The debate between offering outplacement services with the help of inhouse resources versus hiring a partner firm seems to be more or less settled. Increasingly, a larger number of corporations are choosing to work with HR consulting firms as a partner for the outplacement services that are offered to employees usually during times of business …
In an increasingly dynamic world, where decision horizons are getting shorter, providing an outplacement service to outgoing staff members has become a fairly established good practice among large corporations. It is considered to be the ‘right’ thing to do as well as a brand-protection and enhancement strategy. Though the core composition of services offered has …
An article published in the Times of India in May 2022 pointed out that subcontractor expenses had substantially increased for the four largest Indian IT firms, TCS, Infosys and HCL and Wipro. From around Rs. 30,000 crores in 2018, costs under this head ballooned to over Rs. 50,000 crores, a 70% increase in 4 years, …
The debate between hard and soft skills is age-old. Many people in possession of hard skills tend to look down upon the relevance of soft skills, only to discover the truth at a critical juncture in their career. What is a hard skill? A skill that can typically be quantified and measured is considered to …
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In a dynamic world and workplace, companies constantly grapple with the need for upskilling and reskilling of employees. As new families of jobs and requirements evolve and establish themselves, many employee skills either become commoditized or outdated. Though it is happening in the technology and digital world at a rapid pace, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) …
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It is often stated that nowadays every company is a technology company. The context, more often than not, is digital technology. In many ways, there is some truth in this statement. Even a company that, prima facie, appears to be traditional, or bricks and mortar, will place significant reliance on digital tools for their work, …
Outplacement often gets confused with outsourced staffing when, in fact, they are almost the opposite of each other. Of course, experienced staffing solutions providers such as Ushankk often provide both services as they are like the two sides of a coin for them. Outsourced staffing is the service you need when your company is seeking …
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In the last few years, we have gradually eased into an on-demand world. A flexible and scalable cloud reduces investment required in on-premise infrastructure and staff augmentation solutions reduce the need for hiring permanent staff. The use of on-demand engineers is fast gaining popularity, with a large number of global corporations employing them in one …
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Not only has remote work grown in leaps and bounds, it has also attained the respectability that many people attribute to the necessity created by the pandemic, that it had struggled for in earlier times. Of course, it has some benefits for both the employer and the employed, which is why it has grown and …
Business is uncertain. You run a business with what you think is an objective view of the future, but often the reality turns out to be different. Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that one of the key resources employed by businesses is people. People take time to hire and train. Each person is …
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One of the ways in which the workplace has been fundamentally altered by the pandemic is that remote work has become an accepted and important part of it. Earlier experiments, in hindsight, seemed to have been done half-heartedly, or with a pre-decided outcome that it would not work. The pandemic separated the grain from the …
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When it comes to meeting the resource requirements of their clients, who are usually business corporations in various industries, staffing companies regularly pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat. Whether they have to beat the bushes for it, or crawl into dark recesses of the world wide web, they find a way to ferret …
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“East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” remarked Rudyard Kipling once. The same was said about qualified candidates and job opportunities. They seemed to exist on different planes with no point of intersection. Recruiters with open positions would complain about the lack of talent in the world and qualified …
A McKinsey research report, published towards the end of 2021, on the nature and characteristics of the phenomenon called the Great Attrition by some and the Great Resignation by others, stated that more than 19 million US workers—and counting—had quit their jobs since April 2021. These findings were consistent across all five countries surveyed (Canada, …
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Many of us have grown up with a desire to secure a place in the world as well as to secure our old age. We worry less about the thirty-plus years of active working life and how to make the most of it and more about the less active life that ensues at some point …
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Getting hired by an established organization is becoming an uphill task. The hiring barriers have kept going up as employers have been making efforts to identify candidates with the right technical skills as well as alignment with the company’s values, for best results. Technical tests, psychometric evaluations, group discussions, several rounds of interviews, background checks, …
In the constant effort to optimize revenues and costs, ‘just in time’ has come to establish itself as a golden rule in business. In the real world of business, it means deferring an expense or investment to the last possible point in time. While in day-to-day operations, especially where common, material items are concerned, such …
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Hybrid. This single word that encompasses more than one. Traditionally used in biology in reference to a plant or animal bred from two separate, distinct species, it is finding increasing usage in business. A hybrid car has an electric motor as well as a regular car engine. If it runs out of electric charge or …
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A run-in with the law is something no company would want. While some actions that could lead to violating the law, such as theft and violence, are obvious, a business has to constantly deal with many non-so-obvious ones too. Running a compliant payroll is one of them. It is not as simple as doing some …
In a world with increasing uncertainties, the contract-to-hire model is fast gaining currency with leading employers. But first, what is the contract-to-hire model? It is a staff augmentation model which could result in the consultant/ contractor being hired by the employer, after a defined period of time working as a consultant. It is usually predicated …
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Does your company have a policy for work from home? The likely answer is a Yes. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed life in many ways. It has been brutal for many industries such as travel and hospitality, dependent on human interaction, while several others have remained relatively unimpacted. One enduring legacy of the pandemic for …
If you have still not heard of IT staff augmentation, the most plausible reason is that you have been living under a rock, as it has become a popular model amongst most seekers of IT talent. What is IT staff augmentation? IT staff augmentation could be defined as a form of outsourcing. In an outsourcing …
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In an increasingly IT dependent world, the role of an IT consultant has come to occupy a critical position. It delivers value both to the company that engages him/ her, as well as the IT consultant who has chosen that path over that of being an employee in the IT team of a company. Who …
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, many companies have comprehended the potential and need for digital technology adoption to survive. In a world where customers have choices, and competitors are agile, innovation through technology is a must-have, for survival and for growth. However, in a competitive market, nothing comes easy. Digital technologies are evolving …
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As a business owner aiming for the company’s growth and profitability, staff augmentation outsourcing could, at first glance, look like an inessential allocation of resources and time for managing a vendor relationship, apart from the people and teams actually doing the work. Look closely, and staff augmentation could turn out to be the key to …
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