Now, online video-interviewing to facilitate recruiting

Mumbai: PGC Infotech, a division of Tirupur-based textile group Prem Group of Companies, has introduced video interviewing to the Indian recruitment scene with the launch of its career gateway whereismyboss.com. 

According to the company, with increasing attrition rates, bridging the skill gap and bringing about efficiencies in recruitment is the niche that its portal whereismyboss.com is looking to service.

The company says that traditional job search mechanisms which have their roots in newspaper classifieds, focus on collecting the highest volume of jobs and job-seekers in one place, thereafter leaving it to them to sort things out. The company says this structure has become increasingly flawed, with an employer getting a large base of responders, with over 90 per cent of them ill-suited to the position.

Whereismyboss.com aims to deliver immense time and cost efficiencies for both sides of recruitment process. According to D Prem, chairman, PGC Infotech, the portal is a unique career gateway that uses some of the simplest technologies to solve complex recruitment problems. ''Our online technology in conjunction with Burning Glass technologies artificial intelligence will provide intuitive relevance in matching people with jobs based on its unique understanding of people and their careers and ensure that distance and time can no longer be an impediment in conducting one-on-one interview on a real time basis.''
 
As per Matt Sigelman, CEO, Burning Glass Technologies (BG), ''We are very excited to see our intelligent matching technology at the core of this new endeavour. At whereismyboss.com, BG technology is being used initially to speed candidates through the registration by pre-filling the registration form with the data it extracts from the resume.''

Headquartered in Boston, Burning Glass Technologies (BG) is the leader in developing intuitive, contextual solutions for human capital management that allow employers to understand people through its insightful predictions.

These systems provide employers with the basis for more accurate and more proactive decisions for recruiting, developing, optimizing, and retaining the 'right' talent.  BG technologies deliver intuitive insight across a range of functions, from recruitment processing to talent management to career counselling.