The Hindu Business Line : India turns into hiring hub for Asia Pacific

In the last eight months, Dr Nandkishore Rathi, Director, Campus Relations, APAC, Oracle, has been working on campus initiatives of Oracle Corporation across Asia Pacific involving seven countries other than India.

Dr Rathi, a former IIT Bombay Placement in-charge, handles the entire graduate hiring from Bangalore for India, China, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, and South Korea.

Since last year, Oracle’s complete recruitment needs for the Asia Pacific region have been managed from its Bangalore office.

“That’s because the India recruitment team of Oracle has developed capabilities and expertise in attracting and delivering high-quality IT professionals in the required numbers, which has been significant for its India operations over a period of time,” explains Dr Rathi, who’s on his way to a 45-day stint in Australia and the Philippines.

Explaining the new trend, Mr Rishi Das, Director, CareerNet, that runs Campus-Connect, a campus-corporate relationship building programme in India, says that a significant part of global recruitment is now happening in India.

“Other MNCs too will soon make India the centre for APAC recruitment,” he adds. “That’s because we have a good amount of core competency in recruitment, which is being recognised now.”

Though the fresher recruitment numbers in other countries are not as significant as in India currently, it’s quite interesting and challenging to build Brand Oracle among different universities in these countries owing to the varied academic environments, economic and labour market conditions, according to Dr Rathi.

“The entire process of identifying top tier colleges, participating in the career fairs, making presentations on campuses and finally, conducting the selection process, takes at least 8-10 weeks.”

Mr Das points to an interesting fallout of the whole phenomenon: increased business activity in the country around the recruitment process.

For instance, companies offering recruitment solutions, psychometric tests, campus relations, etc., will now want to set up base in the country, he explains.

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