Client Situation

A major Indian Multinational Engineering and Construction Conglomerate (L&T) and a global pioneer in providing Engineering Services for Oil & Gas Industry (Valdel), entered into a joint venture in 2004 and wanted to recruit for turnkey project based in Chennai.

The positions involved were across niche engineering positions including Piping, Structural, Mechanical, Process, Instrumentation, Electrical & Project/Planning Disciplines across various levels and the timelines were tight and were key for the success of the joint venture.

PeopleStrong Solution

PeopleStrong through its Recruitment service offering helped the client by:

• SLAs were signed to ensure timeliness of the turnkey project with full guarantee from PeopleStrong
• Industry Mapping for Key competitors (Indian & Overseas - UAE/Middle east/South Korea/US/UK etc.)
• Head Hunting across identified organizations
• Compensation benchmarking with competitors was done for the new entity
• Created multiple touch points with the prospective candidates
• Focused Ad campaign to attract talent across geographies
• Social Networking Sites (Linked In, Orkut etc) & blogs
• Physical Visits to competitor's organizations
• Utilized Oil & Gas Portals, Job Portals
• As a pure RPO, client's involvement was only in JD creation and interviewing with offer/appointment letters also done by PeopleStrong
• A specific process for Oil & Gas industry was set up based on industry level details which can be utilized across other companies in the sector
• More than 100 key positions were closed in 4 months as desired for efficient project schedule

Challenges and Remediation

• Very tight timelines with very niche skills requirement
• Out of India market (Middle East, South Korea and Canada) was to be tracked for candidates with Offshore experience across 200 companies
• Client's compensations being below benchmarks, detailed negotiations and innovations were required

Client Benefits

• Project started on schedule
• Clients' cost expectations were matched completely
• Best-in-class employees from outside India markets were recruited successfully
• A strong database of multi-location, multi-skilled Returning India population was created