A Study on Talent Management Practices of ICT Sector in India with Reference to Talent Acquisition

Abstract

This research paper unconstrained recruitment and selection has been primed to put a light on recruitment and Selection process. Talent acquisition, as defined by Deloitte, is “a strategic approach to identifying, attracting and on boarding top talent to efficiently and effectively meet dynamic business needs. The absence of a diverse talent pool, conventional thought processes, and cross-geography issues make talent acquisition in India complex and challenging. It is said that tough conditions also produce inventive solutions. There is always a huge potential for highly talented resource globally and acquiring such talent has always been a challenging task for practitioners. This paper had tried to examine and review the research papers which shares global perspective about different strategies of Talent acquisition and also its implications. As companies increasingly compete on the basis of talent, their success will largely hinge on their ability to recruit, develop, deploy and retain skilled people at every level from production employees and technicians to scientists and engineers to middle managers and executive leaders (Heid 2007). As per Deloitte, War for talent shifts from scale to skill and 58% of the respondents have stated that they are looking to hire more laterals 2015. The main intention is to identify general practices that organizations use to recruit and select employees and, to settle on how the recruitment and selection practices impinge on organizational outcomes.