Background Checking of prospective Candidate : Trust the current / previous employer

October 19th, 2009 MME No comments

Are you an Employer who is all set to hire some fresh employees to give your business the much needed expansion. You could also be a recruiter hiring on behalf of your clients. Let us assume that you have finished the first round of candidate screening. You now have some good candidates and the task at hand is to cross check the information mentioned in the candidate’s CV. How do you do it? Online candidate background analysis is a very good option. Apart from that we have a very straight forward and highly accurate source of gathering information about the candidate, which we normally overlook.

The current or previous employer.

Yes they are the answer to all our questions about the prospective candidate. Since our would-be candidate has been with them for quite a some time they would know him better than any search engine. The practice in Industry is to send a small form, pre-filled with information provided by candidate, to be verified by the previous employer. Normally it is addressed to concerned HR personnel or the direct authority to which the Candidates was reporting to.

This method of background verification has some genuine advantages, eg :

  • You could get the exact CTC.
  • Information on Employee behavior and work style.
  • Address and Guardians’ information.
  • Would not allow the candidate to dishonor Notice Periods.

In some cases, candidates get fake letters and certificates done to scrap through the selection process. This method is hard to beat for fraud candidates. All you need to do is get the phone number of the concerned people talk to them about the process and ask them to spare some time and verify you little form.

Googling up the Candidate | How to check job application online

October 19th, 2009 MME No comments

It does not matter if you are a prospective employer or a background checking service provider, this is what you would normally do to begin with. You would Google up the name of your would-be employee. (When I say Google up I mean to search on Google, you could Bing it up or use some other search engine you prefer) Let us discuss today what could possibly be an effective way of gathering more information about your candidates using Google.

So you have the CVs short listed and its time to find out which one of them will do justification to your investment (salary). So you are planning to Google it up? Go ahead. Unless your candidate is named Barack Obama or Priyanka Chopra or some other celebrity you would quite easily find some results for the person you are looking for. This is assuming that your candidate has some sort of internet exposure.  Adding place of residence or working to you’re the candidates name in the search box will give you better results.

So you have found the right set of results on Google. Normally you should either get the candidates home page / blog / twitter handle / Facebook profile / LinkedIn profile etc on top. These are excellent sources of personal information like the persons area of expertise and interest. Here is what you should keep an eye open for.

Area of Interest:  It’s not likely that some one would blog about ‘Disabling Javascript on IE’ unless he is a developer or advanced internet user. You can also get an idea how up-to date is his knowledge about his field of work

Connections: You can see which other people are connected to your candidate. The more experts he is connected to the more advanced tasks he can handle. That is because in case of need he will try to reach out to these people.

Cyber Slacking: His profile updates and activities on social media portal will give you a clear idea of the amount of time spent by the candidate on such activates. If you are looking for a Internet Marketer then you might like it if your candidate spends an awful amount of time on Social Networks. On the contrary you might find it wasteful employment if are looking for a Programmer.

Testimonials and Recommendations: Networks like Orkut, LinkedIn and personal blogs of Candidates friends and colleagues could provide you with testimonials which are write beneficial for HR people.

Best part in this process is “Good people lead you to more of their kind”. This is one great part of social networking – even if you are not satisfied with the current candidate you could end up hiring one of his friends or connections.

Current Recruitment Scenario in India

October 6th, 2009 MME 1 comment

Recession is just a momentary situation not a long term affair. Last year saw the worse of economy all over the world. Lay offs, price-cutting, losing projects and many more. India, the country which renders service to almost all great nations in the world was affected too. Big IT giants and banks losing money started showing pink slips to its even experienced employees. We saw the present and foresee the future even worse.

recruitment-scenario-indiaEvery thing in this world has its good and bad effects. Recession is just one of the pillars of failure for a successful mankind. Dealing with it as a learning experience can reap huge benefits in future. People are upgrading their skills now and exploiting them to thrive in this situation. The best Manpower consultants  in India who have thrived  worked overtime to provide the corporate and industries with the best of the man power at a prices that could keep them profitable in recession. They have lowered their consultation charges, changed the interviewing process and brought in many other innovative concepts to make it work and they have succeeded to an appreciable extent.

They have assured better jobs even when the world was hit by financial meltdown. Many of the job consultants have placed potential candidates in the marketing and sales sector which promises an ever growing career prospect even at this time. The pharmaceutical and medical sector too provides great career prospects ahead. With more discoveries of drugs, medical technologies, clinical research is booming in developing nations like India that provides a wide pool of patients for clinical trials. Potential candidates from various fields of science are hired for specific purposes. The requirement of more and more experts is increasing day by day. The consultants involved are using more of research aptitude tests to shortlist potential candidates for this sector.

Computers and information technology has always been termed as the most advanced field as its applications has now widened to even odd fields of science like geology and biology along with other advanced courses. Hence courses like geo-informatics and bio-informatics have evolved. The institutions introducing such courses are making sure to place the students successfully at the end as it is a highly specific job. So placing them in a good organization becomes a challenge for such institutions and they in turn prepare their students to be the best among the contemporaries.

The job consultancies provide ample opportunities to the candidates giving him a choice of where he would like to work. With service industry in booming and more BPOs getting in like the RPOs (Recruitment Process outsourcing), KPOs (Knowledge Process outsourcing) and recently the LPOs (Legal Process Outsourcing) huge requirements for graduates have flood in. The health care, travel and tourism, hotels and Restaurant, Distribution and delivery, consultancy and other service industries have also revolutionized their way of operations. So an IT engineer or a logistics manager is no more restricted to an IT company or a shipping company. The creativity and caliber is harnessed with businesses widening in the corporate world.

Education and teaching has emerged as a great career choice. With students urging for more knowledge based learning, many of the techies from premier institutions have joined private universities with great packages and facilities. Some of them have also flown abroad grabbing some for the best offers. We are thankful to the consultancies for providing all the basic requirements starting from the placement services till getting on board to take off.

Job consultancies have also merged in with various NGO’s and government too for providing man power with the best acquired skill and in most honest ways. Training modules introduced, and hiring from rural areas is done in large scale. Job consultancies are also getting involved into awareness programs for enhancing and expertising young talents from such places.

Trainings and counseling have become mandatory conditions for any candidate getting registered with consultancies. They have now introduced short term pre-placement training courses like communication skills, corporate skills, group discussions and interviews to prepare their students to excel in this race for a job. Even public sector entities and military organizations are also employing consultancies to hire in for them and provide them with the best of the talent from the market. Not only that, HR managers, psychologists, psychiatrists, mathematicians, and personnel from various varied fields have been employed to develop new tests and methodologies to screen the best possible option for a position.

Today employment is a survival of the fittest situation. If you want to excel, performance is the best tool for your stability, security and wealth. The job consultancies are quite standing up to the rapport. With such great innovative ideas and approach, they have taken the consultancy to the next level and trying their best to nurture hidden talents and screen in the best option.

New MME Human Resource Blog

October 5th, 2009 MME 1 comment

mm-enterprises-logoWe are now proud to announce the launch of our new blog.  We already had a blog covering lates manpower news and HR advice hosted at Blogger.com. (mm-enterprises.blogspot.com) This one will continue to exist and will cover international news related our areas of expertise. On this new blog (http://mmenterprises.co.in) we will be covering more HR centric topics for the use of recruiters, clients and candidates.

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