India’s New Temping Trends

What is touted as the fastest growing temporary man power trend is catching on at a slow, yet meaningful pace in India. It is estimated that close to 3 to 3.5% of the Indian workforce will be hired as “temps” or temporary workers.

Temping as a solution is an accepted norm with MNCs and Indian enterprises too are beginning to see the benefits of leasing employees from reliable staffing agencies. Most organizations see sense in out-sourcing non-core functions to employee leasing/staffing companies, or temping agencies, which can offer a sense of belonging to their staff.

Temping Trends

TalentPro is a prominent player in providing end-to-end HR services and helps organizations augment their workforce with well-trained, quality people, who have a sense of loyalty to their agency. The retail sector has several of its requirements addressed, by providing seasonal workforce and flexi task forces. TalentPro is also a preferred vendor for many enterprises to meet their man power requirement for short-term assignments and to augment their needs during “leave vacancies” or sudden terminations. Some of these are specialized requirements, and TalentPro’s executives have been able to offer great flexibility to their clients who keep changing their requirements, as challenges arise depending on the market changes, consumer demands and shorter product development life cycles.

TalentPro offers temping solutions right across the spectrum of accounts, front-office, sales, marketing and back-end operations of finance, HR and technical support, over a wide range of sectors viz., banking, telecom, IT, retail and FMCGs. TalentPro has been able to offer a wider bandwidth through its people, as client service is delivered through superior technology and refined processes. Temps have a sense of belonging as they are trained, motivated and their personal issues if any, are addressed, keeping the temp happy – This goes a long way in curbing attrition and in the long run, TalentPro’s clients stand to benefit. In that sense, TalentPro is one of those rare HR players who offer complete end-to-end HR activity management solutions.

As the country is experiencing an exponential growth in the need for quality temping staff, it is the availability of resources that will enable a temping agency to offer meaningful solutions to enterprises. TalentPro has been very successful in delivering improved productivity, has the capability to bench, ensuring that the right candidate is placed at the right time, in the right enterprise.

The Future

While temping agencies in India have a large role to play in moving candidates from the unorganized to the organized sector, with better quality candidates, enterprises will soon get ready to outsource even core functions, making temping the most viable staffing option of the future. Candidates too will get to benefit from the many Temp to Perm options that will become available.

For a no-obligation discussion and assessment of your temping requirements:

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‘Customise HR for young India or lose talent'

With an increasingly young work force driving corporate India, especially people-centric service industries which account for half of the country's GDP, HR practices will have to be re-engineered to meet the aspirations of individual employees, noted speakers at ‘Metamorphosis', an HR Summit hosted at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

Speaking on people challenges in start ups and scaling enterprises, Mr Pankaj Bhargav, CEO, HRMantra Software, underlined the need to keep every employee aligned to the vision. “The younger lot is not ready to accept existing HR systems to evaluate and reward performance. The days of grades and salaries are gone. Whether it is salary expectations or perks, they have their own set of expectations. We need to personalise the HR policy to address individual aspirations,” he said.

Mr Wahid Ansari, President - Operations at security services company TOPSGRUP, said, “The communication aspect internally has to be looked at not just by HR, but by every manager in the system. Organisations need to communicate to the last person in the line, and appeal to individual talents in each employee. Established organisations tend to be rigid with silos and systems. That doesn't work with the younger work force which demands instant gratification.”

Lending perspective to the discussion was Prof. Satyajit Majumdar, Ph.D., from TISS. He noted, “Smaller organisations and start ups are better at adapting. When you have no rigid rules, you can create your own rules.” He added, “This is probably the time to think of competency building at the organisational level. Such competency is lesser mobile than people. The ill effects of people movement can be countered by systems.”

On the need to recognise individual talent, Ms Kalpana Bansal, President, TalentPro, explained the need to explore what is equitable, not ‘total equality'. Mr Ansari said: “Putting a value on the individual employee has become important. It's very difficult to do using existing performance metrics.”

Be there at Metamorphosis on the 19th. Talentpro along with Tata Inst.Of Social Sciences and Bean Stalk, welcomes you

Metamorphosis – The HR Summit

With a growth rate of around 8% GDP year after year, India is pacing ahead to be a super power on its own. This growth has been fuelled by the emerging service sectors which has changed the Global Outlook towards India. As the Indian economy looks to grow further in the coming decades, new jobs and roles are getting created with increasing complexities and requiring specific skill sets.

The existing educational system is orthodo...x in its approach and is unable to churn out suitable candidates to cater to this demand from industry. Millions of educated candidates enter the job market each year; however the challenge before the industry does not lie in the supply of talent but rather that of employability. Education and employability are not in step with each other.

The three parties which need to play a critical role in addressing this skill-gap challenge are Universities, Training providers and HR Solution providers. Beanstalk, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and TalentPro have joined hands towards this goal.

Beanstalk is a leading solution provider in the training and content space with a vision to make today’s youth employable and productive by imparting in them the requisite skill set and in the process making the education system more business ready. Tata Institute of Social Sciences is a deemed university of great repute which strives to respond to the changing social and economic realities through the development and application of knowledge.

TalentPro is a end-to-end HR Service provider and a pioneer in Payroll, Staffing (temping), Compliances, Search & Selections (Recruitments), Training, and Consultancy services.

TalentPro in collaboration with Beanstalk and Tata Institute of Social Sciences have organized METAMORPHOSIS.

As Metamorphosis implies transformation, this enlightening summit is designed to be an initiative of a chrysalis in bridging the gap between academics and industry, taking up the responsibility in accentuating the skills of an individual, creating right job opportunities as per the skill sets and helping an individual to suffice and grow in the industry by either entering the market or opting for a career change.

Invitation for Metamorphosis - The HR Summit

Dear All,

It is our pleasure to extend to you this warm invitation to Metamorphosis, a HR summit in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Beanstalk on 19th February 2011 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

As Metamorphosis implies transformation, this enlightening summit is designed to be an initiative of a chrysalis in bridging the gap between academics and industry in terms of Education system and the Industry taking up the responsibility in accentuating the skills of an individual before entering the fast paced Corporate Sector.

This would be a great time for you to have a change in your daily work routines as we are confident that this Summit will bring us together to share our knowledge and interact with our the experts of the industry on the current trends in the market.

We look forward to learning and benefiting from your presence and experience in our shared quest for excellence.

Therefore, we are delighted to personally invite you to join this Summit.