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 VIRTUAL 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
enter Job Market of entire World
A beginning of " WORLD
WIDE WORK FEDERATION ( W3F ) " ?
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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08
Aug 2016
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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with
regards,
( click to view my profile )
Marol , Mumbai , India
( M ) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
hemen
parekh
Marol
, Mumbai , India
(
M ) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
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