Creates virtual platform for talent acquisition
professionals
Do
you want to improve your chances of getting a job? You’d better pick a good
Qualification Package (QP) and have a certificate that’s valued by IT firms,
Nasscom tells engineering students.
A
QP is developed by the IT industry association around a specific IT tool or
expertise. It readied a basket of 74 job roles with standardised courseware for
entry level openings in the IT industry. It identified 313 QPs for mid-level
and 130 for senior level openings in the industry.
With
a well-defined courseware that can be spread over a few hundred hours of
learning, these QPs could be handpicked by the students depending on their
interests and job prospects. Along with the degree, they will get a
certificate, endorsing their expertise in a subject.
The
Nasscom had asked its members to hire people with certified QPs. “They have
just started adopting QPs. Our target is to get to 10 per cent of recruitment
through QPs this year,” Nasscom Chairman BVR Mohan Reddy told BusinessLine.
The industry is expected to add about 2.5 lakh jobs a year.
The
Nasscom is in talks with the State governments for the rollout. “Anna
University has embraced this and several thousand students are being enrolled
for QPs. We are in talks with Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments,”
Sandhya Chintala, Executive Director of IT-BPO Sector Skills Council at
Nasscom, said.
She
spoke to reporters on the sidelines of a meet that discussed ‘Standards-based
Recruitment – the new paradigm’ here on Thursday.
Platform
for recruiters
To
encourage students and colleges to take to QPs and develop skills of recruiting
professionals, Nasscom is building a virtual platform with the help of talent
training firm TalentSprint for talent acquisition profes- sionals.
The
platform would also have a database of QP-certified jobseekers.
“The
virtual community would help recruiters acquire new skills and network,”
Santanu Paul, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of TalentSprint,
said.
There
are about 30,000 recruiting professionals in the country with no common
platform to upgrade themselves.
Source | Business Line | 28 August 2015
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