Head Hunting

There is an immediate requirement. This position needs to be filled or else there will be role erosion of other employee. How to go about it? The main selector is so much held up with her own job that she doesn’t have time to hunt for the candidate, conduct interview, set terms and conditions and appoint. A facilitator has come for the time being and wants to help main selector to come out of this crisis situation.

She decides to go for searching the candidate right away. She directly goes into labour market and finds two candidates who were on their way to existing jobs. Facilitator establishes a quick conversation with both of them on one-to-one basis. She assesses the likelihood of both the candidates to perform the job and finally requests both the candidates to come to company and perform job.

Of the two candidates only one turns up and gets the word of appointment.

The candidates in the description above are none other than maid servants for washing clothes. Main selector is none other than my mom and facilitator is myself. This is "Kahaani Ghar Ghar ki " these days.

With mall culture entering India, westernization happening in the retail sector is affecting the supply of all the labour intensive sectors. They are attracting the labour force. All the maids that used to work for you a year back are all joining mega stores and hypermarkets to make quick and big money. So be prepared to be self reliant for all household chores. (Especially working people, this is like ringing of death knell for you).