Now, recruitment through SMS

Naukri.com, the online recruitment space, has announced a new initiative, Insta Hire, enabling instant contact by recruiters and instant apply by recruitees through SMS.

The latest initiative is an innovative step into the future, providing a breakthrough recruitment solution on a revolutionary new platform—-the mobile phone. Insta Hire helps connect recruiters and recruitees all over India instantly via sms, thereby reducing the time taken in the hiring process, according to a Press release.

Now recruiters with Insta Hire will not have to go through the traditional processes adopted so far of e-mailing or calling, which could take days, but instead will be able to send instant recruitment messages to potential candidates on their mobiles. The candidate can then SMS back according to the instructions in the SMS. Once the candidate responds via mobile, his/her CV gets sent to the recruiter and the recruiter can directly contact the candidates who are interested (and achieve a high rate of applies as all the people who sms back will have the right contact details and numbers), all in a matter of minutes. (instructions are pre-coded in the SMS for each recruiter and each message being sent out by Naukri’s intelligent SMSing mechanism) Commenting on the development, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and CEO, Naukri.com, claims, "Insta Hire will increase speed, effectiveness and productivity, thereby decreasing turnaround time undertaken for each hiring exercise. This will also enable a wider reach, as we are essentially an SMS-driven nation. This innovation, perhaps the first complete recruitment solution on SMS , will change the way recruitment works."

Apurva Kumar, Head Mobility and Ad Sales, naukri.com, who is leading this initiative, says, "This is a complete self-serve module, where thousands of recruiters can customise job messages according to their requirement and send to potential matching candidates via SMS."

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode, one of India’s premier management institutes, has announced admissions to the sixth batch of its Executive Management Program (eMEP) over the HughesNet Global Education platform, according to a Press release.

The eMEP is a career development programmes for working executives conducted through the Interactive Learning technology offered by Hughes.

This one-year programme is priced at Rs. 1.89 lakh and offered across all 49 HughesNet Global Education classrooms and 180 HughesNet Fusion centres. Announcing the onset of admissions recently, Prof Krishna Kumar Director, IIM-K, said, "The courses made available to a large number of people over the Interactive Learning model has benefited more than 500 executives in the last four years. Enrolment increased from 84 in 2002-03 to over 400 in 2005-06."

Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd, the Indian arm of Cadence Design Systems, Inc, partnering with Time to Market, Inc (TTM), a provider of IC design services and training, and University of California, Santa Cruz, Extension (UCSC Extension), USA, recently launched the Cadence-TTM-UCSC Extension Finishing School Program (FSP).

Says Himanshu Singh, Executive Director, Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd, India and SAARC`A0 "The Finishing School Program is a pioneering effort between industry and academia, designed to address the gap in the supply of skilled design engineers." TNS

Listed below are the top 10 jobs that employers are having difficulty filling, according to a Manpower Inc. survey of 33,000 employers in 23 countries:

Sales representatives

• Engineers

• Technicians

• Production operators

• Positions in skilled manual trades (primarily carpenters, welders and plumbers)

• IT staff (primarily programmers/developers)

• Administrative assistants/personal assistants

• Drivers

• Accountants

• Management/executives