Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Hire Executive Search Firms to Get the Best Talent for your Company



An Executive Search company is like a third-party provider or a consultant usually hired by a corporation to study the availability of suitable candidates who might be working for its competitors or allied industries.
In India there are a large number of executive search firms working internationally and across many industry sectors.

Main Functions
After spotting possible recruits who match the client's requirements, an executive search firm usually plays the role of an intermediary to woo the candidate to a new employer. In the process the search firm also carries out the candidate screening, his demands, arrange negotiations on remuneration and finally leading to the employment contract with the new client.

Why Executive Search?
Talent is very scarce in the corporate world and when MNCs are looking for people to fill top positions demanding high experience and niche expertise, only an Executive Search company can get it done . Spotting candidates and putting the best offers is how Executive Search Consultants outshine others. In recruiting, there are many methods and style too.

Corporate clients
These days, many corporates retain several Executive search firms to locate the most suitable candidates to fill roles on a paid basis. This is mainly for senior-level jobs where a limited pool of qualified candidates exists.

Benefits for companies
Companies using executive search firms benefit for various reasons. A key factor is the firm's knowledge and access to a particular sector in an industry or its grip on the pool of candidates.
Search firms organize their domains on the basis of practice and function, with focus mainly on experts from finance or human resources. For companies hiring search agencies mean absolute discretion, and an external perspective and doing away with time constraints.

Wooing Candidates
Search firms have the expertise not only to find the best candidates for a position but also to convince candidates on new offers on the basis of good packages and get them on board even if they may not have been looking for a sudden career move.

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Quality Preparation for ISB Interview




Before preparing for ISB interview, you need to know about the interview panel, which comprises of 2 or 3 interviewers. The panelusuallyhas an alumnus or two and an admission committee person. Professors are not a part of the panel. The interview is completely focused to weigh one’s leadership qualities, team skills, analytical skills, clarity of thoughts, and most importantlythe communication skills. Theseare the necessary qualities an applicant should prepare for before going for the ISB interview.


Analytical Skills
The applicant should prepare for the “case based question”for enhancing the analytical skills. Some of them are very general, but quite interesting to analyze, like number of book shops in India, number of television sets sold in current year, ratio of different income groups, age groups, and gender groups in India. You may also be asked for the approximate population of India. Thus, it is very clear that there is no perfect or unique answer to these questions, but it is just asked to observe your analyzing power. You should prepare to give a logical answer, which could perfectly match to the interviewers understanding.