TeamLease - Jaipur Job Mela

I think I learnt more about India’s labour markets in one day last Friday than I have in the four years of doing labour policy research and doing business development with potential clients.

We organized a one day job mela in Jaipur jointly with the Government of Rajasthan. We went into the fair with about 1400 open positions, took about forty employers and ten training companies. The government invited some others and totally there were 105 stalls. We expected about 7000 candidates.

Some kids showed up at 3am hoping to get in early. There were 5000 people by 8.45am. Over the day there were about 35,000 candidates who showed up. There was a stampede for forms and one of our stalls got overrun.

It was a spectacle of the tragedy and opportunity of India’s labour market. Since I was the only one in ten miles wearing a suit, about a thousand kids came upto me to talk. I can testify that about half of them would have been in jobs if there were in any metro but most of them came from rural areas and had been unemployed for over a year; guess you can say that they got the losing ticket in the ovarian lottery.

The flood of people meant that we had to redo our plans real time (shift from assessment, counseling to just collecting resumes) but our team (Sunipa, Nidhi, Sourabh, Virendra, Rajesh, Daniel, Anupama, Debojit, Sapna, Sandeep, Sachin, Avik, Dipti, Jaspreet, Anand, Sheena, Shruti, Sherill, Zeeshan, Swati, Ashish, Jacob, Divya, Sheryl, Anand) performed spectacularly under pressure. They were polite despite the chaos and most spent the day climbed on tables shouting rules and collecting over 12,000 resumes of graduates and ITI diploma holders. It was a wonderful sight and testament of our mission of putting India to work.

It was a tough day that tested our limits and showed what we are made off. Vasundhara Raje, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan who gave letters to some of our hires said it best in her speech when she pointed to our team and said “I can only imagine how tough your day must have been but I know you will sleep better at night with the duas (blessings) of the 5000 parents whose children got jobs today.

Karaikudi Job Fair

The Chennai temp team had participated in the exclusive job fair conducted by Karthik Chidambaram, son of finance minister Shri P.Chidambaram at their home town Karaikudi, Shivaganga district in Tamilnadu from 4th to 6th Feb 08. The event was organized by Karthik Chidambaram & executed by MLA Shri Sundaram.

On day 1, we had 950 candidates attending the fair who went through assessments (an aptitude test which was rated through an OMR technology). Our clients (HLL, Godrej & Boyce. Reliance General Insurance etc) shortlisted 200+ candidates for various open positions. The surprising part of the event was 60 percent of them were graduates & the rest were ITI & Diplomas ready to migrate to nearby cities.

Day 2; we had 1200 candidates going through the aptitude test due to word of mouth by the previous day walk-ins. Similar round of interviews were conducted by the clients & our CCs. We also conducted skill test (typing/DEO test) for 200+ shortlisted candidates. HLL closed 93 positions, Godrej & Boyce closed 25 positions & our career consultant’s had shortlisted 250 candidates for TLCS positions at Chennai & Coimbatore. We also had telephonic interviews for Tele Sales Executives conducted by Getit Info services Ltd - Madurai & selected 5 of them.

In order to screen all the candidates thoroughly, the fair got extended into the 3rd day with 450 additional walk-ins.

The figures at the end of the fair are

Walk-ins- 2600
TeamLease Shortlists:900
Spot Offers: 150
Ready to migrate to tier 2 cities of Tamilnadu - 750 potential candidates

The event got more exciting when the Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram offered to issue the offer letters to the selected candidates on 9th Feb 07 & as a grand finale to the whole event, he thanked the Team Lease team for successfully completing the project.

Congrats to the Chennai team;

Ajmer Job Fair

The Ajmer Job Mela was a success…We got around 25 candidates selected on 20th and on 25th the CM gave away the Offer Letters to these candidates. In her speech she spoke quite high of TeamLease and the services we are providing. She met me in person and conveyed that a lot is to be done in Rajasthan and she has great hopes from TeamLease.. There are many more job fairs coming up across Rajasthan and she asked us to participate in all….In all it was a good opportunity for us to build a database for all the locations in Rajasthan.

‘Now, career opportunities galore all over the world’

Achieving long-term goal: Mr G. Raghavendra Prasad, General Manager, Team Lease Services Pvt Ltd, addressing at Al-Ameen Institute of Management Studies in Bangalore, organised by the Business Line Club.

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Bangalore, March 5 For a young graduate, career choices are never easy. Choosing a career that matches one’s abilities and aspirations is one of life’s most difficult and important decisions. Which career is right, what options are open, how to qualify, these and many other, are million dollar questions for them. They need assistance to separate fact from hype.
A guest lecture titled ‘Career opportunities and personality development’ organized by ‘The Business Line Club’ for the students of Al-Ameen Institute of Management Studies here, gave insights into popular and emerging career options, employment trends in India and booming opportunities.
Mr G. Raghavendra Prasad, General Manager (Sourcing), TeamLease Services, pointed out the difference between career and job, different economies and its impact on employment. “Remember, life is not divided into semesters. You need to craft your career. A career is a long term goal and a great career is a long-term goal with difficult but achievable ambitions,” he said.
Drawing a parallel between the old industrial economy and the current customer-driven one, Mr Prasad remarked that the current economy has positively impacted employment generation. “Now, there are opportunities galore all over the world for skilled and educated persons. While in the industrial economy, there were only limited opportunities. Earlier, information technology was used only to enhance internal efficiencies, while now IT is a growth driver. While profit was considered a success those days, now it is the market capitalization. Hence, there is pressure not only to perform but also to outperform,” Mr Prasad said.
He said the present day corporates look for persons with good communication and interpersonal skills, confident as well as ambitious, and also informed as well as individuals with cognitive abilities.
Mr N. Rajashekar, Regional General Manager of The Hindu, Bangalore, said the economic boom and high growth that the country is experiencing spells good news for youngsters. Newspapers provide in-depth information on the happenings in corporate world, which is very crucial for management students, he said.
Principal of Al-Ameen Institute of Management Studies Ms Anuradha. B.A., welcomed the gathering, while Vice-Principal Ghousia Khatoon proposed a vote of thanks.

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