Usually when you join a new place of work, it’s a pile of paperwork that greets you. There are heaps of forms to be filled as you go through your orientation. But at human capital solutions firm ADP India, the fully-owned subsidiary of ADP Inc, the joining kit is a box of surprises. New hires are welcomed with an eco-friendly carton that is delivered to their homes.
The box can be opened only with a special pin code, sent like a PIN for a debit card. It contains a game of Tangram, a crossword puzzle on ADP which the new recruit has to solve, a video on the company and an ADP-branded T-shirt. The idea is that the newcomer’s family also should get to know about ADP’s culture. Those solving the crossword correctly are rewarded with gifts. The #Hellowork kit certainly sets the tone for a warm welcome to the workplace. ADP India, which operates out of Hyderabad and Pune, has 8,600 associates in the country.
Stick to CBD to retain talent
Tech firms need to move towards the Central Business District or fringes of CBD to find and retain talent in R&D and Sales and Marketing, says real estate services firm Colliers International. Business parks on city edges are an option for smaller firms or startups, it says in its
Based on interviews that Colliers has done with tech firms, the report says acquisition of talent is the greatest challenge for most companies and Beijing is a great source of talent together with Shanghai and Bangalore. Chindia (China and India) offers the highest growth potential in the next ten years, it notes, and advises tech firms to locate themselves in Shanghai or Beijing in China and Hyderabad in India, which is emerging as a strong alternative to Bangalore.
Guess who was hiring?
Snapdeal may have had a tumultuous year but data from jobs site Indeed reveals that amongst the Indian unicorns – start-up companies valued at over $1 billion – the e-commerce site led the pack in terms of job postings, outstripping rival Flipkart.
Just four companies – PayTM, ShopClues, Flipkart and Snapdeal – made up around 90 per cent of all job postings by all the Indian unicorns on jobs sites. While Snapdeal hogged the job postings with over 53 per cent of the total, PayTM came next at 23 per cent with ShopClues and Flipkart a distant fourth at just 4 per cent.
All job queries posted within the time-frame of October 31, 2016 to October 31, 2017 were considered for this study, which analysed job postings from the ten unicorns in India – Flipkart, Hike Messenger, InMobi, Mu Sigma, Ola Cabs, PayTM, ShopClues, Snapdeal, RenewPower and Zomato.
While the top four firms in terms of hiring together make up 90.57 per cent of all jobs posted, the region that has witnessed the maximum number of job postings from these companies is Delhi NCR, with an overwhelming majority of 83 per cent.