Before we discuss a new environment friendly oriented job placement methodology, let us first determine the various challenges involved in present manual campus placement activities. The reactions at different stages of the event pose a greater deal of challenges to each of the parties involved in the process [5]. They are as below:-
(i) Challenges for Recruiters:-
Commuting from office to scheduled campus is one of the biggest challenges to recruiters in addition to coordinating with their support teams from campus. Other challenges could be recruiters may not get support from college like pre-occupied computer lab or stationery or even power cuts. Occurrences like these may not enable the …show more content…
Reporting to company higher up becomes a really challenging task when recruitment goal in deviated over or below in reality due to accountability.
• Poor candidate preparation or candidate not able to adopt themselves to company hiring procedures. This is a situation where it becomes academically groomed student to adjust to all of a sudden recruiting methodologies from Industry. Therefore, it becomes difficult for a recruiter to educate and motivate the candidates about the company and its offerings. For example, students are not used to work in night shifts and therefore when it comes to fresher hiring for Global requirements involving night shifts, students tend to backtrack causing huge stress on HR side for the loss of manpower.
• Encountering involvement of Student's parents in communication, as well as their opposition on few grounds in placement is also a great challenge for new age recruiters. Problems erupted when parents refuse to understand sudden stoppage of interview rounds if any due to valid business reasons or company changes the job location from a student's native place or …show more content…
Manual Placement process strike below challenges for institutions:-
• Risk involves recruiter pulling out of an agreed drive day citing business commitment making institutions answerable to students about the future uncertain course of action. Colleges are also compelled towards providing huge supplies for the conduct of the event which is a cost overhead on accounting books. Sometimes, visiting recruiters perhaps not co-operative or either student engages in indiscipline.
• The major constraint, however, is the available semester/academic time for the process. Generally, the semester time is limited, which is packed with program deliverables like internal assessments, assignments, internships, Cell/Club activities and Projects. Therefore, it is very challenging to hold multiple job drives when students are studying at campus amidst the academic semester. There will be also a possible instance of academic classes lost owing to conflicting campus activity