HR firms hope to co-exist with portals

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New Delhi, Feb 4: Despite a large number of Indians (a recent survey finding 40%) grabbing their jobs in the virtual world, the HR firms are unfazed at the competition, in fact, they are lauding the job portals’ role in the hiring chain, which they say have facilitated in streamlining their own work to some extent.

“In fact, the recruitment process got benefited by technological advancements; the industry got more structured since their entry,” said Yogesh Saigal of ABC Placement consultancy. Most of the HR recruiting firms have access to job portal’s database but they feel that large proportion of resumes on the online job portals are not employable, so executive search firms must sift the grain from the chaff. “There is enough space for job portals and HR firms to co-exist as the pie has also got bigger in last few years. As per the survey, 22% of respondents still find their jobs through HR firms and job portals can never replace us in the expertise in form of sector-wise functional specialisation that we offer,” believes Vishal Chhiber, HR head, Kelly Services, India.Gurdeep Hora, managing director, Synergy Consultants disagreed, “Job portals are both a resource and competition for us, resource as we can use their database as a starting point for our assessment, competition as organisations to whom we cater also have access to the same database, what they don’t understand is many of the resume posted on these portals lack accuracy and are exaggerated.”