Business Line ( 13 Feb 2017 ) carries a news report
titled :
“ 5 Crore jobs by 2020 : Dattatreya “
It goes on to read :
“The Centre will ensure jobs for 5 crore unemployed people in the country by
2020, according to Bandaru Dattatreya, Union Minister for Labour and
Employment.
He was speaking at a press conference
after his ministry entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the
Department of Posts (DoP) to make post offices as employment registration
centres for unemployed rural youth, here on Sunday.
The target of providing 5 crore jobs
will be achieved by a combination of measures such as digital solutions and
regular job melas,
the Minister said adding that job melas will be conducted across the country from next month
on a large scale.
As per the MoU, a national career
service portal will help the unemployed to register themselves. It will provide
them access to a repository of career content on over 3,000 occupations across
52 sectors.
That answer is a Online Jobs Fair , as described in my following blog (
05 Aug 2016 ) :
Job Fairs : Offline or
Online ?
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 Jobs Fair "
- a job portal with a difference !
# An " Online Jobs Fair "
, 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 !
13
Feb 2017
www.hemenparekh.in
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