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Talent21: One Stop Solution to Professional RPO Services

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Following the surge of IT industry, huge capital investments have been frequently made in the recruitment process for job promotions and applicant screenings; but still the hiring procedure lags behind due to low performance and delivery. Despite a company’s potential to recruit new candidates; it fails due to multiple existing projects and other hindrances like attrition, profile mapping, compensation management and cost cutting.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service by Hyderabad based Talent21 is been effectively optimized by enterprises pertaining to talent acquisition and HR outsourcing. Talent21 offers an entire gamut of tasks performed under recruitment functions for infrastructure management, BFSI, ERP, Engineering design, Pharmaceutical and Telecommunication sector. “In these sectors, if organizations approach us for seeking top executives or employees, we know what kind of workforce and managers are required for a particular vertical,” explains Gurinderpal Singh, Founder and CEO of Talent21. The company was found in 2010 with an aim to bring delivery excellence in RPO service by considering time, quality and cost as supreme parameters.

RPO Delivery Methodology

Talent21 team constitutes of experienced professionals from HR outsourcing industry. Technical team of Talent21 seeks for potential candidates from a large pool of applicants and set salary range as decided by the hiring company. After understanding the requirements of clients, the team performs resume mapping of applicants as per job description. Recruiters of Talent21 also have access to details of over 2 million candidates on database as they work as full time recruiters for a hiring company. After understanding the career aspirations in an interview, applicants are eventually shortlisted by the company.

Technical Tools and Strategies for Recruitment

Psychometric tests are being implemented by numerous enterprises for picking up potential employees from a large pool of applicants. The test is viewed as an efficient method of seeking talented and suitable candidate with potential employee’s ability to be a part of a company. Talent21 successfully leverage the Psychometric tool developed by the company for recruiting mid and senior level executives. “We have our own Psychometric tool for testing the behavior of applicants, and following the psychometric test, reports are submitted to companies along with the resumes,” adds Gurinderpal.

Alleviating Employment Rate

After Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), the corporate sector is gradually gearing up for RPO an concept which has resulted in participation of newer companies. Following the ongoing demand of RPO services, Talent21 plans to host at least 4 big recruitment events across Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities in India for pumping more employees into the corporate world. Gurinderpal believes that RPO services has a huge growth potential and visions to be among India’s top 5 professional services and business consulting organization by 2017. Along with India, Talent21 plans to expand its accessibility in India, China, US and Middle East. “We are a young and fast growing organization who believes in inclusive growth. We consider our employees as internal customer and clients as our external customers and hence we work closely with them,” concludes Gurinderpal.



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