New Delhi October 08, 2007 Business Standard
Option created for clients interested in affirmative action.
Even as corporate India debates the wisdom or otherwise of “affirmative action”, Naukri.com, the country’s leading job site, is planning to offer its clients a search option through which they can hire candidates based on whether they belong to scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), other backward classes (OBCs) and women.
Naukri.com, which voluntarily started gathering data about caste from registered job seekers from May 2006, said 19 per cent of them were women, 3.4 per cent OBCs, 0.8 per cent SCs and 0.2 per cent STs.
There are over 130,000 OBCs, 38,000 SCs and STs, 760,000 women, and 8,000 physically challenged job seekers registered on the job portal.
“The purpose of gathering these data is to support clients’ efforts in affirmative action hiring, should a company want to boost its strength in any of these categories,” said Sanjeev Bikchandani, CEO of InfoEdge, which owns Naukri.com.
The job site initially started collecting such data in response to demands from public sector undertakings that wanted to hire backward caste candidates to fill their mandatory quota.
Bikchandani said the company had not yet opened these fields in its résumé database for search by clients but planned to do so once its data reached critical mass. Naukri.com has a client base of over 27,000 companies and a database of over 10 million résumés.
If the market response to such data is positive, Naukri.com will collect data on people from traditionally excluded ethnic and linguistic communities and parts of the country, and support affirmative action efforts in those areas.
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3 comments:
Hi,
I strongly disagree with what Naukri is engaged into. Just for money they cannot do anything. Professionals are to be treated as professional what Naukri tries to bring in is castism which has ruined our people and country for centuries. No corporate should accept this in the name of law. People should be respected for they are capabale of and not for where they belong to or come from.
Regards
Vijayakumar
No casteism please. Those who are capable will get a job through the job portals, irrespective of caste. The government has already provided provisions for them which has made majority of those people in government jobs. Hard working people are outside the govenment now. So all are equal here and who has the capability will get a job through the job portals.
Hi,
There shouldn't be any caste based descrimination in private sector. Already candidates from low castes are facing somany problems in many areas of our society, so no more descrimination in corporates. Though we are in 21st century we are not able to accept these downtraden people in the workplace at equal level. Everyday we are listening about such situation from any of the corner of so called "Punyabhoomi". So Please don't implement this durty castism in corporates. Who ever is eligible and tallented will get the oppertunity to work. Kind attention Mr. Chndrasekar, You are talking about governmaent rpovisions, if you can kindly observe the governament sector it will exactly replicate our societies caste system like people from high caste will be in top position and lower caste will be in the lower cadre. Any failure or success of any department or organisation is because of the policy makers and implementors only. Its not the responsibility of the support team of downtraden people. So please know the truth before making any statement.
Regards
Shashinder Babu.
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