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Changing Employment Scenario In India

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India was hit by the IT boom a couple of years back and a lot of young college graduates started taking up jobs with these companies because it was easy to get jobs in these companies compared to the government sector. However, it did not take long for these people to realize that the private firms are not much concerned about the welfare of their employees; the only thing that they are concerned about is profit.

It was during this time that the government bank jobs in India regained their popularity and a lot of people started leaving these private companies to apply for government jobs. During this time the government also realized that it needed to make a couple of changes in the whole employment system so more people could get employed with government departments.

The Ministry of human resource and development conducted a couple of camps throughout the country in different colleges and universities to find out ways to increase employment opportunities. It did not take him long to realize that almost all government vacancies in India were available in the metropolitan cities; there were very few vacancies in the rural areas. The Ministry submitted a report to the central government and the latter chalked out a plan to put things in order.

The Indian government took a most important step to increase employment opportunities throughout the country and it was the dissolution of a number of trade unions across diverse industry verticals.

Prior to the Indian government taking any positive action, different trade unions across the country had a lot of power in their hands. Some sectors such as public transport, licensing departments, and the road construction departments had a lot of employees who were not under the direct payrolls of the government. These contract employees used to work on daily wages under government appointed contractors and had absolutely no job security. And most of the cases it was the trade unions who decided whom to employ and whom to reject.

The government was basically concerned about getting the job done; not the process through which the job was getting done. This fishy system also promoted a lot of corruption in the government departments.
After getting reports from the HRD Ministry, the central government put a complete ban on a lot of trade unions across the country and all those people who used to work as contract employees soon got absorbed into the system.

Employee Background Screening

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Since 1993, Onicra has been pioneering the cause of rendering a creditable and secure financial profile and a commercially credible identity to the widely expanding consumer base. It offers valuable industry-oriented service, directed towards locating, assessing and polishing the best personnel and employee resources in India. Onicra offers credible statistical and analytical input, structures valuable research and development programs and act as industry-specific consultants to leading companies throughout India. Onicra also offers industry-specific rating solutions to premier companies, facilitating optimum management and industrial output. Today, Onicra has extended its services to pioneering concerns like Mahindra & Mahindra, Volkswagen, HDFC Bank and Genpact.

Onicra has incorporated industry-leading processes like the PRTS (Performance Rating and Tracking System) to ensure maximum efficiency for its clients. Corporate consultancy is an extremely resourceful and popular service among a pack of detailed commercial and corporate services provided by Onicra. One of the primary features of this service is the Employee Background Screening options, which enable employers to ascertain and evaluate the personal and corporate potential of a future employee. Pre employment checks have been carried by corporate agencies for many years, and have been yielding credible results in the west. It enables the employer concerns to verify an applicant”s potential, industrial aptitude and personal skills.

Onicra prepares an extensive and exhaustive database on the employment applicants, which demonstrate their job-worthiness and efficiency before they are employed. By ensuring that every significant employee meets the detailed and rigorous standards of Onicra”s pre employment screening, the client concerns select a workforce with optimal possible efficiency and tremendous potential for growth. For every employee, Onicra meticulously researches the respective records, associations and affiliations that might affect his/her efficiency, skills and productivity. This arrangement also facilitates effective decentralization of resources, as delegating the pre employment checks takes considerable workload of the human resources departments of companies and commercial institutions.

Onicra combines actual professional, personal and scholastic records and incorporates empirical results of extensive research to arrive at an accurate rating after pre employment screenings. In its detailed pre employment verification records, Onicra includes exhaustive data from the following checks. Onicra performs a comprehensive employment check, reviewing collated and screened data pertaining to earlier employment details like previous designations, entitled salaries and employment tenure. It also reviews the stated educational degrees with actual educational qualifications, verifying the applicant”s academic career in his/her respective universities/ educational institutions. A thorough validation is also obtained from the legal enforcement authorities testifying in favor of the applicant against possible criminal records. Onicra”s employment background screening service also includes comprehensive reference verification, analyzing the relationship of the applicant with the furnished references.

An almost glitch-proof system of employee background screening allows Onicra to amass inferential data about an employment applicant, which might be used to predict his/her efficiency levels fairly accurately. The screening procedure also includes extensive data from Criminal Database checks for possible matches, narcotics and substance abuse diagnostics, examinations of judicial and legal records and personal identity checks. These checks are absolutely essential to substantiate the employee”s identity as that of a responsible national citizen who possesses valid documentation like PAN cards, professional licenses (like Chartered Accountants), Driving licenses, passports and voter I.D cards. Checks are carried on for an employee”s personal and familial health records as discrepancies might adversely affect the employee”s individual performance.

Unlike in developed, industrial countries, background checks in India are a fairly new concept. Onicra appropriates the examination and screening procedure according to the Indian lifestyle, ensuring maximum local relevance. The validity of these checks is ensured by Infinity Screening procedures, which facilitate random, detailed checks during the employment tenure for consequential anomalies in earlier data. The extensive background screening process employed by Onicra has helped numerous companies make efficient, rewarding decisions regarding human resources development and management.

Employee Background Screening -2

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Founded in 1993, Onicra has been a leader in the field of corporate consultancy and human resource services. Onicra has been dedicated to providing a viable commercial identity and human-resource related expertise to companies, commercial corporations and commercial institutions. At Onicra, the human resource services and consultations utilize powerful and accurate statistical tools to facilitate accurate analytical and inferential data, thus correctly rating and assessing potential for commercial growth and performance. To this date, some of Indias biggest and most respected companies like Mahindra & Mahindra, Volkswagen, HDFC Bank and Genpact form an illustrious resume of Onicras clientele.

Among its numerous consequential industry-oriented services, Onicra offers the services of Employee background screening. These are in the nature of extensive pre employment checks initiated by Onicra for a particular employee to assess his/her potential for growth, commercial aptitude and efficiency. Onicra goes through extensive personalized individual data, records, achievement statements, certificates and appraisals for each candidate to generate a unique rating, which is extremely accurate by industry standards. Onicra has developed its own system of ratings, using powerful analytical and statistical tools like the PRTS (Performance Rating and Tracking System), enabling an almost spot-on assessment of the potential and the job-worthiness of an employee.

The pre employment screening process facilitated by Onicra assists companies and commercial corporations identify and cultivate the best, most talented and efficient personnel as their workforce. To do this, Onicra maintains an extensive database that tracks and keeps tally of even the minutest relevant details of an employee that could affect or influence his professional career. By setting high standards for quality for the pre employment verification process, Onicra eliminates the possibilities of having wrong people at the wrong jobs, or possibilities of employee incompetence, ineligibility and incompatibility. The vast benefits of the extremely essential employee background screening processes directly accrue to the HR departments, who become free to direct their resources to training and honing employees.

The employee background screening procedures instituted and implemented by Onicra helps to maintain a level of trust between the employer and the employee. These protect companies against fraudulent employees, identity theft and dangers possibly arising from misrepresentation of vital information. The employment screening service offered by Onicra involves extensive checks and verification procedures on employees personal, social and academic background, legal reports and records and also records for substance abuse (if any). References and appraisals are also gathered and collated from previous employers, acquaintances, family members and colleagues.

The Employee Background Screening services offered by Onicra incorporate extensive verification procedures as stated below. Education Checks (verification of academic and professional qualifications) are used to determine the academic validity of a C.V to determine the eligibility of a potential employee. Pre employment checks are carried out to screen employment details pertaining to previously held designations, employment tenure, emoluments etc. Often, this acts as a reflective index of the employees temperament, aptitude and capability. Onicra also checks the applicants criminal records (if any) with law enforcement authorities and existing criminal records databases. A meticulous verification procedure is also done about the candidate with the person enlisted as his/her reference.

Onicra also implements rigorous checks for possible representations and corruption of data in the applicants C.V, substance and drug abuse records (if any) and checks for criminal litigations. Onicra ascertains the applicants identity as well, through checks for PAN Cards, driving licenses, licenses, Passports and other vital documentation. The verification process is implemented to be a perpetual, continuous process, accommodating possibilities for changes of results over courses of time. Thus, Onicra revolutionized background checks in India by appropriating a series of checks that are best suited locally.

Pre-employment Screening Of Doctors

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Verification Of Professional Degrees

Among other things, doctors as a profession and Healthcare as an industry share a common need a good reputation. For doctors their good name is as important as their medical skills and abilities. For hospitals, an excellent reputation is as desirable as modern equipment and the best facilities.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.. Lord Jeffery

When the good name is brought into disrepute it is the hardest of tasks to remedy. That is precisely the predicament in which Delhi hospitals find themselves.

Over the last few months there has been a spate of reports in various media about unscrupulous people practicing medicine and masquerading as doctors. They have been carrying on their wicked work without the education, training or qualifications to do so. These quacks have even infiltrated the sanctums of private hospitals and are no more confined to the narrow lanes and backstreets of crowded slums and unauthorized colonies.

Reports reveal that the problem is rather large and widespread. Large enough to be alarming. The, now dissolved, Medical Council of India had estimated that the number of quacks operating in the Delhi region would be about 40,000! Now compare that number with 45,000 (DMC database), which is the number of genuine registered doctors.

The erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) have been working hard to get a grip on the problem and clean out the Augean stables. As a result of their efforts some 25 fake doctors were discovered working in respected private hospitals. These quacks have been suspended – with police cases filed against them – and are now enmeshed in the judicial process.

The lesson to be taken from these findings is that hospitals should wake up quickly to the vital necessity of verifying the educational and medical qualifications and antecedents of the medical staff they hire. They cannot afford being tarnished by the bad reputation that comes with hiring quacks and other unqualified medical personnel.

Background Screening and authentication of education qualifications should be rigorously carried out along with checks of professional degrees and references. These checks are especially crucial in an industry such as healthcare where the price of wrong hiring could be the loss of a life.
In a recent AuthBridge study, Background Screening Trends: October 08 July 09 it was found that 69% of discrepant cases relating to education were due to fake/forged documents. The bigger picture is even more disquieting. They show that 30% of all the cases we handled were discrepant – for a variety of reasons. Of these the majority pertained to false and fake qualifications. While these statistics do not directly relate to the medical profession, it is a pointer to what could be the magnitude of the problem facing it.

While hospitals of all hues and sizes need to be alive to the seriousness of the problem, it is also important for the various medical governing bodies to conduct checks of their own. They too have to retain their good name and integrity of their associations. The reconstituted Medical Council of India has to work, now and in its future avatar, to safeguard its international reputation too.

The following quotation is rather apt in the light of the problem. A good name is better than precious ointment (Ecclesiastes 7:1).

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How The West Bengal Government Increased Employment Opportunities

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The new West Bengal government is barely a couple of months old and came into position after replacing the Communist Party of India government. We are not going to get into a comparison between the communist government and the current government. We’ll to take a look at how the present West Bengal government increased employment opportunities in the state.

There is a lot of land in West Bengal that has been lying unused for quite some time. These vast stretches of land are mostly in the rural areas and are not fertile enough for agriculture. These land stretches are under private ownership and in most cases these are owned by farmers.

When the present government took charge, it conducted a statewide survey to find out the needs of the farmers who have always complained that the government isn’t interested in the welfare and development of their community. After conducting the surveys, the Congress government found out a couple of shocking facts. Quite contrary to popular belief, the farmers were having a hard time to make ends meet because most of the land that they owned wasn’t suitable for farming purposes. To make matters worse, the prices of fertilizers were increasing day by day, making it difficult for the farmers to continue with their profession.

A lot of farmers actually wanted the government to create employment opportunities for some of their family members so they could sustain their families better. This feedback actually helped the state government to form a strategy that would be beneficial for the entire state.

The government went on to strike a deal with foreign car manufacturing companies. These companies usually require vast stretches of land for setting up their factories; the government offered lands to these companies for rock-bottom prices, in return for which they were supposed to provide employment to at least two family members from every farmer family that was willing to sell the land they owned. This created a win-win situation for both parties. The company not only got the land but also the required manpower for its factories and the farmers got some money against their land along with two people from each family employed with the company.

It goes without mention that these factories required a lot of people for different posts and the number of people from the farmers’ families was just not enough to fill up all vacancies – this created employment opportunities for other people also. Today, West Bengal has a very high employment rate and the whole credit goes to the new Congress government.

The recent example of this project is the setting up of a Volkswagen factory in the Singur village in West Bengal. The construction work is still in progress, but the company has already given job offer letters to the family members of the farmers who sold their land to the government.

The government has also started a mass land acquisition project to make sure that all investors interested in setting up business units in the state can be accommodated. The companies who’ve already responded to the government’s invitation include Phillips, Siemens, Jaguar and DLF. Very soon West Bengal would turn into the hotspot of both private and government jobs and is even expected to give Delhi a tough competition in this regard.