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Candidate Management Process

April 19, 2008 admin IR Process, Career Pitstop

If one just replaces the word chaos with the word Staffing industry, the above quote by Tom Barrett sums up the entire staffing industry of today. In may 2007, when the Idea of IdeaReboot was still at a very nascent stage and we were still debating the rationale of going into the Staffing domain. The one thing that struck us was the chaos and the opportunity that this chaos holds.The Staffing industry is a highly competitive market with very few standards and even fewer processes in place. The result is total chaos. How many times a candidate who has just Nunit testing mentioned in his/her resume has got a call from a staffing company for a testing lead position? How many times the Candidate has been called for an interview and later realizing his/her profile does not match with the requirement? How many times the clients receive the same candidates from different staffing companies for the same requirement? There are numerous such instances that cause heartburn, pain, wastage of time and effort during the recruitment process for both the clients and the candidates. Given the nature of demand in this industry, the staffing companies do get away with murder and they are somehow able to place their candidates but if we see the value they add to the clients and candidates during this whole process, the answer would not be very surprising nil.The situation portrayed above might paint a very grim picture of the staffing industry but all is not lost and lets not forget it gives an immense opportunity for growth and bringing some semblance in this chaos for the staffing companies who wants to walk that extra mile and this is the premise on which the IdeaReboot was started. The vision for IdeaReboot was very clear, Quality not quantity will bring in the order.There are three entities in any recruitment process Clients, Candidates and the Staffing companies. The objective of this article is to focus on the interaction between Candidate and IdeaReboot, how IdeaReboot works with its candidates and how its processes work towards adding value to the Candidate which eventually leads to saving time and effort, pain, heartburn and confusion.

Given below is an image which explains the IR Candidate process, the services which IdeaReboot provides to the candidate and the value addition that a candidate gets by working with IdeaReboot.

IdeaReboot Workforce Solutions

April 15, 2008 admin Corporate, IR Process, Recruiter Central

IdeaReboot believes in a comprehensive, complete and high quality solution for meeting your workforce requirements. We maintain focus on a strategic alignment with your recruitment strategy and processes. We understand that these may differ from firm to firm, project to project and job to job. Thats why we are highly agile in our approach and have kept our solutions flexible and scalable enough to meet your unique needs. Whether you are looking to fill up an immediate position, proactively managing your future requirements or need some corrective measures for your workforce strategy, IdeaReboot is the partner you can trust.Flexibility in the choice of staffing strategy is of key importance in meeting your workforce requirements. We thoroughly understand that and aim to deliver our solutions for all kind of hires:

Direct Hire We ensure that your long-term investment in direct hires pays off well. Our stringent evaluation process ensures that only the best of breed are filtered to your recruitment process. Our candidate assessment is tuned not only towards evaluating the technical prowess but also focuses on evaluating the adaptability, flexibility and the well-roundedness of the candidate.

Consultant HireContract hiring is an important part of recruitment strategy either for the flexibility it offers or the niche talent it brings. We maintain a roster of highly trained professionals who have consistently exceeded clients expectations. They cut across a wide spectrum of domains and technologies and are trained to quickly adapt, learn and deliver.

Temp-to-Hire There is a serious investment of domain and technical knowledge that goes towards training contract hires. These resources sometimes become attractive for your business to hire them as full-time employees. We are committed towards the success of our clients and candidates alike and unlike some of the staffing agencies, we encourage temp-to-hire. Although our services can be mixed and matched, tailored and scaled for your unique needs, they broadly fall under the following three categories.

  • Tactical Hiring
  • Strategic HirinG
  • Workforce Consulting

Tactical Hiring
Tactical hiring runs the majority of project requirements. Our services are tailored for an extremely quick turnaround for such on-demand requirements. We understand that these are always urgent in nature and should have been filled by yesterday without compromising on the quality of the candidates.

  • We ensure that your open positions reach out to the largest audience possible in the quickest possible way.
  • We have a ready talent pool of 55,000 candidates, an extremely viral Idea NETwork of referrers, partners and professionals;
  • We advertise your positions on numerous job boards and manage submissions to open job search engines.
  • Backed by an extremely stringent evaluation process, we have consistently maintained a high conversion ratio that ensures you do not have to deal with an unwanted load of sub-standard resumes and candidatures.

Strategic Hiring
Strategic hiring is quickly emerging as a frontline recruitment strategy and is critical in taking the HR function of your business to the next level. It helps in maintaining the competitive edge of your business by proactively managing your workforce requirements ahead of time. For volume-based recurring needs to support a constant stream of talent, IdeaReboot builds a sourcing program, led by experienced analysts to align our research capacity with your specific needs.This typically involves a collaborative approach to

  • analyzing your project requirements in the light of your business goals and competition,
  • assessing and correcting gaps in your current candidate reach and
  • formalizing an efficient and high quality evaluation programWe recommend a commitment of 3-6 months for building up and executing such a strategic sourcing plan, marketing your brand to the right candidate audience and significantly enhancing your talent pool.

Workforce Consulting
This is a logical extension of our Strategic Hiring solution where we apply the rigor of years of research, analysis and learning in building the most suitable workforce strategies for you. We understand the nuances of short, mid and long term HR strategies and how in certain cases they may conflict with each other. There is no one-size-fits-all solution and hence for suggesting any corrective measures, we believe in building a collaborative process that combines your ideas, expertise and knowledge of your business goals with our experience and analysis. We establish an interactive environment based on dialogue with your team, encouraging people at all levels in the organization to contribute to a solution that will work. We thoroughly assess your HR processes to identify gaps. We go on to develop an execution plan for implementing the best practices for successful human capital management. Our consulting team brings on board seasoned expertise on the following functions:

  • Recruitment strategy
  • Evaluation of Vendor management solutions
  • Employee assessment and selection
  • On-boarding practices
  • Talent and team development
  • Performance management
  • Compensation strategy
  • HR processes and policies
  • Employee retention practices
  • Employee growth programs

Besides the HR expertise, we also bring a unique technology advantage to you. Idea Reboot has in its core, a technical team that comprises of the brightest in the industry who have architected solutions for several business domains and led project teams of various sizes. On a per-need basis, we leverage this expertise to help your technology team with solution-architecture, project planning and design.

The IR Factor - Why IR…

April 14, 2008 abhinav Corporate, IR Process, Recruiter Central

IdeaReboot is a Human Capital Solutions Platform which uniquely mobilizes

people skills, alliances,technologies, processes

to offer top-notch services and resources to companies which employs IT workforce. Founded by technologists and HR experts, IdeaReboot is the result of years of research and analysis of the proven practices of the Staffing industry.

IdeaReboot Advantage
IdeaReboot offers a gamut of services which aims at providing you with an ADVANTAGE that will help address the issues impacting your recruitment strategy. With these advantages, you are well set to beat your intra-industry recruiting competition.

Reducing Cost to Hire Our services despite being world-class come at a highly competitive price. We achieve cost savings by employing repeatable, optimized processes driven largely by automation and best practices. All these cost savings are passed directly to you, significantly reducing your cost-to-hire. Just so you know we consider a 25%-35% agency fee of a full-time hire ludicrously high!

Reducing Vacancy Cost Our quick turnaround time with a high-conversion rate in providing well evaluated, high quality candidates is aimed at significantly reducing the number of days a position remains vacant. We share with you the candidate-book consisting of all who were considered by IdeaReboot for a given position. This ensures that the more you work with us, the faster and bigger your talent pool becomes, ready to be employed for your future needs.

Increasing Candidate Reach We employ our proprietary S.E.A.R.C.H tool (Search Engine Adaptation for Recursive Candidate Hunt) to reach candidates which are well beyond the reach of job boards. Coupled with our existing quality network of professionals, the tool guarantees us a virtually limitless scope for reaching candidates.

Bridging Communication gap We market your job requirement on various channels across the Internet. These include job search engines, job boards, sites and blogs with viewership from potential candidates. Besides this, we float your requirement on Idea Net (IR network), and very quickly it gets a viral spread. In the past, we have ourselves been amazed at the magnitude of responses we received.

Resolving Retention crisis While the retention capacity is determined largely by the market opportunities and workplace dynamics, we go an extra mile in guaranteeing you a free replacement for any of our candidates quitting your firm within a reasonable period of time. Alternatively, we also provide consulting services that could help you understand and manage your workforce attrition issues.

How We Add Value
Idea Net: the staffing network - Over the years, we have invested heavily into creating a valuable network for us. We have built an active talent pool of over 55,000 available candidates and have created a network of 4000 (and ever-growing) referrers, partner firms and professionals who are always keen to generate referrals for us. We also maintain active mailing lists of our own and are a part of a number of popular ones which advertise jobs to a large number of candidates. We periodically conduct seminars with several industry associations to constantly expand our network. All of this is what we collectively call Idea Net. We effectively utilize this in generating quick and massive, viral responses to your requirements. This also plays a critical role when we attempt to execute a program for recruitment branding for you.

Invaluable Team Our team is our biggest asset. We come from very diverse backgrounds, experience and expertise. From HR experts with over 20 years of recruiting background to seasoned technologists, from sharp industry researchers & analysts to fresh-out-of-college statisticians, from researching psychologists to nerdy web surfers, we have an eclectic mix of talent that is highly adaptable and efficient in working out smart solutions and rendering top-notch services. Idea Reboot has been founded by hardcore technologists who have created enterprise-scale applications for several business domains. With a been there, done that advantage, we are uniquely placed in thoroughly understanding your project needs and requirements not only as HR experts but also from the perspective of project managers, architects and team leads.

Dedicated Account Analysts We believe in building an enduring relationship with you. We dedicate analysts to work exclusively with you to build and tailor our services to meet your objectives. The analysts are experts in developing solutions after understanding your workplace dynamics, business goals, success criteria, corporate fit, technology and requirement needs.

Redefining S.E.A.R.C.H. Search Engine Adaptation for Recursive Candidate Hunt. We have developed a sophisticated tool for adapting various open/specialized search engines and professional networking sites to crawl the entire Internet and help us accurately search for candidates and their resumes. The tool offers us a rich set of options and flexibility and its results guarantee that if a candidate exists anywhere on the internet, he/she is reach-able by us. These candidates are typically not available on existing job-boards, thus giving us and eventually you a tremendous advantage.

Evaluation & training We maintain on board a panel of technologists who have been trained in the best practices of interviewing and training. The panel maintains a rich set of question bank and internal online/offline training materials. They apply rigor in evaluating a candidate in terms of the assessment content, coverage and scoring guidelines. The evaluation process applies a progressive methodology of assessing the candidates in several rounds. After each such round, a detailed feedback is given to the candidate, which forms the basis for subsequent assessment rounds. Additionally, we provide free training to deserving candidates to close any minor before he/she can be considered a perfect fit for your needs.We have the resources, processes and infrastructure to completely take over your candidate assessment function and reduce your imputed cost-to-hire. On a per-need basis, we also conduct 3rd-party online testes/certifications for our potential candidates. As an additional service, we also execute on-demand background checks and verifications.

Competitive Pricing Our services come at a highly competitive price. The attractive part of our model is that you get a whole gamut of services free and you pay only for the converts. These free services typically include job postings to multiple job boards, search engine submissions, viral response elicitation, candidate-mining, evaluations and recruitment branding. Besides saving costs through repeatable, optimized processes incorporating the best methodologies, we also aim at reducing the need for “middleman” staffing firms, thereby further reducing our costs. All our cost savings translate to reduced fees for you.

Recruitment Branding Majority of the firms allocate a large part of their marketing budget only to reach out to the target audience of their services and/or products. We believe that potential candidates form an equally important audience segment for your branding initiatives. We translate this belief into a set of services that help you reach out to the largest possible talent pool with a message containing the unique success proposition that your business model and workplace stands for. Our Idea Net and dedicated account analysts play a critical role in defining that segment and building such a recruitment branding program.

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