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: Though 500 million people below 25 years is an invaluable asset in a growing economy, industry surprisingly, does not share this enthusiasm—a yawning skill gap and the imponderables in talent spotting make hiring a hard task. Enter human resource professionals, with an array of recruitment solutions. Online assessment, voice-based hiring, referrals, research and metric analytics are all part of the hiring and retention aids offered by HR professionals today.

Lamenting the skills shortage, R Kannan, HR analyst & CEO of Assess People, which handles web-based employment life-cycle administration of companies, points to the ground realities. “Around 80% job-seekers enrolled in India’s employment exchanges do not have basic professional skills. More alarming, only 25 %, 15% and 10% of the graduates in engineering, finance and general administration, respectively, own employable skills expected by MNCs,’’ he says.

“With corporate India promising to create 10 lakh new jobs in the next two years, there is a skill shortage both at the top and the bottom of the corporate workforce ladder,” he asserts.

Kannan is a staunch believer in online assessment. He proclaims it to be “the panacea for all the HR ills in head hunting.”Hinting at the movement towards online assessment, Kannan says abroad it is 80% and in India it is hovering around 18%. His company employs all IT-based tools like biometrics, phone2web, online analytics and advanced survey in matching the mixed bag of skills required by industries. He propounds the concept of virtual hiring with a leap in data, voice and video convergence.

“With higher bandwidth and fool-proof identification tools, tele-recruitment will be a mass reality with companies only need to intimate a prospect about the appointment date”, he avers.

C Mohan Ram, CEO of Lattice Bridge Infotech Pvt Ltd, a provider of voice-based HR recruitment solutions, says voice-based technology will cut down the time cycle from 13 weeks to six weeks in the recruitment phase of IT firms. “Technological forays into job appraisal, employee satisfaction, training, exit management can address a host of critical issues wherein a company can draw scientific feedback to redress the anomalies in the aggrieved areas”, he adds.