Recruitment Scams/Nexus in Private Firms

Hiring scam in Private Firms

Most of us have heard and somewhere faced some level of recruitment corruption in government sector jobs.  We all are aware of Haryana Teachers Recruitment scam and Vyapam recruitment scandal.  That is why many of us had to move to private sector for Jobs where it is thought that organizations would give weightage to Skills and Competency of Candidates and would do right kind of hiring.  Ultimately, these resources are going to contribute to organization’s success.  While this is true but not anymore.

The corruption has traveled to private sector as well.  Genuine and competent candidate is now facing challenges again.  First need to understand how this has happened and how it works.  Job scarcity is in market and hitting everyone.  People see opportunities in metro cities only which have been hubs for private sector jobs.  These companies pay good salaries as well.  Companies started recruiting candidates from 2nd tier and 3rd tier cities to avoid high pay scales.  Sometimes, candidate do not find themselves competent enough to clear interviews.  Similar equation worked in private sectors as well which led to corruption in govt sector.  More candidates and less jobs.  Who else would be more aware and able to take advantage of this situation other than recruitment departments.  So slowly, slowly they developed a nexus.  For this, various levels of people got involved and formed a well knitted team.  People from recruitment department, operation managers, few employees, and job providing agencies came together.  Job providing consulting agencies play a very important role.  Candidates are referred by consulting firms.  Recruitment team would make sure that candidates referred by few job agencies and employees are selected.  Candidate would need to shed away approx. 8% to 12% of his package to consultant firm which would distribute this amount to everyone involved in this process.

Currently, this kind of scam is prevalent in most of high profile BPOs.  I would not say that higher management has closed eyes on this.  This scam is running so smoothly that at times leadership does not have enough evidence against this scam.  Wherever they have found evidences, they have taken action, but still that has not been enough.  Right and competent candidates are still looking for right opportunity.  They are facing challenges from reservation, corruption in govt sector and now in private sector.  I would request through this article to all leadership of private sectors to be more vigilant of recruitment process.  Ultimately, only skillful resource would be able to help organization achieve their goals.