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The Times of India Monday December 31, 2007
Bumper year for city in IT hiring |
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The Hindu Business Line Monday December 24, 2007
De-risking the staffing business |
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The Economic Times Thursday December 12, 2007
Career detours:Pursue dreams amid sabbatical breaks |
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The Economic Times Thursday November 29, 2007
Rupee blow : IT cos to go slow on hiring support staff |
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The Hindu Business Line Monday November 26, 2007
Building high performance teams |
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The Economic Times Tuesday November 13, 2007
IT giants fine-tune bench management |
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The Hindu Friday November 2, 2007
IT companies tighten purse strings to cut costs |
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Times of India, Sept 17, 2007
Indian tech campuses turn melting pots of diversities |
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Times of India, August 23, 2007
IT companies create shadow talent pool |
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Economic Times, August 22, 2007
IT companies show the door to deadwoods |
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Times of India, June 26, 2007
Bubble CEOs’ fill vacuum on top |
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DNA, June 15, 2007
Men are top job ditchers, women loyal, says study |
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Economic Times, May 28, 2007
Recruitment Sector gets into M&A mode |
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Times of India, May 03, 2007
Women slam move to ban night shift |
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Business Line, March 06, 2007
Venture Capital firms' move to recruit, retain talent |
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Business Line, March 01, 2007
Union Budget 2007-08 for Women |
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Times of India, Feb 22, 2007
Talent also has a shelf-life |
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IT companies create shadow talent pool |
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August 23, 2007 |
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BANGALORE: With no slack in the job hopping proclivities of technology professionals, companies are adopting a practice that some call “shadow hunting” to preempt any work-flow discontinuity due to attrition.
This involves mandating head hunters to identify and maintain a “warm talent shadow” outside their organisations to ensure ready availability of talent as and when the need arises.
“Attrition happens right from pre-induction level. Techies are casual about hopping jobs, as jobs are aplenty in the market. So companies are forced to take additional measures to ensure quick replacements,” says T Arvind Krishna, HR head of an IT firm.
This trend is unique to India, says Nirupama V G, managing director of HR consultancy Ad Astra. “Almost every employee has two or more job offers. In the past few months, we have seen many more companies asking for shadow arrangements. Consultants are asked to keep this ready-to-hire shadow warm, through occasional phone calls, short messages or e-mails,” she says.
Shrabani Basu, HR consultant and corporate trainer, says employers are on tenterhooks about employees quitting. Every single recruitment needs a couple of months, between identifying to actual staffing. “Time is business, and business means money. So tech firms are looking at buffer arrangements,” Basu says.
In areas like mainframe, systems administration and technical support, the joining ratio is 50%, and in the VLSI, embedded, telecom and datacom spaces, it is about 75%. Only two or three out of five selected eventually join.
Of these, one is likely to leave within one to six months of joining. “To handle this, companies often interview and identify more people than they actually require as back-up,” says Anjan Dutta, V-P in talent supply firm Summit HR.
According to Amitabh Das, CEO of Vati Consulting, the trend is particularly visible in the BPO industry, with its ratio of joining as low as 40%.
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