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

Automated Scoring for every Resume

In line with our tradition of  launching innovative features every few weeks, Zyoin.com has released a new innovative resume ranking feature.

How it works? Well, its pretty simple. As a referrer, you can go ahead and submit your referral in the same manner,  that you have been doing so far in the past.  At the end of the process, the System throws up a message, which is like the message shown below.

One gets to see the overll resume score as well as the score on four of the individual scoring parameters. There is also a help screen  on this message, that gives some idea on how this score is calculated.  Should you require more details, do feel free to get in touch with us.

 

Job Description in Audio Format

At Zyoin.com, its our continuous endeavor to innovate and make the lives of freelancers working with us as simple as we can.  The new addition to the host of few features that we have added is Job Description (JDs) in audio format.

In such voice recordings, we not only provide a high level description of the Job, but also give tips to our referrers on from where all they can get the right candidates.

Do checkout few Jobs and give us your valuable feedback to make it better.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/fd0b12fd-32a5-4e14-ba1f-63772e5a9593/vendio1 – Vendio Tech Lead

http://www.esnips.com/doc/fd7ab780-1d27-4d95-b133-4babed266909/sonoa – Sonoa  – QA Engineer

http://www.esnips.com/doc/b5541003-810e-49c9-b6ab-0f09577ffca2/software-developer-OAT – Oat – Software Developer

http://www.esnips.com/doc/aab58b29-a330-46ba-8efe-ee9be196b0bc/platform-test-enggr Decho – Platform Test Engineer

http://www.esnips.com/doc/a9791eaf-c8f2-410d-90cc-df29ce728890/meru Meru – QA Manager

http://www.esnips.com/doc/87062bea-2dc3-4a10-acaa-bc0f58c2e224/goldman-sachs-java Goldman Sachs – Java Developer

http://www.esnips.com/doc/a0198f5f-8ed9-4792-9f2a-3f18385012f4/firetide-networks Firetide SSE/Tech Lead Platfom

http://www.esnips.com/doc/9c51507c-ef53-48aa-8324-34d1a347c309/decho-security-test-enggr Decho – Security Test Engineer

http://www.esnips.com/doc/ac81d653-ddaa-4365-9f24-5cecc40000d0/decho1 Decho – Software Developer C++

http://www.esnips.com/doc/9ca28c80-d0dd-47f0-bbf9-b2c44391a7d1/chakpak1 Chakpak  – Software Developer

http://www.esnips.com/doc/3bc5cc11-45bc-4f76-a603-0e642fbe5bf4/akamai-accounts-supprt1 Akamai – Account Support Manager

Happy referring!

Team Zyoin

eBay Model Portal for Small Time Recruiters

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

How do you charge?

Till Recently, charging anywhere from 8% to upto 20% of the first year CTC of the candidate, was the standard recruitment fee structure  in India. Most of the time discussions used to happen around the percentage a recruitment consulting would charge and there was hardly any discussion on any other model. But, now, anywhere, we go, one of the first question being asked is, Do you have any other model?

This is the changing reality of the recruitment space and Most of the recruitment consulting companies as well as Organizations have realized this.  The new models being suggested are a mix of fixed minimum sum and rest being paid as success fee with standard SLA terms.

This is certainly a win win proposition for both the parties. Recruitment consulting companies do not have to work on closing positions that some body else too is working to close and there is very high chance that in spite of putting good effort in closure, they may end up getting nothing.  Where as for Employer, there overall cost of recruitment goes down. They do not have to pay a fixed percentage for hiring, but pay less for giving predictable revenue to a consulting company and also enjoy the SLA benefits.

But what about Employer posting their requirement on Recruitment Marketplace like Zyoin and quoting their own price for getting the required resource? How is that going to impact the whole ecosystem? We would be discussing our observations in upcoming posts.

No Direct Job Application on Zyoin.com, Only Referral

We are happy to announce that to keep the interest of our referral community, we have removed the direct Job Application feature on zyoin.com. The only way any job application can be processed is through registered referral. With this, we have taken care of the key concern pointed out by referrers in our last Referral Conference.  So start Referring!!

There are many more interesting features coming up zyoin.com. Keep watching this space for update!

Happy Referring!

Team Zyoin

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

Career Counseling for Professionals

When one thinks of career counseling, the picture coming to mind is that of assisting students to select the right course. However, at Zyoin.com, we are working on a product definition for a counseling engine for working professionals. Now what’s that! OK. Most of the professionals, post joining a particular industry, start getting into the debate on whether they are in the right industry doing the right jobs or not.

Take for an instance the case of Software Industry, a professional with 3-4 years of experience goes through the dilemma of whether concentrating more on technology and choosing the Tech Lead (and Tech Architect subsequently) as a possible career option or look at other options like Project Lead ( and Project Manager subsequently). These days professionals also look at some totally different career options like getting into pre-sales or quality management.

How do they decide, which one to choose? They look at various options for the required consultation. Talking to friend/relatives they trust, discussing with their immediate managers or getting in touch with professionals in each of the shortlisted role in their current organization to see what it takes to be in either role and finally doing some internet research.

But how does some one help a person decide his career path? In our opinion, its based on a person’s strength & weakness in the selected domain, their interest and finally their attitude & aptitude. If a Sr. professional, gets approached for counseling, either he knows the candidates so well that he has fair idea about each of the criteria listed above or he gathers this information in the process of counseling and suggests one of the possible career option.

The bigger question is whether this process can be automated with Technology? We believe, yes it can be. And it’s based on two key assumptions, First, We can assess a candidate to know their strength & weakness, aptitude & attitude and interest and secondly the no of possible career options a professionals has in a particular industry is limited. Our Job becomes doing the right match, by suggesting the right role to the right candidate. Once the system is built, it needs to be continuously updated to make it mature over time.

What do you think ?

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.