The Gurgaon-based human capital management firm Aspire is planning to strengthen its human talent supply chain across the country. The company having launched the program in September as NeoHire?an entry-level, full-service solution to identify, train and develop talent in India?has tied up with WNS and Genpact for training candidates in the IT field.
Amit Bhatia, founder and CEO Aspire, shared that this talent mass production model will benefit those students whose skills need to be brushed up. “Our focus will be to trainto students from tier II and tier III cities. It will include developing hard skills, soft skills, accent/voice training and psychometric training. We plan to prepare as many as 100 industry-ready candidates per month.”
Also, the firm plans to tackle the challenges of talent availability, wage inflation and high attrition rate. Aspire has started this program for supplying skilled manpower to the IT and ITES sector. It later plans to expand it to retail and financial services sectors.
The company has set up career centres in about 18 cities pan India including Jammu, Srinagar, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Gurgaon and Rohtak in north. Soon, new centers will be opened in Amritsar, Ludhiana and Ambala.
“We are aiming to take this toll to 40 centers by March 2008 and to 100 by March 2009. The employer who’ll pre-place the candidates and pay 75% of the total cost of the course will sponsor the three-month program. We have invested about Rs 21 crore, supported by 20 angel investors,” added Bhatia.
Besides, Aspire’s forthcoming product TracHire automates the complete human talent supply chain for the services sector to get just-in-time trained resources..