HRs and HR consultants
Last week I had a discussion with my neighbor and friend. He had put in his papers in one of the top 5 Indian IT major in Chennai and is joining the IDC of an MNC in south Tamil Nadu.
The essence of what he said was this.
Say, a HR in an IT major gets a resume of a potential resource, chances are that resume will be ignored. The same resume, at a later point might come to the HR through his favorite HR consultant. This time, the candidate will be short listed, asked to attend the interview and most likely get the offer (going by the demand in the job market today). So, what’s the difference? The difference being that, in the latter case, the company has to pay the consultant around 8.33% of the candidates’ annual CTC as commission. And surprise surprise, the HR would get some ‘anbalippu’ from the consultant for the deal. Get the picture?
Obviously, all standard disclaimer applies. Not all HRs are like this and I cannot prove the same in a court of law as I have better things to do. But the guy who told me had no reason to lie.
My question is this, If we cannot root out kickback from an educated individual’s mind, how are we going to root out from the uneducated politician’s mind?
April 16th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Is this what they call “neththi adi ?”. I am hoping to read some comments in this post from HR people for some justified reason.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Ada daa! I am admiring at the ubiquitousness of corruption! Chance- illai!
April 17th, 2007 at 3:57 am
PK, this is the “assumption” which most of us do. Education does not necessarily make a person honest, cultured, civlised, sincere, refined. So lets not equate education to all the niceties of a person and lets also stop determining a person’s virtues by his/her education.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Educated people are actually the smartest when it comes to corruption or cutting corners
And they don’t even know what’s illegal and what is not, unlike the politicians.
to quote a simple eg, a number of IT people go abroad on a B1 visit, come back with foreign currency and get rupees from the money changers. Strictly speaking, this Per Diem income should be taxable under the ‘Other Income’ category but 99.99% wont do it. A clear case of defrauding the exchequer!
April 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
This is what is the bane of our society, we all assume that HR people work for the best interests of the company, but rarely they do. But look at the other way, the candidate gets the placement he wants.
You scratch my back, I scratch yours.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Unfortunately…the tag “smartness” is being used for breaching accepted rules…companies need “smart” executives, guys need “smart” gals & vice versa, we have “smart” politicians, “smart” officials,…and now its the turn for “smart” HR executives, “smart” consultants, “smart” applicants…………Kalakurom chandru…”smart” country HUH……..I am happy…..
@PK - Pls let me know the consultant contact details…let me have words with him…nothing else….:-)
April 18th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Hi Talkative man,
I disagree with you on the fact that per diem is not taxed.
Perdiem is in fact taxed. Pls check the Form 16 that you will get at the end of the year. Your taxable income would have hit the roof. That is if you work for a reputed company with good practices (which most of the IT majors are). However when it comes to the point Prabu is making, I have felt the same indeed. I have seen many genuine resumes rejected or simply not considered, but spurious ones rejected in the interview make all the way up after rerouting through appropriate consultant and appropriate panel for interview. The companies are unable to focus much on this as their need for people is always on a higher priority and they care less as to how people come in. Attrition is so high in the market that people shipping has become another fashionable profession for HR companies these days.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:44 am
It happens here in UK as well.
I don’t mean to say that what they do is right coz it happens in UK, what I mean to say is all the HR ppl.. well… almost all the HR ppl are the same.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
ttm:
Idhellam 2 much
Prabhu:
This is in fact well known. HR is not the only corrupt section of the IT industry - top management takes the cake actually. One of their tricks, esp. the ones who work for MNCs is to go in for lavish constructions/rentals and pocket the goodwill gesture from the builder/landlord. IT industry is much more corrupt than people realise, and it’s not even the subtler forms of corruption that ttm is talking about. There is enormous scope for corruption in project bidding and allotment and it is indeed exploited. Honestly for many types of software it doesn’t matter if Kuppan does or Suppan does it. As our man Paul Graham says, “big companies win by sucking less”. He forgot to mention grease.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:45 am
sundar narayanan,
kickback ku justifiable reason a
fathima
edhai edhai ellam admire panradhu nu oru vevasthai illama pochu
Ravi and TTM,
i fully agree on yr take on the connection between educated and corruption.sorry !
deepak,
adhu seri. rombo sorinchutte irundha punn ayidum. not many realize that!
cipher,
therila ba! but you dont need to try hard. put some junk CV in naukri and u will get mails by 100s…
chakra,
maybe its a global phenomenon koumai!
BNB,
adadaa, apparently there is more to it than what i imagined! idhai vechu oru blog series a eludalaam pola!