The Recruitment Industry Today

Over the past five years the recruitment industry has undergone a vast change. With the advent of latest technology innovations, websites, resume databases, Job listing services and applicant tracking systems have become the buzzwords in recruitment. As of late online job portals contribute towards a major share of the recruitment process. But these high technology services while helping to reduce candidate identification and screening time have widened the gap between an employer and a job seeker.

Current employer practice
Campus recruitment and job fairs are the major areas of concentration for employers to absorb fresh talent. But nationally focused recruiters overall were seemed interested in using technology to make the process of recruiting much easier and viable. They also think that online recruiting is more important for taking the recruitment process into the tier II and tier III cities.

Current Student expectations
What Job seekers need is personal attention and this is not provided by current online job portals. This trend is highly evident among fresh college graduates who are increasingly concerned that current electronic recruiting strategies are impersonal and do not satisfy their needs for human interaction in the initial stages of recruiting via job portals.


Bridging the gap
One of the challenges faced by an institution in guaranteeing jobs for graduates is the wide gap between the institution and the corporate sector. With WIMB’s new LIVECONNECT points this wide gap is effectively shrunk, enabling the institutions to effectively place more students soon after graduation. Over a period of time our Live connect points will evolve into an information hub for employers and will also become a nationwide career network across a virtual infrastructure.