ground based Job Fairs have been around for many years , there
is no way these can provide a
solution to matching available jobs to available jobseekers ( 120 lakhs
per year )
#
India has close to 50 million MSME . Assuming that only 10 % of these
need to hire just ONE person each year,
( either by way of replacement or for growth of business ) , that
amounts to some 5 million jobs per year
These MSME do not advertise their vacancies, either in newspapers or on
online job portals . These vacancies
get filled by word-of-mouth
CAN TECHNOLOGY
HELP ?
# Sure ! The
answer lies in " Online JobsFair " - a job portal with a difference !
# An " Online JobsFair " , does NOT suffer from the following limitations of an "
Offline ( ground-based ) job fair :
* No physical space
limitations . Unlimited number of VIRTUAL INTERVIEW CABINS can be created on
the fly
* Unlimited numbers
of jobseekers and recruiters can come ONLINE , at
any given instance(millions, if you will )
* Since this
platform also enables FOREIGN COMPANIES to interview INDIAN CANDIDATES , such
interviews
can take place round-the-clock ! This platform will vastly improve
overseas recruitment of Indian jobseekers
* Thousands of INTERVIEWS
can be going on SIMULTANEOUSLY , in total
privacy ( from anywhere in World )
* 4 interviewers ( belonging to same company ) ,
located in 4 different cities , can interview the same candidate
jointly by logging in at the
same time in the same INTERVIEW CABIN ( password protected entry )
* Neither the
candidates nor the interviewers need to travel , saving millions of wasted
man-hours
* Interviews can be
pre-scheduled and candidates will be emailed in advance , when to log into
which cabin.
The SCHEDULER SOFTWARE will do this automatically
* Candidate
Assessment Forms will get filled in ONLINE and
made available to concerned candidate by email
* Offer
letters ( or Offer Intention Letters ) or Rejection Letters will get emailed as
soon as CANDIDATE
ASSESSMENT form gets mandatorily
filled in online !
* Company Display
Boards will be visible to ALL visiting jobseekers to decide which jobs to apply
for
* Resume Rating
software will automatically " rate and rank " resumes of all
candidates applying
against a particular vacancy and arrange applicant-resumes in descending
order of " Raw Score " and send out
Interview Schedule to shortlisted candidates , without human
intervention
* All online
interviews will take place using Audio-Video chat thru Skype / FaceTime ( from
Smart phones )
* All interview
" Conversations " ( questions and answers ) will get recorded and
made available to candidate
being interviewed for his study and improving his " Interviewing
Skills
"
There are many other advantages , not listed above but which you can read at :
www.hemenparekh.in > Reports > OnLineJobsFair
Should Ministry
of Labour desire , I would be happy to design / develop and hand-over such a
online platform without any charge / fees , provided ,
# Labour
Ministry hosts and maintains it
# Makes it available for use ( by Recruiters
and Jobseekers ) , FREE OF COST
Neither the governments ( Central + States
) , nor the Organized Sector , is in a position to " CREATE " 12 million
jobs per year .
By creating OnLineJobsFair ( a kind of Virtual Employment
Exchange ) , we can help our youth to
Last ( but not the least ) :
OnLineJobsFair
will enable millions of young Indians to offer their " Remote Services
" to Foreign Companies !
Services such as " Coding
" / " Caring " / " Consulting " / " Curating " /
" Controlling " etc
It may even become a " Business Meeting " platform !
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06 Aug 2016
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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