Bengaluru platform reaches out to the Southeast Asian markets
Bengaluru-based foundit has embarked on building a data base of 600 million tech-savvy skilled people, including 80 million from India, from global talent hunt.
Sekhar Garisa, CEO of Bengaluru-based foundit https://www.foundit.in/ , a job placement platform, shares the challenge of building a manpower for the future as the world faces technology-created challenges and getting the right person at the right place and right location.
The platform https://www.bengalurutechsummit.com/ is already working with 90 million registered job seekers, 70 percent or 63 million of whom are from Indian technology institutes, he said at the launch of the next-generation recruitment solution app in Singapore on 13 March 2024.
He estimated that about 53 million or so tech-savvy skilled Indians https://www.skilledindia.org/ will be part of the 600 million strong global manpower data-base for foundit over the next three to five years. In total, the global talent man hunt will have 80 million be from India, including the current 53 million or so https://www.meity.gov.in/, he estimated.
“Currently, 60% of our current job arrangements are in India, followed by 35 percent in Southeast Asian countries and five percent in the Middle East,” he said as he continues rebranding, started in 2022, with a focus on Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Garisa has been leading foundit for over four years.
With the advent of new technological innovation, foundit has collaborated with 100 companies in India over the past few months, resulting in an 80% boost in recruiter productivity.
“We have brought our next-generation recruitment solution to Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Vietnam,” he said.
The platform was acquired the company from Randstad, a Dutch multinational human resource consulting firm headquartered in Diemen, Netherlands. Fiinews.com
