The document analyzes and compares the HR departments of four companies - HCL, Cordiant, Polaris and VGN. It examines their recruitment processes, training programs, compensation structures, and performance appraisal systems. For each category, it rates the companies on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest. For recruitment, HCL scores 5, Cordiant 4, Polaris 3, and VGN 3. For training, HCL scores 5, Cordiant 4, Polaris 4, and VGN 3. For compensation, HCL scores 5, Cordiant 4, Polaris 2, and VGN 3. For performance appraisal, all four companies score 3.

1. ANALYSIS OF HR DEPARTMENT
COMPANY CHOOSED FOR STUDY
:HCL,CORDIANT,POLARISIS,VGA
Authored by:
RAKESH N
SARAVANAN P
IRFANA NIGAR
SESHA RAJA
UDAYA SANKAR
VINOTH KUMAR
GOWRI SANKAR
MUTHVIGNESH

2. Hcl
Recruitment:
1. What kind of attitude do you expect in a candidate during an interview?
Positive attitude, stress management
2. What are the other skills that you prefer in a candidate other than academic excellence?
Selling skills & to tackle the aggressive customer
3. what are the types of interview that you would prefer?
Face to face, stress interview
Training:
1. What are the key areas that you would focus upon during training session?
Ensure his/her professionalism , communication
2. How long is your training duration?
6 months (3 months- book based, 3 months- direct involvement)
3. Do you receive feedbacks from your trainees? If so what would be their feedback?
Acceptance of my thoughts, what they gained, will it be useful for their due course
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Performance appraisal:
1. How good is the appraisal to an employee?
It depends on the work done by the employee
2. Types of Appraisal?
Appraise him/her by giving equated rights which digs them to work for concern
3. Various parameters that you would look for during an appraisal?
Smart work without flows done before specified time.
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3. Compensation:
1. what are the various types of benefits you occur to your employees?
Medical claim, insurance policies, bank a/c, food (lunch)
2.How did you deal with the compensation benefits during recession?
try and value instead of more monetary
3. How does compensation create a good relationship between the employer and employee?
we think this make them feel their work is appreciated.
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4. Cordiant technologies
Recruitment:
1. What kind of attitude do you expect from a candidate during an interview?
Broad minded, should know what is happening in his field.
2. What are the skills that you prefer in a candidate other than academic qualifications?
Confidenc , not over confidence, positive thinking, good socialization, communication, grasping
the concepts, problem solving
3. What are the types of interviews that you conduct?
Aptitude, technical, personal, telephonic
Training:
1. What are the key areas that you would focus upon during training session?
Team co-operation, team work, programming, team building
2. How long is your training duration?
6 months
3. What are the feedbacks that you would expect from the trainees?
Feedback about the office environment , on faculty, other problem in office
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Performance appraisal:
1. How good is the appraisal that you would follow?
Good & essential boost, always good work, should be appraised
2. Types appraisal that you would follow?
Nice words, taking out for lunch/dinner, good bonus
3. What are the various parameters that you would look for during appraisal?
Doing smart work, finishing work on time without any issues, satisfying al with his work
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5. Compensation
1. What are the various types of benefits do you offer to you prefer in your employees?
Medical claim, insurance policies, bank a/c, food (lunch)
2. How did you deal with employee’s compensation during recession period?
Cutting the unwanted expenses, like team outing
3. How does compensation create a good relationship between the employer and employee?
It gives very good benefits to the employees, so he will be happy to work, it creates some kind of
bond b/w employee & employer.
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6. Polaris
RECRUITMENT:
1. What kind of attitude do you expect in a candidate during an interview?
We do expect them to be optimistic as it always creates a good impression about him. Then we
expect him to be flexible as this would help him maintain a good relationship with others. Apart from this
we expect him to be patient and a clever worker.
2. What are the other skills that you prefer in a candidate other than academic excellence?
We mainly focus on communication skills because their job is mostly client focused and might have
to interact them. Secondly we expect him to have a basic knowledge about upcoming technical languages
and the market trend of IT and IT enabled services and the recent news and reports taking place in and
around the IT Industry.
TRAINING:
1.What are the key areas that you would focus upon during training session?
Our training sessions are mainly focused on illustrations rather than mere information and terms.
We do conduct practical sessions since the nature of our jobs are related to machines and industries. Apart
from this we also train people on some organizational behaviours.
2. How long is your training duration?
It depends on the types of process they are into and also based on their experience. For instance it
takes two or three months to train a fresher wherein it just takes twenty days to one month to train an
experienced who has been inn this field for a couple of years.
3. Do you receive feedbacks from your trainees? If so what would be their feedback?
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Yes we do. But we do have it in an oral format as we feel that anything which is written doesn’t
contain true comments and the best way to know the feedback is to move with them closely and get it from
them.
COMPENSATION:
1. what are the various types of benefits you occur to your employees?
We at golden customer try to make our working place a pleasing one to work. hence we provide
them with benefits and attractive compensations to improve their performance.
2. How did you deal with the compensation benefits during recession?
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7. Since we focus on more than one country and we are also ongonoustic we did not face any problem
with recession and we were able to move on. Hence forth we were able to provide all the benefits to our
employees.
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL;
1. How good is the appraisal to an employee?
It always helps him to benchmark his target and helps him to identify his mistakes from his past.
This ialso benefits the company as his performance reveals his passion and attitude level towards the job.
2.Types of Appraisal?
We generally follow the classic one on the appraisal where we ask them to fill the appraisal forms
and the entire appraisal being viewed by our immediate manager.
3.various parameters that you would look for during an appraisal?
We generally look on his performance and also his weakness. Apart from that we also grade them
based on their interactions with clients customers and subordinates.
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8. VGN
RECRUITMENT:
1. What kind of attitude do you expect in a candidate during an interview?
First of all he should be able to explain about himself in a way that the interviewer is able to
identify his character and ability. Next we look for his attitude and the importance of this job for
him. he should always posses a positive attitude.
2. What are the other skills that you prefer in a candidate other than academic excellence?
His communication levels; Exposure to computer language; Product Knowledge;
Inventories management and most important of all his presence of mind towards the issues.
3. What are the types of interview that you would prefer?
Most of our interview is technical based and it is going to be on one on one interview. If the
selection is for an engineer, we prefer to test his technical knowledge and then carry on with
general interview.
TRAINING:
1. What are the key areas that you would focus upon during training session?
Our training sessions are mainly focused on illustrations rather than mere information and
terms. We do conduct practical sessions since the nature of our jobs are related to machines and
industries. Apart from this we also train people on some organizational behaviours.
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2. How long is your training duration?
It depends on the types of process they are into and also based on their experience. For
instance it takes two or three months to train a fresher wherein it just takes twenty days to one
month to train an experienced who has been inn this field for a couple of years.
3. Do you receive feedbacks from your trainees? If so what would be their feedback?
Yes we do. But we do have it in an oral format as we feel that anything which is written
doesn’t contain true comments and the best way to know the feedback is to move with them
closely and get it from them.
Compensation:
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9. 1. What are the various types of benefits do you offer to you prefer in your employees?
Holidays on demand and medical allowance.
2. How did you deal with employee’s compensation during recession period?
We try to do as much as we could.
3. How does compensation create a good relationship between the employer and employee?
It does create a high morale
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL;
1. How good is the appraisal to an employee?
It always helps him to benchmark his target and helps him to identify his mistakes from his past.
This ialso benefits the company as his performance reveals his passion and attitude level towards the job.
2.Types of Appraisal?
We generally follow the classic one on the appraisal where we ask them to fill the appraisal forms
and the entire appraisal being viewed by our immediate manager.
3.various parameters that you would look for during an appraisal?
We generally look on his performance and also his weakness. Apart from that we also grade them
based on their interactions with clients customers and subordinates.
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10. ANALYSIS:
WE RATED THE 4 COMPANY IN A SCALE OF 5
1-BAD
2-AVERAGE
3-GOOD
4-VERY GOOD
5-EXECELLENT
RECRUITMENT:
5
4
3
5
2 4
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3 3
1
0
HCL CORDIANT POLARSIS VGN
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11. TRAINING:
6
5
4
3
5
2 4 4
3
1
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0
HCL CORDIANT POLARISIS vgn
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12. Compensation:
6
5
4
3
5
2 4
3
1 2
0
HCL CORDIANT POLARIS VGN
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13. PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL;
5
4
3
2
1
0
HCL CORDIANT POLARIS VGN
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