ABC Consultants to start new job portal
By Prameet Thakkar

Indian HR firm ABC Consultants is one of the pioneers of organized recruitment in India having operated in the country for 40 years.  ABC Consultants also have offices in London and Dubai to support their clients and candidates. Now, the grapevine is buzzing with news that this highly regarded firm will soon launch a job portal.

Year 2009 was when most job portals would have cursed their choice of business - with companies reeling under recession, jobs were scarce. But 2010 has brought good news for the recruitment industry. If reports are to be believed, recession is breathing its last and jobs are coming back. ABC Consultants, a big shot in recruitment, has chosen a good time to launch their own job portal.

Techgoss has learnt that ABC Consultants is planning to launch a niche job portal and have decided to keep it secret for the time being. ABC Consultants specialise in recruitments for middle to senior level management jobs. 

ABC Consultants already have an online presence. Their website allows jobseekers to register and submit their resumes. Through a job portal, they will also be able to advertise jobs and gain a larger pool of candidates.

However, the job portal will differ from the traditional model and will attempt to create its own 'niche'.

In a traditional model, jobseekers get job alerts on the basis of certain keywords in ones profile. This is often done by a bot (like a search engine). On most occasions, this means getting irrelevant job alerts.

ABC consultants will use a different approach to match jobs with candidates. Each candidate will have the luxury of a human counsellor who matches the best job opportunities.

Generally recruiters subscribe to the jobseeker database of job portals and then suggest suitable job matches. Here the entire process will be done at ABC Consultants.

Will this personalised service come at a cost to jobseekers? The answer is yet unclear. However, we feel that the new job portal will have both free (Job matches by a bot) and paid (personalised job matches) service.