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Monday, March 11, 2019

How AI and ML transforming Staffing Industry



52% of Talent Acquisition leaders say the hardest part of recruitment is screening candidates from a large applicant pool

AI is helping to design and streamline and automate major portion of the recruiting workflow avoiding repetitive tasks enabling them to handle bulk hiring.

A robust Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) that applies machine learning to auto-screen candidates based on the key skills defined helps in targeting the right candidate for your hiring needs.

One of the primary reason to use AI in stffing is the big advantage of saving recruiters’ time by making it possible to handle large volume of resumes and weeding out irrelevant profiles and ability to pull out relevant ones.

By saving the time of existing staffing team, enables the management to handle large volume of business with a limited member team.  The saving in time also enables the team to hone up their technical skills to become more productive.  This saving in time will also largely impact the organization since it leads to cost optimization by employing a small team to handle large volumes.  Talent acquisition leaders report that their hiring volume will increase next year but their recruiting teams will remain the same size or even contract. This means recruiters will be expected to become more efficient by using the AI.

AI screening of resumes will result in considerable time savingthe percentage of the resumes received for a role are either over or under qualified or experienced.  Reading through the resumes and shortlisting candidates to interview is estimated to take significant chunk of number of hours of a recruiter’s time spent for a position.

AI plays a key role in scheduling interviews with candidates by automating the process and making it more systematic and with less human intervention.

The best ATS helps in designing to automate a part of staffing workflow and integrate seamlessly with recruiting stack without disrupting the overall workflow.

AI helps complete automation of the different process in a cycle thereby reducing time-to-hire, this will also help in supporting customers with high quality of hires thereby helping clients to rely more and more on your firms capability to identify the right talent.

Substantial improvement in quality of hires.

The key differentiator in recent staffing trends is to ensure high quality resources to the clients needs. To effectively use the AI and ML techniques the IT staffing team must be highly knowledgeable about the technical jargon that is thrown at them.  An indepth analysis and creating a knowledge pool within the firm helps in retaining the knowledge gained by the team members.    
  
AI is improving quality of hire since it is able to use data to standardize the searching of right candidates in comparision to the Job Description with resect to  skills experience, knowledge, needed by specific job role.

This improvement in searching the right candidate helps in better post deployment of the resources as there is a perfect correlation between the job content and the career aspirations of the candidates resulting in higher efficiencies

Many leading Software companies have already tasted the success of deploying their AI and ML tools.  In this highly competitive staffing solutions / services industry time has come to embrace latest technologies to be key differentiator.  Those who still have not made up their mind, wake up now better late then never and use these to enhance your workforce productivity and higher custoemr satisfaction by deliering high quality services to become a preferred vendor.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Hiring Times are here again !!

The following 8 sectors show great promise amidst pall of gloom and doom.

1. Financial Services 
The TeamLease report says the financial services sector makes the most of the cashless environment. Employment outlook for the financial services sector jumped by 5 points from 76 in October 2016-March 2017 period to 81 in April 2017-September 2017 period. Fintech and mobile wallets are a big beneficiary of the recent developments following demonetisation. Banks and brokerage firms plan to build digital banking and financial research teams. 

2. Health & Pharmaceuticals 
Employment outlook for the health & pharma sector is up by 3 points from 94 in October 2016-March 2017 period to 97 in April 2017-September 2017 period. The reason is businesses in this sector are set to scale as significant foreign investments are being planned.  The government's initiatives in improving affordable healthcare and establishing new educational institutes will drive talent demand. This sector is likely to see a job growth of 13.67%. 

3. Knowledge Process Outsourcing 
The KPO industry, as a whole, is exhibiting robust growth and is set to add close to 150,000 professionals on its payrolls during the coming financial year. With an unabated demand for big data analytics, the demand for data scientists continues to outstrip supply. The job growth is likely to be 14.77%. Employment outlook for the knowledge process outsourcing sector is up by 3 points from 90 in October 2016-March 2017 period to 93 in April .. 

4. Telecommunications 
The hypercompetition unleashed by Reliance JIO and the recently announced merger of Idea and Vodafone would give rise to frenetic hiring activity. Focus on digital technology and mobile app development is expected to drive employment. Employment outlook for the sector is up by 3 points from 87 in October 2016-March 2017 period to 90 in April 2017-September 2017 period. The job growth is likely to be 11.18%.  

5. E-commerce & Technology Startups 
After a downturn in 2016, jobs in e-commerce & technology startups are likely to grow 14.94%. Employment outlook for the sector is up by 2 points from 91 in October 2016-March 2017 period to 93 in April 2017-September 2017 period. Notwithstanding last half-year's meltdown, the sector is back up on its feet again and is already hiring, albeit in relatively modest numbers. 

6. Media & Entertainment 
The sector is attracting substantial investments in theme parks and expansion of multiplexes, and is expected to create significant number of jobs over the coming HY. The government's approving of the model Shops and Establishments Act would allow cinema halls to remain open round the clock, and potentially increasing jobs. 

7. Retail 
The successful public offering from D-Mart, and subsequent scaling of the hitherto conventional retailer, is expected to invite competitive reaction and increase talent demand. Warehouse consolidation and hassle-free supply of goods, enabled by GST, is slated to expand the sector and, therefore, create jobs. Employment outlook for the sector is up by 1 point from 91 in October 2016-March 2017 period to 92 in April 2017-September 2017 period.

8. Information Technology 
In perhaps a very long period of time, the sector is witnessing a lull in hiring, due to the combined effects of the US government's restrictive policies and automation. With more and more IT services companies emulating Infosys in upskilling their workforce, and with the tech startup scene being dull, talent demand is expected to plateau in the short term. 

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Re rating of Indian Staffing industry


Shares of Quess Corp Ltd jumped more than 58% on debut on Tuesday, after the integrated business services provider’s Rs.400 crore initial public offering (IPO) saw a subscription of a whopping 144.50 times last week.

Shares of Quess Corp Ltd jumped more than 58% on debut on Tuesday, after the integrated business services provider’s Rs.400 crore initial public offering (IPO) saw a subscription of a whopping 144.50 times last week.  The stock opened at Rs.499 and touched a high and a low of Rs.508.6 and Rs.480.05, respectively. The scrip closed at Rs.503 on BSE, up 58.68% from its offer price of Rs.317, fixed at the upper end of its Rs.310-317 price band.

“This (the listing) is more or less in line with our expectations,” said Gaurav Dua, head of research at Sharekhan Ltd.

“There was lot of demand for this IPO, and it was heavily oversubscribed. It was also priced at 35-40% discount to its comparable listed company—Teamlease Services Ltd,” Dua added.

Quess Corp’s IPO had witnessed the fifth highest overall subscription, in percentage terms, for any IPO since 2000.  The IPO proceeds will be utilized towards repayment of debt, capital expenditure as well as working capital requirements, and funding acquisitions and other strategic initiatives.

“Quess, in our view, is well-positioned to maintain high revenue/Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)/EPS (earnings per share) growth, driven by expected industry growth across all business segments and scope for margin improvement,” said Govind Agrawal, an analyst at brokerage firm Prabhudas Lilladher Pvt. Ltd, in a note on 29 June. Agrawal had said that while valuations may appear expensive at around 41 times FY16 EPS, that is well-supported by high revenue growth and scope for margin expansion, and recommended a “subscribe” to the IPO.

Quess Corp offers business services, including recruitment, temporary staffing, technology staffing, information technology products and solutions. The company reported a revenue of Rs.3,442.4 crore in fiscal year 2016 (12 months), compared with Rs.2,572.8 crore in fiscal year 2015 (15 months).  Net profit of Quess Corp. grew to Rs.88.5 crore in the fiscal year 2015-16, compared with Rs.67.2 crore for fiscal year 2014-15.

How it is going to change rules of the game for all the stake holders in the Indian Staffing Companies

  1. Increased competition resulting in lower margins for all players
  2. Attrition at all levels across staffing industry
  3. Higher wages & compensation for staffing professionals reducing margins
  4. More and more Mergers & Acquisitions on the horizon - smaller players will be taken over by stronger / bigger firms
  5. Cash is king - the more the merrier as the industry needs funds to expand and grow business.
If you are an existing Staffing companies and looking for expert guidance and advise, feel free to reach me - 9880080321 or you can mail me at raghav.coo@gmail.com

Re rating of Indian Staffing industry


Shares of Quess Corp Ltd jumped more than 58% on debut on Tuesday, after the integrated business services provider’s Rs.400 crore initial public offering (IPO) saw a subscription of a whopping 144.50 times last week.

Shares of Quess Corp Ltd jumped more than 58% on debut on Tuesday, after the integrated business services provider’s Rs.400 crore initial public offering (IPO) saw a subscription of a whopping 144.50 times last week.  The stock opened at Rs.499 and touched a high and a low of Rs.508.6 and Rs.480.05, respectively. The scrip closed at Rs.503 on BSE, up 58.68% from its offer price of Rs.317, fixed at the upper end of its Rs.310-317 price band.

“This (the listing) is more or less in line with our expectations,” said Gaurav Dua, head of research at Sharekhan Ltd.

“There was lot of demand for this IPO, and it was heavily oversubscribed. It was also priced at 35-40% discount to its comparable listed company—Teamlease Services Ltd,” Dua added.

Quess Corp’s IPO had witnessed the fifth highest overall subscription, in percentage terms, for any IPO since 2000.  The IPO proceeds will be utilized towards repayment of debt, capital expenditure as well as working capital requirements, and funding acquisitions and other strategic initiatives.

“Quess, in our view, is well-positioned to maintain high revenue/Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)/EPS (earnings per share) growth, driven by expected industry growth across all business segments and scope for margin improvement,” said Govind Agrawal, an analyst at brokerage firm Prabhudas Lilladher Pvt. Ltd, in a note on 29 June. Agrawal had said that while valuations may appear expensive at around 41 times FY16 EPS, that is well-supported by high revenue growth and scope for margin expansion, and recommended a “subscribe” to the IPO.

Quess Corp offers business services, including recruitment, temporary staffing, technology staffing, information technology products and solutions. The company reported a revenue of Rs.3,442.4 crore in fiscal year 2016 (12 months), compared with Rs.2,572.8 crore in fiscal year 2015 (15 months).  Net profit of Quess Corp. grew to Rs.88.5 crore in the fiscal year 2015-16, compared with Rs.67.2 crore for fiscal year 2014-15.

How it is going to change rules of the game for all the stake holders in the Indian Staffing Companies

  1. Increased competition resulting in lower margins for all players
  2. Attrition at all levels across staffing industry
  3. Higher wages & compensation for staffing professionals reducing margins
  4. More and more Mergers & Acquisitions on the horizon - smaller players will be taken over by stronger / bigger firms
  5. Cash is king - the more the merrier as the industry needs funds to expand and grow business.
If you are an existing Staffing companies and looking for expert guidance and advise, feel free to reach me - 9880080321 or you can mail me at raghav.coo@gmail.com

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