Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

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Wednesday, 23 March 2005

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Background Statistics

PROBLEM STATEMENT

  • India has over 100 million jobseekers - 44 million of whom are registered with some 945 Govt. Employment Exchanges.
  • In 2003, employment exchanges could place only 1.5 lakh registered jobseekers.
  • Some 2 million jobseekers are registering with the Employment Exchanges every year.
  • 17.2% of those registered are graduates.
  • Of India's workforce, some 7 million are in the "Organised" sector.
  • Some 850,000 professionals are working in the IT/ITES sector.
  • Manpower requirement in IT/ITES/BPO Sector is growing at the rate of 30% per year and expected to reach 5 million by the year 2012.
  • The churn-rate in BPO sector ranges between 60%-90% (Last year, Spectramind's annualized churn-rate was 90%).
  • Some 3 million students graduate from Indian colleges each year, of which, approx. 300,000 are engineering professionals.
  • Churn-rate in IT sector ranges between 15% - 25%.
  • Company like Infosys, last year received ONE MILLION email resumes against their various job-advts! Processing such a huge volume of resumes, to short-list a few thousand for interviewing to ultimately appoint 12,000, is getting to be a nightmare for Recruitment managers everywhere.
  • Between April & Dec 2004, WIPRO made 40,000 employment offers!
  • In his budget speech, Mr. Chidambaram said, "IT Sector, by 2009, will offer an additional 7 million jobs".
  • Major Indian Jobsites (Monster/Naukri/JobsAhead/Jobstreet etc), between them, claim to have resume database of 7/9 million professionals. Discounting duplicates, this could be 5/6 million.
  • Major Indian Jobsites, between them boast of
    • 250,000 job-postings database
    • 10,000 NEW job-postings DAILY (—although many are repeated day-after-day!).
    • 15,000 corporate clients.

Problem Statement

Recruitment problem consists of:

  • Overall, the problem boils down to
    • Matching the RIGHT candidates with jobs which are RELEVANT to their skills/functional competence
    • Doing this "match-making", not only very fast (to shorten the recruitment cycletime to a matter of few days), but to do it,
      • accurately
      • automatically
      • reliably
      • consistently
    • Delivering the Relevant job-alerts to the Right candidates, as soon as Vacancies arise (job-broadcasting in realtime) and not passively wait for candidates to conduct "jobsearches" on jobsites, to perhaps "chance-upon" a relevant job!
  • Any "product/service" that can carry-out the above-mentioned tasks efficiently/electronically/automatically, would be in high demand and wholeheartedly embraced/adopted by both
    • Job-seekers
    • Recruiters.

 





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