Govt ties up with private firms for real-time tracking of jobs

The government has understood that aggregating jobs is a challenge and the best way to do is through collaboration, said Vivek Chandok, chief executive of website Saral Rozgar, a jobs website run by Tech Mahindra Ltd. “When you create an online platform, it has its own challenge of language, last mile connectivity and bringing blue collar workers on board. “Here, we come to the picture—who can bring white, blue and grey collar workers on one platform,” Chandok said.

Manish Sabharwal, chairman of staffing company TeamLease Services, said the country does not have a job problem but wage problem and the efforts everyone is making is to take informal workforce to the formal workforce pool.

“For a clear picture of the number of jobs available, one must keep a track of both formal and informal private jobs available and the government is trying to achieve that,” said Nirmal Singh, chief executive of job assessment and matching company Wheebox that has tied up with the labour ministry.

Aggregating jobs in one platform will give a sense of what is available and where is the gap, he said.

“It’s a win-win for government, private job boards like us and employers,” said Amit Garg, executive director (Digital) at HT Media Ltd, which runs Shine.com and is also the publisher of Mint.
At any given point of time, Shine.com has between 150,000 to 200,000 job postings and when big companies like us come together it will improve the visibility of government’s efforts, Garg said.

“While the government’s efforts will get more visibility, job portals will get more traffic because the talent pool registered with the government and the employers will have more choice,” he explained. “Now technology is available to aggregate jobs in real-time and government can make use of our resources and postings to build a system that will help in gap analysis and better policy making.”

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This article was published in Mint