The WhatsApp Group Chat addressed a common challenge that Talent Acquisitionists, Recruiters and of course HRs face currently when it comes to MNC hires. Sourcing ADDA being a community for   Talent Acquisitionists, Recruiters and HRs with a focus on the Indian Recruitment sphere we’re glad to host our popular Wednesday discussion sessions that address such challenges.

The most important aspect of such sessions is when members have questions that they would like to get answers too. And what better way is there to achieve this then an interactive session with the best Thought Leaders of the Recruitment Industry sharing their perspectives.  In view of this scenario our Pune group member Laxmi suggested to have a discussion on, “Why HRs & Recruiters from small Companies don’t get hired in MNC’s due to less experience in bulk hiring such as 200+ hires?” and here’s what we discovered…

Based on the interesting conversation above we can conclude that the discussion was insightful with a lot of takeaways. Since you’ve read this far then I’m sure you’d like to go that extra mile to find out what are the key takeaways of the discussion which can be highlighted on 2 aspects i.e. at an individual and employer level.

Individual Level

• Hiring Criteria
• The right attitude, with/out specialized skills but a willingness to learn
• Smart, knowledgeable, resourceful, strong references & Personal Branding
• It’s value vs volume and mind-set

Employer Level

• Remember 200+hires require a huge talent acquisition cost, strategic planning, and strong HR mobilization
• Set realistic and achievable targets
• Create JDs that highlight the requirements correctly
• Avoid selection bias towards a brand, scale experience, drawing conclusions based on exposure alone, stereotype errors and interview biasness.
• Have the right attitude and the knowledge at the time of hiring the candidate
• Difference between Recruiters from Small & Big Organisations and Consultancies and the Recruitment Process
• Provide Recruiters from small companies training on bulk-hiring instead of rejecting them
• Provide Recruiters with the right set of tools and resources to execute their plan

All of these aspects should be taken into consideration by the interviewers and the interviewees when it comes down to hiring and to ensure that you achieve your objectives successfully.  If you’d like to be part of these discussions then make sure you follow us @SourcingAdda.

The long awaited annual event of Sourcing ADDA i.e. #TASCON16 began with an excitement unlike before at #TASCON15 as it was conducted on a grand scale. What makes this event unique is the eye catching Tag line, “A Conference Designed by Recruiters for Recruiters.”  There were several activities conducted prior to and live at the event so let’s begin…

SourcingADDA Activities

The Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Conclave (TASCON) had an amazing start with the launch of the #SelfieContest and the trend followed for #TASCON16. As usual the event began with the attendees being informed about the various activities that were conducted such as the Best Twitterati & Selfie Contests, to “Jot down one thing you learnt today” and the two Wild Card entries for the Mega Sourcing Premier League.

Prior to the Main event

#SelfieContest

Prior to the event Sourcing ADDA launched the #SelfieContest where the winner would be judged on 2 parameters namely if they got maximum retweets and likes on Twitter for their Selfie. The idea behind this was to bring out the creativity within the participants in a fun learning environment.

#TASCON16 Trend

Here the attendees were asked to share the team’s or a personal trend they were following for #TASCON16.This helped us realise that we as hosts weren’t the only ones excited about #TASCON16 but even the attendees shared the same excitement. Thus the excitement began with Yusuf & Aishish clicking their #Selfie and mentioning their trend i.e. “Sultan & Bajirao selfie! #selfiecontest #TASCON16” Tweet.

Live at the event

While these activities marked the beginning of #TASCON16 we had two more activities to keep the excitement and enjoyment going. These activities were the Best #Twitterati Contest and to jot down one think you learnt today with the continuation of the #SelfieContest.

Best #twitterati Contest

We had yet another Contest i.e. the Best #Twitterati where the winner would be declared based on 3 main criteria namely, most creative, amount of and engaging Tweets. The winner of the contest would win exciting prizes to create a fun learning environment.

Standee with the statement “One thing you learnt today!!!”

We had arranged a Standee with the statement “One thing you learnt today!!!” where all the attendees had to write one thing they learnt at #TASCON16. It was a revision to everything that was learnt and what they found most effective in their line of work.

Some of the interesting things that the participants learnt and appreciated were…

• Using Analytics & Big Data
• Great experience and knowledge sharing
• Managing Campaigns, Digital Marketing for Effective Sourcing
• It’s Masters & Insightful sessions
• Interesting Session on Social Media Digital Sourcing in India

The winners of the activities would be announced at the end of the event, when tweeting the participants were requested to use the hashtag “#TASCON 16 and for the contests #SelfieContest & #Twitterati”.

Mega Sourcing Premier League Challenge

The two wild card entries were selected from our previous Sourcing Contest winners. Here too we had a Lucky Draw with the winner’s name chits placed in a bowl. The Two Lucky Draw Wild Card entries were thus selected. They competed with each other in the Mega Sourcing Premier League Challenge that was held live at the event but more of this later.

If you thought the fun ends here well you couldn’t be more wrong. Some of the Speakers and Sponsors too joined in with their creative activities to make every ones experience more enjoyable and fun.

Sponsor

SourcePRO

SourcePRO had organised fun activities and informed the audience of these activities such as a lucky draw, distributed discount coupons and a challenge of their own.

Lucky Draw

Here two drop boxes were arranged at the registration desk. The registrants were asked to drop their visiting cards into the boxes to get listed for the Lucky Draw. The Lucky Draw winner would be treated with a free SourcePRO (@TheSourcePro) Talent Sourcing Training & Certification Program.

Discount Coupons

If registered today (14^th– Apr – 2016) they would receive a 10% discount on the SourcePRO Talent Sourcing Training & Certification Program

The Sourcing Star Challenge

They also had a test of 5 questions for Talent Acquisition Professionals to challenge themselves and if they were able to get all the answers right they received a white badge with a half golden star within which the words written were, “I’m a Sourcing Star – SourcePRO.”

Ripple hire

To keep the attendees busy and to interact with them during the networking breaks even Ripple hire conducted an interesting activity. They had a gaming station with a bowling game which was a success as it kept the audience entertained and engaged.

Little Internet

In order to keep the excitement going on even Little Internet had a treat of its own. They had an exciting card game to keep the audience engaged and even distributed gift vouchers with interesting discounts that were great!

Keynote Speaker Session

The opening session was conducted by the keynote Speaker Aadil Bandukwala (@aadil) who spoke about Big Data & Social Media where he had an activity for the audience.  Here he showed 3 slides with company logos where the audience had to guess what was unique about all the 3 slides. When no one could answer he mentioned that not even one company was repeated.

Strategy Hub Session

A Session to watch out for!!

Being the last session the Speaker Srikrishnan Ananthanarayanan (@im_srikrish)wanted people to be active and feel refreshed before the session started therefore he conducted a few activities as well.

Call someone you’ve always wanted to call but were unable to

Call someone who you’ve not called for a long time and you’ve always wanted to but were interrupted. It helped a great deal as we were able to stay in touch with the ones we’re all too busy to interact with.

Surprise Activity Lucky Draw

In an attempt to boost learning there was an exercise conducted which was a Lucky Draw. Here the attendees were asked to check their chairs as an envelope was taped underneath them. Once checked they were asked to send it to the Assistants.

Then the Speaker opened the envelope, which had a card inside it; that had 3 statements,

1. Do not pass it on to a person who has a name starting with S or A or T
2. Do not pass it on to a person who wears a blazer or has a shade of blue
3. If you have a person that sits next to you and has a Samsung mobile or an iPhone, shout “Alien Spotted”

The attendees were supposed to follow these instructions but as per the instructor they submitted the envelope to him instead. This indicated what we as Recruiters do. We rush to submit candidates without understanding that there are other aspects that need consideration. Hence it is important for us to understand that there is a framework for everything to happen. Put simply what we did was a postman’s job and we need to think creatively as times have changed.

#TASCON16 was a huge success leading to requests from attendees for #TASCON17 to be held and last but not the least the winner for the #SelfieContest was Mitchell Dudani (@mitchdudani), Best #Twitterati Contest was Anshuman Mukherjee (@anshumanhr) and the Two Lucky Draw Wild Card entries were Tatyasaheb Kolage (@Tatya_Kolage) & Rakesh Suvare.  While the SourcePRO Lucky draw winner was Parth Gupta from Passions. Now wouldn’t you agree that #TASCON16 was a huge success? Stay tuned to know more follow us @Sourcingadda about the event that we all thoroughly enjoyed.

The weekly Whats App Group Chat Wednesday Discussions just got so much more interesting with a topic that wasn’t spoken about until now. It was surprising how we’ve not really thought about it or had a discussion on before now while we were aware of a possible development in the Talent Acquisition Industry that we’re all passionate about.

Luckily our weekly Wednesday Whats App group chats caught it thanks to our members. Which brings me to the more important task at hand; to keep you updated with the current trends that we can expect in the future. Hence @SourcingAdda we had a discussion on, “How to adjust your recruitment strategy to remote workers / employees?” as suggested by Arpita from the Bangalore Group and here’s what we found out…

Well this brings our interesting conversation to an end with a lot of things to think about and key take a ways that are sure to assist you in some way or another. Based on the conversation above we can conclude that there is a slight possibility that “Remote Hiring” could be where the Talent Acquisition Industry might be heading. Now this is something that’s worth a thought, don’t you think?

In the meantime you too get be a part of the action by joining us in these discussions so be sure to follow us @SourcingAdda for real time updates to our upcoming  events.

We’ve been into the Talent Acquisition Industry for quite some time and we’re familiar with the tools & techniques that are commonly used by most of us. But would you like to know about the other Tools & Techniques that are available?

If you’re answer is yes, then you’d like to know about the #SourcingChat on, “Best Tools and Techniques used in Recruitment Process” if you’ve missed it. But don’t fret you can still catch up with the Top Tweets of the #SourcingChat and here they are…

• Sourcing Adda@SourcingAdda

Q1. The importance of tools in sourcing & recruiting? #SourcingChat

• Vikas Dua @vykasdua

A1. Use of #tech tools in #Sourcing & #recruiting is to reduce timelines, bring efficiency, improve #experience #SourcingChat

• Soniya Sharma@soniyasharmahr

A1 A Modern tool to minimize the time length between sourcing, recruitment & selection #sourcingchat

• Sourcing Adda@SourcingAdda

Q2. What are the various recruitment tools you use for sourcing passive candidates? #SourcingChat

• Kapil Sawakare@KapilSawakare

A2. #dribble #behance #github #stackoverflow #Googlesearch #Twitter #Linkedin #googleplus #facebook #SourcingChat

• Aditi Sharma@aditi_sha26

A2: GitHub, stack overflow, LinkedIn, recruitin, angellist, behance and dribbble for UX techgig #sourcingchat

• Sourcing Adda@SourcingAdda

Q3. What are the tools you use for your daily job like Job posting, mass mailing etc.? #SourcingChat

• Mukta Patil@MuktaPatil4

A3 job postings, LinkedIn messages, interacting with applicants, search, re search, headhunting, networking #SourcingChat

• Hemanth Nanduru@HemanthNanduru

A3: Posting in LinkedIn, Twitter, FaceBook via Buffer& posting in respective groups in social media #Sourcingchat

• Manish Pipalwa@pipalwa

A3 For Job Posting We use #WhatsApp Groups #LinkedIn @iimjobs #careersite & #jobportals – We do mix- Free & Paid sites #sourcingchat

• Sourcing Adda@SourcingAdda

Q4. Importance of Excel and Reporting in Sourcing or Recruiting. What tools you use? #SourcingChat

• Poulomi Bhaduri@PoulomiBhaduri1

A4. Helps to take more informed decision, reduces work repetition & duplication #SourcingChat

• Arvind Ramani@Arvind_R16

A4: Excel has been there for ages. Newer ones like InsightSquared are gaining popularity. #SourcingChat

• Sourcing Adda@SourcingAdda

Q5. How effectively these tools make your work easy? #SourcingChat

• Aditi Sharma@aditi_sha26

A5: best to arrange your work and track your candidates #sourcingchat

• Arvind Ramani@Arvind_R16

A5: Improves managing productivity at scale, Helps with operatinoal rigour and assists in almost stock market like reporting #SourcingChat

• Sourcing Adda@SourcingAdda

Q6. Name any one of your favorite recruitment/sourcing tool? Why? #SourcingChat

• Md Saifullah Rizvi@SaifuRizvi

A6. @LinkedIn . Being a professional and part of a fast growing/ changing world one can’t afford to not have presence on it. #SourcingChat

• Kunjal Kamdar@kunjal23

A6. Tools will come and go. Some will evolve. But magic of #Boolean will always charm and help us 🙂 #sourcingchat

Well these were the best ones we came across in the #SourcingChat that was conducted. I’m sure that if you’ve read this far then you’ve come across something you like and you want to know more. In that case you need to follow us @SourcingAdda to get real time updates to our upcoming events. So don’t be left out of all the action be a part of it by joining in to remain updated at all times.

We’ve talked about a lot of things but never once on whether HRs can influence business decision making.  If I was being completely honest not once has this topic struck me until now, all thanks to our members who make these discussions interesting thus ensuring that we remain updated with the current trends in the Talent Acquisition Industry that we’re all passionate about.

I’m sure that your too are just as excited to learn what we uncovered during our weekly Wednesday discussion on, “How HRs can influence business decision making and your experience in doing so?” as suggested by our Bangalore group member Manav. So here’s what we uncovered…

Now this was an interesting discussion wouldn’t you agree? Well I certainly do as we have a better understanding of the kind of Talent the organisation needs in order for it to grow and be successful. This is because having the right staff at the base i.e. the hires are vital for the organisational growth as they can influence the Brand either positively or negatively. And we all are on the same page when I say, “we all want to build a positive employer brand” for several reasons that I’m sure you already know.”

So if you’ve found this conversation enlightening then you ought not to miss it so follow us @SourcingAdda and be a part of these discussions as we can assure you that you’ll most definitely add to your learning. More importantly you’ll be up to date with the current trends that are followed in the Talent Acquisition Industry that we’re all passionate about.