TeamLease Services, India's largest staffing company, today announced that it will launch India’s Job Hotline (600 12345) in eleven languages on Independence day, Aug 15th, 2008. The need for a national hotline emerged from job melas organized jointly with various governments because of the poor access for labour market outsiders (less skilled, less educated, people from small towns, women coming back from a child break, retired people or students looking for part-time work, etc) to jobs and relevant training.

All callers will receive a unique candidate ID and an upto 8 minute preliminary assessment that enters them in our proprietary job matching engine. Candidates shortlisted (based on education and skills) will be invited to take a one hour advanced assessment at 150 centers across the country which will give them detailed feedback based on Knowledge, Skills, Aptitude and Behavior. This detailed assessment substantially increases the effectiveness of our job matching algorithms and all assessed candidates will receive a call from TeamLease within 72 hours to talk about prospects, options, etc.

All candidates for whom our proprietary algorithms are not able to find job matches will receive a call from our training counselors to find the best fit our panel of training partners for short term courses from 15 days to 4 months. After training, they will be jointly certified by TeamLease and their upgraded profile will be re-entered into the job matching engine.

According to Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, TeamLease Services, “An Unemployed or Unemployable Indian is not a free Indian. The 600 12345 service is our Independence day offering to India’s many labour market outsiders who have been handicapped in accessing India’s growth. It is now widely accepted that our labour markets have three problems; Matching (connecting people to jobs), Mismatch (repairing unemployable supply for jobs) and Pipeline (preparing youth in school for jobs). 600 12345 aims to sabotage inequality of opportunity by tackling the first two”

Unemployability is a bigger problem than Unemployment today with 57% of India’s youth suffering from some kind of skill deprivation. India’s five labour market transitions (farm to non-farm, rural to urban, unorganized to organized, school to work and subsistence self-employment to decent wage employment) represent journeys to a better life for most Indians but our people supply chain is not working; candidates can’t find jobs, trainers can’t find candidates and employers cannot find the right candidates. 600 12345 is expected to receive over 5000 calls per day and will serve as an aggregator to channelize youth into jobs or training.

According to Rajesh A.R, Vice-President, TeamLease Services, "TeamLease is a people supply chain company running out of inventory. We have been working to find effective and efficient ways to serve our candidates and companies by moving away from the traditional Made-to-Order to a Made-to-Stock approach. This launch is a culmination of a two year project to change the game and we are accessible by phone (600 12345), SMS (Jobs to 56161), Email (jobs@teamlease.com) or the web (www.teamlease.com). “

The helpline will be available from 8 am to 8 pm on all days including Sundays. In the first phase, starting August 15th 2008, our call centre will be available in eleven languages (English, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Marwari, Oriya, Bengali, and Manipuri). For three months the “by invitation” assessment will be restricted to graduates and diploma holders and only available in English. Over six months 600 12345 would expand in phases:

Phase 1

Aug 15, 08

Phase 2

Nov 15, 08

Phase 3

Mar 15, 09

Call Languages for Preliminary Assessment

11

17

20

Advanced Assessment Eligibility

Graduate/ Diploma

All Callers

All Callers

Assessment Language

1

11

17

Assessment Centers

150

250

500

Assessment Options

3

5

10

Ideal Candidate Profiles

200

300

400

Local Call

19 cities

50 cities

100 cities

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About TeamLease Services

TeamLease Services (TeamLease™) is India's largest Staffing company and one of India's largest private employers. They have more than 80,000 employees in over 670 locations across the country for more than 1000 clients. Clients, Associates and Candidates are serviced through their 24 offices and their proprietary web-based Temp Network (TLNet) at www.teamlease.com