2. An overview
•CITPR Ltd. is an IT and Consulting company with over 10000 employees and 22 clients globally.
•People prefer to work for CITPR Ltd. because
• it has excellent HR practices & considers Employees as their biggest Asset.
•Uses careful planning and selection criteria for recruitment. Overall satisfaction among employees is very high.
Key managerial personnel in CITPR
1. Mr Shyamji Bapna – Chairman and MD
2. Mr. T. Pujary – CEO
3. Mr. Gopal Dixit – COO
4. Mr. D. Ganesh – HR Director
5. Mr. VN Swami - Recruitment Manger
6. Mr. Kapoor,- VP (Product Development)
3. Recruitment at TTC college
TTC college of Engineering and management is famous college in the southern India.
Key persons at TTC College involved with Placement
1. Prof. Parag Thakur – Director
2. Mr. Ravi Sampat – Placement Officer
From last 10 years, CITPR Ltd. is the first company to visit the college for placement drive is hope
of recruiting Crème-de-la-crème from among the students.
On average, it recuits 10 students every year. However, this year it recuited 25 students of
Computer Science & Engineering
4. The Great Fiasco
• The company recruited 25 students but did not send the official letter to the students.
•On further enquiry by the college they came to know that the company predicted that they
would bag the project from one of their clients and hence this could increase the demand of the
professional would have expertise in .NET.
•Unfortunately they did not get the project and so the recruited students were no more required
as there was no work for them.
•The recruitment manage (Mr. Swami)r at CITPR was fired because he recruited predicting that
the company would bag the project , but this could prediction was proven false as the project
went to their competitor.
•The placement officer(Mr. Sampat) at TTC college was not given increment for one year because
he did not allow the recruited students to sit for the other interviews.
5. Possible options to avoid the fiasco
Options before placement drive
CITPR could have decided to visit the TTC campus a little later this year as benefits of doing so far
outweighed the risk of visiting first in keeping with the tradition even though their requirement was
uncertain.
6. Possible options to avoid the fiasco by
Mr. Ganesh
Mr. Ganesh informed Mr. swami not to go for recruitment until the information about the
overseas Client’s project is ascertained.
The initial step taken by Mr. Ganesh was correct.
However, he could have followed up with the latest developments in the case. This allowed Mr.
swami to make his call and go for the recruitment drive even though he could not reach Mr.
Kapoor for a final confirmation on requirement.
Even after the drive, if Mr. Ganesh would have taken the initiative of information the real
situation and the uncertainties attached with it to the college on time, the recuited Students
would not have lost their valuable time to participate in recruitment drives of other companies.
7. Serious omissions by Mr. Swami
He gave priority to the tradition of being the first company in the campus of TTC instead to first
ascertaining the requirements of the company.
He failed to inform the Placement officer of the TTC about the uncertainties attached with the
requirement.
In absence of these vital information, The placement officer made the call of not allowing the
placed students to sit for other companies which worsened the situation for both the parties to
a point of no return.
Mr. swami could have waited for the response of Mr. Kapoor, VP-Product Development as his
role was crucial for ascertaining the requirements of .NET professionals.
And the final nail in the coffin was the reluctant behavior of Mr. Swami to gave a clear response
to the queries of the placement officer either formally or informally
8. Are actions against Mr. swami and Mr.
Sampat justified?????
Mr. Swami (Recruitment manager) after the debacle of the recruitment was fired and this was
justified because he being a professional could have foreseen the risk of predicting the
uncertainties that could have misfired the situation.
Mr. Sampat could have allowed the students to sit for the remaining interviews until and unless
the students or the college got the confirmation mail from the recruiters.
