Start your own recruitment firm

Dear All,

 Zyoin invites all recruitment entrepreneurs to become a part of India’s largest growing Online Recruitment Community. We all know that current slowdown is one of the worse slowdown we’ve witnessed in our lifetime and starting a business can never be more challenging. However–these are the times which actually separate men from boys and provides opportunity to entrepreneurs to start their venture at much lower costs and ride the business boom when it comes.

Zyoin presents a unique opportunity where a recruitment entrepreneur can start and manage a recruitment business from the convenience of his home and get all the required tools (technology/recruiters/Portal Access) to make it big in recruitment business. Please find the details about our franchise program using the link below:

http://www.slideshare.net/anuj28/zyoin-franchise-program

Interested entrepeneurs are most welcome to contact us at anuj@zyoin.com or +91-9686622652.

Regards

Anuj

Tips for sourcing profiles using Internet without Naukri or Monster

Everyone knows how to source profiles from Naukri or Monster. But do you know more than 50% of positions are filled without the use of these sources.  I guess everybody understands that anyone can source profiles from job portals, actual capability of recruiter is known only if he/she is able to source profiles from other mediums.

To help our referrers, we have put some of easy internet tips for sourcing profiles.  These means are only useful when the targeted candidate is an internet savvy person.  Also it is an understood fact that these tips are not fastest means of sourcing profiles, but if used effectively they are the best and the cheapest means to get profiles.

1.       Linkedin:  Linkedin.com is the most premium source for finding people and by far the most professional social networking website you can easily find people with background of IT, Sales, Marketing and Finance here.

 

There are few important points you need to take care. Keep your LinkedIn profile fully updated. Connect with as many people as possible. Become an open networker on LinkedIn by sharing your contact details on the profile. Start doing job postings in relevant groups, don’t post two many jobs as people might consider you as a spammer

 

You can also search through profiles on LinkedIn which makes it’s extremely handy when you are targeting a very niche crowd, the only problem is you might not necessarily find contact details of the person.  To be able to search more people you need to have more connections, But you can send message to them if you belong to the same group in LinkedIn, also try to search in other social networks like orkut, from which you can connect to this person, last but not the least way could be calling them up on there corporate board line .

 

2.       Orkut & Facebook:  Orkut & Facebook are informal social networks, you find all sorts of people there. The best way to target people here is dropping scraps or messages to them. You can target the right candidate by searching either on skill sets or educational background, another way of identifying is looking people from relevant technology or educational communities. Try adding as many people as possible also make sure that they know you are recruiter who is hunting for people. This will increase your chances for connecting with them if they are looking for a change.

 

3.       Free Job posting websites which are targeted towards niche skill sets attract lot of good candidates make sure you post your jobs there.

 

4.       Blogging is another means of sourcing good profiles as most websites are search engine optimized, your blogs are read by all sorts of people searching for jobs or related information, make sure you share the jobs which are hot with you and also share some career or recruitment related advice so that you can build instant rapport with people reading your blog, you can also get advise related information from various other internet sources. This is very successful means of sourcing good profiles.

 

5.       Posting jobs on Yahoo and Google groups has been another very successful means of getting profiles, only thing you need to make sure you are member of the right groups which are related to jobs or technology or education.  Also keep posting jobs in new groups to reach to more and more people. Don’t mind posting jobs on groups even if they are small in size.

 

6.       Google: Google is a known means for searching anything on net, but what most people don’t realize is it is very good means to search for profiles, many people maintain there professional profiles on there personal websites. They can be easily searched using Google, you can use keywords like ‘Resume’ India and skill sets depending on what you are looking for,  also you can set Google Alerts for certain niche skill set. This gives you an email as soon as any body updates appropriate information on the web. This is a very powerful means to search for profiles on web. And can be utilized to your benefit. 

 

You can also search for various databases stored on the web by searching for email id with using a combination of filetype: xls, this will search through all excel sheets with relevant information.  Say you want to search for people from a company named XYZ, most probably there company mail id would ending with xyz.com.  So you can identify database with his mail id by putting search keyword as @xyz.com filetype: xls

 

I am hopeful that these tips would be found useful by our referrers. If you have any more tips feel free to add them on our comments section in the blog.

 

For any queries feel free to connect with us on +91-92420 61169.

 

Regards,

Anuj

Team Zyoin

eBay Model Portal for Small Time Recruiters

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/03/02/stories/2009030250990200.htm

5 ways to motivate Employees at Work

Zyoin CEO wrote for DH Avenue, Deccan Herald.

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb182009/avenues20090217119093.asp

Zyoin Launches Total Recruitment Outsourcing

Zyoin has recently stared providing Total Recruitment Outsourcing services to some of its select Client tele.  Its a great value add to customers and the same time it gives us an opportunity to increase our turn around time to update our candidate and referer community about the updates. Please have a look at the attached Presentation offerings and contact me for more information.

Checkout: TRO.ppt

5 steps for entrepreneurial success

Krishna Kumar, Zyoin CEO wrote on Rediff.com

 

5 steps for entrepreneurial Success (http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/jul/17ent.htm)

 

 

 

 

Entrepreneurship has come of age. There is a lot of interest among career professionals to start their own enterprise sooner or later, but a majority of them stay back mainly because of the upfront investment involved and the risk of the venture not meeting its intended goal.

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Of course there is risk involved, but not working towards the goal of starting your own enterprise some day is a bigger dissatisfaction for many. Here are some simple steps that most professionals can take, which would work out to be a stepping stone for your future start-ups.

Identify your areas of interest
Entrepreneurship is not only about building a large enterprise and making millions of dollars. It’s a great deal about doing some thing that really interests you and as a result the whole journey of making an enterprise becomes an enjoyable experience.

Imagine a gaming freak developing an unique gaming portal, not only do the chances of the portal being successful increase manifold, the team actually enjoys the whole process of developing the product.

Identifying one’s broad areas of interest is the first concrete step towards entrepreneurship.

Identify your dream role
A great team makes a great company. A great team means the founding team with complimentary skill sets. Even though entrepreneurs should have good exposure to all the different functions of running an enterprise, identifying a particular business function that gives one the maximum satisfaction is quiet important.

So, if you are naturally bent towards technology, you can look at being the chief technology guy of your future start-up. While you keep honing your technical skills, it’s important that you have a wider perspective of your broad area of interest.

Look at existing start-ups
There are start-ups being formed on a daily basis and there is a good chance that you can identify a list of start-ups in your broad area of interest and shortlist the ones that really excite you. You can also negotiate the role of your choice to a large extent. Start-ups do provide such kind of flexibility.

So by joining one such start-up, you not only get a chance to work in your chosen area of interest and get a role that prepares you for your dream role, you actually get to experience the start-up experience from close quarters and what’s more, you get paid for it as well!

There can’t be a better way to check whether building an organisation is in your DNA than working for a start-up! Last but not the least, you also have the possibility of meeting the other founding members of your future start-up!

Equity vs cash
Any start-up, either backed by a venture fund or self funded by an entrepreneur, always has cash flow pressure. There are a number of avenues to spend money and they need to do the prioritisation, where as equity is one thing that every founding team would like to share with deserving candidates.

So, if you are quite bullish on your area of interest and you also get your desired role in a start-up, go ahead and agree on a remuneration package that is equity heavy. This would not only give you great returns in the event of the start-up becoming successful, you also create a good impression in the eyes of the founders, resulting in greater responsibilities being assigned to you! Needless to say that greater responsibilities means being more prepared for your own future start-up.

Being on your own
If you happen to have gone through the above steps yourself, there is every chance that you do not need to go through articles like this one. You would have seen start-ups from close quarters and would be in touch with so many other entrepreneurs / aspiring entrepreneurs that either you would be working in some start-up or other at a much higher responsibility or attracting future entrepreneurs to work for you in your very own start-up.

 

 

More About Zyoin

On 20^th May, Gautam Ghosh, Management Consultant & Blogger has made some interesting observation about Zyoin and also given his tips for success (http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2008/05/some-interesting-websites.html#links)

 

First, I thank him for taking his time and going through Zyoin and also thought of clarifying some of his doubt in this post. This might be useful for my other prospective customers, who make similar observation at their first visit to the Portal.

 

Zyoin, in its current form is a better Job portal. There are lots of useful features that make it better and I will be covering those features below in this post. But eventually, we do not want to be just a better Job portal, but India’s Next generation career portal, that aspires to meet the end to end career needs of the professionals, by providing self learning, self assessment, career guidance etc at one single platform. We launched with the current set of features to be in the market, get in touch with our customers, both the employers as well as professional and incorporate the feedbacks in our future releases.

 

The concept of Job referral will work or not is a difficult question to answer. There are lot of portals that have come up of lately and I think some of them would be successful, depending upon how they approach the problem. According to me, the biggest issue in referrals is that as a professional I don’t know among all my network of friends & colleagues, who is looking for a job change and who has the requisite skill sets matching the job description that can land me a referral fee. Sending all job description to everyone one knows is definitely not going to work. We are working on some models to find some solutions and write about those, ones we see, it’s working.

 

When I say it’s a better Job portal, I was referring to features that make it better and one of the prominent one is end to end Application tracking. Whenever any employer posts an opening on Zyoin, they get to manage the complete recruitment cycle online. Infact some of the employer already have such system in place and we are in talks with them, on how our system can seamlessly integrate with their system. For others, who don’t have such a system, Zyoin can be the starting point for applicant tracking. For employees and referrers too, they are kept aware of the progress of their application or their referrer online. So, I have referred my friend and he can been short listed for the opening, once I login to my account, that information is presented to me in my dashboard.

 

We are also working on convincing customers to extend their employee referral programs to all professional by posting the openings on Zyoin. Here we are offering two models, as an employer, if you post your openings, the responses that come either you can manage (screening & scheduling) on your own or Zyoin can do that for you by charging a fee.

 

If you have noticed, Zyoin went live with as many jobs as the nearest competition. The very reason being is the strong offline business that we have. So it’s not a yet another portal done by techies, but a business promoted by successful entrepreneurs, who are keen to experiment with new concept and have the multiplier effect working for them by taking an offline business online. We have sales team across India working closely with customers and very soon, we will start announcing customers’ signup specifically for Zyoin.

 

One of conscious decision that we have made is not to make it a networking portal…even when we plan to go live with other features that would make it India’s next generation career portal, networking would not be a part of it. We would rather like to use the popular networking portals, rather than ask our users to create one again. For the current set of features also, we are process of launching a plug-in and I will talk about it once it’s out in market.

 

Zyoin – The next generation career portal

Welcome to Zyoin-the next generation career portal.

If you already had a chance to go through the portal, you must have realized that Zyoin is essentially a Job-referral portal or in a broader sense an online recruitment portal. But we deliberately kept our punch line of calling it a next generation career portal, which is in sync with the vision that we have for Zyoin.com

After successfully exiting from our previous organization, we have been thinking of identifying new startup opportunities and online career space came out clearly as an area of great interest. When we defined online career needs of a professional, it consisted of self learning, self assessment, career counseling, peer discussions, getting informed about new openings and taking up new positions. Where as for the hirer reaching to the right candidate and letting the suitable candidate know of the opportunities that they provide is of prime importance. This is the informed assumption that we made.

We also noticed that there is actually no visible player in this area. There are only two successful players with a large number of registered user bases and they are essentially online resume database, eg Naukri and MonsterIndia. We further research and found that there are many other new players and most of them have come out in being in the last one year or so. Some of them are career networking portal and some are job referral portals, but still none of them have covered the online learning and assessment on the same platform, which according to us is an essential career need. But the very fact that many new players have come up that further strengthened our thought that there is a definite gap here and there are many fellow entrepreneurs trying to close this gap.

Our next step was to decide the starting point. Do we do all at once and then go to the market or we just launch a subset of what we intend to do, excel in that and than keep on adding new modules. Let me admit, we took much more than needed to take this decision. Some time too much of analysis leads to paralysis…

We decided to go ahead with a subset of our plan. The idea was to be into the market, see the action in real time and possibly refine the informed assumption that we made about the online career needs of professional. We decided to go live with Online Job referral portal and thus www.zyoin.com went live on May 14^th 2008.

We plan to differentiate ourselves from existing players by posting good quality jobs, providing personalized attention, being professional in our interaction and sending only the relevant resume to our customers.

We also acknowledge the fact that there are other players in the market and we need to constantly innovate to stay ahead of competition. So please go ahead and experience the Zyoin differentiation.